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17-Dec-2024

Ocean microbe’s unusual pair of enzymes may boost carbon storage, study suggests

Stanford University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Stanford scientists have discovered multiple forms of a ubiquitous enzyme in microbes that thrive in low-oxygen zones off the coasts of Central and South America. The results may open new possibilities for growing crops with fewer resources and understanding ocean carbon storage.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, Simons Foundation

17-Dec-2024

This mysterious plant fossil belongs to a family that no longer exists

Florida Museum of Natural History
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A fossil plant preserved roughly 47 million years ago has a such a strange assortment of features that scientists were unable to find a plant family, living or extinct, to which it might belong.

Journal: Annals of Botany

17-Dec-2024

Top cancer research advances at MSK in 2024

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) continued to make strides against cancer in 2024. Laboratory research teams across the institution worked to advance the global understanding of cancer and to develop new therapies, while also making fundamental insights into human biology and disease.

17-Dec-2024

MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

Researchers in the MIT Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health developed a fully open-source biomolecular structure prediction model that achieves state-of-the-art performance, at the level of AlpahFold3, in an effort to democratize biomedical research and drug development.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation Expeditions grant, Jameel Clinic, U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency Discovery of Medical Countermeasures Against New and Emerging (DOMANE) Threats program, MATCHMAKERS project, Cancer Grand Challenges partnership, Cancer Research UK, U.S. National Cancer Institute

17-Dec-2024

IHT cooling pads recognized among the 2025 AE50 award winners

Purdue University
Grant and Award Announcement

IHT Cooling Pads have been named a 2025 AE50 Award winner by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. Using innovative water-based cooling technology, the mats effectively tackle the challenge of heat stress in sows and boars, a critical challenge farmers face in regions with high temperatures.

17-Dec-2024

Dogs can recognize familiar speakers

Eötvös Loránd University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at ELTE Department of Ethology, Hungary designed an experiment to investigate whether dogs can recognize their owners based on pre-recorded speech. The results provided the first evidence that dogs are capable of voice-based individual-level recognition of humans. The study was published in Animal Behaviour.

Journal: Animal Behaviour

17-Dec-2024

Study maps bed bugs’ genomes in unprecedented detail to find out why they just won’t die

Hiroshima University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Near-gap-free and near-error-free genomes of a susceptible bed bug strain and a superstrain with around 20,000-fold insecticide resistance offer the broadest look yet at the full scope of mutations driving their resilience.

Journal: Insects
Funder: Japan Science and Technology Agency, Subsidy for Bioeconomy Industry Creation Support Project (Hiroshima Prefecture)