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16-Jul-2025

How to more efficiently study complex treatment interactions

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

A new experimental design framework could enable scientists to efficiently estimate how combinations of interventions will affect a group of cells, reducing the cost of experiments and providing less biased data that could be used to understand disease mechanisms or develop new treatments.

Funder: Advanced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program at MIT, Apple, National Institutes of Health, Office of Naval Research, DOE/US Department of Energy, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute, Simons Investigator Award

16-Jul-2025

Idaho National Laboratory collaborates with Microsoft to streamline nuclear licensing

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Business Announcement

(IDAHO FALLS, Idaho) — The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) have announced a collaboration to use Microsoft’s Azure cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to streamline the nuclear permitting and licensing application process.

16-Jul-2025

Wastewater contaminants boost green hydrogen production

RMIT University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research led by RMIT University in Australia has developed an experimental invention to turn wastewater’s high contaminant load into an advantage for making green hydrogen that could reduce reliance on fresh water – a scarce resource in many parts of the world.

With more than 80% of global wastewater discharged into the environment untreated, this research provides an opportunity to turn this environmental liability into boosted productivity.

Journal: ACS Electrochemistry

16-Jul-2025

Blood pressure drug may help reduce stomach issues for some with autism

University of Missouri-Columbia

At the University of Missouri, researchers are studying how a common medication can be repurposed to help improve gut health in people with autism. A new pilot study from Mizzou suggests that propranolol, a common blood pressure drug, may also help ease stomach issues for some people with autism.

Journal: Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology

16-Jul-2025

Environment around breast cancer tumor may contain critical information for prognosis

Johns Hopkins University

Cells and tissues surrounding a breast cancer tumor may hold critical information about how patients will respond to treatment. After looking for patterns in images of tissue and biopsy samples, a newly developed AI tool sorted breast cancer patients patients into seven groups. Some of the groups had better survival outcomes than others, suggesting there may be information in the microenvironments that oncologists could use for prognoses.

Journal: Patterns
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Science Foundation

16-Jul-2025

University of Houston engineer leads team advancing early detection of ovarian cancer

University of Houston
Grant and Award Announcement

With a $1.2 million grant from the Department of Defense, a University of Houston engineer will lead a team of researchers in finding early markers for ovarian cancer.

16-Jul-2025

Discovery could battle Alzheimer’s by boosting blood flow to brain

University of Virginia Health System
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research suggests an unexpected way doctors may be able to improve blood flow to the brain to battle Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Funder: NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Owens Family Foundation, American Heart Association, UVA Brain Institute