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Newswise: Cell Biology: Molecular Code Stimulates Pioneer Cells to Build Blood Vessels in the Body
Released: 17-Apr-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Cell Biology: Molecular Code Stimulates Pioneer Cells to Build Blood Vessels in the Body
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Cardiovascular diseases, including stroke and myocardial infarction, are the world's leading causes of mortality, accounting for over 18 million deaths a year. A team of KIT researchers has now identified a new cell type in blood vessels responsible for vascular growth.

   
Newswise: Chemists invent a more efficient way to extract lithium from mining sites, oil fields, used batteries
Released: 16-Apr-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Chemists invent a more efficient way to extract lithium from mining sites, oil fields, used batteries
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory chemists invented a more efficient way to extract lithium from waste liquids leached from mining sites, oil fields and used batteries. They demonstrated that a common mineral can adsorb at least five times more lithium than can be collected using previously developed adsorbent materials.

Newswise: Energy Storage Systems: 100 Times Better Heat Transfer Thanks to the Use of Liquid Metal
Released: 16-Apr-2024 4:05 AM EDT
Energy Storage Systems: 100 Times Better Heat Transfer Thanks to the Use of Liquid Metal
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

The industrial production of steel, concrete, or glass requires more than 20 percent of Germany’s total energy consumption. Up to now, 90 percent of the fuels used for these processes have been of fossil nature.

Newswise: Waterproof ‘e-glove’ could help scuba divers communicate
5-Apr-2024 8:00 AM EDT
Waterproof ‘e-glove’ could help scuba divers communicate
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Researchers reporting in ACS Nano have constructed a waterproof “e-glove” that wirelessly transmits hand gestures made underwater to a computer that translates them into messages. The new technology could someday help divers communicate better with each other and with boat crews on the surface.

Newswise: Unraveling the mystery of misfolded proteins in the brain
Released: 9-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Unraveling the mystery of misfolded proteins in the brain
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Proteins known as oligomeric chaperones help suppress the formation of misshaped proteins that cause a variety of degenerative and neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, and Parkinson’s. In a new study, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers identified a key feature necessary for one of these oligomeric chaperones, known as DNAJB8, to assemble from disparate parts and showed that the parts alone can reshape misfolded proteins. The findings, published in Structure, could lead to better ways to diagnose and treat these conditions.

Newswise: Finding New Chemistry to Capture Double the Carbon
Released: 8-Apr-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Finding New Chemistry to Capture Double the Carbon
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A new look at a carbon capture solvent shows clusters and new types of carbon dioxide chemistry that could double carbon conversion.

Newswise: How Scientists Are Accelerating Chemistry Discoveries With Automation
Released: 8-Apr-2024 11:00 AM EDT
How Scientists Are Accelerating Chemistry Discoveries With Automation
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Researchers have developed an automated workflow that could accelerate the discovery of new pharmaceutical drugs and other useful products. The new approach could enable real-time reaction analysis and identify new chemical-reaction products much faster than current laboratory methods.

Newswise: First-of-its-kind integrated dataset enables genes-to-ecosystems research
Released: 8-Apr-2024 10:05 AM EDT
First-of-its-kind integrated dataset enables genes-to-ecosystems research
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A first-ever dataset bridging molecular information about the poplar tree microbiome to ecosystem-level processes has been released by a team of Department of Energy scientists led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Newswise: UC Irvine-led research team builds first tandem repeat expansions genetic reference maps
Released: 8-Apr-2024 6:05 AM EDT
UC Irvine-led research team builds first tandem repeat expansions genetic reference maps
University of California, Irvine

A research team led by the University of California, Irvine has built the first genetic reference maps for short lengths of DNA repeated multiple times which are known to cause more than 50 lethal human diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington’s disease and multiple cancers.

Newswise: Computational Chemistry Needs To Be Sustainable, Too
Released: 3-Apr-2024 4:05 PM EDT
Computational Chemistry Needs To Be Sustainable, Too
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

As new paradigms in advanced computing take shape, computational chemistry researchers are finding new ways to solve challenging chemistry problems.

Newswise: Chris Anderson combining materials science, physics and electrical engineering to advance quantum technologies
Released: 3-Apr-2024 4:05 PM EDT
Chris Anderson combining materials science, physics and electrical engineering to advance quantum technologies
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Chris Anderson is the newest addition to the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) faculty, and he is ready to make a quantum leap into the world of materials science.

Newswise: “Tug of War” Tactic Enhances Chemical Separations for Critical Materials
Released: 3-Apr-2024 3:05 PM EDT
“Tug of War” Tactic Enhances Chemical Separations for Critical Materials
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Lanthanide elements are important for clean energy and other applications. To use them, industry must separate mixed lanthanide sources into individual elements using costly, time-consuming, and waste-generating procedures. An efficient new method can be tailored to select specific lanthanides.

Newswise: A simple way to harvest more ‘blue energy’ from waves
29-Mar-2024 8:00 AM EDT
A simple way to harvest more ‘blue energy’ from waves
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Researchers report in ACS Energy Letters that repositioning the electrode in a “blue energy” harvesting device — from the center of a see-sawing liquid-filled tube to the end where the water crashes with the most force — dramatically increased the amount of wave energy that could be harvested.

29-Mar-2024 10:00 AM EDT
Water-based paints: Less stinky, but some still contain potentially hazardous chemicals
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Choosing paint for your home brings a lot of options: What kind of paint, what type of finish and what color? Water-based paints have emerged as “greener” and less smelly than solvent-based options. And they are often advertised as containing little-to-no volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

Newswise: Stellar Explosions and Cosmic Chemistry
Released: 1-Apr-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Stellar Explosions and Cosmic Chemistry
National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Astronomers have discovered the secrets of a starburst galaxy producing new stars at a rate much faster than our Milk Way. This research revealed many different molecules, more than ever seen before in a galaxy like this.

Released: 1-Apr-2024 12:05 PM EDT
UIC Engineers 'Symphonize' Cleaner Ammonia Production
University of Illinois Chicago

Low temperature, regenerative process saves energy and efficiently produces common chemical

Newswise: Researchers Reveal Evolutionary Path of Important Proteins
Released: 29-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Researchers Reveal Evolutionary Path of Important Proteins
University of Wisconsin–Madison

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison decodes the evolutionary pathway of regulatory proteins, the molecules that help control gene expression.The findings from the Raman Lab in the Department of Biochemistry recently published their findings in the journal Cell Systems.

24-Mar-2024 8:00 PM EDT
Rutgers Racing to Develop Paxlovid Replacement
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

SARS-CoV-2 will eventually become resistant to the only effective oral treatment. The world needs another.

Newswise: DOE officials tour Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory
Released: 28-Mar-2024 11:45 AM EDT
DOE officials tour Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory
Argonne National Laboratory

U.S. Department of Energy officials received a behind the scenes look at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory in Lamont, Oklahoma.



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