ResearchPod

Taking an atomic view of health is means understanding the tiniest scales and interactions of why molecules act one way or the other within a cell.

Professor David Punihaole at the University of Vermont leads a research team working with materials and medicines at that molecular scale, combining cutting edge spectroscopic techniques and microscopic views to investigate the fundamental chemistry behind health.

Read the original article: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c04415

Weight lifting and heavy resistance exercise  are good for are good for your general health and muscle function. But what effect do they have on life after cancer?  And how does it do anything at all?

 Dr Jessica Gorzelitz leads a team at the University of Iowa that aims to uncover muscle strengthening epidemiology, and what can be done to improve cancer patients strength throughout the balance of their life.

Read the original article: https://doi.org/10.1093/jncimonographs/lgad002

Crowdfunding is a method for raising funds to support for-profit, social, and cultural initiatives.
 
Sukanya Ayatakshi-Endow specialises in Environmental Economics at Bournemouth University, UK and explores gender and the unconscious bias disadvantages women experience in obtaining access to finance on equity crowdfunding platforms.

Read the original research: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14395-3_5

Autoimmune and allergic conditions are caused by dysfunctional immune responses that lead to excessive inflammation within the body.

Such conditions include rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis and eosinophilic esophagitis. Dr Roly Foulkes, Chief Scientific Officer at Revolo Biotherapeutics in the UK, is working to understand.

Read more in Research Features: doi.org/10.26904/RF-148-4836987920

Read the original research: doi.org/10.1111/jcmm.17669

Hearing loss is a disability that affects over one billion people worldwide, severely impacting wellbeing and quality of life by affecting an individual’s ability to communicate and socialise with others. 

Professor Brandon Cox and colleagues at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, USA, have concentrated their efforts into understanding the process, mechanisms, and genes involved in hair cell regeneration in mice.

Read more in Research Outreach

Read the original research: doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2022.841864

How  does a company's mission and values affect applicants’ willingness to negotiate salary or make compensation demands?   

Marko Pitesa at Singapore Management University is part of a research team that investigated language and framing around "social impact" in jobs. They find that the intrinsic fulfilment or moral satisfaction of a job as being “For The Greater Good” can hold back salary expectations.

Read the original article:  https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2023.1675 

Trust is the cornerstone to a healthy relationship,  to be earned and appreciated, not demanded without evidence. However, trust, expectation, and authority is ever-shifting in society, and for Science too. So, how can trust in science communication be saved? And does it need saving anyway?

Prof Nicholas Dirks of the New York Academy of Sciences talks to us today about science and scientists in modern society, and the Academys International Science Reserve, aiming to get ahead of future crises.

Read more at NYAS.org

Establishing interdisciplinary research networks that bring researchers and innovators together is of utmost importance to all facets of academia. 

The European Cooperation in Science and Technology Association (COST) does just that. We hear from its Action Chair, María Pilar de Lara-Castells on the COST Action ‘COSY’ which aims to provide computational and experimental building blocks for a fundamental understanding and control of COnfined molecular Systems.

Find out more: COST Action CA21101

 
Explore the growing COSY Action collection: doi.org/10.1039/D3CP90063K

Regulating ones own fertility and pregnancy has long been an essential part of women’s health and wellbeing.

However, even with  multiple forms of birth control now available, there is not global, equal, independent access to them.

Dr Tracy Morison of Massey University in New Zealand researches attitudes, accessibility and issues of justice around Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives in New Zealand, and the place of reproductive health for women around the globe.

Read the original article:  https://doi.org/10.1080/03630242.2021.1927284

In high-speed communications, very fast optical signals connect to your office or even your home. But these optical signals have not yet reached end-of-edge terminals such as personal computers and smart phones.

Dr Hideaki Fukuzawa and Mr Takashi Kikukawa (TDK Corporation, Japan) show that it’s possible to make these optical modulators with standard semiconductor industry processing, significantly lowering costs and creating more compact devices.

Read the Research Features article: https://doi.org/10.26904/RF-148-4833963484

Read the original research: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10118728