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Entire Oat Genome Mapped

After many years, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has sequenced and characterized the entire genome of oats.

New Nanoparticles Aid Sepsis Treatment in Mice

Sepsis, the body’s overreaction to an infection, affects more than 1.5 million people and kills at least 270,000 every year in the U.S. alone.

Why Do Some Experience Repeated Miscarriages? Research May Help Us

The most common cause of spontaneous abortions is chromosome defects, but they can be difficult to detect.

Visible Light Triggers Molecular Machines to Treat Infections

Chemists have created light-activated molecular machines and shown they can drill holes through the membranes of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria, killing them in as little as two minutes.

How the Brain Responds to Surprising Events

When your brain needs you to pay attention to something important, one way it can do that is to send out a burst of noradrenaline, according to a new MIT study.

Physicists Announce First Results from the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment's Final Dataset

Over nearly nine years, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment captured an unprecedented five and a half million interactions from subatomic particles called neutrinos.

New Texas A&M Research Documents Domestic Cattle Genetics In Modern Bison Herds

The shared genetic ancestry is the result of multiple hybridization events between North American bison and cattle over the last 200 years, which followed a population crash of bison in the 1800s.

Shale Reservoirs Could be ‘Substantial Source of Lithium’

University of Houston Researcher Lays Out Potential of Petroleum-Based Rock Brines as New Lithium Source

UH Researchers Make Inroads in Converting Seawater to Green Hydrogen

Seawater electrolysis, the process of extracting oxygen and hydrogen out of water, was first discovered in the early 19th century.

Spinning Is Key for Line-Dancing Electrons in Iron Selenide

Research IDs origin of iron selenide superconductor’s enigmatic behavior

Hydrogen Production Method Opens Up Clean Fuel Possibilities

A new energy-efficient way to produce hydrogen gas from ethanol and water has the potential to make clean hydrogen fuel a more viable alternative for gasoline to power cars.

Disposable Masks Could Be Used to Make More Durable Concrete

With the pervasive single-use masks during the pandemic now presenting an environmental problem, researchers have demonstrated the idea of incorporating old masks into a cement mixture to create stronger, more durable concrete.

New Sleep Molecule Discovered: “It Shows Just How Complex the Machinery of Sleep Is”

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Aalborg University presents a new study demonstrating that a small molecule in brain cells affects the level of hypocretin

The Genetic Underpinnings of Severe Staph Infections

A common culprit of skin and respiratory infections, Staphylococcus aureus is highly unpredictable.

3 Questions: Daniel Anderson on the Progress Of mRNA Vaccines

Following the successful development of vaccines against Covid-19, scientists hope to deploy mRNA-based therapies to combat many other diseases.

Gene Therapy Shows Promise in Treating Neuropathy from Spinal Cord Injuries

In mouse studies, pain-blocking neurotransmitters produced long-lasting benefit without detectable side effects

ASU Professor Invents Novel Color Printing Method

A new process being developed by Arizona State University researchers enables color printing on a microscale with a simple, inexpensive additive manufacturing process.

'Beautiful Collaboration' Advances Research on Freshwater Blooms

A Dartmouth-led study urges more complete study of harmful cyanobacteria.

Emma Esterman '20: Senior Thesis Work Published

Bacterial Gene Transfer Agents have distinct DNA packaging machinery