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Pancreatic cancer immune map provides clues for precision treatment targeting

University of Birmingham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Pancreatic cancer patients may benefit from future precision treatments as a new study shows how some tumours may potentially be more susceptible to macrophage-based therapies, and clues behind why these tumours don't respond to existing immunotherapieis in a new Nature Communications paper.

Journal: Nature Communications

Researchers find dark matter dominating in early universe galaxies

Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Kavli IPMU researchers are part of an international team that has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes 13 billion light years away.

Journal: The Astrophysical Journal

UC Davis researchers achieve total synthesis of ibogaine

University of California - Davis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at UC Davis have achieved total chemical synthesis of the psychoactive compound ibogaine and its analogs from pyridine. The discovery will make it easier to explore the therapeutic possibilities of ibogaine.

Journal: Nature Chemistry
Funder: NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse

New software developed at Wayne State University will help study chemical and biological systems

Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research
Grant and Award Announcement

With the help of a new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a team of Wayne State University College of Engineering researchers are developing new software to support computational materials design.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

Correlated nucleon pairs predict quark-gluon distributions

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Physicists know from previous experiments that what happens at the nuclear scale to protons and neutrons also affects their constituent quarks and gluons. A novel new framework has tapped on short-range correlations – brief pairings of protons and neutrons - to decipher the particles’ choreography and reveal this connection.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

New technology lights way for accelerating coral reef restoration

Ohio State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have developed a novel tool designed to protect and conserve coral reefs by providing them with an abundance of feeding opportunities.

Journal: Limnology and Oceanography Methods

Halas awarded Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry

Rice University
Grant and Award Announcement

Rice’s Naomi Halas is the recipient of the 2025 Benjamin Franklin Medal in chemistry, awarded “for the creation and development of nanoshells — metal-coated nanoscale particles that can capture light energy — for use in many biomedical and chemical applications.”