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  This October, Dr. Yoko Nakamae, a large animal surgery resident at the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), will travel to Seattle, Washington , to present her research at the American College of Veterinary Surgeons (ACVS) Surgery Summit, the premier surgical conference for veterinary professionals worldwide. Dr. Nakamae is one of five surgery residents selected to receive the ACVS Resident Education Travel Grant, allowing her to share findings from her master’s research project, “Comparison of Alcohol-and Chlorhexidine-Based Antisepsis for Surgical Site Preparation in Equine Arthroscopy.” While the project may have Dr. Nakamae’s name on it, she emphasizes that it was a collaborative effort with strong support from her mentors and colleagues. “I’m the one who is presenting the research, but so many people helped me,” she says, crediting Dr. Aimie Doyle, Dr. Yvonne Elce, as well as Matt Saab and Dr. J. McClure, for their guidance and ...

It may not seem that ice does much except make roads slick during winter, cool down frost-rimmed drinks in the summer, and rise majestically from the ocean in the form of distant glaciers most of us will probably never see up close. It’s certainly important, but it doesn’t seem particularly exciting. But ice, as it turns out, hides a superpower. According to a team of researchers, it turns out that ice is what’s called flexoelectric , which means that it generates electricity in response to the physical stress of bending (and similar types of deformation, such as twisting). This is different from piezoelectric materials, which accumulate an electric charge when subjected to pressure (quartz is piezoelectric). Obviously, an ice cube is not going to bend, but as a team of researchers found, electric properties can be activated by bending a much thinner sheet of ice. The team—led by physicist Xin Wen from Xi’an Jiaotong University in Xi’an, China—also tried the experiment with salty ic...

  America is awesome at science. For as long as most of us have been alive, United States scientists have published more research, been cited more often by other scientists, earned more patents, and even won more Nobel Prizes than any other nation. All that scientific expertise has helped make the U.S. the most prosperous nation on Earth and led to longer and easier lives here and around the world. But until World War II, the U.S. often sat on the sidelines of scientific progress. With national security on the line, the federal government, through policy and strategic investments, set about turning America into the world leader in science. Now, amid federal attacks on university research and the government agencies that fund it , America is on the verge of relinquishing its scientific dominance for the first time in eight decades. To learn more about how we got here, and what could happen next, we called up two experts who’ve dedicated their careers to understanding how America b...

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  Due to their repetitive and complex DNA sequences, centromeres have been viewed as the "black boxes" of the genome for decades. Often overlooked in sequencing projects but playing a critical role in cell division, centromeres are a significant aspect of the genome that scientists are only just starting to understand. “While the rest of the genome shuffles between the maternal and paternal origins, centromeres are inherited intact: one from the maternal and one from the paternal origin for each chromosome, carrying [ancestral] information,” said Simona Giunt a, a human genomics researcher at the Sapienza University of Rome. In a new study, Giunta and her team released the near-complete genome sequence—for the first time including both parental centromeres—of a human diploid cell line commonly used in laboratories around the world.1 The study establishes a foundation for generating high-quality reference genomes across all widely used cell lines, ensuring that functional gen...