Han-Chow Koh, PhD, and Frank A.J.L. Scheer, PhD, of the Medical Chronobiology Program at the Division of Sleep and Circadian Medicine in the Mass General Brigham Department of Medicine, are the co-lead and senior author, respectively, of a paper published in Metabolism, “Constant-routine protocol reveals an endogenous circadian rhythm in diet-induced thermogenesis with a peak in the biological morning.”

New Rutgers research suggests much of the seemingly endless waiting for complex medical care can be engineered away by recreating operations inside a computer and testing countless possible improvements.

A study in the Annals of Operations Research explains how researchers from Rutgers Cancer Institute and Rutgers Business School built a working computer simulation of the institute’s blood cancer clinic and used it to identify and fix bottlenecks that kept patients waiting up to three hours between check-in and treatment. The result: Laboratory blood work turnaround was cut from roughly 90 minutes to less than 30 and helped the clinic nearly double the number of infusion patients it treats each day, from about 50 to about 80.

University of Michigan researchers have created an open-access database of more than 50,000 chemical reactions - the largest such database to date - and a much needed source of organic chemistry reactions needed for now-underfed artificial intelligence. In related discoveries while testing the reactions the team found solutions that address supply chain and natural resource shortages.

While the emotional toll of caring for a spouse with dementia is well documented, the physical effects of chronic caregiving stress can vary dramatically from one person to another.