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Newswise: Xueqin Sun seeks to illuminate the underlying causes of cancer
Released: 13-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Xueqin Sun seeks to illuminate the underlying causes of cancer
Sanford Burnham Prebys

As a new assistant professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys faculty, Sun seeks to better understand the genetic and epigenetic underpinnings of cancers, using genome editing technologies, animal and patient-derived models, and other tools to develop more effective cancer therapies.

Newswise: Experts Available to Discuss Implications of Study Showing Microplastics in Carotid Artery Contributing to Stroke and Heart Attack Risk
Released: 12-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Experts Available to Discuss Implications of Study Showing Microplastics in Carotid Artery Contributing to Stroke and Heart Attack Risk
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Health experts can address concerns of recent study that found some patients with carotid stenosis have evidence of micoscopic particles from environmental plastics in their atherosclerotic plaque.

Newswise: Women Leaders Who Have Broken Down Barriers: Global Politics Expert Reflects on Women’s History Month
Released: 12-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Women Leaders Who Have Broken Down Barriers: Global Politics Expert Reflects on Women’s History Month
Virginia Tech

Women’s History Month recognizes the achievements of women throughout the world. Virginia Tech political science expert Farida Jalalzai reflects on world leaders who are women, and how in recent years they’ve broken down barriers and expanded understandings of the roles of women in governance.

Released: 8-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EST
Michigan Ross Professor Explores Multinational Brand Building Challenges in Developed Markets
University of Michigan Ross School of Business

Chinese e-commerce firm Temu sparked controversy in the United States with its Super Bowl ad titled “Spending like a billionaire,” which attracted a spate of criticism for reasons ranging from cultural insensitivity to general confusion.

Newswise: IU researcher developing new pediatric leukemia therapies
Released: 8-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EST
IU researcher developing new pediatric leukemia therapies
Indiana University

Reuben Kapur, director of the Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research at the Indiana University School of Medicine, is working to discover new treatments that will improve patient care.

Released: 7-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EST
Haiti is close to becoming a failed state
University of Miami

Gangs have attacked the airport and jails while the de facto prime minister was out of the country. University of Miami experts discuss the nation’s future.

Released: 4-Mar-2024 6:05 PM EST
Florette K. Gray Hazard appointed chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
UC Davis Health

Florette K. Gray Hazard, a pediatric pathologist, has been appointed chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Sciences at the UC Davis School of Medicine. She will lead a department with 50 faculty, 16 residents, and more than 400 academic and clinical staff.

Released: 3-Mar-2024 9:15 PM EST
Experts from DePaul University available to discuss 2024 primaries, general election
DePaul University

With the 2024 election season underway, voters are weighing in at primaries and caucuses around the country. DePaul University experts are available to discuss key topics surrounding local, state and federal elections, including campaign strategy, Gen Z voters, voting rights, the impact of global politics and more.

Released: 1-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EST
Movement Is Key to Supporting Adults with Down Syndrome
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)

UNLV professor Thessa Hilgenkamp addresses the unique anatomy in adults with Down syndrome that makes being active more challenging.

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Released: 1-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EST
Michigan Ross Professor Shares Ideas to Ease Housing Crisis
University of Michigan Ross School of Business

A proposal developed by a University of Michigan business expert and others to help ease the U.S. housing crisis is being shared with federal housing officials.

Released: 29-Feb-2024 4:05 PM EST
Climate data highlights East-West tendencies in Texas wildfires
Cornell University

Cornell University climate scientist Flavio Lehner notes that the Smokehouse Creek fire, like the Eastland County fires of 2022, sits geographically near a dividing line between regions of the country that are forecast to experience either more or less precipitation in the future.

Released: 29-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Q&A: How a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease could also work for Type 2 diabetes
University of Washington

Alzheimer’s disease and Type 2 diabetes are part of a family of amyloid diseases that are characterized by having proteins that cluster together. University of Washington researchers have demonstrated more similarities between the two diseases.

Released: 29-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Springing Forward: How to Navigate Moving the Clock Ahead
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Rutgers circadian rhythm and sleep experts discuss the impact of the time change on mental and physical health

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Released: 29-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Type 2 diabetes no longer a barrier to becoming a living kidney donor
Mayo Clinic

People who are overall healthy and living with well-controlled Type 2 diabetes can donate a kidney, thanks to a change in national policy.

Released: 28-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Ask the expert: What a 2nd Trump term could mean for democracy and advancing policy
Michigan State University

Erica Frantz is an associate professor of political science in Michigan State University’s Department of Political Science in the College of Social Science. Frantz answers questions about why personalist parties are a concern for democracy, looking at examples throughout history and one that has emerged today: Trump’s Republican Party.

Released: 28-Feb-2024 9:00 AM EST
Solar flares: U-M experts highlight gaps preventing accurate predictions of impacts around Earth
University of Michigan

The recent spike of activity from the sun occurred during what NASA has dubbed the Heliophysics Big Year—a celebration of solar science centered on the April 8 total eclipse, the last that will be visible from the continental U.S. for 20 years.

Released: 27-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Texas Tech and TTUHSC Professors Honored as NAI Senior Members
Texas Tech University

Four faculty members across the system will be inducted in June.

Released: 27-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
Dengue: Experta de Mayo Clinic explica la infección transmitida por mosquitos
Mayo Clinic

Aproximadamente la mitad de la población mundial vive en zonas vulnerables a dengue, una infección viral potencialmente mortal transmitida a través de las picaduras de mosquitos infectados. No hay tratamiento, y solo las personas que ya han tenido dengue son elegibles para la vacuna.

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Released: 23-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
Expert says West Coast flooding, mudslides remain threat from multiple large winter storms
Virginia Tech

As California and the west coast stare down yet another major winter storm, the threat of devastating flooding and mudslides is even more urgent. Drew Ellis, a climate science and meteorology expert at Virginia Tech, explains what causes these conditions.

Newswise: Political expert on what the GOP South Carolina primary means for Nikki Haley, Donald Trump
Released: 23-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Political expert on what the GOP South Carolina primary means for Nikki Haley, Donald Trump
Virginia Tech

The Republican race for a candidate to take on President Joe Biden in November’s election continues to be a two-person show, with Saturday’s South Carolina primary the latest stage. Virginia Tech political expert Caitlin Jewitt answers questions about the shape of the race through the South Carolina primary, the Super Tuesday contest on March 5, and beyond.



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