Month: May 2025
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A new addition to the CVN lab!
Although I’m a little late to announce it, please welcome the latest additions to the CVN lab, Dr. Ananth Srinivas and his faithful companion Dr. Thea! Dr. Srinivas joined the lab in January of 2025 as a postdoctoral researcher, with the goal to focus on the biomechanics of headbutting bovids (and woodpeckers, if I can…
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3D print your skin
The world’s first clinical trial is underway using 3-D printed skin at the Concord Hospital in Sidney Australia! This skin grafting technique was first developed in 2023, it uses the patient’s own skin stem cells to create a liquid that it is then able to spray onto a wound. How did they do it? The…
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Tattooing tardigrades!
If tardigrades have no fans I’m dead. Tardigrades are cute chubby looking little invertebrates with eight legs that are about half a milimeter long. They can survive high pressure, freezing, starvation, radiation, and more, which is why they have been sent to space more times than Katy Perry! Last month, researchers from Westlake University in…
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US science updates – May 2025
This is text from a previous episode of the Daily Tech News Show detailing monthly changes affecting federal funding for science in the United States for May 2025. Monthly update – US Science You may be asking yourself: DTNS is a tech show, why do I come on every month and talk about federal science…
Nicole Ackermans, CVN lab 