Researchers find new way to ‘Starve’ Prostate Cancer Tumors at the Cellular Level

Kirk Staschke and Noah Sommers at the microscope
Kirk Staschke and Noah Sommers, a PhD student at the IU School of Medicine, at the microscope. | Photo courtesy of Kirk Staschke

New research by a team of Indiana University School of Medicine scientists and their collaborators has uncovered a novel vulnerability in prostate cancer animal models that starves prostate tumors of critical nutrients and stunts their growth, which could lead to the development of new treatments for the deadly disease.

Led by IU School of Medicine’s Kirk Staschke, Ph.D., assistant research professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, and Ronald C. Wek, Ph.D., Showalter Professor of Biochemistry, the study was recently published in Science Signaling.

Prostate cancer is a leading cause of cancer deaths in American men...

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Charge your Phone in your Pocket with New Wireless Technology

Revolutionary technology allows for wireless charging of mobile devices anytime, anywhere
PTE measurement results at the ERWPT resonance frequency in the midrange (2m): Almost the same PTE in the lateral plane (xy-plane), demonstrating arrangement free characteristics, while the PTE and resonance frequency vary depending on the z-direction position. Credit: Advanced Science (2024). DOI: 10.1002/advs.202407827

A groundbreaking advancement in technology is paving the way for mobile phones and other electronic devices to recharge simply by being kept in a pocket. This innovative system enables wireless charging throughout three-dimensional (3D) spaces, encompassing walls, floors, and air.

On December 12, Professor Franklin Bien and his research team in the Department of Electrical Engineering at UNIST announced the creation of a revolutionary electric resonance-based wire...

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HD65907: The Mysterious Case of the Resurrected Star

The star HD 65907 is not what it appears to be. It’s a star that looks young, but on closer inspection, it is actually much, much older. What’s going on? Research suggests that it is a resurrected star.

Astronomers employ different methods to measure a star’s age. One is based on its brightness and temperature. All stars follow a particular path in life, known as the main sequence. The moment they begin fusing hydrogen in their cores, they maintain a strict relationship between their brightness and temperature. By measuring these two properties, astronomers can roughly pin down the age of a star.

But there are other techniques, like measuring the amount of heavy elements in a stellar atmosphere...

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LLMs are becoming more Brain-like as they advance, researchers discover

LLM representations mirror human brain responses more closely as LLMs become more advanced
The methodology for predicting brain responses to speech from LLM embeddings, to assess the similarity of various LLMs to the brain. Credit: Gavin Mischler (Figure adapted from Mischler et al., Nature Machine Intelligence, 2024).

Large language models (LLMs), the most renowned of which is ChatGPT, have become increasingly better at processing and generating human language over the past few years. The extent to which these models emulate the neural processes supporting language processing by the human brain, however, has yet to be fully elucidated.

Researchers at Columbia University and Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research Northwell Health recently carried out a study investigating the similarities between LLM representations on neural responses...

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