Researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh have developed an onsite method to quickly diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and expose the deadly drug-resistant strains that can mingle undetected with treatable TB strains. This study will be published in “PLoS ONE,” a peer-reviewed online journal from the Public Library of Science. The [...]

While heated debates continued over the proposed bailout plan, Moses Pava, the Alvin Einbender Professor of Business Ethics at Sy Syms School of Business, said at a recent lecture that a change in consciousness at how our culture approaches wealth is more necessary than a change in policy. The Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University [...]

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a simple, accurate and highly sensitive test to detect and quantify ricin, an extremely potent toxin with potential use as a bioterrorism agent. The report by Matthew B. Sturm and Vern L. Schramm, titled “Detecting Ricin: Sensitive Luminescent Assay for Ricin A-Chain Ribosome [...]

Anatoly Frenkel, professor of physics at Stern College for Women, co-published recent research together with scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Delaware, “Ternary Pt/Rh/SnO2 electrocatalysts for oxidizing ethanol to CO2″ in Nature Materials Vol. 8, April 2009. He also co-published “Evidence for a terminal Pt(IV)-oxo complex exhibiting [...]