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Venkatesan Sundaresan, a Distinguished Professor of plant biology and plant sciences at UC Davis, has been awarded a Gates Foundation grant to develop self-cloning crops for Indian farmers. The five-year, $4.9 million project is a collaboration with researchers Myeong-Je Cho at UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI), Viswanathan Chinnusamy at the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-IARI), New Delhi and Ravi Maruthachalam at the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER-Thiruvananthapuram). The project aims to sustainably improve agricultural productivity by producing high-yielding crops that clone themselves, allowing farmers to save their superior seeds from one season to the next.
A novel bioactive glass incorporated in a toothpaste significantly reduced tooth sensitivity through prompt and lasting symptom relief, results from an ADA Forsyth Institute-administered clinical trial showed.
The first-in-human trial established the safety and efficacy of Sensi-IP, a bioactive glass technology developed by IR Scientific. ADA Forsyth researchers found statistically significant reductions in tooth sensitivity scores in the test group compared to a control group using a common sodium fluoride (NaF) toothpaste.
Cadmium telluride photovoltaics, a solar energy generation technology once considered limited in its potential, is poised for significant growth in the United States, according to a team of scientists analyzed challenges and proposed corresponding research goals in new research published in the peer-reviewed journal Joule.