Blood may be the gold standard for health monitoring, but nobody likes the poking and prodding.
Biomedical engineers from the University of Cincinnati are developing sensors to measure the hormones and other chemicals in interstitial fluid, which contains many of the same benchmarks for monitoring as traditional blood work.This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - March 8, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: video
Multidrug nanoparticle for targeting cancer.
Chemists from MIT have developed a bottlebrush-shaped polymer nanoparticle for targeting cancer with multiple drug therapies.This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - February 22, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: video
NIH – FDA COVID SIG Lecture with Valentina Parma, Ph.D.
Valentina Parma, Ph.D., is Assistant Director at Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia. From the speaker: " I am a psychologist interested in human olfaction across the lifespan. Both my basic and translational work aims at finding ways to use smell as an opportunity to improve health. I use behavioral and physiological methods to understand how odors influence typical and atypical behavior. Recently, I have been chairing the Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research (GCCR) to understand how smell, taste and chemesthesis are affected by COVID-19 and other respiratory disorders, I have co-developed smell tests to fa...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Nobel Prizes and the Emerging Gene Concept
Join us for our next talk in the Office of NIH History lecture series. Erling Norrby, M.D., Ph.D., of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will speak about the changing concept of the gene through the lens of Nobel Prizes awarded in the past century. Dr. Norrby is former chair at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, where he served as dean of the Faculty of Medicine and was involved in the selection process for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 20 years. After leaving the Institute, he became Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In this role, he had overriding responsibility for the ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Corn is being used to create renewable acrylic chemicals.
Engineers from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, have developed a new chemical process allowing for renewable acrylic chemicals to be manufactured using corn.This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - February 2, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: video
Overcoming the Undruggable Nature of the Most Common Human Oncogene K-Ras
NIH Director's WALS Lecture
Kevan Shokat is a chemist who discovers drugs against some of the most common drivers of human cancers. He is best known for targeting a mutation that drives more than 1 in 10 lung cancers, opening up a new arena of cancer treatment discovery. The target, K-Ras, is the most common driver of cancer, and was considered “ undruggable ” by most cancer researchers after 40 years of failed attempts to block its function. Dr. Shokat ’ s discovery of a K-Ras blocker broke through this decades-old barrier and threw open the doors to a new class of cancer treatments. Lecture summary: 1. To understa...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 31, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Obsidian blade provides valuable clues to past trade networks
This obsidian (volcanic glass) blade from the ancient Mayan port site Vista Alegre provides valuable clues to past trade networks. Based on its chemical composition, researchers traced the source of the obsidian to the highlands of Guatemala. Other obsidian materials at Vista Alegre came from as ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - January 4, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: video
FES Emerging Chemicals (e.g., PFAS) /Management of Toxic Substances (e.g., Lead-based Paint, Mold, Asbestos) Track 1 (Day 1)
Presentations on Emerging Chemicals and the Management of Toxic Substances from FES ’ s from many government agenciesAir date: 3/28/2022 11:45:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 23, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
New crystal form of imidacloprid insecticide
Pictured is a new crystal form of imidacloprid -- one of the world’s most widely used insecticides and strongly implicated in the decline of bee colonies -- developed by chemists in an effort to sharply reduce its environmental impact.
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Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - March 19, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: video
Can a Controversial Tree Help End the Opioid Crisis?
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Integrative Medicine Research Lecture SeriesKratom (botanical nameMitragyna speciosa Korth) is a tree in the coffee family (Rubiaceae) indigenous to Southeast Asia. Its leaves are the source of a Thai traditional drug, kratom, that possesses unique pharmacologic actions — e.g., stimulant actions like those of the coca plant plus depressant ones like those of opium. Traditionally, in its countries of origin, kratom extract has been used as an opium substitute; in Thailand, it has been used as a treatment for addiction.Recently, human case reports have increa...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 16, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
New crystal form of imidacloprid insecticide
Pictured is a new crystal form of imidacloprid -- one of the world’s most widely used insecticides and strongly implicated in the decline of bee colonies -- developed by chemists in an effort to sharply reduce its environmental impact.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - March 13, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: video
Sensors that eavesdrop on conversations between the brain's neurons.
The human brain has billions of neurons that communicate by sending chemical and electrical signals. Mapping these electrical signals is critical to successful brain surgery and treatment of diseases like Epilepsy and Parkinson's. Researchers have developed an array of brain sensors that record ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - January 20, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: video
