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UrduStuart Therapeutics, Inc. announces that it has expanded its drug development pipeline, adding programs in diabetic macular edema and myopia.
Month: January 2023
When Taxes Go Up, Execs Increase Profits from Insider Trading
New research finds that corporate executives are more likely to increase their profits from insider trading when individual state income taxes go up, presumably because the executives are attempting to offset the increased taxes they will be paying.
Quantum computers: Bar-Ilan University researchers develop superconducting flux qubits with unprecedented reproducibility
Dr. Michael Stern and co-workers from the Department of Physics and Quantum Entanglement Science and Technology (QUEST) Center at Bar-Ilan University in Israel are attempting to build superconducting processors based on a type of circuit called superconducting flux qubits. A flux qubit is a micron-sized superconducting loop where electrical current can flow clockwise or counter-clockwise, or in a quantum superposition of both directions. Contrary to transmon qubits, these flux qubits are highly non-linear objects and can thus be manipulated on very short time scales with high fidelity. The main drawback of flux qubits, however, is that they are particularly difficult to control and to fabricate. This leads to sizeable irreproducibility and has limited their use in the industry until now to quantum annealing optimization processes such as the ones realized by D-Wave.
Using a novel fabrication technique and state-of the-art equipment, a group led by Dr. Stern, in collaboration with Pr
Mandel School partners with Magnolia Clubhouse for research, recovery for those with mental health issues
To many, the Magnolia Clubhouse is a high-end resale shop replete with upscale furniture, artwork and collectibles in a stately historic mansion amid institutions of higher education and arts and culture in University Circle. But for others—those struggling with mental illness in Northeast Ohio—the Magnolia Clubhouse is a haven of friendship, employment, support and recovery, Now, the Magnolia Clubhouse has a new partner in research: the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University
Lab lights way to simple chemical synthesis
Inexpensive iron salts are a key to simplifying the manufacture of essential precursors for drugs and other chemicals, according to scientists at Rice University.
More than two billion are infected with this disease; Vitamin D can help
Sarcomas are cancer tumours found in e.g. the bones, muscles or fatty tissue. It is a rare type of cancer seen in only one per cent of cancer patients. It is complex and difficult to treat.
Electricity harvesting from evaporation, raindrops and moisture inspired by nature
Raindrops, evaporating water, and even moisture in the air are all potentially sources of decentralized clean electricity generation, but many of the technologies that take advantage of this ambient and vast source of energy—many of which are inspired by the electricity harvesting techniques of plants and animals—remain at the lab-bench stage.
Beyond the average cell
Models based on an average cell are useful, but they may not accurately describe how individual cells really work. New possibilities opened up with the advent of single-cell live imaging technologies. Now it is possible to peer into the lives of individual cells. In a new paper in PLOS Genetics, a team of biologists and physicists from Washington University in St. Louis and Purdue University used actual single-cell data to create an updated framework for understanding the relationship between cell growth, DNA replication and division in a bacterial system.
Study suggests one solution to America’s opioid epidemic: Tell doctors their patients fatally overdosed
There are no simple solutions to America’s deadly overdose epidemic, which costs 100,000 lives each year and is erasing gains in life expectancy.
From grave to cradle: Collagen-induced gut cell reprogramming
Most cells have a pretty normal life: they’re born, they grow, they get old, and they die. But the Benjamin Buttons of the cellular world can go from old to young again in the right context.
U-M Health neurologists available to discuss Lecanemab, Alzheimer’s drug FDA approval #lecanemab #alzheimers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval Friday for lecanemab, an Alzheimer’s disease drug for which studies showed the promising biological effect of removal of the brain’s amyloid buildup that occurs in the disease. University of Michigan Health,…
Study reveals average age at conception for men versus women over past 250,000 years
Using a new method based upon comparing DNA mutation rates between parents and offspring, evolutionary biologists at Indiana University have for the first time revealed the average age of mothers versus fathers over the past 250,000 years, including the discovery that the age gap is shrinking, with women’s average age at conception increasing from 23.2 years to 26.4 years, on average, in the past 5,000 years.
Fathoming the hidden heatwaves that threaten coral reefs
In April to May 2019, the coral reefs near the French Polynesian island of Moorea in the central South Pacific Ocean suffered severe and prolonged thermal bleaching.
Scars mended using transplanted hair follicles in Imperial College London study
In a new study involving three volunteers, skin scars began to behave more like uninjured skin after they were treated with hair follicle transplants.
Utah’s Consumer Sentiment rises in December
Utah’s consumer sentiment increased from 64.1 in November to 68.7 in December, according to the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute’s Survey of Utah Consumers.
