Researchers Find Way to Control Heart Waves With Light
Electrical waves regulate the rhythm of the heartbeat, and when those signals go awry, the result is a potentially fatal arrhythmia. Now, a team of researchers from Stony Brook University and Oxford...
View ArticleAre Toucan Sam and Ronald McDonald Influencing Your Beliefs About Food as an...
What's learned early is learned well and that is especially true when it comes to brand loyalty, research shows. Exposure to ads featuring happy and fun characters in childhood can lead to enduring...
View ArticleHeart Attack Patients with History of Bypass Surgery Prone to Delayed Treatment
Heart attack patients who had previously undergone cardiac bypass surgery are about twice as likely to have a delay in receiving angioplasty, or another form of revascularization, compared to heart...
View ArticleResearch Team Achieves First Image of Molecular Machinery that Copies DNA
The molecular mechanisms behind DNA replication, an element essential to maintaining life, remain difficult for scientists to define or image. But now a team of researchers from Stony Brook University,...
View ArticleStony Brook Researchers Receive $1 Million DOE Grant to Advance Engine...
A Stony Brook University-led research team has received a $1 million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) to conduct research on Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition (RCCI), an emerging...
View ArticleStress-Induced Loss of NG2 Glial Cells in the Brain Causes Depression
A Stony Brook University-led research team has discovered that when a rare type of glial cells, called NG2 glia, are depleted from the brain in mice, depressive-like behaviors occur. This finding,...
View ArticleBenjamin Hsiao Named Materials Research Society Fellow
Benjamin Hsiao, PhD, Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Affiliated Professor in Materials Science & Engineering, and Co-Founding Director of the Innovative Global Energy Solutions Center at...
View ArticleThe Paper Ceiling - Women Underrepresented In Media Coverage
Mirroring a major problem in society at large, women are significantly shortchanged when it comes to media coverage, with men being mentioned in the news a whopping five times more than women. This is...
View ArticleStony Brook Receives $2 Million DOE Grant to Create a New Super Energy-Saving...
A Stony Brook University research team has been awarded $2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) to develop an active air conditioning vent...
View ArticleStony Brook Scientists Unveil First Structure Measurements of Molten Uranium...
Nuclear power is part of the worldwide energy mix, accounting for around 10% of global electricity supply. Safety is the paramount issue. Uranium dioxide (UO2) is the major nuclear fuel component of...
View ArticleTwo Physics Faculty Elected APS Fellows for Pioneering Research
Two Stony Brook University Professors in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Alexander G. Abanov, PhD, and Axel Drees, PhD, have been named American Physical Society (APS) Fellows.
View ArticleStudy Reveals Industrial Aerosol Emissions Has Changed the Relationship...
An international team of scientists, including Minghua Zhang, Dean and Director of Stony Brook University's School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS), has found that man-made aerosol emissions...
View ArticleWill troubleshooting a Quantum Systems-Based Computer be Easy for a Technician?
A Stony Brook University research team has developed new tools to test the fundamental constituents of a quantum information processor, a device that manipulates data based on quantum mechanics rather...
View ArticleResearch Team Finds How CBD, a Component in Marijuana, Works Within Cells
A team of Stony Brook University researchers have identified fatty acid binding proteins (FABPs) as intracellular transporters for two ingredients in marijuana, THC and CBD (cannabidiol). The finding,...
View ArticleStudy Suggests Targeting Invasive Cells Not Dividing Cells to Halt Cancer
Most cancer drugs are designed to target dividing cells, but a new study by Stony Brook University researchers suggests that targeting invasive cells may be a new strategy to treat metastatic cancer.
View ArticleSchool of Dental Medicine and Traverse Biosciences to Advance Emerging...
The Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine and Traverse Biosciences have received a $1.3 million award from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) of the National...
View ArticleActivity of a new Synthetic Compound may be key to Cleaner Nuclear Energy
An international team of researchers has discovered a new synthetic compound that acts to adsorb Xenon, an element and volatile radioactive waste commonly released by nuclear energy plants. Adsorption...
View ArticleStony Brook Researchers Quantify Underlying Landscape of Cancer
The cellular and genetic hallmarks of cancer development are multiple, and a team of researchers in the Departments of Chemistry and Physics at Stony Brook University have developed a pictorial yet...
View ArticleThe Paper Ceiling - Women Underrepresented In Media Coverage
Mirroring a major problem in society at large, women are significantly shortchanged when it comes to media coverage, with men being mentioned in the news a whopping five times more than women.
View ArticleResearch Team Uses Nanostructure Surface Textures to Improve Solar Cells
Light that bounces off of solar panels is lost energy and presents a ubiquitous problem for efficiently converting the sun's rays into electricity. Now a team of scientists from the U.S. Department of...
View ArticleCan Diet Alter the Progression of Prostate Cancer?
The Prostate Care Program at Stony Brook Medicine is seeking men who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer to participate in a study to see if diet affects disease progression. Called the Men's...
View ArticleTwo Physicians Recognized for Novel Work in Cancer, Antifungal Research Named...
Stony Brook University School of Medicine physician-scientists Ute Moll, MD, and Maurizio Del Poeta, MD, have been elected into the prestigious Association of American Physicians (APP). The AAP...
View ArticleResearchers Define Structure of Key Enzyme Implicated in Cancer, Neurological...
A Stony Brook University-led team of researchers has determined the structure of a key enzyme involved with cell growth regulation in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease.
View ArticleNew Promise Against Deadly Global Fungal Infections
Systemic fungal infections cause more than one million deaths annually, and treatments against these infections are often not effective due to drug resistance or toxicity. Maurizio Del Poeta, MD, a...
