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Technology To Manage Mental Health At Your Fingertips

A smart device-based electronic platform designed by Texas A&M researchers can help patients monitor their mental health between visits to their health care provider.

A New Tool to Make Genomic Research Reflect the World’s Diversity

Scientists have developed a powerful, inclusive new tool for genomic research that boosts efforts to develop more precise treatments for many diseases by leveraging a better representation of the genetic diversity of people around the world.

Researchers Seek Deeper Understanding Of How Cells Operate

An interdisciplinary team seeks to better understand how the mechanical properties of cells operate in the body and how pathologies can disrupt these processes.

Hide-and-Seek Can Lead to Higher Drug Prices

Pharmaceutical manufacturers and national authorities often negotiate secret rebates when determining drug prices. A UZH study shows that these rebate systems may hamper patient access to drugs. In the medium term, this practice can even lead to increasing drug prices.

Unexpected ‘Black Swan’ Defect Discovered In Soft Matter For First Time

Using an advanced microscopy technique, Texas A&M researchers have uncovered a twin boundary defect in a soft polymer that has never been observed before.

An Energy-Storage Solution That Flows Like Soft-Serve Ice Cream

Researchers make the case for a semisolid electrochemical compound as a cost-efficient, grid-scale battery backup for wind and solar power.

Study Shows Sharp Decrease In Texas Childhood Vaccination Rates During Pandemic

Texas A&M researchers found the declines were greatest for 5-month-olds and 16-month-olds, but no decrease was seen in vaccines given at birth.

A Battery That Degrades On Demand

A multidisciplinary team of Texas A&M researchers developed a new metal-free battery platform that could lead to more sustainable, recyclable batteries.

How a Virus Causes Chromosomal Breakage, Leading to Cancer

The ubiquitous Epstein-Barr virus targets “fragile DNA,” triggering dysfunction that is associated with a variety of cancers

Taking Some Of The Guesswork Out Of Drug Discovery

A deep learning model rapidly predicts the 3D shapes of drug-like molecules, which could accelerate the process of discovering new medicines.

Reflecting on Your Own Capabilities Boosts Resilience

Reflecting on how you have overcome past personal challenges can help you process negative experiences, a new study from the University of Zurich confirms. Actively reminding yourself of your self-efficacy could also prove useful in the coronavirus era.

Study Identifies Risk Factors For Standard Motorist Injuries, Deaths

A collaboration between health care providers and a death investigation agency supports evidence-based outcomes to reduce stranded motorist loss of life on Texas highways.

Technique Enables Real-Time Rendering Of Scenes In 3D

The new machine-learning system can generate a 3D scene from an image about 15,000 times faster than other methods.

Texas A&M AgriLife Research Investigating Phages To Fight Bacterial Infection

A new NIH-funded grant supports studying phages as a preventive, therapeutic approach.

A System For Designing And Training Intelligent Soft Robots

“Evolution Gym” is a large-scale benchmark for co-optimizing the design and control of soft robots that takes inspiration from nature and evolutionary processes.

Consumption of Added Sugar Doubles Fat Production

Too much sugar is unhealthy – that we know, but it’s not just down to the many calories. Even moderate amounts of added fructose and sucrose double the body’s own fat production in the liver, researchers from the University of Zurich have shown. In the long term, this contributes to the development of diabetes or a fatty liver.

Following Nature’s Cue, Researchers Build Sustainable Industrial Networks

New resesarch shows that eco-industrial parks inspired by the architecture of food webs are economically beneficial, resilient and environmentally friendly.

Body Mass Index, Age Can Affect Your Risk For Neck Pain

In a new study, Texas A&M researchers show that both personal factors and the time of day play a role in neck strength and endurance.

Machines That See The World More Like Humans Do

A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do.

New Results Challenge Leading Theory in Physics

Researchers at UZH and CERN have just released new intriguing results. According to the international research collaboration that runs the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment, the latest measurements strengthen hints for a deviation with respect to the theoretical expectations. If confirmed, the findings point towards physics beyond the Standard Model such as a new fundamental force.