July 11, 2023

How Does Light at Night Affect My Health?

Light pollution at night is getting worse. How can people maintain good sleep hygiene when brightness seeps through the windows?

May 23, 2023

Jefferson Investigates: Discrimination’s Impact on Recovery, Cannabis for Chronic Pain, and Cancer’s Blood Supply

Does discrimination slow recovery from brain trauma, can patients with long-term pain use cannabis to reduce opioid use, will blocking blood flow to cancer slow its growth?

May 15, 2023

New Project to Design Building Skins to Retrofit Energy-Inefficient Structures

Researchers will develop prototype modular panels and test for energy savings, resistance to weathering and market feasibility.

April 19, 2023

Jefferson Investigates: AI for Parkinson’s, Immune Aging in HIV and Finding Better Care for Patients with Diabetes

Exploring computer learning to predict Parkinson's disease progression, how the immune system becomes exhausted in HIV, and how to offer patients better diabetes care.

March 21, 2023

Jefferson Investigates: Dyes From Invasive Plants, COVID-19 Policies That Worked and Patient-Centered Design

The latest on sustainability in fashion, studying what curbed the spread of COVID-19 best, and working with patients toward better assistive devices.

February 14, 2023

Jefferson Investigates: Life Post Incarceration, Pain in Your Gut and Cross-cultural Lessons in COVID-19 Eldercare

Read the latest on the barriers to life after prison, a new treatment avenue for visceral pain, and how older people were cared for during the global pandemic

January 30, 2023

Celebrating the Beauty of Research

Jefferson’s first enterprise-wide research-art contest reveals the beauty of rarely seen parts of the natural world and opens windows to the soul.

December 19, 2022

When Inhalers Stop Working

New research into making asthma and COPD medication more potent could also improve how long they work in patients who need frequent doses.

September 22, 2022

Jefferson Investigates: COVID Risks, RNA in Cancer, and a New Use for Anti-nausea Medication

Long-non-coding RNA as a common driving force in cancer, blood analysis reveals COVID-19 risks, and a common drug finds a new application.

June 22, 2022

Jefferson Investigates: Guts to Joints, Traffic Patterns of Brain Molecules, and Immature Contacts in Alzheimer’s

The normal role of a gene involved in familial Alzheimer’s, neuronal clean-up crews, and how the gut microbiome might affect osteoarthritis

May 31, 2022

Jefferson Investigates: A New Disease, COVID Immunity and Triple Combo Therapy for Glioblastoma

A novel fibrotic disease with surprising nerve symptoms, an explanation for COVID immunity in the immunocompromised and a new approach for brain cancer