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New book ties together an improbably effective career in probability

University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
Book Announcement

University of Virginia professor Roman Krzysztofowicz was drawn to the emerging field of systems engineering early in his career. Now known for pioneering work in modeling high-stakes decision making, he has authored a textbook synthesizing his research across the years.

Developing artificial intelligence tools for health care

Weill Cornell Medicine
Reports and Proceedings

Reinforcement Learning, an artificial intelligence approach, has the potential to guide physicians in designing sequential treatment strategies for better patient outcomes but requires significant improvements before it can be applied in clinical settings, finds a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine and Rockefeller University researchers.

Peptide-guided nanoparticles deliver mRNA to neurons

University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Penn Engineers have modified lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) — the revolutionary technology behind the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines — to not only cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) but also to target specific types of cells, including neurons. This breakthrough marks a significant step toward potential next-generation treatments for neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Journal: Nano Letters
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, U.S. National Science Foundation, American Cancer Society

Scientists find a vulnerability in antibiotic resistance mechanism

Technische Universität Dresden
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Superbugs, bacteria that are immune to multiple antibiotics, pose a great challenge to modern medicine. Researchers from the B CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering at TUD Dresden University of Technology and Institut Pasteur in Paris identified a weakness in the bacterial machinery that drives antibiotic resistance adaptation.

Journal: Science Advances

Rubisco's role in food and energy security

Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In an invited Tansley Review, CABBI researchers discuss strategies to increase Rubisco content as part of short- and long-term efforts to meet the growing global food demand.

Journal: New Phytologist
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

When algorithms decide for you: a warning about automation and the loss of freedom

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

Allowing algorithms to make more and more decisions can lead to frustration, restrict freedoms, and harm the most vulnerable people

MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

Researchers in the MIT Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health developed a fully open-source biomolecular structure prediction model that achieves state-of-the-art performance, at the level of AlpahFold3, in an effort to democratize biomedical research and drug development.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation Expeditions grant, Jameel Clinic, U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency Discovery of Medical Countermeasures Against New and Emerging (DOMANE) Threats program, MATCHMAKERS project, Cancer Grand Challenges partnership, Cancer Research UK, U.S. National Cancer Institute