What’s hot in science and engineering? Research news for the day of April 19, 2022

Tue, 19 Apr 2022
Data researchers use health informatics and artificial intelligence in Type 1 diabetes study

Determinants of health outcomes analyzed

A team of data scientists from the University of Missouri has analyzed publicly available data from about 16,000 participants enrolled in the T1D Exchange Registry to learn more about people with Type 1 diabetes. The team, supported in part by a U.S. National Science Foundation grant, gathered the information through health informatics and used artificial …

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Tue, 19 Apr 2022
Researchers engineer a new way to model lymph system conditions

Organ-on-a-chip model could result in new treatment options

A U.S. National Science Foundation grantee research team at Texas A&M University has developed a new way to model conditions that impact the lymph system. The innovative use of organ-on-a-chip models provides a new way to examine the biology of lymph system diseases. The newfound information could lead to more treatments for conditions …

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Mon, 18 Apr 2022
Fast-melting alpine permafrost may contribute to rising global temperatures

Permafrost at high elevations is more vulnerable than Arctic permafrost

From the ancient sludge of lakebeds in Asia’s Tibetan Plateau, scientists can decipher a vision of Earth’s future. That future, it turns out, may look very similar to the mid-Pliocene warm period — an epoch 3.3 million to 3 million years ago when the average air temperature …

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Mon, 18 Apr 2022
Chemists synthesize novel neuroactive compound found in rainforest

Breakthrough could result in new psychiatric and neurological pharmaceuticals

Scripps Research Institute chemists working on an initiative supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation have developed a method to quickly synthesize neuroactive compounds from the bark of the rainforest trees Galbulimima belgraveana and Galbulimima baccata. The bark has hallucinogenic and other neuroactive effects that could be used in the development of psychiatric and neurological drugs. The difficulty …

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