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Precision therapy with microbubbles

ETH Zurich
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ETH Zurich researchers have investigated how microbubbles tiny gas bubbles can deliver drugs into cells in a targeted manner using ultrasound. For the first time, they have visualised how tiny cyclic microjets liquid jets generated by microbubbles penetrate the cell membrane enabling the drug uptake.ETH Zurich researchers have investigated how microbubbles tiny gas bubbles can deliver drugs into cells in a targeted manner using ultrasound. For the first time, they have visualised how tiny cyclic microjets liquid jets generated by microbubbles penetrate the cell membrane enabling the drug uptake.

Journal: Nature Physics

New frailty measurement tool could help identify vulnerable older adults in epic

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Investigators at Mass General Brigham have developed a tool that can identify older adults at increased risk of emergency healthcare needs, rehospitalization or death. The tool measured patient frailty, an aging-related syndrome, by integrating the health records of more than 500,000 individuals collected across multiple hospitals at Mass General Brigham.

Journal: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Paivikki and Sakari Sohlberg Foundation

Islet transplantation with blood vessel cells shows promise to treat type 1 diabetes

Weill Cornell Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells and reversed diabetes in a preclinical study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The new approach, which requires further development and testing, could someday enable the much wider use of islet transplants to cure diabetes.

Journal: Science Advances

University of Vaasa, Finland, conducts research on utilizing buildings as energy sources

University of Vaasa
Grant and Award Announcement

The University of Vaasa has received funding from Business Finland for the FlexiPower research and development project, which focuses on developing and commercializing the "Building as a Battery" (BaaB) solution. The project aims to find solutions that utilize existing building infrastructure as flexible energy sources.

The goal of the FlexiPower project is to develop and commercialize a solution that enables the dynamic response of building heating and cooling systems to the needs of the power system. This innovation offers a cost-effective and scalable solution for balancing the power grid without significant initial investments in batteries or other infrastructure projects.

Funder: Business Finland

LLM-based web application scanner recognizes tasks and workflows

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Reports and Proceedings

YuraScanner, new automated web application scanner, autonomously understands and executes tasks and workflows on web applications. Developed by CISPA researchers, YuraScanner harnesses the world knowledge stored in Large Language Models (LLMs) to navigate through web applications in the same way a human user would.

What if we could revive waste carbon dioxide?

National Research Council of Science & Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Dr. Dahee Park’s research team from the Nano Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), has collaborated with Professor Jeong-Young Park’s team from the Department of Chemistry at KAIST to develop a catalyst technology that significantly enhances the efficiency of carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion.

Journal: Applied Catalysis B Environment and Energy
Funder: Ministry of Science and ICT

PFAS: Found 180 times more ‘forever chemicals’ in birds

Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

These man-made toxic substances are often referred to as ‘forever chemicals’. There are thousands of different variants, and researchers are finding more and more of them.

Journal: Journal of Hazardous Materials