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Sojib Zaman, a health sciences professor at James Madison University, has been listed for a third consecutive year in Stanford/Elsevier's Top 2% Scientist rankings.

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A new biomedical tool successfully delivers genetic material to edit faulty genes in developing fetal brain cells. This might stop disease progression of genetic-based neurodevelopmental conditions before birth.

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The element carbon is a building block for life, both on Earth and potentially elsewhere in the vast reaches of space. There should be a lot of carbon in space, but surprisingly, it's not always easy to find. While it can be observed in many places, it doesn’t add up to the volume astronomers would expect to see. The discovery of a new, complex molecule (1-cyanopyrene), challenges these expectations, about where the building blocks for carbon are found, and how they evolve. This research was published today in the journal Science.

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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified potentially far-reaching effects of a particular gut bacterium that was linked to better growth in Bangladeshi children receiving a therapeutic food designed to nurture healthy gut microbes. The far-reaching effects include regulating appetite, immune responses, neuronal function, and the ability of pathogenic bacteria to produce disease.

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Plasmas for fusion research can be heated using neutral beam injection (NBI). With NBI, fast neutral particles from a beam source are injected into the plasma then ionized so that the particles can transfer energy to existing plasma electrons and ions. This transfers the ions’ energy and heats the plasma.

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Jefferson Lab’s Experimental Physics Software and Computing Infrastructure (EPSCI) group develops centralized computing software that can be shared by any of the lab’s experimental halls and used for future projects.

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Transforming breast cancer treatment and prevention, a breast-cancer survivor and doctoral candidate focuses her research on adolescent and young adult cancer disparities, research on tracking glioblastoma progression and more are included in this month's tip sheet.

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Increasing political polarization, coupled with a loss of experience communicating with peers during the COVID pandemic, has left some college students ill-prepared and unable to engage in civil dialogue. A new initiative at Binghamton University, State University of New York hopes to tackle this issue. Through the Civil Dialogue Project, students are introduced to the skills needed to have productive conversations and then practice those skills through different activities.

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Cedars-Sinai is now accepting applications for college students who want to join its Next Generation Healthcare Pathways programs that prepare and mentor participants who are pursuing healthcare careers.

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The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will award its 2024 Maria I. New International Prize for Biomedical Research to Christine E. Seidman, MD, for her pioneering work in cardiovascular genetics, which has transformed the understanding of congenital heart disease and diseases that cause thickening or weakening of the heart muscles. The prize honors medical innovators in the tradition of the late Maria I. New, MD, a world-renowned researcher in pediatric genetic disorders with a special focus on endocrinology throughout her six-decade career. Dr. Seidman will receive a prize of $20,000 and will present the Maria I. New Distinguished Lecture during a ceremony to be held at Icahn Mount Sinai in New York City on Friday, November 8.

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This week the Biden Administration proposed a new rule that would expand access to birth control, including making over the counter birth control pills free for women of reproductive age who have... ...

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Microsoft says the probing took place in April and also included a dive into major U.S. media outlets, but this was only just discovered recently by Microsoft analysts. ...

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Beyoncé is set to appear at a rally in Houston with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris on Friday, ending the months-long speculation about whether the superstar will weigh in directly on the 2024 U.S.... ...

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As an early career researcher, it’s understandable to view the process of securing funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as daunting. That’s exactly why the Research Success Teams (RST) program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles was created.

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A groundbreaking study by researchers at Florida State University’s Gut Biome Lab has revealed a potential link between an infection caused by gut bacteria and the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

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Jeffrey T. Mueller, M.D., FASA, was elected as first vice president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), the nation’s largest organization of anesthesiologists, on October 23. Dr. Mueller was elected by the ASA House of Delegates at the ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2024 annual meeting in Philadelphia and will serve for one year.

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A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that makers and marketers of prescription opioid painkillers misused scientific evidence to advance five common and inaccurate claims about the safety and effectiveness of prescription opioids—including that they were not addictive.

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Ian Wagner, a doctoral candidate of mechanical and aerospace engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been selected to receive the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award. The honor resulted from Wagner’s proposed research project to study plasma-jet driven magneto-inertial fusion, to be conducted at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

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Clinicians, researchers and the public are invited to learn about stem cell and gene therapies being developed throughout California at the 7th Annual Alpha Clinics Network Symposium, hosted by Cedars-Sinai on Oct. 25.