University of Houston and Scotland’s Heriot-Watt University forge strategic energy alliance
HOUSTON, April 10, 2024 – The University of Houston (UH) and Scotland’s Heriot-Watt University (HWU) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) today, marking the beginning of their partnership to foster global collaboration in education,...
Is Gene Therapy Nearing a Tipping Point?
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Broadcast Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024Time: 9:00 am PDT, 12:00 pm EDT, 18:00 CEST
Gene therapy has undergone a renaissance in recent years, with several drugs offering beneficial, even life-saving...
Food scientists are finding ways to preserve food quality and ensure food safety
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Sometimes the processing that makes food safe can compromise flavor and nutrients, but food scientist Jennifer Acuff is looking for a way to make food safe and minimize loss of quality.
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Detecting Growing Tumors through Changes in the Plasma Proteome
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Broadcast Date: Monday, April 22, 2024Time: 8:00 am PDT, 11:00 am EDT, 17:00 CEST
For most malignancies, early tumor detection is crucial, as it expands treatment options, reduces metastases, and ultimately...
Geraniol alleviates cognitive decline in D-galactose-induced aging mice
A new research paper was published in Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as "Aging (Albany NY)" and "Aging-US" by Web of Science) Volume 16, Issue 6, entitled, "Geraniol attenuates oxidative stress and neuroinflammation-mediated cognitive impairment...
New Theory on Parkinson’s Origins and Spread
For the past twenty years, researchers have debated the source of the toxic proteins at the source of Parkinson’s disease. In 2003, a German pathologist, Heiko Braak, MD, first proposed that the disease begins...
Enhanced AI tool TeXGPT powers up academic writing
Digital Science is further broadening its range of AI innovations in a major new release from AI-based academic language service Writefull, which is to be used in the collaborative authoring tool Overleaf.
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Air pollution data could be used to plan better transit routes
In addition to traffic information, in the not-too-distant future it will be possible to decide the best route and time to travel by car in cities like São Paulo – the capital of the...
CRISPR Concerns Won’t Spoil Its Promise—If We Use the Right Tools
The recent approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Casgevy, a therapy developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics that uses CRISPR gene editing to treat patients with sickle cell disease, is a...
Super-Resolution Microscopy Can Be Super-Accessible
A decade ago, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to a trio of researchers for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy. The announcement at the time stated that the researchers’ work had “brought...
