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Newswise: Why Ventilators can be Tough on Preemie Lungs
5-Feb-2024 8:00 AM EST
Why Ventilators can be Tough on Preemie Lungs
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Many premature infants need mechanical ventilation to breathe. However, prolonged ventilation can lead to problems like respiratory diseases or ventilation-induced injury.Jonas Naumann and Mareike Zink study the physics of mechanical stress from ventilation at Leipzig University, in Leipzig, Germany and discovered some of the mechanisms that explain why premature lungs are especially sensitive to stress.

   
Newswise: Using Ion Beams to Improve Brain Microscopy
5-Feb-2024 4:25 PM EST
Using Ion Beams to Improve Brain Microscopy
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Improving the way scientists can see the microscopic structures of the brain can improve our understanding of a host of brain diseases, like Alzheimer’s or multiple sclerosis. Studying these diseases is challenging and has been limited by accuracy of available models.To see the smallest parts of cells, scientists often use a technique called electron microscopy.

   
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5-Feb-2024 8:00 AM EST
3D Ice Printing can Create Artificial Blood Vessels in Engineered Tissue
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Over 100,000 individuals in the United States are currently in need of organ transplants. The demand for organs, such as hearts, kidneys, and livers, far exceeds the available supply and people sometimes wait years to receive a donated organ.

   
Newswise: New Method Could Detect Early Ovarian Cancer from Urine Samples
5-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
New Method Could Detect Early Ovarian Cancer from Urine Samples
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Ovarian cancer is hard to diagnose in its early stages because it has vague symptoms, such as constipation, bloating, and back pain.

Newswise: How Ancient Sea Creatures can Inform Soft Robotics
5-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
How Ancient Sea Creatures can Inform Soft Robotics
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Soft robotics is the study of creating robots from soft materials, which has the advantage of flexibility and safety in human interactions. These robots are well-suited for applications ranging from medical devices to enhancing efficiency in various tasks.

Newswise: Faster Monkeypox (mpox) Testing Through CRISPR
5-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Faster Monkeypox (mpox) Testing Through CRISPR
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Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is a rare viral disease that is spread through physical contact between people.

   
Released: 9-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
The Biophysical Journal Names Erdic Sezgin the 2023 Paper of the Year-Early Career Investigator Awardee
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ROCKVILLE, MD – Erdic Sezgin, of Karolinska Institutet, Sweden will be honored as the recipient of the Biophysical Journal Paper of the Year-Early Career Investigator Award at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, held February 10-14 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Newswise: BPS Celebrates Max Planck-Humboldt Medal Awardee Kandice Tanner
Released: 29-Sep-2023 11:05 AM EDT
BPS Celebrates Max Planck-Humboldt Medal Awardee Kandice Tanner
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ROCKVILLE, MD – The Biophysical Society is honored to celebrate Kandice Tanner, a physicist and Senior Investigator at the Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. Tanner is being recognized for her pioneering work on the biophysics of the metastatic spread of cancer.

Released: 21-Sep-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Biophysical Society Announces 2024 Society Fellows
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ROCKVILLE, MD – The Biophysical Society is proud to announce its 2024 Society Fellows. This award honors the Society’s distinguished members who have demonstrated excellence in science and contributed to the expansion of the field of biophysics.

Released: 13-Sep-2023 9:30 AM EDT
Biophysical Society Names 2024 Society Award Recipients
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ROCKVILLE, MD – The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2024 Society Awards. These awards are very competitive in nature and are intended to recognize Society members for excellence in biophysics. The winners will be honored at the Society’s 68th Annual Meeting being held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from February 10-14, 2024.

Newswise: Biophysical Society Announces the Results of its 2023 Elections
Released: 15-Aug-2023 11:25 AM EDT
Biophysical Society Announces the Results of its 2023 Elections
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Lynmarie K. Thompson has been elected President-elect of the Biophysical Society (BPS). She will assume the office of President-elect at the 2024 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and begin her term as President during the 2025 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, California. Thompson is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass).

Newswise: The Biophysical Journal Names Carlas S. Smith the 2022 Paper of the Year-Early Career Investigator Awardee
Released: 24-Feb-2023 7:00 AM EST
The Biophysical Journal Names Carlas S. Smith the 2022 Paper of the Year-Early Career Investigator Awardee
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Carlas S. Smith, PhD, of Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands was honored as the recipient of the Biophysical Journal Paper of the Year-Early Career Investigator Award at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, held February 18-22 in San Diego, California. This award recognizes the work of outstanding early career investigators in biophysics.

