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  1. A red meat allergy from tick bites is spreading – and the lone star tick isn’t the only alpha-gal carrier to worry about

    August 05, 2025

    This delayed allergic reaction is called alpha-gal syndrome. While it’s commonly called the “red meat allergy,” that nickname is misleading, because alpha-gal syndrome can cause strong reactions to many products, beyond just red meat. By Lee Rafuse Haines, Associate Research Professor of Molecular Parasitology and Medical Entomology, University of Notre Dame.

  2. Operation Education: Local scientists connect the lab to life in new book and podcast

    July 07, 2025

    Two local researchers are making science more enjoyable no matter your background or education. Shahir Rizk and Maggie Fink have just published their first book and have recorded 20 episodes of their podcast.

  3. One in six cancer medications fails safety standards in sub-Saharan Africa

    June 26, 2025

    “It is important that cancer medications contain the right amount of the active ingredients so the patient gets the correct dose,” said Marya Lieberman, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Notre Dame and lead author of the study. “If the patient’s dose is too small, the cancer can survive and spread to other locations. If the patient’s dose is too high, they can be harmed by toxic side effects from the medicine.”

  4. Generic cancer drugs used around the world fail quality tests, investigation shows

    June 26, 2025

    “We were all taken aback when we saw the results,” said Marya Lieberman, the professor who led the research. More than 30 manufacturers made products that met standards. But for patients receiving poor-quality drugs, the effects could be devastating. “Once a person has been diagnosed with cancer, there’s a limited window of opportunity for treatment to work,” said Lieberman.

  5. ‘It’s heartbreaking’: Bad cancer drugs shipped to more than 100 countries

    June 26, 2025

    Working with collaborators in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya and Malawi, researchers at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, analysed drug samples from the four countries. “We were all taken aback when we saw the results,” said Marya Lieberman, the professor who led the research.

  6. Ticks and mosquitoes: What works and what doesn’t

    June 18, 2025

    Citing Medical Entomologist Lee R. Haines, the Consumer Affairs website put together a list that shows proven methods for avoiding the blood-sucking insects, along with the things that will likely waste your time and money.

  7. Father-Daughter Bonds Boost Longevity in Female Baboons

    June 18, 2025

    Male baboons exhibit a unique life-history strategy that contributes to this paternal effect. Elizabeth Archie, professor of biological sciences and the study’s lead author, explains that male baboons typically experience peak reproductive output during their early adulthood.

  8. When Baboon Dads Stick Around, Their Daughters Live Longer

    June 18, 2025

    But the paper’s senior author Beth Archie, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Notre Dame, says her instinct is that baboon “dads are more important than they seem at first glance.” One possible explanation for these results is that fathers create a “zone of safety” around their daughters, intervening to protect them in conflicts.

  9. Female baboons with strong relationship to fathers found to live longer

    June 17, 2025

    “Among primates, humans are really unusual in how much dads contribute to raising offspring,” said Prof Elizabeth Archie, co-author of the research from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. “Most primates’ dads really don’t contribute very much, but what the baboons are showing us is that maybe we’ve been under-appreciating dads in some species of primates.”

  10. A Truly Wild Study Suggests Human Intelligence Might Exist Because of Gravity

    May 29, 2025

    First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set the stage for its arrival.

  11. Pint of Science connects community to scientific breakthroughs across the globe

    May 21, 2025

    Scientists at Notre Dame will sit down for a drink with the public Wednesday night at Chicory Café.

    Researchers will share the latest in scientific developments during an international gathering this week.

  12. Scientists want to poison mosquitoes with human blood

    March 31, 2025

    Nitisinone has already passed rigorous safety standards testing, so it will be easier to give it another purpose, that of fighting mosquito-borne diseases, explains Acosta Serrano, who now works at the University of Notre Dame.

  13. Drug Turns Human Blood Into Poison for Mosquitoes - Futurity

    March 27, 2025

    Now, the new study in Science Translational Medicine has identified another medication with the potential to suppress mosquito populations to help control malaria.

    “One way to stop the spread of diseases transmitted by insects is to make the blood of animals and humans toxic to these blood-feeding insects,” says Lee R. Haines, associate research professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, honorary fellow at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and co-lead author of the study.

    “We thought that if we wanted to go down this route, nitisinone had to perform better than ivermectin,” says Álvaro Acosta Serrano.

  14. Malaria breakthrough as scientists find drug makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes

    March 26, 2025

    “One way to stop the spread of diseases transmitted by insects is to make the blood of animals and humans toxic to these blood-feeding insects,” said Lee Haines, associate research professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, honorary fellow at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and co-lead author of the study.

  15. Your fancy smartwatch band is full of toxic forever chemicals

    December 24, 2024

    According to a new study from the University of Notre Dame, your smartwatch band is exposing your wrist to so-called forever chemicals.

  16. Smartwatch Shock: Study Finds Harmful Forever Chemicals in Wristbands

    December 18, 2024

    This discovery stands out because of the very high concentrations of one type of forever chemical found in items that are in prolonged contact with our skin,” explains Graham Peaslee, the corresponding author of the study.

  17. Scientists find ‘forever chemicals’ lurking in certain smartwatch wristbands

    December 18, 2024

    “This discovery stands out because of the very high concentrations of one type of forever chemical found in items that are in prolonged contact with our skin,” said corresponding author Graham Peaslee, a University of Notre Dame PFAS expert and nuclear physicist, in a statement.

  18. Your fitness watch could be exposing you to harmful ‘forever chemicals’

    December 18, 2024

    “This discovery stands out because of the very high concentrations of one type of forever chemical found in items that are in prolonged contact with our skin,” said Graham Peaslee, University of Notre Dame professor and the lead author of the study.

  19. Notre Dame hosting retired NASA astronomer Dec. 6 for annual public Christmas lecture

    December 04, 2024

    The University of Notre Dame's College of Science will be looking to the stars this week, hosting special guest and retired NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller for the college's fourth annual Christmas Lecture on Friday, Dec. 6, at Century Center in downtown South Bend.

  20. Public Communication of Science and Technology Symposium in South Bend, Indiana, U.S.A.

    October 30, 2024

    This conference review discusses the July 2024 Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) symposium held in South Bend, Indiana, the first PCST symposium held in the United States. It reflects on speakers, topics, and logistics of the event.