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­In a paper published online February 16 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of neurobiologists led by recent graduate and

As Dan Vahaba writes on the Duke Research & Innovation blog, "Brain cells come in many varieties, but lit

The reason some people fail to recover their sense of smell after COVID-19 is linked to an ongoing immune assault on olfactory nerve cells and an associated decline in the n

Third-year Duke medical student Emily Alway grew up near Detroit, but every July, her family would travel to North Carolina for Lumbee homecoming, which includes a parade and a pow

Calakos is a physician-scientist who has become a leader in her field with discoveries in basal ganglia physiology and its role in disease.

Duke University researchers in a team led by neurobiologist Z. Josh Huang, Ph.D.

Kaf Dzirasa and Amanda Randles are among just eight scholars nationwide who have been awarded Pioneer Awards from the National Institutes of Health.  Each has been awarded $3

Ask an oncologist what cancer is, and they could talk to you for hours, telling you about cell cycles, oncogenes, and all sorts of things,” says Stephen Lisberger, PhD, chair and George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor for Research in Neurobiology. “Ask a neurologist what Alzheimer’s is, and it's going to be a short conversation.”

The latest cohort of graduate students just completed Neurobiology Boot Camp and have already begun their classes and first lab rotations.

Congratulations to Karim Abdelaal​ of the Dzirasa Lab on being awarded a