An Iowa State research team will collaborate with AstraZeneca scientists to identify segments of RNA structures that could be targets for drug compounds. The team won an innovation challenge to secure a 16-month grant.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's newest plant hardiness zones map shows an average temperature shift of about 2.5 F, placing nearly all of Iowa in Zone 5 (average annual low temps of -10 to -20 F). For the first time ever, several counties in the state's southern corners are in Zone 6, noted ISU Extension and Outreach's Aaron Steil, a consumer horticulture specialist.
New technology developed by a team in English focuses on the writing process, not the outcome. It tracks a user's eye movements on a computer screen and keystrokes with millisecond precision, including pauses, edits and time spent re-reading text that reveal an individual's writing behaviors. The user then receives advice through automated message boxes as they're drafting their text.
The Iowa State wrestling team picked up a pair of dual wins last weekend in Arizona and California, but the team's biggest accomplishment was helping a father find his missing 1-year-old son in the team hotel.