Vaccine and prior SARS-CoV-2 infection confer long-lasting protection against omicron BA.5
A new study led by Luís Graça, group leader at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM, Lisbon) and full professor at the Medical School of the University of Lisbon, and Manuel Carmo Gomes, associate professor with aggregation at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Ciências ULisboa), both members of the Direção Geral de Saúde (DGS) Technical Committee for Vaccination against COVID-19 (CTVC), and published today in the scientific journal Lancet Infectious Diseases*, shows that the protection conferred by hybrid immunity against the SARS-CoV-2 subvariant omicron BA.5, obtained by the infection of vaccinated people, lasts for at least eight months after the first infection.
Nanoplastics unexpectedly produce reactive oxidizing species when exposed to light
A team of researchers led by Young-Shin Jun at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis found that nanoplastics facilitate formation of manganese oxide on polystyrene nanoparticles.
Lithium-sulfur batteries are one step closer to powering the future
An Argonne research team has built and tested a new interlayer to prevent dissolution of the sulfur cathode in lithium-sulfur batteries. This new interlayer increases Li-S cell capacity and maintains it over hundreds of cycles.
Physicists confirm effective wave growth theory in space
A team from Nagoya University in Japan has observed, for the first time, the energy transferring from resonant electrons to whistler-mode waves in space.
Organelles grow in random bursts
New experiments that show that eukaryotic cells can robustly control average fluctuations in organelle size. By demonstrating that organelle sizes obey a universal scaling relationship that the scientists predict theoretically, their new framework suggests that organelles grow in random bursts from a limiting pool of building blocks.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Cedars-Sinai Experts On Hand to Discuss New Alzheimer’s Drug Now Under Review
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is poised to make a decision on another new Alzheimer’s disease treatment this week, and experts from the Jona Goldrich Center for Alzheimer’s and Memory Disorders at Cedars-Sinai are available to explain how the drug works and which patients could benefit from the medication.
Cooling 100 million degree plasma with a hydrogen-neon mixture ice pellet
At ITER – the world’s largest experimental fusion reactor, currently under construction in France through international cooperation – the abrupt termination of magnetic confinement of a high temperature plasma through a so-called “disruption” poses a major open issue.
Study details impact of prairie dog plague die-off on other species
When an outbreak of sylvatic plague decimated black-tailed prairie dog numbers in the Thunder Basin National Grassland in 2017, researchers saw an opportunity for a “natural experiment” to explore the impact of the rodents’ die-off on the plants and other wildlife in that area of northeast Wyoming.
EPA Squanders Opportunity to Protect the American Public from Life-threatening Particulate Air Pollution
Today, the EPA released an inadequate proposed rule that fails to protect the health of the American public from the life-threatening effects of common daily exposures to the air pollutant, particulate matter.
Underrepresented groups remain in neonatal nurse practitioner training programs
Black, Latin American, and other underrepresented groups continue to receive inadequate representation among students and faculty at US neonatal nurse practitioner (NNP) training programs, reports a survey in Advances in Neonatal Care, the official journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.
Marine Plankton Tell the Long Story of Ocean Health, and Maybe Human Too
UC San Diego researchers suggest that rising levels of manmade chemicals, accumulating in marine plankton, might be used to monitor the impact of human activity on ecosystem health and perhaps study links between ocean pollution and land-based rates of childhood and adult chronic illnesses.
Older knee replacements as good as newer models, study shows
Older knee replacement designs are just as effective as newer models – according to new research from the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and University of East Anglia.
Do the negative ways that others treat us contribute to later self-harm?
Engaging in self-harming behaviors without the intention to die, or nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), increases dramatically in the transition from childhood to adolescence and continues to grow throughout the teenage years.
Place names are important for understanding history
Preserving place names keeps history alive and helps new generations to understand it, says Vidar Haslum, Associate Professor at the Department of Nordic and Media Studies at the University of Agder.
GW Experts Available to Discuss Second Anniversary of the January 6th Insurrection
Today marks two years since a mob burst into the U.S. Capitol in a desperate attempt to overturn the 2020 election and keep former President Donald Trump in power. The attack resulted in nine deaths and hundreds of injuries. According…
GW Forensic Science Expert on University of Idaho Murder Suspect Arrest
Traces of DNA on a knife sheath in Idaho and household trash in Pennsylvania led authorities to nab Bryan Kohberger for the murder of four University of Idaho students. For two months, investigators have been conducting surveillance and piecing together…
Could washing our clothes without detergent become a thing of the past?
Could washing our clothes without detergent become a thing of the past? Even though the research is in its early stages, an investigation as to whether washing or cleaning can be done with purified water instead of detergent solution looks promising.
After 40 Years of Decline, Stroke Death Rates Are Rising Again
Millennials face a greater risk of ischemic stroke death than Generation X, according to a Rutgers study.
MIND Diet From RUSH Ranked Among Best for 2023
For the sixth year in a row, the MIND diet has been recognized as a Best Diet for 2023 by U.S. News & World Report.
