Two new National Science Foundation grants to Indiana University–totaling $8.6 million–call on long-standing expertise to manage and analyze the networks that power the agency's international research and education collaborations. IU has now earned more than $13 million in NSF international networking awards this year.
With Apple's launch of new health tracking tools for the iPhone and medical researchers' forays into Facebook to recruit clinical trial volunteers, Web and mobile apps are increasingly seen as a new source for health data.
Two exceptional research images captured at Indiana University’s Light Microscopy Imaging Center are among the 15 finalists in the international GE Healthcare Life Sciences 2013 Cell Imaging Competition. The IU center won the competition last year with an image of a dividing mammalian cell and could do so again if enough votes from scientists and the public are cast online by the Dec. 20 competition deadline.