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UMD-led Team Deciphers Comprehensive Black-legged Tick Genome
A University of Maryland-led team of scientists has deciphered the first comprehensive, continuous genome for a parasite responsible for transmitting Lyme disease and other serious infections to hundreds of thousands of Americans yearly. With their newly described genome for the black-legged tick, or deer tick, the researchers identified thousands of novel genes and new protein functions, including proteins associated with tick immunity, disease transmission and developmental stages.
ARLIS Research Engineer Honored by NIST with Tech Transfer Award
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded Brian Weiss, an associate research engineer at the University of Maryland Applied Research Laboratory Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), its inaugural Excellence in Technology Transfer Award on January 18, 2023 for his
Energy Consortium Promotes Science and Innovation
Science, discovery and innovation were most definitely the themes at the first Israel-based meeting of the U.S.-Israel Energy Center's battery storage consortium at Bar-Ilan University's Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials this week.
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$2.3M in State Grants Awarded to UMD-Affiliated Innovation Projects
Groundbreaking Plasma Innovation Shines as Top Invention of the Year
