A revolutionary drug delivery system developed by Professor Mamoun Alhamadsheh and his team at University of the Pacific could offer a game-changing solution in the fight against opioid overdoses. The research, published in Nature Communications, introduces a single-dose treatment that provides extended protection against fentanyl and other opioids by steadily releasing naloxone for up to one week.

A University at Buffalo-led team has identified a strain of bacteria that can break down and transform at least three types of PFAS, and, perhaps even more crucially, some of the toxic byproducts of the bond-breaking process.