Office of Research and Innovation

📢 In case you missed these stories highlighting research and creative activity at the university, R&I has compiled a roundup of recent top stories from research.unl.edu and other sources.
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02.06.2025 14:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Janos Zempleni, Willa Cather Professor of molecular nutrition, leads one of 14 teams receiving a Phase 2 prize in the National Institutes of Health’s Targeted Genome Editor Delivery (TARGETED) Challenge. It is a three-phase competition with prizes totaling $6 million.

🎉 A @UNLincoln research team has achieved a key milestone in a national competition to advance targeted genome editing. Their work could help lead to new treatments for both common and rare diseases. Read about their accomplishment here ➡️ go.unl.edu/a4rf

16.05.2025 14:48 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Annual flu shots could become a thing of the past under a new vaccine strategy developed and tested by @UNLincoln virologist Eric Weaver and his laboratory team.
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12.05.2025 15:11 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Impoverished Indian women sold into sex trafficking as children want better for their own daughters, but it’s often hard for them to see other paths forward, said a University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor who’s extensively studied the issue.
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01.05.2025 15:53 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Research development professionals at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are part of a multi-institutional team honored with a national award for its work helping faculty successfully compete for scientific research funds.

30.04.2025 19:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yang previews chemical recycling innovation for textiles t is becoming harder and harder to ignore the environmental costs of textiles, and demand is still growing by leaps and bounds each year. Textile recycling has vexed researchers and the industry, but...

Husker researcher Yiqi Yang has developed a first-of-its-kind technology for fiber-to-fiber, or chemical, recycling that successfully removes dyes, separates natural and synthetic blends, and creates high-quality fibers.
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24.04.2025 20:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A rare discovery in the laboratory shows UNMC grad's dedication The trained eye of a Nebraska Medicine laboratory scientist and UNMC graduate put the care team on the right path to diagnosis.

UNMC alum and Nebraska Medicine lab scientist Zankhana Amin made a rare discovery that helped solve the mystery behind one patient’s intense pain.

Read more on how she put the care team on the right path to diagnosis:
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24.04.2025 18:18 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0