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A Michigan State University researcher’s new model for studying breast cancer could help scientists better understand why and where cancer metastasizes.

Dr. Karl Healey, Director of the Computational Basis of Cognitive Control (CBCC) lab in Michigan State University’s Department of Psychology is researching human episodic memory and how people form memories of the different events or episodes that happen to them.

MSU conservation biologist Alexa Warwick and a multi-institution team of researchers are collaborating with the pet industry and other stakeholders to identify strategies to mitigate the risk of spillover of pathogens to wild populations.

To some, it’s “dark matter.” For others, terra incognita: unexplored land. These are just some of the phrases biochemists use when describing the metabolome, the set of all small molecules, or metabolites, in a biological sample.

In a recent paper in Nature Physics, an international research collaboration used world-class instrumentation at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams to study the exotic nuclide, or rare isotope, chromium-62.

As part of a multisite study, Clinical Science Professor Brooke Ingersoll and a team of researchers representing three other states are examining the effectiveness of training early intervention providers in a method called “reciprocal imitation teaching,” or RIT.

Research at Michigan State University and Princeton University developed a highly stable electrocatalyst for fuel cells that are used in sustainable energy applications, such as electric vehicles.

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