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Neural implant in Korea remotely controlled from the United States, bringing brain research into the IoT era

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

• KAIST and Yonsei University College of Medicine develop a miniaturized wireless brain implant capable of drug delivery, light stimulation, and IoT-based remote control

• A researcher in Chicago successfully operates a brain implant in Daejeon, Korea, in real time — demonstrating the feasibility of location-independent brain research

• Enables long-term, repeated experiments in freely moving animals, paving the way for advances in addiction, depression, and neurodegenerative disease research, as well as next-generation smart implantable therapies.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: National Research Foundation of Korea, Ministry of Science and ICT, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy

MSU receives $30M NSF grant to establish turbulence research center

Michigan State University
Grant and Award Announcement

Michigan State University has received a $30 million grant from the National Science Foundation, or NSF, beginning Sept. 1, to establish Transformative Explorations in Multi-Physics and Engineering of Scientific Turbulence or TEMPEST, a new Science and Technology Center, or STC, bringing together physicists, mathematicians, engineers and AI researchers to focus on one of science’s most difficult problems: understanding and controlling turbulence.

Researchers clear major obstacle in genetic engineering of proteins

Harvard Medical School
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new tool allows researchers to design and produce synthetic proteins faster, more safely, and at larger scale than previously possible. Each protein can contain up to 34 custom amino acids rather than the naturally occurring 20. The work promises to expand the development of novel protein-based medicines and other materials. The technology arises from a discovery that overturns decades of understanding of how transfer RNAs (tRNAs) help turn the genetic code into proteins.

Journal: Nature

New approach cuts sepsis diagnosis from days to hours, researchers report

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team led by an engineer at Penn State has developed a way to identify the bacteria responsible for a bloodstream infection — a main cause of sepsis. Using their new technique, the researchers condensed a days-long diagnosis timeline to just hours, potentially offering an approach that could help clinical treatment decision-making that avoids worsening antibiotic resistance in the bacterial strains behind infections.

Journal: Science Advances

Tiny atomic changes could lead to smarter wireless technology

Queen Mary University of London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Queen Mary University of London researchers have discovered a new way to make wireless communication devices more adaptable, paving the way for smarter antennas, more efficient networks, and next-generation communication technologies.

Journal: Science Advances

Scripps Research and collaborators awarded $19.5 million to establish an open-access autonomous chemistry laboratory

Scripps Research Institute
Grant and Award Announcement

A new award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) totaling $19.5 million over four years will expand robotic systems, analytical instrumentation and dedicated staff at the Automated Synthesis Facility at Scripps Research by supporting a collaborative effort among Scripps Research, UCLA and Sunthetics (an AI-for-chemistry company) to establish a nationally accessible, fully automated chemistry laboratory. This “Chemistry Node” will be one of 20 AI-enabled NSF Test Bed: Toward a Network of Programmable Cloud Laboratory (NSF PCL) nodes across the United States, which will test, scale and demonstrate new methods and tools that advance automated science and engineering, driving discoveries across a wide range of fields.

Binghamton University welcomes Simons Empire Faculty Fellows in mathematics and physics

Binghamton University
Business Announcement

Binghamton University welcomes four Simons Empire Faculty Fellows in mathematics and physics. The Simons Foundation and Simons Foundation International established the fellowship program to stimulate faculty hiring in mathematics and the sciences across New York state

Cells encode information through time, not just molecule levels

Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with researchers from Chengdu Branch of the National Science Library of the CAS, proposed a quantitative view of temporal encoding in cellular signaling.

Journal: Nature Cell Biology

New tool uses AI to help undergraduates think critically about research

North Carolina State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed and demonstrated a step-by-step framework called Socratic Challenger that uses artificial intelligence to help undergraduate students cultivate critical thinking skills. Specifically, the framework uses AI as a collaborator to develop research questions that can be pursued in laboratory or classroom settings.

Journal: Frontiers in Education