To help dry forests, fire needs to be just the right intensity, and happen...
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University research into the ability of a wildfire to improve the health of a forest uncovered a Goldilocks effect – unless a blaze falls in a narrow severity range,...
Beyond mRNA Design to Truly Programmable Medicines
Broadcast Date: March 23, 2023Time: 8:00 am PT, 11:00 am ET, 16:00 CET
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Today millions of patients suffer or die from diseases that will be treatable or even preventable tomorrow. For 200 years,...
Decades of substantial U.S. Government investment in mRNA technology paved way for COVID-19 vaccines
In a recent study published in The BMJ, researchers explore the United States public funding for the development of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines. Study: US public investment in development...
Tracing 13 billion years of history by the light of ancient quasars
Astrophysicists in Australia have shed new light on the state of the universe 13 billion years ago by measuring the density of carbon in the gases surrounding ancient galaxies.
Credit: ASTRO 3D
Astrophysicists in Australia have...
Mapping Cellular Trajectories through Crowded Blood Vessels
By Amanda Randles, PhD
Exciting advances in establishing metrics to quantify underlying structure in vascular red blood cell distributions1 will enable us to track individual cancer cells as they travel through crowded blood vessels, randomly...
Testing for ApoB protein may be a more accurate marker for heart disease risk...
Getting tested for levels of HDL (the good) and LDL (the bad) cholesterol is part of the annual physical exam. But emerging research is showing that these standard tests may not be the most...
Humanity’s quest to discover the origins of life in the universe
“We are living in an extraordinary moment in history,” says Didier Queloz, who directs ETH Zurich’s Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life and the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe at Cambridge....
Are Organoids the Future of Drug Discovery?
Broadcast Date: March 15, 2023Time: 9:00 am PT, 12:00 pm ET, 17:00 CET
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The organoid field has come a long way in a relatively a short amount of time. Although the field started...
Intellifoods Labs, LLC strengthens partnership with Mason scientists to reduce food bacterial contamination detection...
Mason Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Ramin M. Hakami has received a total of $35,000 in grants from Intellifoods Labs, LLC to continue examining methods to reduce the time to detect the presence of...
Researchers develop a potential treatment for autoimmune encephalitis
In autoimmune encephalitis, a rare but serious and sometimes life-threatening inflammation of the central nervous system, the body's own defenses are directed against the central nervous system. This disease was first identified in 2007,...
