Features based on peer-reviewed papers published in Scientific Reports.
Dr. Reza Kohandani and Dr. Simarjeet Saini built a gold nanograting light sensor with a built-in reference mode that cancels temperature drift, sharpening detection of tiny changes in water-like liquids.
Dr. Alexandra Cory's team found that the Maillard browning reaction releases carbon dioxide even from sterilized peat and ties up nitrogen, helping explain why bogs decompose so slowly.
Professor Jack Ansell's team found that a handheld coagulometer detected the effects of common blood thinners faster and more sensitively than the standard manual clotting test.
Professor Kátia Santos's team found that Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream isolates from patients with COVID-19 were more often drug-resistant, with higher resistance linked to earlier azithromycin use.
Dr. Jenny Ekberg's team found in mice that the bacterium Chlamydia pneumoniae can travel from the nose to the brain along the olfactory and trigeminal nerves within a short time.
Dr. Toshio Inui's team found that a modified whey protein lengthened blood cell telomeres in young and aged mice, while regular whey protein had little effect.
Professor Yun Li's team built a grey-box model that combines physical laws with neural networks and found it modelled a cleanroom temperature control system better than conventional approaches.
Dr. Piotr Golec's team engineered bacteria-killing viruses to carry silver nanoparticles and found in lab tests that they broke down bacterial biofilms better than either component alone.
Professor Chin-Teng Lin's team combined EEG brain signals with image features from camouflaged-animal pictures and predicted whether people would answer correctly better than with either data source alone.
Dr. Makoto Nakakido and colleagues designed humanized synthetic libraries of nanobodies, small antibody fragments first found in camels and llamas, that yield heat-stable binders to different targets.
Dr. Rachael McDonnell's team built a composite drought indicator that combines satellite data and models into monthly drought updates, now used in national drought plans in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia.
Dr. Sahar AlGhamdi and Dr. Ishrat Rahman found in lab tests that an ethanol leaf extract of Ziziphus nummularia reduced breast cancer cell survival and may act by blocking tubulin.
Professor Sukhdev Roy's team used theoretical modelling to predict that the light-sensitive protein ChRmine and its variants could drive optogenetic vision restoration under ordinary ambient and broadband light.
Professor Ning Xi's team built an artificial muscle from gel-coated twisted strings that stiffens as it twists faster, letting it adjust stiffness and force in a way resembling human muscle.
Professor Allen Place's team showed that sterolysin, a toxin from a decades-old culture of the alga Karlodinium veneficum, kills cells by binding membrane sterols and punching holes.
Professor Carl Creutz found that yeast producing annexin proteins from animals survived toxic levels of the biofuel isobutanol much better, as the proteins appear to patch damaged cell membranes.
