Private research university in Evanston, Illinois, with its Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago; known for research in medicine, engineering, and sciences.
Northwestern and Buck Institute researchers found structure, metabolism and immune proteins still shifting in the ovaries of 28 postmenopausal women. The authors say later studies need larger, more diverse cohorts and longitudinal health data.
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Mass spectrometry of ovaries from 28 postmenopausal women found protein profiles that differ across three age bands, researchers report in Aging Cell. The bone and brain link is the authors' belief; the firmer signal is in proteins previously tied to ovarian cancer.
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Northwestern tests of AI agents on 112 real bugs found a third of Claude Opus 4.7's crash-stopping patches failed maintainers' tests. Many patching benchmarks grade only that crash, so their scores overstate how many bugs are fixed.
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Northwestern researchers linked a synthetic cannabinoid's dose-dependent anxiety effect in mice to somatostatin neurons in the central amygdala. The result gives research on cannabis-induced panic a specific circuit to test in people, though the mice received a synthetic compound instead of THC.
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Northwestern scientists traced cannabinoid anxiety in mice to one group of neurons in the amygdala, work reported October 2 in Nature Communications. Silencing those cells left the drugged mice less fearful of a predator odor.
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Northwestern researchers report that silencing somatostatin neurons in the mouse central amygdala reduced cannabinoid-heightened fear of fox odor. With a synthetic drug and genetic silencing, the circuit is a lead on cannabis-linked panic, several steps from any human treatment.
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Northwestern scientists grew supramolecular threads about 100 times more massive than any known protein, with lengths and charge segments set by design. Cultured neurons exposed to the threads grew and formed more synapses, an effect the team credits to that precision.
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Kellogg's Cynthia Wang and Northwestern's Danielle Gilbert built a two-part framework for hostage negotiators that carries over to business deals. At a bargaining table it multiplies preparation, since each party behind the counterpart is read for moral and emotional stakes as well as goals.
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Surrey physicists have designed a superfluid-helium qubit that, by their calculations, would err about 100 times less often than superconducting qubits. No device has been built yet, so the figure is a prediction until the team's planned prototype measures it.
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Northwestern chemists built zirconium-loaded melanin nanoparticles that cut a toxic organophosphorus byproduct by 50% within 10 minutes. The team pitches them for protective clothing, and so far that use rests on the reaction chemistry and the group's earlier work dyeing synthetic fabrics.
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Northwestern researchers found 35 young adults reacted 41 milliseconds faster to a visual cue while exhaling than while inhaling. That makes breath phase a source of variation in a standard clinical attention test, through a link the team cannot yet explain.
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Researchers in Chile and the US found engagement across 1.62 million Twitter, Reddit and 8chan observations peaked at a moral-density score near 0.30. The data are observational, so they locate the peak without telling a writer whether trimming moral words from a post would earn more.
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Two Johns Hopkins papers in Nature Communications examined double-strand breaks in DNA still wound on histones. The repair machinery joined the broken ends without stripping that packaging off first.
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Tested in pigs, the battery held about 1.8 volts and faded to 1.45 by the third day. Its 3.5 milliampere-hour ceiling is roughly a tenth of what one uninvolved engineer says the technology needs.
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Business Insider's year-later series on the H-1B crackdown opens with a Northwestern graduate who left Chicago for Germany after her employer said it could not sponsor her visa. The sponsorship call was the employer's.
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Adilson Motter's group has published a framework in Science for the conditions under which differences between a network's parts stabilise the whole, an effect that appears only where each node's own dynamics are rich enough.
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A new report combines a survey of 637 scientists with 15 million Gemini conversations. Its authors trace the gap between mathematics and biology to what it costs to check whether an answer is right.
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A Northwestern-led team in Nature Metabolism places metformin's main action on mitochondrial complex I in intestinal cells, using mice given a substitute enzyme that does the same job but ignores the drug.
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A Northwestern review of Chicago emergency and urgent care visits above 92.6 degrees Fahrenheit found more than a dozen diagnostic categories rising, in units no heat plan staffs.
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Northwestern and Salk researchers report a BLA to mPFC projection that grows more excitable in isolated male mice and less excitable in females, with drinking following each direction.
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