4-Apr-2025 Breathing life-saving services into rural communities University of Rochester From designing and manufacturing hundreds of ventilators to support critically ill patients in Peru during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to bringing prenatal and breast-cancer imaging to women in rural areas of Peru, Professor Benjamín Castañeda's career is focused on providing medical technology to people who would otherwise not have access.
3-Apr-2025 Solving medicine’s most elusive mysteries Harvard Medical School For years, a disease with no name slowly stole one man's sight—until his son’s diagnosis finally provided the answer. Their journey highlights the power of rare disease research to crack some of medicine's most elusive mysteries and, in doing so, to reshape the future of medicine.
3-Apr-2025 Clustering around condensates Marine Biological Laboratory Jennifer Morgan, senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, studies how the synapse malfunctions in devastating diseases such as Parkinson’s and Lewy body dementia. Now, her lab has spawned a large collaboratioin to understand how condensates -- liquid-like droplets that spontaneously form inside cells -- play a role in synaptic health and disease, in collaboration with Drago Milovanovic of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZME). Funder Marine Biological Laboratory
3-Apr-2025 Engineers using ‘digital twins’ to improve agriculture, health, manufacturing and more Iowa State University Iowa State researchers are building "digital twins" that are regularly updated with data from their physical twins. A national committee said digital twins have "immense promise in accelerating scientific discovery and revolutionizing industries." Funder U.S. National Science Foundation, Department of Agriculture
3-Apr-2025 Researchers crafting hands-on science lessons in Minecraft University of Texas at Dallas In “A Minecraft Movie,” which opens in theaters April 4, four misfits transported to the video game’s cubic world must harvest materials to craft their way back home and protect themselves from threats such as zombies and hostile creatures called piglins. Meanwhile, at The University of Texas at Dallas, a team of researchers has embarked on its own Minecraft mission: to build lessons within the popular game to teach students about semiconductors, batteries, polymers and even help premedical students prepare for the MCAT.
3-Apr-2025 University of Cincinnati student leads international nonprofit, conducts cancer research and explores public policy University of Cincinnati University of Cincinnati second-year medical sciences student Jay Patel is pursuing his passions as founder of the Dahyabhai Foundation, a cancer researcher and a Portman Fellow.
3-Apr-2025 Your abdominal core: Expert shares tips for protecting a part of the body you may not think about Mayo Clinic It is a large part of the body that lies deep inside, out of sight and perhaps out of mind: your abdominal core. A new and rapidly developing area of medicine focuses on abdominal core health, including how people can incorporate it into a healthy lifestyle and how to address complex medical problems that arise when it is compromised. Dr. Charlotte Horne, a metabolic and abdominal wall reconstructive surgeon at Mayo Clinic, explains what abdominal core health is, how to protect it and risk factors for problems that may require surgery.
3-Apr-2025 New podcast tackles the big questions in biodiversity German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Inside Biodiversity, a new podcast hosted by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) will premiere on 3 April 2025 at 13:00. Each episode of Inside Biodiversity is approximately 30 minutes long and features Dr Volker Hahn, iDiv’s Head of Communications, in conversation with renowned researchers, journalists, or conservation practitioners. They will shed light on the complexities of biodiversity change, conservation challenges, and the surprising realities behind common assumptions. Funder Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
3-Apr-2025 Blue carbon project will create a living shoreline to protect coastal ecosystems in Galveston Bay Rice University Rice University, BCarbon and Scenic Galveston have launched an innovative project to protect the Kohfeldt Marsh near Texas City from sea level rise through the design and creation of a living shoreline. The effort combines land conservation with carbon credit financing, supporting marshland resilience against erosion and climate change. As part of a special credit course, Rice students will be actively involved in the design of the shoreline.
3-Apr-2025 Q&A: How can drug repurposing lower drug costs and improve care? Penn State Drug repurposing, or finding new uses for existing medications, could potentially lower the cost of prescription drugs and medical expenses and accelerate the discovery of new treatments. In the following Q&A, Dajiang Liu, distinguished professor at the Penn State College of Medicine, discussed drug repurposing, how it works and its benefits.
