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Military Personnel Show Brain Changes Similar to Those in Retired Football Players Suspected to Have CTE

In a small study of military personnel who had suffered head trauma and had reported memory and mood problems, UCLA researchers found brain changes similar to those seen in retired football players who may have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated blows to the head.

Connection Found Between Viruses and Inflammatory Bowel Disease

A study led by a University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus researcher reveals a key connection between viruses and inflammatory bowel diseases like ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.

Department of Energy Awards William & Mary $1M for Fusion Research

The DOE recently announced $36.4 million in funding for 37 research awards at universities, national laboratories and private firms to support the study of nuclear fusion as a future energy source. William & Mary was one of 10 universities selected to receive DOE funding.

Secretary of Energy Perry Says PPPL Research Has Potential to 'Change the World'

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry toured the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Thursday, Aug. 9, saying that national labs like PPPL have the potential to change the world through their scientific research.

Professor's Work Could Lead to More Fuel-Efficient Tires

Texas Tech University's Greg McKenna, the John R. Bradford Endowed Chair in Engineering and Horn Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering in the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering, has received a three-year, $345,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science to study ring molecules in the hope of producing more fuel-efficient tires in the future.

Luiz de Viveiros to Receive Department of Energy Early Career Research Program funding

Luiz de Viveiros, assistant professor of physics at Penn State University, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science to receive funding for his research as part of the DOE's Early Career Research Program.

LSU Chemists Characterize the Fatal Fungus Among Us

LSU chemists have identified for the first time the cell wall structure of one of the most prevalent and deadly fungi, which could usher in a new era of antifungal drug development to help save millions of lives.

Team Shatters Theoretical Limit on Bio-hydrogen Production

Researchers from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln have engineered the bacterial species Thermotoga maritima to produce more hydrogen than any bacterium before it.

Researchers Receive DOE Grant for Center

The University of Utah’s College of Engineering and College of Mines and Earth Sciences have received a four-year, $10.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to create an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC).

Rare Antibodies Show Scientists How to Neutralize the Many Types of Ebola

Two new studies by scientists at Scripps Research are bringing Ebola virus’s weaknesses into the spotlight, showing for the first time exactly how human and mouse antibodies can bind to the virus and stop infection—not only for Ebola virus, but for other closely related pathogens as well.

Ions: The Good and The Bad

William Weber, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Radiation Effects on Materials, and the Ion Beams Material Laboratory are looking at the good and the bad of ions.

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Designer Enzyme Conquers Sulfite Reduction, a Bottleneck in Environmental Cleanup

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have cleared one hurdle toward environmental cleanup of certain contaminants with a newly designed synthetic enzyme that reduces the compound sulfite to sulfide – a notoriously complex multistep chemical reaction that has eluded chemists for years.