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Key ExoMars Rover part ships from Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth
Business Announcement

The search for life on Mars takes a leap forward today, as a key instrument for a major space mission begins its journey from Aberystwyth University to Italy for testing.

Battery-free, wireless multi-sensing platform revolutionizes pressure injury detection!

National Research Council of Science & Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

KERI, in collaboration with KRICT and CWNU, has developed a copper sulfide–based Wireless Multi-Sensing Platform for affordable, convenient early detection of pressure injuries and infection prevention, featured on an international journal cover!

Journal: Advanced Functional Materials
Funder: Ministry of Science and ICT

New scientific breakthrough: Nanoscale visualization reveals mechanism regulating tumor serine metabolism

Research
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Wuhan University of Science and Technology and the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences have jointly published a paper in Research entitled “Mechanistic Insight into Serine Flux Regulation through Nanoscale Organization of Glucose and Serine Transporters by Substrate Probe-based dSTORM Imaging.” The study developed a small-molecule substrate-based fluorescent probe (Ser-probe) derived from the structure of serine.

Journal: Research
Funder: Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research and Development Program of Scientific Instruments and Equipment of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province, Provincial College Student’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program

Global lead exposure still costs trillions and endangers children, NUS study finds

National University of Singapore
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Lead poisoning was once thought to largely be a problem of the past, as the globe gradually weaned itself off leaded gasoline in road vehicles in 2021. But has global lead pollution truly been resolved?A new study led by Dr Chen Mengli, a Research Fellow from the Tropical Marine Science Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUS), in collaboration with researchers from Imperial College London, University of Warwick, University of Oxford, Jadavpur University, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Bristol, showed the answer is not yet: lead exposure remains a pressing public health and economic challenge in the 21st century.

Journal: Communications Earth & Environment

90% of Science Is Lost: Frontiers’ revolutionary AI-powered service transforms data sharing to deliver breakthroughs faster

Frontiers
Business Announcement

Most scientific data never fuel the discoveries they should.

For every 100 datasets created, around 80 remain in the lab, 20 are shared but rarely reused, fewer than two meet FAIR standards, and only one typically drives new findings.

The result: delayed cancer treatments, climate models short on evidence, and research that cannot be reproduced.

Frontiers, the open-science publisher, is tackling this problem with the launch of Frontiers FAIR² Data Management, the world’s first all-in-one, AI-powered service for research data. Designed to transform how data is shared so it is reusable and credited, it brings together curation, compliance checks, AI-ready packaging, peer review, an interactive portal, certification, and lifetime hosting in a single workflow — ensuring that research funded today delivers faster breakthroughs in health, sustainability, and technology tomorrow.

Chemobiological platform enables renewable conversion of sugars into core aromatic hydrocarbons of petroleum

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

With growing concerns over fossil fuel depletion and the environmental impacts of petrochemical production, scientists are actively exploring renewable strategies to produce essential industrial chemicals. A collaborative research team—led by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee, Senior Vice President for Research, from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, together with Professor Sunkyu Han from the Department of Chemistry at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)—has developed an integrated chemobiological platform that converts renewable carbon sources such as glucose and glycerol into oxygenated precursors, which are subsequently deoxygenated in the same solvent system to yield benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and p-xylene (BTEX), which are fundamental aromatic hydrocarbons used in fuels, polymers, and consumer products.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: Korean Ministry of Science and ICT.

Advances in nanoparticle-mediated cancer therapeutics: Current research and future perspectives

Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co., Ltd.
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This review addresses cancer therapy limitations (systemic toxicity, multidrug resistance, MDR) via innovative nanoparticle (NP) platforms. Innovations include dual-phase liposomes (co-deliver hydrophilic/hydrophobic drugs, e.g., HA-functionalized ones for CD44⁺ brain tumors), green-synthesized metal NPs (low toxicity), MOF NPs (induce pyroptosis to boost immunity), and cell membrane-coated NPs (avoid RES clearance). It combines passive (EPR effect) and active (ligand-receptor) targeting.

Clinically, NPs reduce toxicity, enable delivery to hard-to-reach sites (e.g., brain), and overcome MDR. While long-term safety needs validation, NPs offer promise for personalized, less toxic oncology care.

Journal: Cancer Pathogenesis and Therapy