Los Angeles, CA –February 23, 2026 – Dr. Vadim Jucaud, Principal Investigator and Assistant Professor at the Terasaki Institute, with Co-Principal Investigator Angeles Baquerizo, MD, PhD, FACS, FAASLD have been awarded an NIH R21 research grant to develop a first-of-its-kind organ-on-a-chip platform to study immune rejection in pig-to-human liver transplantation. The project tackles one of the most pressing challenges in modern transplantation medicine: advancing xenotransplantation toward safe and effective clinical use.

Using machine learning, an electronic nose can “smell” early signs of ovarian cancer in the blood. The method is precise and, according to the LiU researchers behind the study, it could eventually be used to find many different cancers. The study is published in the scientific journal Advanced Intelligent Systems.

Using advanced imaging technology to examine a stretchy material commonly used in soft robotics and touchscreens known as PEDOT:PSS, a team led by Enrique Gomez found how adding different salt additives and water enabled the material to grow hair-like fibers capable of effectively conducting electricity. These findings could help facilitate longer-lasting pacemakers or glucose monitors in the future, the team said.

Researchers at the University of Oulu, Finland, have developed new high-performance bio-based resins that can replace conventional oil-based materials in composite products — without compromising strength, cost, or industrial scalability.

By studying a bacterium responsible for a severe heart infection, the scientists show that disrupting bacterial communication can be associated with adverse clinical outcomes. Published in Nature Communications, these findings open the door to more targeted – and potentially more effective – therapeutic strategies against this type of infection. A team from NTU’s SCELSE (Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences and Engineering), a multidisciplinary biofilm and microbiome research centre, and UNIGE’s Faculty of Medicine is challenging a widely held assumption in infectious disease research: that blocking bacterial communication is always beneficial. Scientists found that when Enterococcus faecalis can no longer communicate with neighbouring bacteria, it forms larger, more resilient biofilms on heart valves, resulting in more severe clinical outcomes.

Qubits combine two states at the same time - but quantum physics allows much more: A new experiment now shows how photons with four quantum states can be entangled and processed reliably, opening a path to more compact and efficient photonic quantum technologies.