Nearly 1/3 of people with chronic pain turn to cannabis
According to a new study published in JAMA Network Open, almost a third of patients with chronic pain reported using cannabis to manage it.
American University Experts Available to Discuss President Biden’s Visit to U.S.-Mexico Border
What: This Sunday for the first time since his presidency, President Biden will visit El Paso, Texas and the U.S.-Mexico border after continued challenges with the influx of migrants at the border and unveiling a new program for migrants from…
Rutgers Addiction Research Expert, Director of the Rutgers Addiction Research Center, Available to Comment on Dry January, Health Benefits and Steps for Success
Danielle Dick, Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and inaugural director of the Rutgers Addiction Research Center at the Rutgers Brain Health Institute, is available to speak on the benefits of joining the Dry January challenge and steps for…
Dermatologist available to discuss Mohs surgery
The White House recently announced that during a routine skin cancer screening, a small lesion was found under first lady Jill Biden’s eye. The first lady will undergo Mohs micrographic surgery, also called Mohs surgery, next week to remove the…
Researchers ID Kidney Pathway Involved with Autoimmune-related Hypertension in Female Mice
Article title: Renal TLR-7/ TNF-α pathway as a potential female-specific mechanism in the pathogenesis of autoimmune-induced hypertension Authors: Sarika Chaudhari, Bradley M. D’Souza, Jessica Y. Morales, Cassandra M. Young-Stubbs, Caroline G. Shimoura, Rong Ma, Keisa W. Mathis From the authors:…
Study Evaluates Neural Network Involvement in PTSD
Article title: The brain landscape of the two-hit model of posttraumatic stress disorder Authors: Lisa M. James, Brian E. Engdahl, Peka Christova, Scott M. Lewis, and Apostolos P. Georgopoulos From the authors: “The present study provides a novel contribution by…
Sex Plays a Role in Lung Cell Development after High Oxygen Exposure
Article title: Remarkable sex-specific differences at single-cell resolution in neonatal hyperoxic lung injury Authors: Abiud Cantu, Connor Leek, Eniko Sajti, Krithika Lingappan, Manuel C. Gutierrez, Xiaoyu Dong From the authors: “Exploring the basis behind sex-specific differences will be crucial to…
Accelerating and Improving Smart Use of Big Data to Predict Earth System Processes
Building a robust Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) platform for researchers
Should parents be concerned about their kids in sports in the wake of Damar Hamlin’s injury?
Dr. Olujimi A. Ajijola, an associate professor of medicine at the UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, is available to discuss what parents should know Amid Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s ongoing recovery from a cardiac arrest, parents may wonder how to…
University of Chicago Launches Polsky Deep Tech Ventures to Accelerate the Commercialization of Innovations in Quantum, Data Science, Clean Tech, and Life Sciences
The University of Chicago today unveiled Polsky Deep Tech Ventures, a new initiative offering a suite of sector-specific accelerators, entrepreneurial training, and funding dedicated to supporting startups that bring world-changing science and technology to market.
New approach to epidemic modeling could speed up pandemic simulations
Simulations that help determine how a large-scale pandemic will spread can take weeks or even months to run. A recent study in PLOS Computational Biology offers a new approach to epidemic modeling that could drastically speed up the process.
New study suggests Mayas utilized market-based economics
More than 500 years ago in the midwestern Guatemalan highlands, Maya people bought and sold goods with far less oversight from their rulers than many archeologists previously thought.
Brookhaven Postdoc Adrien Florio Explores the Next Phase of the Quantum Revolution
Meet Adrien Florio, a postdoctoral research associate and fellow in Brookhaven Lab’s Nuclear Theory Group that is contributing his unique perspective and experience to the Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage’s theory and applications subthrust.
City Tech Students, Faculty Join Brookhaven Lab at 20th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop
Experts from around the country traveled to Hauppauge, NY, to discuss research in advanced accelerator physics and technology as well as the application and impact of that work. The workshop presented a great opportunity to also spark the interest of students and engage local university faculty. Mark Palmer, of Brookhaven Lab’s Accelerator Test Facility, worked with DOE and the New York City College of Technology to give students an in-depth look at accelerator science through lectures, workshops, and an on-site laboratory tour.
The brain’s ability to perceive space expands like the universe
Young children sometimes believe that the moon is following them, or that they can reach out and touch it.
In an Advance for Solar Fuels, Hybrid Materials Improve Photocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction
Scientists are working to transform carbon dioxide into chemical solar fuels. To advance this process, researchers have identified a new hybrid material that consists of a light-absorbing semiconductor and a cobalt catalyst. The research extends scientific efforts to identify new ways to store energy and to efforts to understand how light-absorbing hybrid systems can drive the catalytic production of chemical fuels using solar energy.