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Jan 27, 2022Medical Xpress

Researchers identify osteoarthritis ‘pain pathway’

Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered that a particular molecular signaling pathway plays an important role in producing osteoarthritis (OA) pain. Using a mouse model of painful osteoarthritis, they show that blocking this signaling pathway eliminates pain and results in a return to normal limb use. This work is the first tofind…

Jan 26, 2022Daily Mail

Origami meets robotics! Incredible paper folding-inspired grippers are delicate enough to hold an egg yolk and precise enough to lift a human hair

Scientists have created incredible robotic grippers inspired by the Japanese art of Kirigami that are delicate enough to lift a raw egg yolk without breaking it. Kirigami is a Japanese art similar to origami, except it makes use of intricate cuts to paper, rather than relying on folding alone, to create striking 3D art.The…

Jan 26, 2022The News & Observer

RTP’s Locus Biosciences grows as it tackles issue of drug-resistant bacteria

Locus Biosciences is expecting more growth in 2022, as the gene-editing company strives to provide alternatives to the pressing issue of drug-resistant bacteria. Locus, founded in 2015 by N.C. State University professors, is based in Research Triangle Park. It uses CRISPR gene-editing technology to create what are called bacteriophagetherapies.

Jan 26, 2022WRAL

Pfizer to create omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine

Pfizer and BioNTech are researching an omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine after studies show that the latest coronavirus variant is able to evade vaccines quite well. Jennifer Pancorbo, a vaccine manufacturing expert with North Carolina State University, lays out how quickly we could modify COVID-19vaccines.

Jan 26, 2022Futurity

How Quickly Can Covid Vaccine Updates Tackle New Variants

How quickly can we modify COVID-19 vaccines to tackle any new variants that arise? Jennifer Pancorbo has some answers. The ongoing battles with COVID variants Delta and Omicron highlight just how quickly viruses can mutate, and what that can mean for public health. Pancorbo is a vaccine manufacturing expert and director of industry programs和…

Jan 25, 2022Phys.Org

Study demonstrates accuracy of less invasive technique for monitoring wildlife health

A recent study from North Carolina State University finds a technique that uses dried spots of blood to measure health indicators in elephants is comparable to techniques that use larger blood samples and require immediate cold storage—technology that is not always available when monitoring animals in the wild. “Our study focused on omega-3 andomega-6…

Jan 25, 2022Triangle Business Journal

Triangle universities earn high marks in national ranking of online degrees

Two North Carolina universities tied at No. 10 in the ranking for best online bachelor’s programs: North Carolina State University and UNC Charlotte. The two universities shared that spot with the CUNY School of Professional Studies in New纽约。

Jan 25, 2022WNCN

What challenges are there for predicting dominant COVID variants like seasonal flu strains?

“How soon those variants come and how quickly we can adapt, that’s the part that is a little more difficult to answer,” said Jennifer Pancorbo, director of industry programs and research at North Carolina State University’s Biomanufacturing Training and EducationCenter.

Jan 25, 2022WRAL Tech Wire

Fighting next wave of COVID: How fast can vaccine manufacturers adapt? It’s complicated.

Our ongoing battles with COVID variants Delta and Omicron highlight just how quickly viruses can mutate, and what that can mean for public health. How quickly can we modify COVID-19 vaccines to tackle any new variants that arise? We also had questions about rapid tests for detecting COVID-19, and why it is becoming sodifficult…

Jan 24, 2022WCNC

Study shows what people look for before ‘liking’ a photo on Instagram

New research shows it may be less about what’s in the picture and more about who posted it. A marketing professor at North Carolina State University says a brand’s strength and its number of followers are the biggest factors to参与。

Jan 24, 2022Science Alert

Beetle Larvae on US University Campus Found to Jump in a Completely Unknown Way

“这些幼虫跳令人印象深刻at first, but we didn’t immediately understand how unique it was,” says entomologist Matt Bertone from North Carolina State University’s Plant Disease and Insect Clinic, the first author of a new paper on thediscovery.

Jan 24, 2022Yahoo! News

Climate change will likely worsen West Coast blackouts and cause energy price spikes, studies find

“The impacts of climate change and extreme weather events on the grid, mostly in the form of drought and heat waves, are going to get worse under climate change,” co-author Jordan Kern, assistant professor of forestry and environment resources at North Carolina State University, said in a statement about the reports. Kern’s co-authors included教授……

Jan 24, 2022The Jefferson Exchange

Mon 8:30 | How global warming could further mess up electric power on the West Coast

Professor Jordan Kern and his group at North Carolina State University go into further depth on how climate change could wreak havoc on energy systems, in recently publishedresearch.

Jan 21, 2022Fast Company

Want more Instagram likes? Marketing scholars have discovered a formula for the perfect image

But a group of researchers at North Carolina State University wondered what would happen if they ignored follower-count sizes and clever captions and just examined the images by themselves: Could users attract more likes by choosing to upload certain types ofpictures?

Jan 21, 2022Futurity

These Qualities Attract ‘Likes’ on Instagram

“We found that all six measures are important, but there were particular patterns in which images generated the most positive feedback,” says William Rand, coauthor of a paper on the work and an associate professor of marketing at North Carolina StateUniversity.