Newswise Focus Channel: Hidden - Tennessee

ORNL, TVA partner to drive decarbonization, explore carbon-free technologies

Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 10:20:54 EST

The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA, are joining forces to advance decarbonization technologies from discovery through deployment through a new memorandum of understanding, or MOU.

Data Shows Increase in Autism Spectrum Disorder Prevalence

Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 14:15:55 EST

Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) researchers, as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) network, report an increase in the number of children in Tennessee with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Area nonprofits receive $150,000 in grants from UT-Battelle

Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 09:55:39 EST

"The success of our community is a vital part of the lab's mission," said Alan Icenhour, deputy laboratory director for operations at ORNL. "We're proud to support organizations that positively impact many lives in East Tennessee."

Pre-term Births in Tennessee Decreased During Pandemic

Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 11:00:00 EST

The study is the first in the US to confirm the trend that more persons staying at home, essentially on forced bed rest, reduced the number of late pre-term infants (34-35 weeks).

Scientists at ESS, Swedish Water Research, ORNL use VISION to look at common contaminant for cleaner water applications

Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:35:51 EST

Monika Hartl from the European Spallation Source is using neutron scattering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source to understand how plastic materials interact with the filters used to remove them from water. Through understanding these interactions, scientists can develop improved water filters that are better at purifying water and reducing water contaminants.

New ORNL AI tool revolutionizes process for matching cancer patients with clinical trials

Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:05:47 EST

A team of researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Health Data Sciences Institute (HDSI) have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to better match cancer patients with clinical trials. The researchers were one of ten teams to develop a digital tool to address complex challenges relevant to medical conditions such as cancer and Lyme disease as part of The Opportunity Project (TOP) Health Sprint, a 14-week effort sponsored by the Census Bureau, coordinated by the Department of Health and Human Services, and led by two Presidential Innovation Fellows.

Right electrolyte doubles novel two-dimensional material's ability to store energy

Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 11:00:00 EST

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Drexel University and their partners have discovered a way to improve the energy density of promising energy-storage materials, conductive two-dimensional ceramics called MXenes.

ReactWell licenses ORNL catalyst for energy conversion applications

Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 12:05:05 EST

ReactWell has licensed a novel waste-to-fuel technology from Oak Ridge National Laboratory to improve energy conversion methods for cleaner, more efficient oil and gas, chemical and bioenergy production.

Research Shows Frogs Can Adapt To Traffic Noise

Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:05:44 EST

Frogs don't like living near noisy highways any better than people do, but research from Vanderbilt suggests that frogs, like hardened city-dwellers, can learn to adapt to the constant din of rumbling trucks, rolling tires and honking horns. And, just like those urbanites who can't get a good night's sleep without the sporadic sounds of sirens, some frogs have grown accustomed to the rattle and hum of the highway.

Vera Bocharova: Advancing the frontiers of knowledge about soft materials

Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 14:05:02 EST

Profiled is Vera Bocharova of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, who studies the structure and dynamics of soft materials--polymer nanocomposites, polymer electrolytes and biological macromolecules--to advance materials and technologies for energy, medicine and other applications.

Helping Patients Breathe During Dangerous Procedure Prevents Life-Threatening Complications

Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:00:00 EST

Thousands of Americans die each year during a dangerous two-minute procedure to insert a breathing tube. Now a Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is showing that using bag-mask ventilation, squeezing air from a bag into the mouth for 60 seconds to help patients' breathing, improves outcomes and could potentially save lives.

Story Tips From the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 18, 2019

Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:15:11 EST

ORNL neutrons investigate novel carbon capture crystals; gleaning valuable Twitter data to quickly map power outages; lightweight, heat-shielding graphite foam test yields positive results in fusion reactors; open source software scales up analysis of motor designs to run on supercomputers

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital named to Fortune magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For' for ninth consecutive year

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 07:05:46 EST

For the ninth consecutive year, Fortune magazine named St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to the "100 Best Companies to Work For" list.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Honored as Recipient of the 2019 Microsoft Health Innovation Award

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:00:32 EST

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has been named a recipient of Microsoft Corp.'s 2019 Health Innovation Award for the St. Jude Cloud, a data-sharing resource for the global research community that gives scientists immediate access to genomics data that previously could take weeks to download.

IBM Watson Health Invests $50M in Joint Research Collaborations with Leading Medical Centers to Advance the Application of AI to Health

Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:05:26 EST

IBM Watson Health today announced plans to make a 10-year, $50 million investment in joint research collaborations with Brigham and Women's Hospital - the teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School - and Vanderbilt University Medical Center to advance the science of artificial intelligence (AI) and its application to major public health issues.

Supercomputing Effort Reveals Antibody Secrets

Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 13:00:00 EST

Using sophisticated gene sequencing and computing techniques, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center have achieved a first-of-its-kind glimpse into how the body's immune system gears up to fight off infection.

Customized drug interaction alerts address alert fatigue, protect patients

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:05:27 EST

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital researchers used a comprehensive method to reduce drug interaction alerts, improving electronic health record systems to lower alert fatigue and increase patient safety.

ORNL Teams with Los Alamos, EPB to Demonstrate Next-Generation Grid Security Tech

Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 15:05:34 EST

A team of researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratories has partnered with EPB, a Chattanooga utility and telecommunications company, to demonstrate the effectiveness of metro-scale quantum key distribution (QKD) as a means of secure communication for the nation's electricity suppliers. This initial milestone is part of the team's three-year project focused on next-generation grid security.

They call it puppy love, but what is it really?

Vanderbilt University — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 12:05:52 EST

Even if animals have ulterior motives for teaming up, they teach humans a lot about love.

Hearne Joins ORNL as Director of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences

Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:05:55 EST

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has named Sean Hearne director of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences.