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Over the years, laboratories at Dartmouth, with support from undergraduates, have borne lab bench discoveries with immense clinical relevance. The academic research environment at Dartmouth and elsewhere provides scientists with the intellectual liberty to pursue new ideas and the resources needed to define them.  Laboratory directors are not beholden to … Continue reading

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Engineering Nanoparticle-induced hyperthermia studied as cancer treatment option Magnetic nanoparticles may represent a viable cancer treatment alternative, Dartmouth Medical School and Thayer School of Engineering professor Jack Hoopes reported with colleagues external to Dartmouth in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. The nanoparticles can be implanted in a tumor … Continue reading

New Neurons for Old Brains

Neurogenesis in the Adult Human Brain In 1913, the pioneering neuroscientist Santiago Ramon y Cajal proclaimed that neurogenesis, or the birth of new neurons, occurs exclusively during prenatal development (1). It was difficult to imagine that such complex structures as the adult human brain could permit new neurons into their … Continue reading