NJIT Professor’s Polymer Proposal Wins $125,000 ACS Grant
A new research project at the New Jersey Institute of Technology is taking a closer look at a strange but important behavior in rubber-like materials:...
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Can tissue chips overcome the limitations of animal testing?
Animal testing has shaped modern drug development for decades, but its limitations become especially visible when scientists evaluate cancer immunotherapies. These treatments are designed to...
Miniature microscope lets scientists observe and control brain cells during natural movement
A tiny microscope weighing just five grams could give neuroscientists an unprecedented view of how individual brain cells control behavior while animals move naturally. Researchers...
Heart Health Advances with $28.7 Million Gift from Marcus Foundation
The Marcus Foundation has awarded $28.7 million to Chuck Murry, MD, PhD, director of the USC Stem Cell Center, to support a clinical trial testing...
Arkansas researchers map genetic neighborhoods to identify disease-causing bacteria
Scientists in Arkansas have developed a machine-learning approach that can identify potentially disease-causing strains of a poultry bacterium by analyzing not only which genes are...
High-resolution X-ray imaging reveals leaf interiors, guiding efforts to reduce water loss
A new three-dimensional look inside sorghum leaves is revealing how crops may be redesigned to use less water without sacrificing the carbon dioxide they need...
Phosphine Enables Azine C–H Coupling Using Water and Ammonia
Transition-metal chemistry has transformed the way scientists modify complex molecules, but two of the simplest and most abundant substances on Earth—water and ammonia—have remained surprisingly...
Th17 Cytokines Trigger Shared and Distinct Microglial, Endothelial Responses in Post-Streptococcal Encephalitis
Wayne, Akcan, Faust and colleagues have reported new evidence that immune signals associated with T helper 17 cells can reshape the brain’s vascular and immune...
Iron-Based Solid Redox System Enables Sustainable Sulfur Recovery from Sulfide Wastewater
For decades, sulfide-bearing wastewater has been treated as a problem to neutralize rather than a resource to recover. That approach may be poised for a...
PROTEUS Reconsidered: Rethinking Success When Most Patients Never Become Disease-Free
A provocative reassessment of the PROTEUS study is challenging what it means to call a cancer trial “positive” when most patients do not achieve a...
Commentary examines delayed cord clamping and immediate kangaroo care in preterm infants
A short correspondence published in the Journal of Perinatology has reignited debate over how the first minutes of life should be managed for babies born...
Heart assembloids offer new insights into heart valve disorders
A postage-stamp-sized platform may be offering scientists one of the most realistic new ways to study human heart valve disease. Researchers at the University of...
Tiny bacterial vesicles may enable more precise cancer treatments
Bacteria may soon do more than cause infection: they could help doctors detect, target and treat cancer. A new review in Biomedical Technology examines bacterial...
Contactless technique exposes contrasting light responses in mirror-image materials
A new contactless technique is giving scientists an unusually direct look at how mirror-image materials respond to light—and the results suggest that these materials may...
Abdominal Fat May Predict Heart Disease Risk Better Than BMI
WASHINGTON—A person’s waistline may reveal cardiovascular danger that body mass index (BMI) misses, according to a large study published in the Journal of the American...