The Science & Technology desk gathers a weekly digest of impactful and interesting research publications and developments at Stanford. Read the latest in this week’s Research Roundup. Exploring African catfish as a sustainable solution to preventing disease spread Giulio De Leo, Stanford professor of oceans and earth systems and senior fellow at the Woods Institute … Read more
“Olaris has developed a powerful platform for discovering actionable metabolomic biomarkers,” said Dr. Falko Busse, the President of the Bruker BioSpin Group. “We are excited to support their vision and collaborate on driving new applications of metabolomics in precision health.” Post this “We are thrilled to have Bruker as a strategic investor and partner,” said … Read more
Moore designed his pinball machine to complete the analogy to the Turing machine. The starting position of the pinball represents the data on the tape being fed into the Turing machine. Crucially (and unrealistically), the player must be able to adjust the ball’s starting location with infinite precision, meaning that specifying the ball’s location requires … Read more
But how do these microbial communities work? And can we harness their power to make agriculture more sustainable? These questions have driven Professor Julia Vorholt’s groundbreaking research work, which has now earned her the 2025 Novonesis Biotechnology Prize, awarded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. “Receiving this prize is a tremendous honour,” says Vorholt, who is … Read more
Researchers have developed an artificially intelligent system that does the exact opposite of living in the moment. But it doesn’t just think a few steps ahead—it thinks millions of steps ahead. A team led by mathematician Sergei Gukov from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created a new type of machine-learning algorithm designed to … Read more
Successful completion of a phase I clinical study for improving local control in patients with advanced colorectal cancer undergoing surgery ROCKY HILL, Conn., Jan. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Lumeda Inc. (“Lumeda”), a biophotonics systems company formed to advance photodynamic therapy (PDT) for treating cancer, today announced the completion of a phase 1 clinical by Roswell … Read more