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White-light lidar opens a new window on ocean color

Journal of Remote Sensing
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A white-light lidar concept could measure ocean remote-sensing reflectance (R_rs) without relying on sunlight.

Journal: Journal of Remote Sensing

Gibbs Foundation commits $4.5M to establish UofL endowment for lung research

University of Louisville
Grant and Award Announcement

A $4.5 million gift to the University of Louisville establishes the Gibbs Foundation Endowment in the School of Medicine, creating a lasting impact for groundbreaking respiratory disease research. The Gibbs Foundation investment will fuel scientific discovery, advance understanding of lung disease and help drive innovations in patient care. The gift builds on nearly a decade of partnership between the Gibbs Foundation and UofL researchers working to advance ex vivo lung perfusion technology and improve outcomes for patients with acute and chronic respiratory conditions.

Funder: Gibbs Foundation

Multiplexed Saliva-based Immunodiagnostics for Assessing Anti-flavivirus Immunity

Research Foundation for the State University of New York
Business Announcement

This technology is a saliva-based assay to rapidly, accurately, and non-invasively assess flavivirus immunity by measuring various antibody classes present in saliva.

Combining aminoglycoside antibiotics and PKZ18 analogs

Research Foundation for the State University of New York
Business Announcement

This technology combines PKZ18-22, the most promising analog, with antibiotics from multiple different classes. This synergy provides up to an 8-fold increase in efficacy of aminoglycosides when a small amount of PKZ18-22 is added.

Ribonuclease-responsive DNA nanoswitches

Research Foundation for the State University of New York
Business Announcement

This DNA nanoswitch technology, developed at the University at Albany, is useful in a range of RNase sensing applications. The nanoswitch is initially locked in a looped state by an RNA strand. In the presence of an RNase, the RNA strand is cleaved, and the nanoswitch changes shape into the linear state.

Autonomous brain machine interface

Research Foundation for the State University of New York
Business Announcement

The subject technology developed by SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University researchers is a BMI system that uses a "reward/expectation" signal derived from a motor cortex within the patient's brain. This allows the system to be updated without manual intervention from the experimenter.

AI-powered mobile oral health screening for older adults

Research Foundation for the State University of New York
Business Announcement

University at Buffalo technology OralScan is a smartphone application combining guided image capture, on-device image-quality assessment, cloud-based artificial intelligence, and visual presentation of screening results. The platform combines results from multiple oral views into unified dental-arch visualizations and supports longitudinal tracking of oral health findings.

Brain-inspired computing: Using noise to regulate information flow in neural networks

EBRAINS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have developed a learning mechanism that uses the natural variability of neural activity — often dismissed as random “noise” — to understand how synapses buried deep inside brain networks — or brain-inspired devices — can adapt to improve the learning capabilities of the networks as a whole.

Journal: Nature Communications

Scientists want to 3D print houses on Mars with the help of yeast

Cell Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mars is a terrible place to build a house. It’s bitterly cold, blasted by radiation, and a near vacuum. Not to mention that the building materials, even for a modest shelter, could spend months hurtling through space before construction begins.

But they don’t have to. In a study publishing September 10 in the journal Chem Circularity, researchers developed a recipe that could one day be used to 3D print houses on Mars. The recipe combines Martian rocks with Earthly ingredients: gelatin and yeast. Once dried and hardened, this living building material is as strong as low-grade concrete and can be broken down, recycled, and brewed again for new construction.

Journal: Chem Circularity