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Tumor-targeting fluorescent bacteria illuminate cancer for precision surgery

National Research Council of Science & Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A joint research team led by Dr. SeungBeum Suh (Center for Bionics) and Dr. Sehoon Kim (Center for Chemical and Biological Convergence) at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST, President Sang-Rok Oh), and Professor Hyo-Jin Lee at Chungnam National University Hospital, has developed a next-generation intraoperative imaging platform using engineered beneficial bacteria that emit fluorescence specifically at tumor sites.

Journal: Advanced Materials
Funder: Ministry of Science and ICT

Scientists uncover hidden bone structures in the skin of Australian monitor lizards and it could unlock the secrets to their evolutionary success

Museum Victoria
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Beneath the scales of Australia’s iconic monitor lizards (commonly known as goannas), scientists have discovered an unexpected secret: a hidden layer of bony skin structures known as osteoderms. These structures, which have been long overlooked, may hold the key to understanding how these ancient reptiles not only survived but thrived in one of the world’s harshest environments.

Journal: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Patient care technology disruptions associated with the CrowdStrike outage

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: This cross-sectional study of U.S. hospitals found that a widespread technology outage after a faulty cyber security software update on July 19, 2024, was associated with outages in patient-facing network services integral to care delivery. These findings suggest that internet measurement techniques may be useful for surveillance and study of critical digital health care infrastructure.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

Current application status and innovative development of surgical robot

FAR Publishing Limited
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Surgery has advanced due to innovations in anesthesiology, aseptic techniques, and antibiotics. Minimally invasive techniques reduce patient trauma but increase equipment complexity and costs. Surgical robots address these challenges, improving medical efficiency. This review summarizes their evolution, clinical status, advantages, challenges, and future directions like intelligence and specialization to promote their clinical and technological development.

Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China

Dead Sea’s salt giants offer rare glimpse into Earth’s geological past

University of California - Santa Barbara

The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on the earth’s surface, with one of the world’s highest salinities. The high concentration of salt gives it a correspondingly high density, and the water body’s status as the deepest hypersaline lake gives rise to interesting and often temperature-related phenomena below the water’s surface that researchers are still uncovering.

Journal: Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Machine learning reveals historical seismic events in the Yellowstone caldera

University of Western Ontario
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new study, published July 18 in the high impact journal Science Advances, Western engineering professor Bing Li and his collaborators at Universidad Industrial de Santander (Industrial University of Santander) in Colombia and the United States Geological Survey used machine learning to re-examine historical earthquake data from the Yellowstone caldera over a 15-year period.

Journal: Science Advances

Collaboration rewarded for work to further deployment of batteries in emerging economies

Swansea University
Grant and Award Announcement

Technology developed at Swansea University has won funding to help deliver better battery systems to Sub-Saharan Africa.

Funder: Faraday Institution

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