USC Dornsife News

Widespread media coverage and critical grant funding help expand Public Exchange’s CLEAN project.

With near-atomic precision, a USC Dornsife team of scientists visualized for the first time how opioids and the antidote Narcan engage a key brain receptor, offering insight that could lead to improved pain treatments and overdose reversal.

Public-private partnerships push university research beyond theory and into action to help city leaders, nonprofits and public agencies solve real-world problems.

A USC Dornsife study shows that combining brain imaging methods may help forecast which adolescents are most at risk for developing anxiety disorders, years before symptoms appear.

Liquid biopsy innovation by USC Dornsife and USC Viterbi scientists detects cancer cells in blood samples in as little as 10 minutes and identifies hard-to-find cells without human aid.

By focusing on a trigger of brain inflammation, USC Dornsife’s Vsevolod “Seva” Katritch and USC colleagues pursue a new drug therapy and now understand why some people with a key risk factor for the disease develop dementia.

A multi-university twin study led in part by USC Dornsife researchers finds that accelerated biological aging, amplified by early-life disadvantage, is linked to steeper IQ declines by midlife.

USC Dornsife psychologists show that empathy can be conditioned through emotional rewards — revealing a surprising path to compassion.

USC Dornsife’s Norbert Schwarz discusses how the warrior mindset may actually have a negative effect on patients.