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Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, known for public health, medical, and biomedical research programs.
Brown University engineers tracked breast cancer cells on a 1-million-electrode chip by reading capacitance changes, with no dye or optics. Dropping the fluorescent label could let labs studying metastasis watch cells without the dye exposure a co-author says can damage DNA.
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STAT finds employer premiums track the price of care more than its use, with hospitals and drug makers billing over twice Medicare's rates. Johns Hopkins economist Gerard Anderson says employers and states are now open to government intervention on costs.
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Brown University researchers released a free tracker mapping more than 6,000 private equity health-care deals across all 50 states from 2015 to 2023. Its state comparisons suggest hospitals and private equity buyers compete for the same independent doctors.
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Contiguous U.S. temperatures averaged 57.98 degrees F from January to August 2026, the hottest such stretch since records began in 1895, NOAA data show. Only a cooler-than-normal fall would keep 2026 from an annual record, Zeke Hausfather says.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield Association estimates hospitals' AI-assisted coding contributed $942 million in extra costs to its plans from 2023 to 2025. Hospitals and insurers, both now running AI on claims, dispute whether that paid for overbilling or for real diagnoses recorded at last.
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Researchers at Otago, UBC and Brown report 673 earwig genes and 2,672 worm genes growing more active as a parasitic worm drives its host toward water. The RNA data give experimenters candidate genes in both species, though the paper stops short of showing which ones make the earwig seek water.
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BrainGate researchers found motor cortex firing in two people with tetraplegia was strongest for a photorealistic hand and weakest for an abstract cube. The ordering bears on how assistive devices are shaped, though nobody was controlling anything during the recordings.
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Nature asked ten PhD students, postdocs and faculty what surprised them about teaching for the first time. Their answers are recollections about preparation. The piece reports no student outcomes.
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The US national average hit a record $6.505 a gallon on September 21, about 50 cents above where it sat ten days earlier, with inventories 13% under the five-year average as harvest demand arrives.
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Brown University researchers sequenced more than 12,000 rodent commissural neurons at four developmental stages and found the cell body swapping guidance receptor programs as axons reached the spinal midline. The profiling stops short of manipulating those genes.
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Coral chemistry from the eastern tropical Pacific has finally put a number on how much warming has strengthened El Niño. The natural-forcing alternative fails the test the same authors ran.
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If dark matter made the signal, the implied WIMP weighs at least 200 GeV, and LZ says its backgrounds there are very low. But the event came out of re-searching data already collected, so newer exposure has to settle it.
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Scotland and Canada recorded declines in the same year, and the Commonwealth Fund's canvass of two dozen state health authorities found nobody willing to name a single cause, which leaves 2026 budgets ranking levers on plausibility.
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Sprint records come out of motors and simulation. The dexterity events at the World Humanoid Robot Games test the one thing neither of those solves, and a very large field now has to chase them.
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A Brown-led study of half a million nursing home admissions puts the shingles vaccine's dementia signal at 24%. It also shows that almost nobody in that population got the shot.
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One officer logged more than 700 unauthorized searches on his estranged wife's car. The feature that made that possible is the one a16z and Tiger paid about 16 times revenue for.
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A Physical Review D paper argues cosmic acceleration is a residue of quantum uncertainty acting on geometry, which would turn two unsolved problems into one. Upcoming surveys are the test.
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Whole-genome sequencing of parasites from hundreds of Ugandan patients links five variants to reduced susceptibility to artemisinin, lumefantrine and mefloquine, according to Nature Medicine.
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