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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 29-Apr-2025 09:08 ET (29-Apr-2025 13:08 GMT/UTC)
How combining drugs may be more effective at treating HER2-positive breast cancer
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical CampusElena Shagisultanova, MD, PhD, is working to uncover effective treatments for HER2-positive breast cancer patients by combining different drugs to counteract the cancer cells’ proliferation.
Marietta Radomska has a lively interest in death
Linköping UniversityMarietta Radomska researches death and grief but is lively and full of passion for what she does. Born in Poland, she is currently running a project on ecological grief at Linköping University, Sweden. Somewhere she nurtures a hope to change the world. “Investigating ecological grief can help us better understand how we relate to our environment and to other beings. It says something about us as humans in the world we live in,” she says.
Cardio-oncology leader helps breast cancer patients, survivors with cardiovascular issues
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical CampusLavanya Kondapalli, MD, leads the CU cardio-oncology program, serving as a cardiologist to patients and survivors of breast cancer and other cancer types who face cardiovascular issues like coronary artery disease, abnormal heart rhythms, and heart failure.
‘Pathways to citizenship’ should enable young Ukrainians to stay in UK
University of BirminghamArgonne contributes to next-generation electronics through new Energy Frontier Research Center
DOE/Argonne National LaboratoryRisk and reward: Fuhr takes sensing technology to the next frontier… again
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryPennington Biomedical’s Dr. Steven Heymsfield and Dr. Peter Katzmarzyk rank among the world’s most influential researchers
Pennington Biomedical Research CenterPennington Biomedical Research Center’s Dr. Steven Heymsfield and Dr. Peter Katzmarzyk are among the most influential researchers in the world who demonstrate significant and broad influence in their fields, according to Clarivate Analytics’ 2024 List of Highly Cited Researchers.
This honor highlights researchers whose work has had significant global influence, as evidenced by their exceptional citation records in leading scientific publications. The 2024 Highly Cited Researchers hail from more than 1,200 institutions in 59 nations and regions.
From liberal arts to leadership in nuclear physics
DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator FacilityMark Kevin Jones is a true Renaissance man in nuclear physics. Throughout his career, he has garnered many accomplishments, and he’s even worn quite a few hats in his three decades at Jefferson Lab. Now, Jones has been recognized for his work by his peers by being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society “For scientific leadership in experimental studies of the fundamental nucleon electromagnetic form factors, including the surprising discovery of significant variation in the large momentum behavior of the proton electric form factor, and for developing new detection systems enabling the studies.”
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
Creating better at-home tests for viruses
University of CincinnatiChemistry researchers at the University of Cincinnati are developing better biosensors they hope will replace diagnostics such as the nearly 1 billion COVID tests distributed to homes in the United States during the pandemic.
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- NIH/National Institutes of Health