16 September 2024
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Introducing the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes
The Ig Nobel Prizes find the fun in science, awarding those research endeavors that comically contribute to our understanding of the world in areas such as botany, medicine, biology and chemistry. From discovering that mammals are capable of breathing through their anus to the way peoples’ hair swirls depending on which hemisphere they’re from, this year’s winning research certainly doesn’t disappoint.
Make your paper airplane, grab a comfortable seat and get ready to laugh, and then think, while we introduce the 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize winners.
Parasites of the deep: bacterial invasion of mussels’ nuclei
A bacterial parasite can infiltrate the nuclei of deep-sea mussels, take control of the cell and reproduce to over 80,000 cells, all while the host is alive. Now, we know how.
Getting to the heart of coronary arterialization
Researchers have uncovered new details about the mechanism by which new arteries form in the heart, potentially informing development of novel therapeutic interventions for cardiac ischemia.
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In this edition, multiple partnerships bring together novel therapeutic platforms to tackle obesity, PCR-based diagnostics take center stage, an environmentally friendly pesticide secures an agri-biotech company its Series A funding and we introduce the world’s first AI lab assistant…
Metastasis-associated macrophages identified
Several subsets of macrophage have been found to closely associate with metastasis-initiating cells in the tumor microenvironment.
Interviews
How do neurons age?
Alessio Vagnoni is a research group leader and lecturer in cellular neuroscience at King’s College London. He is also a principal investigator at the Multidisciplinary Institute of Ageing at the University of Coimbra. His group studies intracellular dynamics in neurons and has started investigating this process in aging animals and animal models of neurodegeneration.
In this interview, we talk to Vagnoni about his research, including a recently published article that found that different areas of neurons age differently, which could have implications for cell function and the development of neurodegenerative diseases.
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