BALTIMORE, Maryland, July 30 -- Johns Hopkins University issued the following news: * * * Abraham Kupfer, pioneer of cell therapy research at Johns Hopkins Medicine, dies at 77 Kupfer, who helped build the immunobiology program in the Institute for Cell Engineering, remembered for his novel T-cell activation research - Abraham "Avi" Kupfer, a professor emeritus in the Department of Cell Biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine whose pioneering imaging work redefined our understanding of T-cell activation, died June 25 in  more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, July 29 -- The University of Southern California School of Medicine (Keck) posted the following news release: * * * Blood tests for Alzheimer's disease work in people with Down syndrome, study finds * New blood tests that detect early changes associated with Alzheimer's disease are making diagnosis easier and accessible to more patients, since they are less invasive than the brain scans or spinal taps typically used for a definitive diagnosis. Identifying the condition in its earlier stages means drugs that slow pro more PR

SYRACUSE, New York, July 30 -- The State University of New York Upstate Medical University campus issued the following news: * * * From coast to coast, top students choose Upstate's SURF program Written by Jeanne Albanese Thirty-five students from all over the country--including Puerto Rico--are participating in Upstate Medical University's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program this summer. Now in its 32nd year, the SURF program is well-known and highly competitive, with hundreds of students competing for admission. The 1 more PR

SILVER CITY, New Mexico, July 29 -- Western New Mexico University posted the following news release: * * * From the Desert to the Deep Blue: WNMU Students Complete Grueling Marine Field Research * Western New Mexico University science students recently returned from a strenuous marine biology field course in the Gulf of California, where they spent two weeks conducting field research on the Sonoran coast of Mexico. The six-credit summer course, led by WNMU Professor of Biology Manda Jost, Ph.D., and Assistant Professor of Biology, Caleb La more PR

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, July 29 -- The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus issued the following news: * * * Genetic base editing treats Huntington's disease in mice * CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -A gene editing tool designed to precisely rewrite the gene that causes Huntington's disease reduced toxic protein fragments and symptoms associated with the disease in mice, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign report. While other gene-based treatments have focused on turning the gene off, the Illinois team took a different appro more PR

MELBOURNE, Australia, July 29 (TNSjou) -- La Trobe University issued the following news release: * * * AI tool helps predict bowel cancer relapse risk A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by La Trobe University researchers could help predict which stage-two bowel cancer patients are at risk of relapse, in an advance that could ultimately lead to thousands getting life-saving treatment earlier. Published in the journal Gastroenterology, the research documents the creation of SEMIL (Semantically-Enhanced Multiple Instance Learnin more PR

EVANSTON, Illinois, July 29 (TNSjou) -- Northwestern University posted the following news release: * * * Flexible DNA transforms protein crystallization New approach reveals proteins' structures and enables next-gen flexible biomaterials * To determine a protein's structure, researchers often must crystallize it first * Coaxing proteins into forming crystals is tedious, unreliable and difficult to control * New method uses DNA to pull proteins into precisely engineered crystals * Strategy overturns assumption that flexible building block more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, July 30 (TNSjou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news: * * * Rock-eating fungi flourish deep below our feet U-M researchers discover an entire world of fungi nearly a third of a mile underground - Hundreds of feet below Earth's surface, rocks and water teem with fungi and support complex ecosystems of tiny organisms, according to a University of Michigan study, which finds that fungi are far more abundant deep below ground than researchers previously thought. The study, led by U-M doctoral candidate more PR