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

PERTH, Australia, July 29 -- Curtin University issued the following news release: * * * Ancient shipwreck cargo reveals surprising global trade secrets of the 1600s * Using cargo recovered from one of Australia's most infamous shipwrecks, new Curtin University-led research has revealed how surprisingly sophisticated global supply chains helped source and transport construction materials in the 17th century. The study analysed stone blocks, bricks and ballast from the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia, which wrecked off the coast of Wes 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

LONDON, England, July 29 (TNSjou) -- The British Natural History Museum issued the following news release: * * * New Zimbabwean dinosaur species named by Museum scientist reveals Africa's hidden history * Musango matusadonaensis was discovered on the shores of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. * The 4.5-metre-long dinosaur lived in the Late Triassic around 210 million years ago and weighed an estimated 222 kilogrammes. * Musango is a sauropodomorph, an early relative of dinosaurs such as Diplodocus that walked on two legs rather than four. - A ne more PR

UPTON, New York, July 30 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * A Successful, Sustainable Catalyst for Ethanol Dehydrogenation Brookhaven researchers and their U.S. and international collaborators crafted a novel, three-metal catalysis approach to convert ethanol to a critical chemical feedstock - Ethanol is an alcohol used in a huge number of industrial and household applications. When dehydrogenated -- in this case, stripped of some of its hydrogen atoms -- it yie more PR

PASADENA, California, July 30 (TNSjou) -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Ancient Stardust Were Seeds for the Earliest Solids in the Solar System How did the first solids that made up planets, moons, and asteroids form out of the "hot soup" that characterized our solar system's earliest years? New research from Caltech analyzing pieces of a meteorite has found that, in the same way that snowflakes crystallize around grains of dust, ancient stardust grains leftover from long-gone suns may have been the  more PR

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, July 28 -- Pennsylvania State University College of Education posted the following news: * * * College of Education News: July 29, 2026 * Students, staff and faculty members from Penn State's College of Education share recent research and career achievements. Janice Byrd-Badjie, associate professor of counselor education, has been selected to serve as an associate editor of the American School Counselor's scholarly journal, Professional School Counseling -the flagship journal for the profession. In addition,  more PR

GLEBE, New South Wales, July 30 -- The Sax Institute, an organisation that says it improves health and wellbeing, issued the following news: * * * Deakin Institute for Health Transformation joins the Sax Institute member network By Dr Martin McNamara, Professor Kathryn Backholer, Professor Suzanne Robinson The Sax Institute is pleased to welcome the Deakin Institute for Health Transformation (IHT) at Deakin University as the newest member of its national network of leading health and medical research organisations. Based within Deakin Uni more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachussetts, July 23 -- Education Next, an academic journal and magazine that says it focuses on K-12 education policy, reform, and research, posted the following commentary by Liz Cohen, vice president of policy at 50CAN: * * * Do Students Still Need to Learn Calculus? A new book says no. Here's why that's wrong. - In his new book Aftermath, Ted Dintersmith joins a growing chorus of policy wonks, researchers, and advocates who say that the age of calculus is behind us and that future math education should focus entirely on s more PR

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, July 29 -- Florida State University issued the following news: * * * FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers find factors that cause respiratory impacts after flooding * Researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and Florida State University's Resilient Infrastructure and Disaster Response Center have identified how hurricane flooding can impact health long after a storm. In research published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, the researchers identified the factors that are most likely to create hazard more PR

HOMBURG, Germany, July 30 (TNSjou) -- Fresenius Medical Care, a provider of products and services for people with chronic kidney failure, issued the following news release on July 29, 2026: * * * Fresenius Medical Care announces BEACON-US, generating real-world evidence supporting high-volume hemodiafiltration for U.S. dialysis patients * BEACON-US research initiative is evaluating the clinical outcomes and patient experiences of high-volume hemodiafiltration in routine U.S. clinical practice across diverse patient populations * Fresenius M 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

EAST LANSING, Michigan, July 28 -- Michigan State University posted the following news: * * * How supermassive black holes feed themselves * Astronomers are closer to solving the mystery of how supermassive black holes feed themselves thanks to new images from the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST. The images provide the clearest view ever seen of gaseous filaments connecting a galaxy's hot atmosphere to the rotating disk of gas that feeds its central supermassive black hole. Michigan State University helped an international team, led  more PR

