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News Release 17-Jan-2020

PLOS joins publishers/societies supporting White House proposal on federal-funded research

PLOS and other prominent organizations delivered the following letter to the Trump Administration on Jan. 17, 2020, in support of the proposed White House policy regarding federally-funded research.

News Release 17-Jan-2020

Thousand-ton scale demonstration of solar fuel synthesis starts operation in Lanzhou, China

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters

The world's first demonstration project for direct solar fuel synthesis started operation in Lanzhou, China on Jan. 17, 2020. The project represents that China now takes the first step in the world for industrial production of liquid fuels from solar energy.

News Release 16-Jan-2020

Professors create free research-backed games to train your brain

New York University

University professors from New York and California designed and developed three digital games -- available online and in the iOS and Google Play app stores -- to help its users' brains work more efficiently. While some digital games falsely claim to improve cognitive skills, these three games have actually proven to. Evidenced through a series of research studies, these games can help users boost memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility.

Funder: US Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences

News Release 16-Jan-2020

Wolters Kluwer to publish Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery

Wolters Kluwer Health

Wolters Kluwer, Health announced today that it will begin publishing the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (JCRS) under its Lippincott portfolio as part of a new partnership with the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) and the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS). The January 2020 issue of JCRS will be the first to be published by Wolters Kluwer, which will also take over publication of a freely available companion journal, JCRS Online Case Reports.

News Release 16-Jan-2020

Banking on a new community isotope database

University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

Tens of thousands of researchers use isotope analysis in their work. However, until recently, no central data repository existed. A $1.5 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation is supporting the development of IsoBank -- a digital archive of data and analytical tools that can be used by researchers worldwide. The researchers are developing a framework for computational analysis to enable comparisons across long distances or time-scales and statistical analyses.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Meeting: Second IsoBank Workshop
Funder: National Science Foundation

News Release 16-Jan-2020

Researchers develop first diagnostic test for novel coronavirus in China

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Researchers from the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have developed a new laboratory assay to detect the novel Chinese coronavirus. The assay protocol has now been published by WHO as a guideline for diagnostic detection. The new assay enables suspected cases to be tested quickly.

News Release 16-Jan-2020

NRL researching rivers in the sky

Naval Research Laboratory

Meteorologists at the US Naval Research Laboratory plan to take a harder look in 2020 at a prime, yet difficult to model, component of the global water cycle known as atmospheric rivers.

News Release 16-Jan-2020

Niels Geijsen appointed new co-editor-in-chief of StemJournal

IOS Press

StemJournal is pleased to announce the expansion of its editorial leadership with the appointment of Niels Geijsen, Ph.D., as new Co-Editor-in-Chief. Niels joins Chad Cowan, Ph.D., who has served as Editor-in-Chief since the journal launched at the beginning of 2019. Together they will guide the development of this open access, peer-reviewed journal in its mission to provide cutting-edge, high quality content to the global stem cell research community.

News Release 16-Jan-2020

Organs-on-Chips Centre opens in UK for advancements in medical research and drug development

Queen Mary University of London

A new research center which aims to revolutionize medical research and drug development using microengineered Organs-on-Chips has opened at Queen Mary University of London.

News Release 16-Jan-2020

Landmark trial seeks people with MND to test potential treatments

University of Edinburgh

Hundreds of people living with motor neurone disease are being invited to take part in one of the UK's most comprehensive clinical trials in a generation.

Funder: Euan MacDonald Centre, MND Scotland, My Name'5 Doddie Foundation

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