   
Newswise: What Physicists Can Learn from Shark Intestines
13-Feb-2023 1:30 PM EST
What Physicists Can Learn from Shark Intestines
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ROCKVILLE, MD – In 1920, inventor Nikola Tesla patented a type of pipe that he called a “valvular conduit,” which was built to draw fluid in one direction without any moving parts or added energy, and has applications ranging from soft robotics to medical implants. In 2021, scientists discovered that sharks' spiral-shaped intestines work much the same way, favoring fluid flow in one direction—from head to pelvis.

   
Newswise: Weaponizing Part of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Against Itself to Prevent Infection
13-Feb-2023 2:10 PM EST
Weaponizing Part of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Against Itself to Prevent Infection
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ROCKVILLE, MD – The virus that causes COVID-19, called SARS-CoV-2, uses its spike protein in order to stick to and infect our cells. The final step for the virus to enter our cells is for part of its spike protein to act like a twist tie, forcing the host cell’s outer membrane to fuse with the virus. Kailu Yang, in the lab of Axel Brunger, colleagues at Stanford University, and collaborators at University of California Berkely, Harvard Medical School, and University of Finland have generated a molecule based on the twisted part of the spike protein (called HR2), which sticks itself onto the virus and prevents the spike protein from twisting.

   
Newswise: How COVID-19 Can Impact the Heart
13-Feb-2023 12:20 PM EST
How COVID-19 Can Impact the Heart
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ROCKVILLE, MD – COVID-19 infections can cause potentially life-threatening heart issues. Studies suggest that people with COVID-19 are 55% more likely to suffer a major adverse cardiovascular event, including heart attack, stroke and death, than those without COVID-19. They’re also more likely to have other heart issues, like arrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms) and myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle).

   
Newswise: Harnessing Plant Molecules to Harvest Solar Energy
13-Feb-2023 2:10 PM EST
Harnessing Plant Molecules to Harvest Solar Energy
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ROCKVILLE, MD – Our current solar panels aren’t very efficient; they are only able to convert up to about 20 percent of the sun’s energy into electricity. As a result, to generate a lot of electricity, the panels require a lot of space—sometimes leading forests to be cut down or farms to be replaced by solar.

Newswise: How AI Can Help Design Drugs to Treat Opioid Addiction
13-Feb-2023 1:45 PM EST
How AI Can Help Design Drugs to Treat Opioid Addiction
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ROCKVILLE, MD – Approximately three million Americans suffer from opioid use disorder, and every year more than 80,000 Americans die from overdoses. Opioid drugs, such as heroin, fentanyl, oxycodone and morphine, activate opioid receptors. Activating mu-opioid receptors leads to pain relief and euphoria, but also physical dependence and decreased breathing, the latter leading to death in the case of drug overdose.

   
Newswise: A Tool to Prevent Deaths Due to Female Underrepresentation in Clinical Trials
13-Feb-2023 12:20 PM EST
A Tool to Prevent Deaths Due to Female Underrepresentation in Clinical Trials
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ROCKVILLE, MD – Women are often underrepresented in cardiac clinical trials—yet they are at least at equally high risk of death due to cardiovascular disease, and at higher risk of developing drug-induced heart complications compared to men. Clinical trials of medicines generally rely on electrocardiograms (EKG) to measure a patient’s heart’s response to a medicine and determine its safety, yet males and females have a number of differences in their heart physiology that are reflected in consistent variations in their EKGs.

   
Released: 6-Sep-2022 1:05 PM EDT
Biophysical Society Names 2023 Society Award Recipients
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ROCKVILLE, MD – The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2023 Society Awards. These awards are very competitive in nature and are intended to recognize Society members for excellence in biophysics. The winners will be honored at the Society’s 67th Annual Meeting, being held in San Diego, California from February 18-22, 2023.

Released: 10-Aug-2022 7:00 AM EDT
Biophysical Society Announces the Results of its 2022 Elections
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ROCKVILLE, MD – Gabriela K. Popescu has been elected President-elect of the Biophysical Society (BPS). She will assume the office of President-elect at the 2023 Annual Meeting in San Diego, California and begin her term as President during the 2024 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Popescu is a Professor of Biochemistry at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY).

Released: 4-Mar-2022 7:00 AM EST
Biophysical Society Selects Student Research Achievement Award Winners
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ROCKVILLE, MD – The 31 winners of the annual Student Research Achievement Awards were recognized at the 66th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony on February 21, 2022. These students were selected by judges from the Society’s Subgroups for their outstanding presentations during the poster competition.

Released: 22-Feb-2022 8:05 PM EST
Anđela Šarić to Receive the 2021 Biophysical Journal Paper of the Year Award
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ROCKVILLE, MD – The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that Anđela Šarić, of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), was honored as the winner of the Biophysical Journal Paper of the Year Award for 2021. This award recognizes the work of outstanding young investigators in biophysics. The winning paper is titled “Modelling Fibrillogenesis of Collagen-Mimetic Molecules.

Released: 1-Dec-2021 11:30 AM EST
Biophysical Society Implements Ethics Guidelines and a new Policy for Revocation of Awards and Fellows
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ROCKVILLE, MD – At their fall meeting, the Council of the Biophysical Society (BPS) discussed several orders of business important to a culture of inclusion. Specifically, the Council focused on the approval of a new set of Ethics Guidelines, created by an appointed Task Force for BPS Policy, for which the Society expects all members to comply.

Released: 8-Oct-2021 4:35 PM EDT
Biophysical Society Names 2022 Society Award Recipients
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The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2020 Society Awards. These awards are very competitive in nature and are intended to recognize Society members for excellence in biophysics. The 2022 winners will be honored at the Society’s 66th Annual Meeting, being held in San Francisco, California from February 19-23, 2022.

Released: 11-Aug-2021 11:05 AM EDT
Biophysical Society Announces the Results of its 2021 Elections
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ROCKVILLE, MD – Taekjip Ha has been elected President-elect of the Biophysical Society (BPS). He will assume the office of President-elect at the 2022 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California and begin his term as President during the 2023 Annual Meeting in San Diego, California.

   
Released: 26-Feb-2021 5:20 PM EST
Biophysical Society Selects Student Research Achievement Award Winners
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ROCKVILLE, MD – The 31 winners of the annual Student Research Achievement Awards were recognized at the 65th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony on February 26, 2021.

22-Feb-2021 7:00 AM EST
Nanoparticles Help Untangle Alzheimer’s Disease Amyloid Beta Plaques
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ROCKVILLE, MD – Scientists are still a long way from being able to treat Alzheimer’s Disease, in part because the protein aggregates that can become brain plaques, a hallmark of the disease, are hard to study.

   
22-Feb-2021 7:00 AM EST
How SARS-CoV-2’s Sugar-Coated Shield Helps Activate the Virus
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ROCKVILLE, MD – One thing that makes SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, elusive to the immune system is that it is covered in sugars called glycans.

   
22-Feb-2021 7:00 AM EST
Scientists Uncover New Details of SARS-CoV-2 Interactions with Human Cells
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ROCKVILLE, MD – If the coronavirus were a cargo ship, it would need to deliver its contents to a dock in order to infect the host island.

   
22-Feb-2021 7:00 AM EST
Why Some Coronavirus Strains are More Infectious Than Others May be Due to Spike Protein Movements
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ROCKVILLE, MD – Coronavirus outbreaks have occurred periodically, but none have been as devastating as the COVID-19 pandemic.

   
22-Feb-2021 7:00 AM EST
Antibodies Recognize and Attack Different SARS-CoV-2 Spike Shapes
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ROCKVILLE, MD – The virus that causes COVID-19 belongs to the family of coronaviruses, “corona” referring to the spikes on the viral surface.

   
22-Feb-2021 7:00 AM EST
Scientists Reveal Details of Antibodies that Work Against Zika Virus
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ROCKVILLE, MD – The Zika outbreak of 2015 and 2016 is having lasting impacts on children whose mothers became infected with the virus while they were pregnant.

   
22-Feb-2021 7:00 AM EST
Evidence That Earth’s First Cells Could Have Made Specialized Compartments
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ROCKVILLE, MD – Scientists have long speculated about the features that our long-ago single-celled ancestors might have had, and the order in which those features came about.