View ArticleStudy Suggests Targeting Invasive Cells Not Dividing Cells to Halt Cancer
Most cancer drugs are designed to target dividing cells, but a new study by Stony Brook University researchers suggests that targeting invasive cells may be a new strategy to treat metastatic cancer.
View ArticleStudy Finds Transgender Children Are Clear About Their Identity
A visible and growing number of transgender children in North America live in alignment with their gender identity rather than their natal sex, yet scientific research has largely ignored them. No...
View ArticleCaribbean Bats Need 8 Million Years to Recover from Recent Extinction Waves
Islands are natural laboratories of evolution and home to unique species of animals and plants. But since the arrival of humans, islands have lost many species. In the Caribbean alone, more than half...
View ArticleProfessor Long Lu Earns NSF CAREER Award to Develop Solutions in Mobile Security
Long Lu, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for his...
View ArticleScientists Map Key Moment in Assembly of DNA-Splitting Molecular Machine
The proteins that drive DNA replication--the force behind cellular growth and reproduction--are some of the most complex machines on Earth. The multistep replication process involves hundreds of...
View ArticleStony Brook Scientists Disprove Theory That Reconstructed Boron Surface is...
Scientific inquiry is a hit and miss proposition, subject to constant checking and rechecking. Recently, a new class of materials was discovered called topological insulators--nonmetallic materials...
View ArticleMapping of Silver Matrix Formation in Batteries Will Enhance Efficiency
Scientists at Stony Brook University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory are using pioneering x-ray techniques to map internal atomic transformations of the highly...
View ArticleNovel Microscopy Helps Stony Brook Researchers Examine the Ocean Like Never...
There are about one million bacteria, thousands of species and untold genetic diversity in just one drop of seawater. This amazing fact and the powerful roles played by marine microbes in shaping the...
View ArticleStudy Shows K17 Protein Promotes Cancer
Keratin 17 (K17), a protein previously believed to provide only mechanical support for cancer cells, appears to play a crucial role in degrading a key tumor suppressor protein in cancer cells named...
View ArticleStony Brook-led Team to Evaluate Racial Differences in GI Cancer Biology
Americans of African descent are at a significantly higher risk for developing and dying from Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, which include colorectal and pancreatic cancers, compared to individuals who...
View ArticleAlzheimer's Diagnosis Complicated by History of Reading Problems
Correctly diagnosing Alzheimer's disease remains a challenge for medical professionals. Now, a new study published in the current issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease reveals a new clue to...
View ArticleResearchers Discover How Brain Recognizes Danger
Our existence depends on a bit of evolutionary genius aptly nicknamed "fight or flight." But where in our brain does the alarm first go off, and what other parts of the brain are mobilized to express...
View ArticleStony Brook Researchers Discover Ice-like Phonons in Liquid Water
For more than 100 years, scientists have debated what the underlying molecular structure of water is, and the common view has been that H2O molecules are either "water-like" or "ice-like." Now through...
View ArticleUsing Microscopy and Genetic Analysis to Better Understand Metastasis
Benjamin Martin, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, has received the Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research for his work with...
View ArticleReal Time, Portable DNA Sequencing Fights Drug-Resistant TB
Scientists in Madagascar have for the first time performed DNA sequencing in-country using novel, portable technology to rapidly identify the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis (TB) and its drug...
View ArticleTakeuchi Receives European Inventor Award 2018 in the Non-EPO Countries Category
Esther Sans Takeuchi, PhD, has won the 2018 European Inventor Award in the "Non-EPO countries", the European Patent Office (EPO) announced today. The award was given to her by the EPO at a ceremony...
View ArticleCenter for Biotechnology Named a National Accelerator for Health Security...
Stony Brook University 's Center for Biotechnology (CFB) has been selected as one of eight U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) BARDA-DRIVe accelerators. Each of these accelerators is...
View ArticleFossils Reveal Ancient Primates Had Claws, and Nails Too
Humans and other primates are outliers among mammals for having nails instead of claws. But how, when and why we transitioned from claws to nails has been an evolutionary head-scratcher. Now, new...
View ArticleAdding an Inert Polymer to Plastic Solar Cells Enables High Efficiency and...
Polymer plastic solar cells remain an industry priority because of their light weight, flexibility and cost-effectiveness. Now scientists from Stony Brook University and the U.S. Department of Energy's...
View ArticleScientists Explore New Experimental Model Systems to Advance Biology
Tremendous advancement of basic biological knowledge has come from genetically manipulating model organisms to test mechanistic hypotheses. But the selection of traditional model organisms available...
View ArticleStudy Shows Threatened Sharks Still Common in Fin Trade
Genetic analysis of 9,200 shark fin by-products in Hong Kong reveals that several threatened shark species are still common in the fin trade after being listed on the Convention on International Trade...
View ArticleScientists Develop Novel Approach to Spontaneous Emission Using Atomic Matter...
A research team led by Dominik Schneble, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University, has developed a novel method...
View ArticleFirst In-Human Clinical Trial Targeting CD4 Protein for Aggressive T-cell...
Stony Brook University, iCell Gene Therapeutics, and the University of Louisville, have received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for an Investigational New Drug (IND) for the treatment of...
View ArticleStudy of Ancient Forefoot Joints Reveals Bipedalism in Hominins Emerged Early
The feet of primates function as grasping organs. But the adoption of bipedal locomotion - which reduces the ability to grasp - was a critical step in human evolution. In the first comprehensive study...
View ArticleRemoving the Most Common p53 Mutation in Colorectal Cancer Halts Disease...
By genetically manipulating and removing the most common mutant form of the p53 gene that promotes colorectal cancer in humans, an international team of scientists demonstrated that this therapy...
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