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Study reveals enhanced electron transport in folded peptides

What puts the electronic pep in peptides? A folded structure, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

26 Jul 2024

Rice360 celebrates expansion of newborn health program in Tanzania

Rice University President Reginald DesRoches joined Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies Co-Director Maria Oden and Rice360 supporters on a trip to Africa this summer marking significant milestones on the road to ending preventable newborn deaths in the sub-Saharan region.

25 Jul 2024

UQ opens new facility for personalized mRNA cancer vaccine development

A new facility at The University of Queensland is set to provide Australian researchers with cancer vaccines tailored to individual patients.

25 Jul 2024

Synthetic solutions for ethical and effective drug testing

Improving human quality of life with drug treatments is a complicated issue. Drug certification, including drug safety and reliability, entails a long series of tests and government approvals before the drug is available for anyone to use.

22 Jul 2024

New technique could one day be used to target glioblastoma

Tackling brain cancer is complicated, but groundbreaking new research could help add another tool to the cancer-fighting arsenal.

17 Jul 2024

Common therapies contain different cell types, study finds

Researchers from University of California San Diego have found that two of the most frequently administered stem cell therapies, which are often used interchangeably, actually contain completely different types of cells. The results challenge the current "one-cell-cures-all" paradigm in orthopedic stem cell therapeutics and highlight the need for more informed and rigorous characterization of injectable stem cell therapies before they are marketed for use in patients.

13 Jul 2024

Researchers develop a simple new way to store, identify, and share phages

The great promise of bacteriophages is that they naturally destroy bacteria, often in situations where antibiotics fail.

12 Jul 2024

Enzymatic RNA synthesis paves the way for sustainable therapeutics

While the COVID-19 vaccines introduced many people to RNA-based medicines, RNA oligonucleotides have already been on the market for years to treat diseases like Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and amyloidosis.

12 Jul 2024

New nanosized sensor records the electrical activity of spinal neurons

Implantable technologies have significantly improved our ability to study and even modulate the activity of neurons in the brain, but neurons in the spinal cord are harder to study in action.

11 Jul 2024

Light-activated drugs: A revolutionary approach in neuropathic pain treatment

Light can be used to activate drugs in specific parts of the body through photopharmacology.

11 Jul 2024

Click-like chemistry enables rapid development of LNPs for enhanced mRNA delivery

Imagine a scenario where a skilled hacker must upload critical software to update a central server and thwart a potentially lethal virus from wreaking havoc across a vast computer network.

10 Jul 2024

Efficient multi-site genome editing with retron-derived multitrons

Genome editing has become a widely adopted technology to modify DNA in cells, allowing scientists to study diseases in the lab and develop therapies that repair disease-causing mutations.

10 Jul 2024

Novel device uses a simple blood test to detect early stage lung cancer

University of Queensland researchers have designed a device that uses a simple blood test to detect early stage lung cancer.

10 Jul 2024

Fungal endophytes: A promising frontier for breast cancer treatment

A recent study in Heliyon highlights the potential of fungal endophytes in developing novel anti-cancer agents, specifically targeting breast cancer therapy.

10 Jul 2024

Turning cancer cells against themselves to overcome drug resistance

Treating cancer can sometimes feel like a game of Whac-A-Mole. The disease can become resistant to treatment, and clinicians never know when, where and what resistance might emerge, leaving them one step behind.

4 Jul 2024

Recombinhunt: An important tool to combat future pandemics

Combating future pandemics through data analysis of recombinant virus genomes. A study published in the prestigious journal Nature Communication presents the promising results of RecombinHunt, a new data-driven method developed by the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano and the University of Milan, which can identify, with high accuracy and computational efficiency, recombinant SARS-CoV-2 genomes with one or two breakpoints.

2 Jul 2024

New technology can visualize the metabolism of embryos obtained through in vitro fertilization

A new technology developed by the "Bioengineering in Reproductive Health" team at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is able to visualize the metabolism of embryos obtained through in vitro fertilization in order to decide which are most likely to implant correctly in the uterus and reaching full-term.

1 Jul 2024

New APIC method eliminates blurriness and distortion in microscopy

For hundreds of years, the clarity and magnification of microscopes were ultimately limited by the physical properties of their optical lenses.

28 Jun 2024

AI models may be using “demographic shortcuts” when making medical diagnostic evaluations

Artificial intelligence models often play a role in medical diagnoses, especially when it comes to analyzing images such as X-rays. However, studies have found that these models don't always perform well across all demographic groups, usually faring worse on women and people of color.

28 Jun 2024

Rice and MD Anderson collaborative harnesses engineering expertise for cancer solutions

Led by Rice's Gang Bao and MD Anderson's Dr. Jeffrey Molldrem, the initiative aims to foster collaboration between the two institutions on fundamental and translational cancer research, to develop new technologies for cancer detection and therapy and to secure external funding in support of further research and training.

27 Jun 2024