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 E-Mail IMAGE: The Rice University computer science lab of Todd Treangen challenged -- and beat -- deep learning in a test to see if a new bioinformatics approach effectively tracks the lab... view more  Credit: Tommy LaVergne/Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 26, 2021) - Tracking the origin of synthetic genetic code has never been simple, but it can be done through bioinformatic or, increasingly, deep learning computational approaches. Though the latter gets the lions share of attenti...

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 E-Mail HOUSTON - (Feb. 25, 2021) - Low-income livestock farmers in developing countries are often faced with a difficult dilemma: protect their animals from endangered predators, or spare the threatened species at the expense of their livestock and livelihood. A new paper by Rice University economist Ted Loch-Temzelides examines such circumstances faced by farmers in Pakistan. "Conservation, risk aversion, and livestock insurance: The case of the snow leopard" outlines a plan under which farm...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A system developed by Rice University engineers employs a stamp-sized microfluidic chip that measures the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein in blood serum to diagnose COVID-19 in less than an... view more  Credit: Lillehoj Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 25, 2021) - COVID-19 can be diagnosed in 55 minutes or less with the help of programmed magnetic nanobeads and a diagnostic tool that plugs into an off-the-shelf cell phone, according to Ri...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The image at left shows the crystal structure of a MoTe2|PtS2 heterobilayer with isocharge plots from a model created at Rice University. When the materials are stacked together, mirror symmetry... view more  Credit: Sunny Gupta/Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 25, 2021) - A new theory by Rice University scientists could boost the growing field of spintronics, devices that depend on the state of an electron as much as the brute electrical force required to push it. Mate...

 E-Mail HOUSTON - (Feb. 22, 2021) - Researchers at Rice University have received funding for up to $1 million to develop a real-time sensor system able to detect minute amounts of the airborne virus that causes COVID-19 infection. The researchers at Rices Brown School of Engineering and Wiess School of Natural Sciences -- chemical and biomolecular engineer Rafael Verduzco, civil and environmental engineer Pedro Alvarez and structural virologist Yizhi Jane Tao -- will team with William Lawrence...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Rice University chemical and biomolecular engineer Haotian Wang has been selected as a 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. view more  Credit: Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 17, 2021) - Chemical and biomolecular engineer Haotian Wang of Rice Universitys Brown School of Engineering has been selected as a 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. Wang is one of 128 early career scientists and engineers at 58 U.S. and Canadian institutions "whose creativity, innovation and ...

UWI Open Campus Saint Lucia to Host Virtual Country Conference February 9, 2021 Share this post: The UWI Open Campus Saint Lucia, in collaboration with the GEF Small Grants Programme UNDP, will host its 4th Country Conference from the 15th to 17th February 2021. The theme of this year’s Conference is “Visioning Sustainable Futures – Confronting the Threats of Climate Change and Climate Variability”, and it is expected to provide an avenue to share existing research and disseminate in...

Richard L. Schwab’s experience in education has spanned four decades, beginning with a job in Chelmsford, Mass., as an eighth-grade history teacher. He went on to earn both a master’s degree and doctorate in Educational Administration at UConn, before spending 10 years on the education faculty at the University of New Hampshire. He spent the next eight years at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, where he served three years as head of its Department of Educational Administration, and then...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Rice University scientists built a new tool to engineer and understand how human genes are turned on. The team created a synthetic two-part protein based on dCas9 and a modified... view more  Credit: Hilton Lab/Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 9, 2021) - Finding a needle in a haystack is hard enough. But try finding a specific molecule on the needle. Rice University researchers have achieved something of the sort with a new genome editing tool that targets the supportin...