The Record

Being raised by grandparents may increase obesity risk

Grandparental child care is linked to nearly a 30% increase in childhood overweight and obesity risk, finds a new analysis from the Brown School.

Mother’s death drives twin scientists

Identical twins Obi and Malachi Griffith, both geneticists and computational biologists at the School of Medicine, are seeking precision treatments for cancer. Their interest stems from their mother’s death due to cancer when they were teenagers.

A drugstore solution for synthesizing polymers

Chemist Julio D’Arcy, in Arts & Sciences, developed an elegant, inexpensive approach for creating uniform plastic nanoparticles using an unlikely tool: drugstore humidifiers. His results are published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.