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Vastra Inc., a Purdue University-affiliated student startup is developing “TriSense,” a next-generation driver safety system that can monitor health.

Lawmakers across the United States continue to debate the safety of kratom, an opioid-containing plant that has been listed as a “drug of concern” by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A Purdue University-led team recently published a paper examining the effects of kratom and the potential impacts on people with alcohol use disorder.

It’s challenging to design an implant that would work for every type of drug. Purdue University researchers developed a new method that uses an MRI to noninvasively see how an implant design affects the amount of a drug released into the body.

“The reductions in learning are pretty concerning,” says Sebastian Shepherd, Purdue researcher and the entomologist who worked on the study while at the University of Southampton in England.

Researchers at Purdue University have come up with a way to combine the anthrax toxin with a growth factor to kill bladder cancer cells and tumors.

A new type of material for next-generation solar cells eliminates the need to use lead, which has been a major roadblock for this technology.

Tiffany Lyle, assistant professor of veterinary anatomic pathology at Purdue University, led research that has provided the first comprehensive characterization of both the blood-brain and blood-tumor barriers in brain metastases of lung cancer, which will serve as a road map for treatment development.

In the túngara frog — a tiny native of Middle, Central and South America — disease, predation and communication are intricately intertwined. Parasites are transmitted by frog-biting flies called midges, which find their way to frogs by “intercepting” their mating calls. Male frogs need to call to attract females, but in a catch-22, this also alerts predators of their whereabouts.

On Nov. 8, grits made from Purdue University professor Torbert Rocheford’s variety of biofortified corn, more commonly known as orange corn due to its vibrant color, were featured at Taste of Space, an event at the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida. The event celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 12 moon landing and showcase cuisines from around the country.

Purdue researchers are pursuing a broad sweep of obesity-related studies across fields ranging from nutrition science and psychology to biology and food science. One key interdisciplinary thrust is to understand eating behaviors and their results.