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Global analysis suggests COVID-19 is seasonal
Lauren Quinn
With cities around the globe locking down yet again amid soaring COVID-19 numbers, could seasonality be partially to blame?
Gut bacteria help digest dietary fiber, release important antioxidant
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
Dietary fiber found in grains is a large component of many diets, but little is understood about how we digest the fiber, as humans lack enzymes to break down the complex molecu
Lab team creates fast, cheap, and accessible COVID-19 antibody test
Lizzie Roehrs
As the numbers of those infected with COVID-19 has continued to climb, the desperate need for a vaccine was apparent.
What happens when the coronavirus mutates?
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
Flag leaves could help top off photosynthetic performance in rice
Claire Benjamin
The flag leaf is the last to emerge, indicating the transition from crop growth to grain production.
Model predicts where ticks, Lyme disease will appear next in Midwest
Diana Yates
By drawing from decades of studies, scientists created a timeline marking the arrival of black-legged ticks, also known as deer ticks, in hundreds of counties across 10 Midweste
Brain gene expression patterns predict behavior of individual honey bees
Diana Yates
An unusual study that involved bar coding and tracking the behavior of thousands of individual honey bees in six queenless bee hives and analyzing gene expression in their brain
Light signal emitted during photosynthesis used to quickly screen crops
Claire Benjamin
An international effort called Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) aims to transform crops' ability to t
Antifungal drug improves key cystic fibrosis biomarkers in clinical study
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
A drug widely used to treat fungal infections improved key biomarkers in lung tissue cultures as well as in the noses of patients with cystic fibrosis, a clinical study by resea
Gene biomarkers indicate liver toxicity quickly and accurately
Marianne Stein
When agrochemical and pharmaceutical companies develop new products, they must test extensively for potential toxicity before obtaining regulatory approval.
Study tracks elephant tusks from 16th century shipwreck
Diana Yates
In 1533, the Bom Jesus – a Portuguese trading vessel carrying 40 tons of cargo including gold, silver, copper and more than 100 elephant tusks – sank off the coast of Africa nea
Chancellor, Provost offer reflections on 1 million COVID-19 tests
Chancellor Robert Jones and Provost Andreas Cangellaris
It sometimes seems a million doesn’t command quite the same attention that it used to. It isn’t mathematically special. And in today’s society, it isn’t even unusually large.
