All processes such as wound healing, hair growth, and the replacement of old cells with new ones depend on cell division. During this process, chromosomes inside the cell must be evenly divided between two daughter cells. Even slight errors can lead to cellular abnormalities.

 

A research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) has recently uncovered new clues suggesting that a protein called tau plays an important role in this highly regulated process. The findings were published in the international journal Nature Communications.

While commercial honeybee hives nationwide are collapsing under attack from deadly parasites, a unique hybrid bee found only in Southern California has demonstrated the ability to survive.

Led by MIT Sloan School of Management PhD graduate Mohammed Alsobay and associate professor Abdullah Almaatouq, the researchers demonstrate that integrative experiment design, an approach that systematically varies multiple experimental conditions within a shared design space, enables researchers to discover how factors combine to determine social and behavioral outcomes.

The Tennessee State University College of Agriculture (TSUAg) and the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture (UTIA) have launched a joint seed funding program to support collaborative research projects focused on some of agriculture’s most pressing challenges. The inaugural initiative brings together the strengths of Tennessee’s land-grant institutions to encourage innovative, interdisciplinary research led by teams from both universities. Through a combined investment of $300,000 from UT AgResearch; the UT Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Development; and Tennessee State University College of Agriculture, six joint seed grants were selected for funding in the program’s first round. Each project received $50,000 and is co-led by faculty from TSUAg and UTIA.

A University of Houston researcher and his collaborators have developed a mathematical model that helps identify whether a competitive environment is healthy, stagnant or skewed.

Beef production depends heavily on how efficiently cattle convert feed into energy. By winning a federal award, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture researchers are studying this process at the genetic, cellular and microbial levels. The team, led by Phillip Myer, associate professor of animal science and UT AgResearch Faculty Fellow, includes department colleagues Jonathan Beever, professor, and Troy Rowan, assistant professor and Extension specialist. They secured a five-year $650,000 grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which awarded $10 million to 19 projects to improve animal nutrition, growth and lactation.

When a ureteral stent fails, pressure can quietly build inside the kidney long before clinical symptoms. 

The transistor is one of the most important components in electronics. By switching or amplifying electrical signals, transistors make sure that our smartphones, computers and even coffee machines do what we want them to do. A new generation of energy-efficient transistors is now being developed based on thin, lightweight, electrically conducting films. Imagine miniature actuators with their own built-in sensing capability integrated into flexible, film-based circuit boards. This is the vision being pursued by research teams led by Paul Motzki (Saarland University) and John Heppe (University of Applied Sciences, htw saar). The team will be showcasing the principle behind this innovative film-based switch at the Hannover Messe technology fair from 20 to 24 April (Hall 11, Stand D41).

This study developed and validated an AI-driven, transferable city-scale assessment framework for municipal living plastic waste. By aligning life-cycle environmental accounting with process-based costs and benefits within a unified boundary, the approach provides robust support for forecasting and elastic dispatch.