Credit: NOAA
Rutgers scientists for the first time have pinpointed the sizes of microplastics from a highly urbanized estuarine and coastal system with numerous sources of fresh water, including the Hudson River and Raritan River.
Their study of tiny pieces of plastic in the Hudson-Raritan Estuary in New Jersey and New York indicates that stormwater could be an important source of the plastic pollution that plagues oceans, bays, rivers and other waters and threatens aquatic and other life. Stormwater, an understudied pathway for microplastics to enter waterways, had similar or higher concentrations of plastics compared with effluent from wastewater sewage treatment plants, said senior author Nicole Fahrenfeld, an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. More research is needed to increase understanding of the full impact of microplastics on ecosystems.
E-Mail
IMAGE: Brian Brown, PhD, professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Associate Director of the Precision Immunology Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York), has. view more
Credit: Mount Sinai
A scientific team led by Brian Brown, PhD, Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Associate Director of the Precision Immunology Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York), has been awarded $500,000 from Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy (ACGT) to advance a promising immunotherapy approach to fight lung cancer and other solid tumor cancers.
Despite some amazing successes, not all patients respond to current immunotherapies. Dr. Brown notes that one cell type that appears to be responsible for poor responses to immunotherapy against solid tumors is called a macrophage. As part of the natural immune system, macrophages typically protect patients from infections, but tumors can reprogram mac
E-Mail
TROY, N.Y. The era of widespread remote learning brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic requires online testing methods that effectively prevent cheating, especially in the form of collusion among students. With concerns about cheating on the rise across the country, a solution that also maintains student privacy is particularly valuable.
In research published today in
npj Science of Learning, engineers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute demonstrate how a testing strategy they call distanced online testing can effectively reduce students ability to receive help from one another in order to score higher on a test taken at individual homes during social distancing.