Jianjun Zhang has identified a set of novel biomarkers that could significantly improve early detection of pancreatic cancer, a disease with a five-year survival rate of just 13%, the lowest among major cancers.

Researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have unveiled a new additive manufacturing technology that uses an innovative nozzle to multiplex, or combine, multiple smaller extruders into one stream to achieve the same high output of a single large extruder.

If you were to listen to a day in the life of a veterinary ophthalmologist, you’d likely hear words and phrases you’ve never heard before.

“A tubing system will be placed under your horse’s eyelid to treat the fungal infection in the cornea.”

“We need a better look at your dog’s fundus.” 

“Practice suturing a corneal laceration on this pig eye.”

“Let’s make sure there’s appropriate husbandry at home for this chameleon with scales stuck on its eye.” 

But for veterinarians who specialize in caring for animals’ eyes, it’s just business as usual. 

Over the years, CETUP* workshop, held over four weeks during the summer in the Black Hills of South Dakota at SURF, has produced more than 209 publications and become a hallmark of scientific exchange, contributing to major experiments at SURF.

JMIR Publications invites submissions to a new section titled “Participatory Artificial Intelligence for Health” in its open access journal Journal of Participatory Medicine.

Across Africa, education reform is shaped as much by global partnerships as by classroom realities. Drawing on studies of China–Africa cooperation, teacher development, university collaboration, and student leadership, this feature explores how policy ambitions are translated into practice. Together, these perspectives frame education as a human process, where confidence, voice, and locally rooted institutions determine whether international initiatives deliver lasting, equitable change across diverse African contexts.

Associate Professor SHIMOJO Hisashi of the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies conducts research on spaces where state intervention is difficult from the perspectives of anthropology and Southeast Asian studies. His main research focus is on the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam, but he aims to understand the backgrounds of how such spaces are formed regardless of the country, and the social order that people weave in these spaces. His efforts illuminate the image of the state as seen by ordinary people and challenge the understanding of society. We spoke with Shimojo about the results of his research and future prospects. In his words, “If the front side of a coin represents the state, then I study its reverse side.”

Researchers at Rice University’s WaTER Institute are leading an ambitious new effort to transform the way the world manages water and sanitation at the household scale. The project, funded by the Gates Foundation and in collaboration with Arizona State University, Clarkson University and Duke University, aims to develop modular, field-ready water treatment systems capable of recycling multiple household wastewater streams and dramatically reducing both water use and dependence on centralized infrastructure.

 

The latest study from the Sharma Lab at UC Santa Cruz makes the mechanisms of how epigenetic information is established in sperm cells, and how that encoding affects offspring health, a little less of a scientific mystery.

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and Type One Energy are partnering to establish a world-class facility to advance fusion energy.