Brown University researchers may have discovered what’s responsible for discrepant findings between dozens of fundamental studies of the biology of aging.

In a small new clinical trial, topiramate reduced the amount of cannabis heavy smokers used when they lit up

Advance could provide an inexpensive and easy-to-make 3-D testbed for biomedical research

The flow of federal research funding to Brown University is only now starting to recover from the 2013 federal sequestration. As a result of the sequester, the total pool of research funds at the University decreased by 13.7 percent between 2013 and 2014, said Vice President for Research David Savitz, but funding for new research proposals in the first half of fiscal year 2015 is up significantly — about 30 percent — from 2014.

A new device allows perfusion of bioengineered structures built from smaller pieces of tissue prepared in the lab. It is a first step toward someday building whole organs