   
22-Feb-2021 7:00 AM EST
Scientists Use DNA Origami to Monitor CRISPR Gene Targeting
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ROCKVILLE, MD – The remarkable genetic scissors called CRISPR/Cas9, the discovery that won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, sometimes cut in places that they are not designed to target.

   
22-Feb-2021 7:00 AM EST
How Reducing Body Temperature Could Help a Tenth of All ICU Patients
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ROCKVILLE, MD – A tenth of all intensive care unit patients worldwide, and many critical patients with COVID-19, have acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).

   
Released: 22-Feb-2021 7:00 AM EST
A Tool Encoded in Coronaviruses Provides a Potential Target for COVID-19 and Future Coronavirus Outbreaks
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ROCKVILLE, MD – Coronaviruses exploit our cells so they can make copies of themselves inside us.

   
22-Feb-2021 7:00 AM EST
Biophysical Society Invites Submissions to New Open Access Journal Biophysical Reports
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ROCKVILLE, MD – Biophysical Reports, the new fully Gold Open Access journal offered by the Biophysical Society (BPS), is now accepting submissions.

   
Released: 4-Mar-2020 10:40 AM EST
Biophysical Society Statement on COVID-19
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.ROCKVILLE, MD – As concern continues to grow concerning the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, so does the opportunity for misinformation to spread as the public searches for reliable information on infection and means of protection.

12-Feb-2020 12:30 PM EST
Researchers Show How Ebola Virus Hijacks Host Lipids
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Robert Stahelin studies some of the world’s deadliest viruses. Filoviruses, including Ebola virus and Marburg virus, cause viral hemorrhagic fever with high fatality rates. Stahelin, professor at Purdue University, examines how these viruses take advantage of human host cells.

   
12-Feb-2020 12:55 PM EST
Parkinson’s Disease Protein Structure Solved Inside Cells Using Novel Technique
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The top contributor to familial Parkinson’s disease is mutations in leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2), whose large and difficult structure has finally been solved, paving the way for targeted therapies.

   
12-Feb-2020 1:05 PM EST
A New Way to Monitor Cancer Radiation Therapy Doses
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More than half of all cancer patients undergo radiation therapy and the dose is critical. Too much and the surrounding tissue gets damaged, too little and the cancer cells survive.

   
12-Feb-2020 1:20 PM EST
Scientists Develop Molecular “Fishing” to Find Individual Molecules in Blood
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Like finding a needle in a haystack, Liviu Movileanu can find a single molecule in blood.

   
12-Feb-2020 12:20 PM EST
Cancer Immunotherapy Target Helps Fight Solid Tumors
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Yvonne Chen engineers immune cells to target their most evasive enemy: cancer. New cancer immunotherapies generate immune cells that are effective killers of blood cancers, but they have a hard time with solid tumors.

   
12-Feb-2020 12:50 PM EST
Insects’ Ability to Smell is Phenomenally Diverse, a New Protein Structure Hints at How
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Mosquitoes find us by our odor molecules binding to odor receptors on their antennae, bees are drawn to flowers the same way, whereas ticks detect an approaching host using receptors on their forelegs.

12-Feb-2020 12:25 PM EST
Technique Can Label Many Specific DNAs, RNAs, or Proteins in a Single Tissue Sample
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A new technique can label diverse molecules and amplify the signal to help researchers spot those that are especially rare. Called SABER (signal amplification by exchange reaction), Peng Yin’s lab at Harvard’s Wyss Institute first introduced this method last year and since have found ways to apply it to proteins, DNA and RNA.

   
12-Feb-2020 1:05 PM EST
What Induces Sleep? For Fruit Flies It’s Stress at the Cellular Level
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Sleep-deprived fruit flies helped reveal what induces sleep. University of Oxford researchers Anissa Kempf, Gero Miesenböck, and colleagues reveal that fruit fly sleep is driven by oxidative stress, the imbalance of free radicals and antioxidants in the body.

   
12-Feb-2020 1:15 PM EST
New High-Throughput Method to Study Gene Splicing at an Unprecedented Scale Reveals New Details About the Process
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Genes are like instructions, but with options for building more than one thing. Daniel Larson, senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute, studies this gene “splicing” process, which happens in normal cells and goes awry in blood cancers like leukemia.

   

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