DALLAS, Texas, July 29 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association posted the following news release: * * * Independent study: Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. adults with high blood pressure may need medication * Research Highlights: * A study evaluating the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology 2025 guideline on high blood pressure found that among 81 million U.S. adults with high blood pressure and no cardiovascular disease, nearly 23 million (28%) may be newly eligible for blood pressure-lowering medication. * Mo 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

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, July 29 -- The University of the Witwatersrand posted the following news: * * * mRNA vaccine technology is key to Africa's public health independence * Sustained vaccine expertise, I.P, and manufacturing capacity required for vaccine sovereignty in Africa. Scientists at Wits University say that for Africa to achieve vaccine sovereignty, the continent must build and sustain its own vaccine expertise, intellectual property and manufacturing capacity to reduce its dependence on technologies and supplies from elsew more PR

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 29 [Category: Business] -- Southwest Research Institute posted the following news release: * * * NASA's Juno takes the subsurface temperature of Jupiter's fiery moon * July 29, 2026 -NASA's Juno mission has made the first direct measurements of the temperature below the surface of Jupiter's moon Io, which reveal significant heating in the upper few feet of the most volcanically active world in the solar system. These findings, derived from data collected by Juno's Microwave Radiometer (MWR) during two close flybys, more PR

LONDON, England, July 29 [Category: BizMedia] -- Taylor and Francis Group, a publishing company, posted the following news release: * * * New Zimbabwean dinosaur species named by Museum scientist reveals Africa's hidden history * Breaking research 29th July 2026 #Musango matusadonaensis was discovered on the shores of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. An artist's reconstruction of Musango matusadonaensis walking in a wooded area near a stream. (c) Mark Witton 2026 * Musango matusadonaensis was discovered on the shores of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe 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

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 29 -- Vanderbilt University School of Engineering posted the following news: * * * Renowned scholar Pratim Biswas named to lead Vanderbilt Engineering initiatives at West Palm Beach campus * Pratim Biswas, a leading academic leader, member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a renowned aerosol scientist whose work has applications in energy and environmental nanotechnology, solar energy, air quality, medicine, and numerous other fields, has been named the inaugural Executive Director of the Institute for E more PR

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, July 30 -- Stevens Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Stevens Institute of Technology Selects Brendan Englot as Interim Dean for its New School of Computing The robotics expert, mechanical engineering professor and SIAI director brings a track record of visionary cross-disciplinary leadership to the school's launch and will empower its students and faculty to lead in the era of AI - Stevens Institute of Technology announced today that Brendan Englot, a robotics expert and academic leader, has been more PR

FRANKLIN LAKES, New Jersey, July 30 -- Children's Health Defense, an organization that says it restores and protects the health of children by eliminating exposures to environmental toxins, issued the following news: * * * Trump Bans Most But Not All 'Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research' The Trump administration on Tuesday released a policy to end high-risk life sciences research, including a ban on federal support for "dangerous gain-of-function research." "Potentially" dangerous gain-of-function research will be allowed under more stringen more PR

EDINBURGH, Scotland, July 29 (TNSjou) -- The University of Edinburgh issued the following news: * * * Hidden sleep crisis among workers over 50, study suggests Sleep disturbances are far more common among workers in mid-later life than previously believed, according to a study that links work-related stress to a range of wellbeing issues. - Researchers found that nearly 70 per cent of participants experienced persistent, clinically significant sleep problems, despite having no known history of sleep disorders. Even more concerning, almost  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

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, July 29 -- University of Virginia Health posted the following news release: * * * Deadly Brain Tumors Show Vulnerability to New Sound Wave Approach * In a promising sign for the potential of focused sound waves to improve care for brain tumors, UVA Health researchers have determined that tumors called gliomas may be even more receptive to targeted drug delivery than normal brain tissue. While the research is still in its early stages, the findings help allay concerns that brain tumors might have properties that w more PR

SEATTLE, Washington, July 28 -- The University of Washington posted the following news release: * * * UW study identifies genetic changes tied to more severe cognitive symptoms in schizophrenia * Schizophrenia affects approximately 23 million people worldwide, with onset usually occurring during a person's late adolescence to their 20s. Impairments associated with schizophrenia include hallucinations, delusions and disorganized thinking and behavior. Now, researchers at the University of Washington are investigating how genetic changes imp more PR