How Does COVID-19 Compare with the Flu?
Thursday, March 12th, 2020
A Cummings School expert on influenza and infectious disease shares what we might expect to see as the new coronavirus continues to spread—and how to stay safe
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Testing A New Addiction Therapy
Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
A neuroscientist at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine studies a new way to potentially curb the opioid cravings that contribute to relapse
What Opioid Use in Rats Can Tell Us About Addiction in Humans
Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
A neuroscientist at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine studies opioid use in rats to understand how drugs affect the next generation
New Hope for a Neglected Disease
Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
Two Cummings School researchers studying schistosomiasis find molecules that may hold the key to a cure
How Do Vaccines Work?
Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
With a little scientific trickery, the same pathogen that causes a disease can end up protecting us against it
Trying to Figure Out the Scoop on Poop
Thursday, January 30th, 2020
Cases of diarrhea that once would have been fatal are responding to fecal transplantation. Now Cummings School researchers are working to identify exactly how this procedure can help horses
Wild horses in the US are being shot with contraceptive darts
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
Center for Animals and Public Policy director, Dr. Allen Rutberg, is quoted and research referenced in the article in New Scientist science and technology magazine Published January 26, 2020 By Alice Klein Shooting wild horses with contraceptive… Read More
A Day in the Life of a Whale Researcher
Monday, January 27th, 2020
Anjali Narasimhan, VG19, shares a first-person account of studying humpback whales in the remote wilderness of southeast Alaska
A Vote Against Lyme Disease
Thursday, January 9th, 2020
Cast your ballot for the best new ideas in fighting a growing health problem
Frames, facts, and the science of communicating environmental crises
Monday, December 30th, 2019
Authors: Josephine E.M. Martell (Tufts MAPP class of 2003) and Amanda D. Rodewald Published: October 15, 2019 Conservation Biology. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13424 Article Impact Statement: Efforts to frame issues should be supported by empirical… Read More
