Uniting the Best Minds to Understand How the Brain Works In Chris Dulla's lab, scientists focus on what causes epilepsy and how to develop new treatments.
What a Respiratory System Expert Wants You to Know About Asthma From misdiagnoses to new treatments, a School of Medicine expert offers a crash course on the inflammatory disease.
Breaking Down the Layers of the Immune System A look at how the body’s multi-pronged defenses work, plus advice from an immunologist on how to strengthen them.
Immune Molecule Long Tied to Inflammation May Benefit the Aging Brain Study shows that STING, a molecule that some experimental drugs seek to block, may actually help protect the brain against Alzheimer’s-like decline.
New AI Tool Reveals How Drugs Kill Tuberculosis Tufts researchers’ approach uncovers how TB treatments can best work together at the cellular level to speed better cures.
Wildfire Smoke Is Obvious, Its Long-Term Health Impacts Are Not A School of Medicine expert and an alum share what’s needed to better understand how wildfire smoke, both wildland and urban, impacts our health.
Dollar Stores’ Food Options May Not Be Hurting American Diets Overall Analysis shows that while less healthy foods are staples of discount chains, households are compensating with healthier purchases elsewhere.
A Little HOPE Can Give Children a Happier Future Tufts students and recent alums say the Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences approach can improve kids’ lives long-term.
Tufts Connections With Two Key Massachusetts Health Leadership Roles School of Medicine community members now lead both the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services and Department of Public Health.