HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 20 (TNSres) -- The Baylor College of Medicine issued the following news: The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine's Center for Space Medicine, with consortium partners California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is seeking proposals to advance remote biomarker analysis capabilities in microphysiological systems (MPS), also known as tissue chips, for space exploration. This solicitation see more PR

PASADENA, California, Dec. 18 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Caltech's John O'Doherty is on a quest to understand how human brains make decisions: how they gather evidence about their environments and their own impacts on these environments and then apply this information to their decision-making. Researchers in his lab examine subjects to find how brains learn from positive and negative feedback, and why some brains learn more easily and effectively than o more PR

RIVERSIDE, California, Dec. 20 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * Rake dead grass to increase flower power * * * California's native wildflowers are being smothered by layers of dead, invasive grasses. A new UC Riverside study shows that simply raking these layers can boost biodiversity and reduce fire danger. The study, published this week in Restoration Ecology, tested whether removing thatch -- dead leaves and debris -- could allow more PR

RIVERSIDE, California, Dec. 20 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * Using genetics to reduce food waste * * * Scientists have discovered a way to remove toxic compounds from potatoes, making them safer to eat and easier to store. The breakthrough could cut food waste and enhance crop farming in space and other extreme environments. Potato plants naturally produce chemicals that protect them from insects. The chemicals, called steroidal more PR

RIVERSIDE, California, Dec. 20 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * Studies sought to better define what constitutes patience, and impatience, and the factors that determine them * * * Patience -- like its corollary impatience -- has always been a sort of "I know it when I see it" concept. And that didn't sit well with UC Riverside psychology researcher Kate Sweeny. "Philosophers and religious scholars call patience a virtue, yet most pe more PR

LA JOLLA, California, Dec. 20 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: Researchers at University of California San Diego have developed and tested a new software package, called Spatial Modeling Algorithms for Reactions and Transport (SMART), that can realistically simulate cell-signaling networks -- the complex systems of molecular interactions that allow cells to respond to diverse cues from their environment. Cell-signaling networks involve many di more PR

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Dec. 20 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Francisco campus issued the following news release: * * * UCSF and Cedars-Sinai researchers engineer "organizer" cells that coax stem cells to form artificial organs. * * * Researchers from UC San Francisco and Cedars-Sinai have developed a new way to prompt stem cells to form specific organs. It sets the stage for growing human organs from scratch - a long-time goal of regenerative medicine. The research team  more PR

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Dec. 20 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Francisco campus issued the following news release: * * * Support from pharmaceutical firm UCB will accelerate development of therapies to combat condition that disproportionately affects women and people of color. * * * Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory skin condition that disproportionately affects women and people of color. It begins in adolescence and can be debilitating, negatively impa more PR