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Born to heal: Why babies recover, but adults scar, after heart damage

Northwestern University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Newborns with heart complications can rely on their newly developed immune systems to regenerate cardiac tissues, but adults aren’t so lucky. After a heart attack, most adults struggle to regenerate healthy heart tissue, leading to scar-tissue buildup and, often, heart failure.

A new Northwestern Medicine study in experimental animals reveals a critical difference in how macrophages — a part of the immune system — help repair the heart in newborns versus adults after a heart attack. The study highlights a fundamental difference in how the immune system drives healing based on age.

Journal: Immunity
Funder: American Heart Association, NIH/National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association Project Award

Last chance to get a hotel discount for the world’s largest physics meeting

American Physical Society
Meeting Announcement

Book your hotel for the American Physical Society’s joint March Meeting and April Meeting, now called the Global Physics Summit, being held in person in Anaheim and online everywhere March 17-21.

New smart sensor takes the pain out of wound monitoring

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A major challenge in self-powered wearable sensors for health care monitoring is distinguishing different signals when they occur at the same time. Researchers from Penn State and China’s Hebei University of Technology addressed this issue by uncovering a new property of a sensor material, enabling the team to develop a new type of flexible sensor that can accurately measure both temperature and physical strain simultaneously but separately to more precisely pinpoint various signals.

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

Kessler Foundation in partnership with Overlook Medical Center is first in NJ to implant novel spinal stimulator

Kessler Foundation
Business Announcement

The Tim and Caroline Reynolds Center for Spinal Stimulation at Kessler Foundation is proud to announce the implantation of a spinal cord epidural stimulator in an individual with paralysis, marking a significant advancement in spinal cord injury treatment and rehabilitation. The surgical procedure was funded by the Joseph and Cheryl Marino Family Foundation and performed by neurosurgeon Robert F. Heary, MD, at Overlook Medical Center in Summit, NJ, part of Atlantic Health System, home of the Atlantic Neuroscience Institute.

Funder: NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Biosensing platform simultaneously detects vitamin C and SARS-CoV-2

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In the COVID-19 pandemic era, at-home, portable tests were crucial for knowing when to wear a mask or isolate at home. Now, Penn State engineering researchers have developed a portable and wireless device to simultaneously detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and vitamin C, a critical nutrient that helps bolster infection resistance, by integrating commercial transistors with printed laser-induced graphene.

Journal: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institutes of Health

BSC presents the first quantum computer in Spain developed with 100% European technology

Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Business Announcement

Barcelona Supercomputing Center has presented the first quantum computer developed with 100% European technology. This milestone consolidates BSC at the forefront of supercomputing in Europe and lays the foundations for a new era of hybrid computing, combining traditional and quantum computing.

SwRI develops tool to predict osteoporotic fracture risk

Southwest Research Institute

SAN ANTONIO — February 11, 2025 — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed new technology to enhance clinical bone imaging and decrease osteoporotic fractures in the elderly. The tool, described in a new SwRI-led study, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to create super-resolution images showing the inner structures of bones in great detail to better determine risk for fracture.

Journal: Bone