DURHAM, North Carolina, May 7 -- Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment issued the following news: * * * Introducing Ecotech, Nature's Innovation Accelerator The field unites principles in biology, engineering and earth sciences to develop scalable solutions to urgent environmental, social and economic challenges. * An international research team has developed a roadmap for an emerging field of technology called ecotech, which draws inspiration from nature to create scalable sol  more

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, May 6 -- The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus issued the following news: * * * More structural protein can make tumors softer, the inverse of how lab tumors are made, study finds Higher levels of the structural proteins collagen and fibrin around a tumor counterintuitively make the tissue softer -the opposite of conventional thinking, a new study shows. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found that the interplay of these proteins can   more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 7 (TNSjou) -- The University of Utah Health issued the following news release: * * * New Kind of CRISPR Could Treat Viral Infection and Cancer by Shredding Sick Cells' DNA Key points: * A new technology uses a relative of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system to kill target cells. * When activated by a specific, programmable genetic target, the Cas12a2 protein rips a cell's genome apart. * Researchers programmed Cas12a2 to kill virus-infected cells or cancer cells w  more

LOGAN, Utah, May 6 -- Utah State University issued the following news: * * * USU Biochemists Show CRISPR Can Selectively Destroy Cells, a Cancer-Treatment Goal Among the challenges in treating disease, including cancer, is wiping out malignancies, infection, contaminants or other pathologies without destroying healthy tissue. "This is a holy grail of medicine and other sciences," said Utah State University biochemist Ryan Jackson. Jackson, with USU doctoral candidate Kadin Crosby and collea  more

WEST LIBERTY, West Virginia, May 7 -- West Liberty University issued the following news: * * * West Liberty University Faculty and Students Participate in 100th Meeting of the West Virginia Academy of Science West Liberty University faculty and students participated in the 100th Annual Meeting of the West Virginia Academy of Science, held April 18 at Stonewall Resort in Roanoke, West Virginia. The annual meeting, which marked a historic centennial for the organization, brought together facul  more