Binge and heavy drinking may trigger a long-lasting genetic change, resulting in an even greater craving for alcohol, a Rutgers-led study found. The results may one day contribute to new ways to treat alcoholism or help prevent at-risk people from becoming addicted, says Distinguished Professor Dipak K. Sarkar, senior author of the study and director of the Endocrine Program in the Department of Animal Sciences at Rutgers-New Brunswick. Read the release and story in the New York Post.
Coffee has been associated with helping to ward off cancer, reduce liver damage and burn fat. Now a new study finds that a compound in coffee may protect against Parkinson's disease and dementia. Find out what M. Maral Mouradian, professor of neurology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has discovered about the special protective agents in coffee beans that may slow brain degeneration.
Move over microbreweries. Megan Muehlbauer, a Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station agent, believes she has stumbled upon the next big food trend and wants to help put New Jersey on the map. Read our release and the story in Food and Wine to find out how she is laying the groundwork to revive the state’s hard cider industry that dates back to colonial times and prospered before prohibition.
Examining the drool of a bear might not seem like the best way to determine if it inhibits harmful bacteria, which is a common cause of serious skin rashes and respiratory diseases, including pneumonia. But that's exactly what a team of Rutgers-New Brunswick and other scientists did with an East Siberian brown bear. The study, coauthored by Konstantin Severinov, a professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, was published online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
