BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, April 30 -- The University of Alabama issued the following news: * * * 'Zombie' senescent cells are a nightmare for skeletal muscle in aging and disease * Davis Englund, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UAB Department of Medicine. Although senescent cells no longer divide, these "zombie"-like cells can still wreak havoc in muscles during aging or as diseases develop, according to a new review article from investigators at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Publish  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, April 30 -- Washington University in St. Louis posted the following news: * * * Class Act: Ariel Hernandez-Leyva * For about an hour, Ariel Hernandez-Leyva held a scientific secret. A discovery only he had uncovered. At the time, more than a decade ago, he was an undergraduate at Yale University, working long hours in a biology lab studying cytokinesis, the final stage of cell division. One spring afternoon, while using a high-resolution fluorescence microscope to obse  more

BOCA RATON, Florida, May 1 (TNSjou) -- Florida Atlantic University, a component of the state university system in Florida, issued the following news: * * * FAU Study Reveals How Camels 'Beat the Heat' at the Cellular Level Study Snapshot: Living organisms must constantly adjust to changes in their environment, and temperature is one of the most important stressors they face. Even small shifts in heat can disrupt cellular balance and alter how genes function. As climate variability and extreme  more

ROLLA, Missouri, April 30 -- Missouri University of Science and Technology posted the following news: * * * Missouri S&T professor receives Wound Healing Society's Early-Career faculty award * Dr. Fateme Fayyazbakhsh, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&T, was awarded the Wound Healing Society's 2026 Early-Career Faculty Award during the organization's annual meeting held earlier this month in Charlotte, North Carolina. The award recognizes early-ca  more

NEW YORK, April 29 [Category: BizHospital] -- Mount Sinai Health System posted the following news release: * * * New Research Challenges Understanding of mRNA Vaccines and Establishes Innovative Way to Make Them More Effective * A new study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai overturns a longstanding assumption about how mRNA vaccines generate immunity, revealing that certain non-immune cells help determine vaccine effectiveness. The study, published in the April   more

LA JOLLA, California, April 30 -- The University of California San Diego campus posted the following news: * * * Researchers Uncover Strategy to Help Exhausted Immune Cells Fight Tumors * Key Takeaways * UC San Diego biologists have identified a way to reinvigorate immune system cells, which can become exhausted after fighting disease. * The break down resembles what occurs in other protein aggregate diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. * Protein recycling malfunctions aft  more

CARBONDALE, Illinois, April 30 -- Southern Illinois University issued the following news release: * * * Saluki Pride: Brent Pease receives Early Career Faculty Excellence Award Brent Pease has an impressive start to his career at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His research into the effects of light pollution on avian activity has gained national and international media attention - and he's the first faculty member in the forestry program to be published in the prestigious journal Sc  more

CEDARVILLE, Ohio, April 30 -- Cedarville University posted the following news: * * * Startup Founder: Daniel Ormsbee Builds Tech To Serve the World * by Elisabeth Coon, Student Public Relations Writer Before he finishes college this May, Daniel Ormsbee will have already launched two companies -one developing technology to turn waste into energy and another focused on solving complex industrial problems. As a senior with a double major in mechanical engineering and molecular biology at Ce  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 30 -- The University of Kansas posted the following news: * * * Three KU students receive prestigious Goldwater scholarships * LAWRENCE -The University of Kansas has three juniors who were selected to receive the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship out of more than 1,000 nominees nationwide. KU's 2026 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars are Tatum Aikin, Arthur Benson and Carter Gray. Congress established the Goldwater scholarship program in 1986 in tribute to the retired U.S. se  more

RIVERSIDE, California, April 30 -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * Under crushing hypergravity, flies adapt -- and recover * Expose an animal to extreme physical stress, and the expectation is simple: It will break down. But when UC Riverside scientists subjected fruit flies to forces many times stronger than Earth's gravity -a condition called hypergravity -the insects did something unexpected. They survived. They even mated and reproduced. Th  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 1 (TNSjou) -- The University of Utah Health issued the following news release: * * * In mice, viruses gain virulence in some individuals, depending on genetics and sex Influenza virus appears to gain virulence more quickly as it evolves through female hosts, according to research led by U biologists. * During the early stages of a pandemic, viruses tend to evolve in ways that enhance their ability to reproduce and spread, rather than to evade the host's immune syst  more

WILMINGTON, Delaware, May 1 -- AstraZeneca, a biopharmaceutical company, issued the following news release: * * * Update on FDA Advisory Committee vote on camizestrant in combination with a CDK4/6 inhibitor for advanced HR-positive breast cancer The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) did not reach a majority vote in favor of the benefit risk profile of AstraZeneca's camizestrant in combination with a cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 4/6 inhibitor (p  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 30 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * Building a superconducting quantum circuit that follows protons on the go A new device that originated at a pair of Yale labs simulates quantum proton "tunneling," a ubiquitous phenomenon found commonly in chemistry and biology. By Jim Shelton Researchers at Yale, Google, and the University of California-Santa Barbara have created a device that simulates the quantum "tunneling" behavior of proton  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 30 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * The Type of Fat--Not the Amount--Fuels Pancreatic Cancer By Peter Jurich For decades, the relationship between fat and cancer has been treated as a question of quantity: eat less fat, reduce your risk of developing cancer. The research, published April 29 in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, shows that for pancreatic cancer, the type of fat you consume ma  more