ASU names 3 faculty as 2022 President's Professors

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ASU names 3 faculty as 2022 President's Professors

Arizona State University names 3 faculty from across the university as 2022 President's Professors.

Treatment for autism symptoms earns ASU researchers patent

A new treatment for autism, created by Arizona State University researchers and their colleagues, has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent Office. The therapy, called Microbiota Transplant Therapy

Chao Wang

Simple, inexpensive, fast and accurate nano-sensors pinpoint infectious diseases

In recent years, deadly infectious diseases, including Ebola and COVID-19, have emerged to cause widespread human devastation. Although researchers have developed a range of sophisticated methods to detect such infections,

Digitizing number 2: Stool samples reveal enzyme driving bowel disease

Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute joins an international team led by the University of California San Diego School of Medicine to help unlock the causes of ulcerative colitis. Researchers have

New meta-analysis explores potential environmental causes of ALS disease

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neuromuscular disease, believed to affect as many as 30,000 Americans. A hundred and fifty years after its discovery, the disease remains mysterious and

Michael Lynch

Biodesign researcher Michael Lynch wins coveted lifetime achievement award in genetics

Michael Lynch, director of the Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution at Arizona State University, is the winner of the 2022 Genetics Society of America (GSA) Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal for his far-reaching and

Arizona State University Biodesign Institute receives three new grants totaling $5.2 million to advance the fight against Parkinson’s disease

The Michael J. Fox Foundation has awarded three new grants totaling $5.2 million to Arizona State University (ASU) to explore three pioneering treatments for Parkinson’s disease (PD). The awards will fund research

ASU’s Biodesign Institute and Banner Health open summer opportunities for neuroscience scholars

If understanding the inner workings of the brain is on your mind, now is the time to explore the Banner-ASU Neuroscience Scholars program. Top-achieving college undergraduate and graduate science students

A biological paradox offers new insights into the mystery of cancer

The cells in the body can be thought of as tiny archery targets, each vulnerable to the deadly arrow of cancer.  The more cells a given animal has and the

Microorganism sheds new light on cancer resistance

 A simple, marine-dwelling creature known as Trichoplax adhaerens has some remarkable properties. The organism can tolerate unusually high doses of radiation that would kill most other forms of life. T.

Computing scenarios for defusing polarized politics

Opposites may attract when it comes to personal relationships. In political affairs today, however, that claim is becoming more difficult to assert. New research shows that common ground is shrinking in politics, and people on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum are more entrenched in their divergent positions than at any time in recent history. Those conclusions are derived not only from results of traditional opinion polls — in this era of big data and

A vision for the future of spaceflight microbiology research for human health and habitat sustainability

Microorganisms are essential to maintain our health, environment, and the sustainability of buildings in which we live and work, both on Earth and during space exploration. Given that there are