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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 30-Apr-2025 03:08 ET (30-Apr-2025 07:08 GMT/UTC)

Dr. Venkataramana Gadhamshetty appointed Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Engineering Science

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News
Business Announcement

Environmental Engineering Science, a premier peer-reviewed journal dedicated to critical advancements in environmental engineering and science, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Venkataramana Gadhamshetty, PhD, PE, BCEE, MASCE, as its new Editor-in-Chief. Environmental Engineering Science is the official journal of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP).

Journal: Environmental Engineering Science

AI tool unlocks long-standing biomedical mystery behind Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s

Rice University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A novel artificial intelligence (AI) tool has revealed how disease-linked proteins misfold into harmful structures, a key advance in understanding neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The study, led by Mingchen Chen of the Changping Laboratory and Rice University’s Peter Wolynes, introduces RibbonFold, a new computational method capable of predicting the structures of amyloids.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

SwRI-led Lucy mission survey of main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson imminent

Southwest Research Institute
Business Announcement

SAN ANTONIO — April 15, 2025 —The Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission is preparing to survey the next target in its epic 4-billion-mile, 12-year, 11-asteroid tour. On April 20, 2025, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will fly past the three-mile-wide main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson as a test run to the main event: visiting the never-before-explored Trojan asteroids in the Jupiter system.

Paralyzed Veterans of America grant funds University of Cincinnati research with end users in mind

University of Cincinnati
Grant and Award Announcement

University of Cincinnati researchers, in collaboration with end users in the community, have received a $200,000 grant from Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) to design a user-centered, easy-to-use assistive device to help restore hand grasping motions for people with spinal cord injuries/diseases.

Funder: Paralyzed Veterans of America

Fiber optics detect crevasse icequakes on alpine glacier

Seismological Society of America
Meeting Announcement

Fiber optic cable deployed on a Swiss glacier detected the seismic signals of crevasses opening in the ice, confirming that the technology could be useful in monitoring such icequakes, according to a report at the Seismological Society of America’s Annual Meeting.

USTC develops high-performance biomimetic proton gating system

University of Science and Technology of China
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Professor ZHANG Zhen’s team at the Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), reported a solid-state proton gating membrane with an ultrahigh gating ratio of 5,740, surpassing existing technologies. The study was published in Nature Communications.

Journal: Nature Communications

Armoring CAR T cells to prevent self-sabotage and better fight cancer

University of Pennsylvania
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Wei Guo of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts & Sciences and colleagues from the Perelman School of Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, and School of Engineering and Applied Science have teamed up to uncover how solid tumors’ complicated microenvironments can manipulate cancer-fighting CAR T cells through extracellular vesicles, causing the engineered CAR T cells to commit fratricide—essentially turning against each other instead of attacking the cancer.

Journal: Nature Cancer
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

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