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Millions of people suffer from psoriasis, a chronic, autoimmune disorder that causes scaly patches on the skin and often precedes psoriatic arthritis. While no cure exists, treatments range from topical creams to injected medications that block inflammation.

BATON ROUGE – Six LSU faculty members, who are leaders in their respective fields, have been selected to receive the Rainmaker Award from the LSU Office of Research & Economic Development, or ORED. Rainmakers are faculty members who balance their teaching and research responsibilities while extending the impact of their work to the world beyond academia. “I extend my congratulations to this year’s LSU Rainmakers. On behalf of your colleagues at LSU, we recognize and appreciate you and you...

 E-Mail Millions of people suffer from psoriasis, a chronic, autoimmune disorder that causes scaly patches on the skin and often precedes psoriatic arthritis. While no cure exists, treatments range from topical creams to injected medications that block inflammation. To improve treatment options, scientists need to better understand the dysregulation of the immune system that leads to these lesions. Using advanced computational genomic analysis of immune cells from mouse models, a researcher at...

Wednesday, May 19, 2021 • 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CT Advancements in material and device fabrication technologies have enabled the proliferation of low-cost, low-power, printed hybrid electronic devices for a variety of applications, including chemical sensors, radio frequency (RF) antennae, lab-on-chip health care devices, organic neuromorphic devices, and more. The next generation of printed hybrid electronics will require materials with unprecedented performance, durability, and recyclabil...

Credit: credit MWRD.jpg As city populations boom and the need grows for sustainable energy and water, scientists and engineers with the University of Chicago and partners are looking towards artificial intelligence to build new systems to deal with wastewater. Two new projects will test out ways to make "intelligent" water systems to recover nutrients and clean water. "Water is an indispensable resource of our society, as it is required for sustaining life and economic prosperity," said Junhong...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Anderson earned the 2021 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences for his ground-breaking measurements of the free radicals that drive atmospheric chemistry and for his foundational work to form global... view more  Credit: Harvard University Today, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announced that James (Jim) G. Anderson is the recipient of the organizations highest honor and only international prize, the 2021 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences. This year, the ...

James Anderson Wins 2021 Dreyfus Prize in Environmental Chemistry Harvard chemist pioneered atmospheric studies, proving CFCs destroy the ozone layer News provided by Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has announced that James G. Anderson, the Philip S. Weld Professor in Chemistry at Harvard University, is the recipient of the 2021 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences. The international biennial Prize, which in...

Argonne and partners to develop an artificial intelligence-assisted system for resource recovery from municipal wastewater. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced it has awarded $27.5 million for 16 water infrastructure projects. The goal of all these projects is to reduce energy use and carbon emissions in our aging water infrastructure, particularly in wastewater treatment. For one of the projects ($2 million over three years), DOEs Argonne National Laboratory, along with...

Researchers have designed a completely new potential treatment for COVID-19: nanoparticles that capture SARS-CoV-2 viruses within the body and then use the body’s own immune system to destroy them. These “nanotraps” mimic the target cells the virus infects to attract the virus. When the virus binds to the nanotraps, the traps then sequester the virus from other cells and target it for destruction by the immune system. In theory, these nanotraps could also be used on variants of the virus,...

The solid-state spin center has been a focal point of quantum information science since the 1950s. Modern research advances in this field have enabled...