Long before a patient steps inside a doctor’s office or a surgeon’s operating room, scientists at Iowa State have developed innovative methods and materials that produce more accurate data collection, sharper MRI scans, and more.
The research, supported by a National Science Foundation grant, could lead to breeding and engineering crop varieties that better meet the nutritional needs of humans and are more resistant to stress.
Sophisticated supercomputer simulations by ISU physicists show the quasi-stable existence of a tetraneutron, a structure comprised of four neutrons (subatomic particles with no charge) and once thought unlikely to exist.
Assistant professor Tessa Ditonto’s research uncovers some surprises about gender and candidate competence.
“Promising” and “remarkable” are two words Ames Laboratory scientist and chemistry professor Javier Vela uses to describe recent research results on organolead mixed-halide perovskites.
Cotton serves as a model to understand how plants evolve and diversify for Jonathan Wendel, a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at Iowa State University.
Learning how corn adapted to grow beyond the environment of its origins in Mexico could yield clues to help plant breeders produce better performing crops.
The biological world has unparalleled abilities to control structures, functions, reactions and energy transfer with great efficiency and accuracy. Yan Zhao, professor of chemistry and a member of Iowa State’s Center for Catalysis, uses biomimetic chemistry to “abstract good design from nature,” which could one day be used to fight bacterial infections.