Rensselaer researcher receives $2.1 million grant to develop treatment for anthrax
TROY, N.Y.--Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researcher Ravi Kane has been awarded $2.1 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to develop an antidote to counteract the potentially deadly anthrax toxin in humans who have been exposed to the bacteria's spores. ......"The goal is to develop a compound that can be manufactured quickly and affordably to effectively eliminate the threa...Rensselaer to open new Terahertz Research Center
TROY, N.Y. -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will mark the expansion of its terahertz research facilities with a gathering of pioneers and other experts in the field, for a discussion of the history and promise of this emerging technology. ... ...The terahertz (THz) frequency range -- or "T-rays" -- presents the next frontier in imaging science and technology. Researchers at Rensselaer have...Rensselaer awarded NY state funding for alcohol/substance abuse education
TROY, N.Y. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has received $10,000 from The New York State Department of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) toward the universitys continuing efforts to prevent alcohol abuse on campus and in the surrounding community. The OASAS award is part of the states Healthy Campus Community Demonstration Project. Funds are provided through the Federal Enforcing t...New system created by Rensselaer group speeds the mapping of blood vessel networks in live tumors
TROY, N.Y.- Rensselaer researchers have developed an automated system, called ...RPI-Trace3D, that can swiftly map capillaries in a live tumor. What used to take days of manually tracing the vessels, now takes two minutes. The diagnostic tool, in use at Harvard Medical School and at Northeastern University, is a boon to oncologists who aim to understand how blood vessels form in tumors. ......Fo...Rensselaer research team sheds light on a good night's sleep for those with Alzheimer's
TROY, N.Y.--The results of a recent pilot study has found that Alzheimer's patients sleep better through the night if they are exposed to blue LED lighting a few hours before bedtime. The study was conducted by a research team led by Mariana Figueiro at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. ......Light regulates the 24-hour sleep-wake cycle in healthy humans. Typ...Rensselaer researchers seeing farther and faster with terahertz (Thz) imaging
Xi-Cheng Zhang, the J. Erik Jonsson '22 Distinguished Professor of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a team of researchers are the first to image biological tissue using single pulses of terahertz (THz or T-ray) radiation. This single-pulse approach will improve diagnostic time from hours or days, down to minutes or seconds. The technique could one day lead to computerized medical...