Curated News: Staff Picks

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The coordinated activity of brain cells, like birds flying in formation, helps us behave intelligently in new situations, according to a study led by Cedars-Sinai investigators.

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Benjamin Manard, an analytical chemist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will receive the 2024 Lester W. Strock Award from the Society of Applied Spectroscopy.

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An international research team led by the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) at the University of Vienna has discovered that comammox bacteria, first identified by them in 2015, can grow using guanidine, a nitrogen-rich organic compound, as their sole energy and nitrogen source.

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Christopher Topp, PhD, Member and Principal Investigator of the Danforth Plant Science Center and his lab members Marcus Griffiths, PhD and Kong Wong, PhD, have teamed up with colleagues at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Kaiyu Guan, PhD, Bin Peng, PhD, and Sheng Wang, PhD, to explore the impact of cover crops on soil health and corn production to improve agriculture sustainability.

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The American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) has released new national television and radio public service announcements (PSAs) to highlight the critical role of retina specialists in preventing blindness in millions of Americans who experience retinal detachment, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy, and other retinal conditions.

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New Cleveland Clinic and Tufts University research shows that elevated levels of the gut microbiome trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) pathway led to a higher risk of heart failure independent of other risk factors, according to a study of two large National Institutes of Health cohorts. The study was recently published in the journal Circulation: Heart Failure.

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An Indiana University School of Medicine physician scientist is making strides in understanding the molecular origins of fatty liver disease, a leading cause of liver failure in the United States.

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Beach-loving environmental researchers wondered how a highly active hurricane season impacts beaches along the coast.

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The introduction of publicly shared electric scooters (“escooters”) in Denver, Colorado has resulted in a steady increase in injuries and hospital admissions, according to research led by Alexander Lauder, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Denver Health Medical Center.

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Afin d'intensifier les efforts de protection des lions d'Afrique centrale, une équipe d’éco-gardes et de biologistes camerounais du ministère des Forêts et de la Faune (MINFOF) et de la Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) a posé des colliers GPS sur sept des grands félins du parc national de Bouba Ndjidda, ce qui porte à dix le nombre de lions munis d'un collier.

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Preterm birth accounts for nearly a quarter of mortality in babies with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), according to a new study from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.The study, led by Kuan-Chi Lai, MD, MPH, found that, at a population level, 24% of mortality in babies with CDH can be attributed to being born premature.

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Ramping up protection efforts of Endangered Central African lions, a team of Cameroonian rangers and biologists from the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), has placed GPS collars on seven of the big cats in Cameroon’s Bouba Ndjidda National Park; this brings the number of collared lions to ten.

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Martian landers have been able capture measurements of wind speeds — some gauging the cooling rate of heated materials when winds blow over them, others using cameras to image “tell-tales” that blow in the wind — but there’s still room for improvement.

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New research from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) found patients with non-small cell lung cancer brain metastases may benefit from up-front stereotactic radiosurgery; identified a connection between antibiotic use and autoimmune diseases; and uncovered a previously unknown structural role for messenger RNAs in the cytoplasm of cells.

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A pivotal study uncovers the molecular signatures of mammographic calcifications in hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

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Researchers from the Center for Injury Research and Policy and Central Ohio Poison Center at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have found more than an estimated 8,000 visits to U.S. emergency departments (EDs) associated with water beads from 2007 through 2022, and the number of these visits increased rapidly by more than 130% from 2021 to 2022.

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Neutrophils are an important type of white blood cell that help your immune system fight infections.  One of the many ways neutrophils help is by capturing germs in sticky, spider web-like structures called neutrophil extracellular traps, or NETs.However, excessive formation of NETs is seen in many autoimmune diseases as a sign of exuberant inflammation.

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$4.9 million from the NSF has funded an upgrade to PSC’s flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer. The grant has allowed the center to add late-model powerful NVIDIA H100 GPUs to the system, further enhancing its ability to support research in and requiring artificial intelligence, particularly in the context of massive data and high-performance computing.

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Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Gold Plus quality achievement award for its commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines, ultimately leading to more lives saved and reduced disability.