HAIFA, Israel, Feb. 24 -- The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * A Double International Honor for the Technion: * We are proud to share that Prof. Debbie Lindell from the Technion's Faculty of Biology has received two prestigious international honors in 2026, recognizing her transformative contributions to marine microbial ecology and virology. Prof. Lindell has been named the 2026 recipient of the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award by the Association for th more PR

SACRAMENTO, California, Feb. 24 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Bonta Co-Leads Multistate Lawsuit to Block Trump Administration's Unlawful Overhaul to Childhood Vaccine Schedule * Lawsuit also challenges Secretary Kennedy's appointments to key federal vaccine panel OAKLAND -In partnership with Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced co-leading a multistate lawsuit against t more PR

LONDON, England, Feb. 25 (TNSjou) -- BMJ Group issued the following news release about Thorax: * * * Obstructive sleep apnoea may cost UK + US economies billions in lost productivity Around 1 in 5 adults in both countries may have the condition, analysis suggests Time to test workplace screening in those most at risk of harm from daytime sleepiness * Untreated obstructive sleep apnoea may be costing the UK and US economies billions of pounds/dollars in lost productivity every year, with a  more PR

CEDARVILLE, Ohio, Feb. 24 -- Cedarville University posted the following news: * * * Cedarville Repeats as Ohio Forensics State Champion * by Rich Stratton, Assistant Director of Public Relations Cedarville University's forensics team won the Ohio Forensics Association State Championship, capturing the overall speech and debate titles for the second straight year. The tournament was held Feb. 20-21 at Cedarville University. "It's a huge win for our students and a testament to how hard the more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Feb. 24 [Category: BizHospital] -- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia issued the following news release: * * * Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Marks One-Year Anniversary of World's First Personalized CRISPR Gene Therapy for Child with Rare Genetic Disease * February 25, 2026 marks one year since KJ, an infant born with severe carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS1) deficiency, became the world's first person to receive a personalized CRISPR-based gene editing more PR

BOCA RATON, Florida, Feb. 25 (TNSjou) -- Florida Atlantic University, a component of the state university system in Florida, issued the following news: * * * Marine Plastic Pollution Alters Octopus Predator-Prey Encounters Study Snapshot: Plastics release thousands of chemicals into the ocean - including oleamide, an industrial lubricant, which is also naturally produced by many organisms. By mimicking natural signals, plastic-derived oleamide may quietly alter how marine life senses food and more PR

PASADENA, California, Feb. 24 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Just the Right Amount: Microbial Nutrients Drive Success and Failure of Antibiotics * Antibiotics are medical marvels that have transformed once deadly bacterial infections into manageable conditions. But with a rise in antibiotic resistance that renders existing treatments ineffective, new agents are urgently needed. Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have now shed fresh ligh more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 25 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: * * * How Studying Yeast in the Gut Could Lead to New, Better Drugs A new study sheds light on the behavior of yeast cells in the gut, paving the way for new lines of yeast that more efficiently produce therapeutic drugs tailored to address specific diseases. "Yeast is promising as a drug-delivery platform," says Nathan Crook, corresponding author of the study and an associate prof more PR

ITHACA, New York, Feb. 24 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Online module helps students recognize, develop critical thinking * One of the purported benefits of a college education is the development of a person's ability to think critically - to be able to reason, to investigate and to approach information with skepticism. But are college students being taught critical thinking? If they are, are they aware of it? And do they - and their professors - even know what it  more PR

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Feb. 24 -- The University of Kansas posted the following news: * * * Pandemic, election crises mark 'critical events' in declining democratic accountability standards, governance scholar writes * LAWRENCE -In the United States, the years 2020 and early 2021 were marked by two major historical events: the politicization of the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the perpetuation of false claims about the integrity of U.S. elections, leading to the riot on the more PR

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Feb. 24 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Some pesticides can slip under natural protection into streams, researchers find * UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -Pesticides can harm aquatic ecosystems and human health, so scientists need to understand how they move from farm fields into streams. A management tool commonly implemented is riparian buffers -strips of vegetation, like shrubs or grasses, bordering streams -that the U.S. Department o more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Feb. 24 -- The University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine posted the following news: * * * Study finds telemedicine visits cost far less than office visits * Telemedicine visits are five times less costly than in-person appointments for the most common conditions able to be treated by both forms of visits, new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania shows. On average, telemedicine patient visits were billed $40 more PR

EVANSTON, Illinois, Feb. 24 -- Northwestern University posted the following news release: * * * Trashing cancer's 'undruggable' proteins * * 'Undruggable' cancer-driving proteins resist various treatments because drugs cannot bind to them * New Velcro-like polymer grabs proteins without needing a traditional binding pocket * Polymers also grab the cell's waste-disposal machinery, bringing it to the protein * Strategy worked in cellular cultures and animal models of cancer for two n more PR

LEXINGTON, Kentucky, Feb. 24 -- The University of Kentucky issued the following news: * * * UK scientists and scholars among top 2% of most-cited researchers in the world * The University of Kentucky is well-represented on a list of the most-cited researchers in the world. In a database compiled by Stanford University in a partnership with Elsevier, 125 current UK scientists and scholars appear among the top 2% of the most-cited researchers across 22 disciplines. Citations are one measure  more PR

MONTREAL, Quebec, Feb. 24 (TNSjou) -- The University of Montreal issued the following news: * * * A luminous breakthrough for quantum photonics In a landmark advancement, researchers observe a quantized Hall drift of light for the first time. By Beatrice St-Cyr-Leroux In physics, the classical 'Hall effect,' discovered in the late 19th century, describes how a transverse voltage is generated when an electric current is exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field. Simply put, the magnetic fi more PR

RENO, Nevada, Feb. 25 -- The University of Nevada issued the following news: * * * Center for Land Surface Hazards receives Track II NSF funding $15 million will employ interdisciplinary science to study dangerous natural hazards Michelle Werdann, '21 Ben Mason, associate professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, is part of the recently funded Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH), which integrates several disciplines to better understand land surface hazards su more PR

TUBINGEN, Germany, Feb. 24 (TNSjou) -- The University of Tubingen issued the following news release: * * * AI develops easily understandable solutions for unusual experiments in quantum physics Researchers once struggled to understand unconventional solutions developed by artificial intelligence - a new approach at the University of Tubingen leads to faster and better understanding * Researchers at the University of Tubingen, working with an international team, have developed an artificial  more PR

SEATTLE, Washington, Feb. 25 (TNSjou) -- The University of Washington School of Medicine posted the following news release: * * * Youth triumphs in test to regenerate kidney tissue Stem cells implanted into mice produced improved kidney grafts. * Scientists today announced the discovery that, in tests to develop multifunctional kidney tissue, young stem-cell populations showed dramatic advantages compared with organoids that were just one week older. Results of their experiment were publi more PR