Rice study: Men vastly outnumber women in studying legislative politics
It’s no secret that men outnumber women in the halls of Congress and in other political arenas, but new research ...
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Rice University chemist wins $3.2 million National Cancer Institute grant
HOUSTON – (July 17, 2023) – Rice University chemist Han Xiao has won a $3.2 million research project (R01) grant from ...
Rice U. physicist to lead world’s longest-running nuclear collider experiment
HOUSTON – (July 7, 2023) – Rice University physicist Frank Geurts is one of two scientists elected to lead the world’s ...
Rice U.’s Songtao Chen wins NSF CAREER Award
HOUSTON – (July 6, 2023) – Songtao Chen, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University, has ...
Relationship between groundwater cadmium and vicinity resident urine cadmium levels in Hunan Province——a region that is both the heartland of Chinese non-ferrous mining and the home of fish and rice
Cadmium (Cd) has received widespread attention owing to its persistent toxicity and nondegradability. Cd in the human body is mainly ...
Rice University chemist leverages heterogeneity for insight into catalysis, cancer initiation
HOUSTON – (June 16, 2023) – Rice University chemist Anatoly Kolomeisky has won an award from the National Science Foundation to investigate ...
Genome editing used to create disease resistant rice
Researchers from the University of California, Davis, and an international team of scientists used the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas to create ...
Rice University chemist named to C&EN’s 2023 Talented 12
HOUSTON – (May 19, 2023) – Rice University chemist Raúl Hernández Sánchez is one of 12 early-career scientists named to C&EN’s ...
Rice, Baylor developing ‘glyco-immune’ checkpoint inhibitor
HOUSTON – (May 19, 2023) – Researchers from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine are hoping a first-of-its-kind “glyco-immune” ...
Scientists make advance in breeding high resistant starch rice
Scientists have shown that the loss of function of two paralogous starch biosynthetic genes contributes to an increase in resistant ...
Rice University students design congenital hypothyroidism test for newborns
HOUSTON – (May 8, 2023) – For newborns with congenital hypothyroidism, early diagnosis spells the difference between a normal, healthy ...
Rice U. bioengineering Ph.D. named Schmidt Science Fellow
HOUSTON – (May 3, 2023) – Rice University doctoral alum Joshua Chen has won a prestigious Schmidt Science Fellowship that will support ...
New findings indicate gene-edited rice might survive in Martian soil
Andy Weir’s bestselling 2011 book, The Martian, features botanist Mark Watney’s efforts to grow food on Mars after he becomes stranded there. ...
New tool for genetics and cultivating high-quality rice
Genetic markers such as fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP), simple sequence repeat (SSR), and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) provide unique identifiers for ...
Rice U. students engineer socks for on-the-go neuropathy treatment
HOUSTON – (April 13, 2023) – Need a little spring — or buzz — in your step? A wearable electrical-stimulation ...
Rice U. engineering students’ brace puts patients first
HOUSTON – (April 13, 2023) – Body image can have a significant impact on a person’s life, especially in their ...
Rice U. engineering students aim to shed better light on surgeries
HOUSTON – (April 10, 2023) – Improving lighting in the operating room could cut the duration of some surgeries by ...
Rice U.’s Todd Treangen wins NSF CAREER Award
HOUSTON – (March 30, 2023) – Surrounding us is a vast and largely unknown world of “microbial dark matter.” Credit: ...
Rice labs seek RNA programming for ‘smart’ antibiotics
HOUSTON – (March 13, 2023) – Synthetic biologists at Rice University are embarking on a three-year project to create “genetically ...
High CO2 concentration in the atmosphere impoverishes rice farmland
The high concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is a double-edged sword, because it has an impact on ...