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Biochar helps forests fight acid rain by restoring vital soil nitrogen

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new field study reveals that biochar, a carbon-rich material made from plant residues, can significantly restore soil health and nitrogen availability in forests affected by acid rain. The findings highlight a promising, nature-based solution for protecting ecosystems under increasing environmental stress.

Journal: Biochar

Critical Path Institute launches ‘one to millions’ to reshape the future of individualized medicine at global scale

Critical Path Institute (C-Path)
Business Announcement

Critical Path Institute® today announced the launch of One to Millions, a global, multi-stakeholder public-private initiative to enable scalable development of advanced therapies for highly individualized conditions. Rapid advances in technologies such as antisense oligonucleotides, genome editing, gene therapies, and RNA-based treatments are making it possible to design precisely targeted interventions for very small patient populations, even individual patients. However, existing regulatory and reimbursement frameworks, built for population-based medicines and linear development models, are not equipped to keep pace, creating a growing gap that delays patient access.

Implantable islet cells could control diabetes without insulin injections

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As an alternative to insulin injections, MIT researchers are developing an implantable device that encapsulates islet cells, protecting them from immune rejection. The device also carries an oxygen generator to keep the cells healthy.

Journal: Device
Funder: Breakthrough TID, Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, Koch Institute Support (core) Grant from the National Cancer Institute

Falls are prevalent concern among people who use wheelchairs, scooters

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Falls are significant problems for wheelchair and mobility scooter users. New research by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign health and kinesiology professor Laura Rice explored these individuals' concerns about falling as part of the ongoing development of an intervention for fall prevention and management.

Journal: Disability and Health Journal
Funder: Paralyzed Veterans of America, Craig H. Neilsen Foundation

Study shows trauma center placement saves lives

University of Chicago Medical Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Data analysis revealed that the opening of UChicago Medicine's Level 1 trauma center is linked to a nearly 4% decrease in firearm deaths in the surrounding area.

Journal: JAMA Surgery

Staying active throughout middle age cuts women’s risk of premature death in half

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Women who consistently met physical activity guidelines throughout middle age had half the risk of dying from any cause compared to women who remained inactive, according to a new paper publishing March 26^th in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Binh Nguyen of the University of Sydney, Australia, and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS Medicine

Malaria-transmitting mosquitoes in South America evolving to evade insecticides

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Anopheles darlingi mosquitoes—a major vector of malaria in South America—are evolving in response to insecticides, which may make them harder to kill and malaria more difficult to control, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. It is the first study to sequence a large number (>1000) of complete genomes of Anopheles mosquitoes in the Americas, where there are more than 600,000 cases of malaria annually, mostly in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Journal: Science
Funder: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development

UCF researchers unlock scalable entanglement for next-generation quantum computing

University of Central Florida
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The breakthrough enables larger capacities for quantum information using complex states of light that are less affected by imperfections, paving the way for potential innovations in medicine, materials science, data management and security.

Journal: Science

Single-cell study reveals how immune memory cells remember threats

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Far-reaching findings from experts at Cincinnati Children's explain how rapid immune response functions and may inform vaccine design and treatments for allergy and autoimmune diseases

Journal: Cell Reports