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From seed to sprout: new transcriptome atlas reveals soybean embryo secrets

Maximum Academic Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team has created the first complete transcriptome atlas of soybean embryo development, offering unprecedented insights into how gene activity shapes seed growth, nutrient storage, and stress tolerance.

Journal: Seed Biology

You only get one brain! The best helmet material for protecting your noggin

American Institute of Physics
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In AIP Advances, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Chongqing Jiaotong University and Chongqing No. 7 Middle School compared the performance of three helmet materials under the most common types of impact and loading conditions. Though participation in sports can have positive impacts both physiologically and socially, extreme sports come with elevated risks. Researchers used computational simulations to run material comparisons for helmets made of strong plastic Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS), fiberglass alloys, and aluminum composites. The findings are valuable for all extreme sports, but Wang notes the importance of customizing helmet properties to their intended activity, as the effect of an impact depends on its interaction with gravity, the potential for a rebound, and more.

Journal: AIP Advances

Planted forests store more seeds than natural ones—a surprising boost for reforestation

Maximum Academic Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team has uncovered significant differences in the soil seed bank density (SSBD) between planted and natural forests, with implications for forest restoration and climate adaptation.

Journal: Seed Biology

DFG to fund seven new research units

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Business Announcement

Topics range from social ecology in urban centres to the neural basis of communication in vertebrates / A total of approximately €33 million for the first funding period.

Novel approach reduces alloy microstructure prediction from years to minutes

Yokohama National University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For thousands of years, humans have combined metals to collectively harness properties found in individual components, producing such practical materials as bronze, brass and, more recently, steel. However, predicting the exact microstructures underpinning these alloys to understand how specific properties of the constituent materials may manifest across scales is still a complex mystery researchers are working to solve. Now, thanks to a team based in Japan, that work could take minutes instead of years.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: Niterra Materials Co., Ltd., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Scientists discover a simple set of rules that may explain how our tissues stay organized

ChristianaCare
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at ChristianaCare’s Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute and the University of Delaware have discovered a surprisingly simple explanation for how our bodies stay so well-organized, even as billions of cells are replaced daily. In a new study, they identified just five basic rules—like when and how cells divide and die—that seem to guide how tissues like the colon maintain their structure over time. Using computer simulations, the team showed how these rules work together like choreography to keep tissues healthy and functioning. This breakthrough, which researchers call a potential “tissue code,” could help explain how our bodies heal, how diseases like cancer form, and even support global efforts like the Human Cell Atlas. It’s a powerful example of how math and medicine can come together to reveal the hidden instructions that keep us alive and well.

Journal: Biology of the Cell
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Science Foundation, Lisa Dean Moseley Foundation

High-performance scientific computing can compute molecule ground-state energy

Cleveland Clinic
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Kenneth Merz, PhD, of Cleveland Clinic's Center for Computational Life Sciences and a team are exploring how quantum computers can work with supercomputers to better simulate molecule behavior.

Simulating large molecule stability and behavior requires more time and power than is possible on even the most advanced supercomputer. Dr. Merz and his team developed a strategy for overcoming this barrier by combining the power of a quantum computer with the accuracy of a supercomputer in a study published in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.

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