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Maybe you have ordered an at-home microbiome test and waited on a report full of unfamiliar bacteria names. Maybe you are just watching friends compare their results. Either way, the gut has become something people study rather than ignore. That attention raises a fair question about which foods and compounds genuinely help. The latest contender is one that nutritionists spent years telling you to limit.
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Dr. Kelly Tseng a professor in the School Of Life Sciences at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, discusses how discovering the method in which frogs are able to regenerate eye tissue could lead to finding out how to replicate the process in humans.
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Energy Fuels mines uranium-laden limestone found in the area around Red Butte in a process known as breccia pipe mining. David Kramer, a hydrogeologist at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, explained the process to a crowd of attendees at the summit.
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Cynthia Tochukwu Nnolum (Mathematical Sciences) presented her research findings on “Dynamics of Solutions to a Multiple-Patch Epidemic Model with a Saturation Incidence Mechanism” at the ICM 2026 Satellite Conference, held from June 1-5, 2026, under the theme Industrial and Computational…
Grace O. Adenuga (Mathematical Sciences) presented “Statistical Assessment of Drought–Yield Sensitivity: Regression and Spatial Evidence” at the ICM @ ICM 2026 Satellite Conference hosted by the Department of Mathematics at Morgan State University. The study demonstrated how statistical modeling…
Experts

Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
An expert on bacterial gene regulation and bacterial pathogens, including E. coli, Shigella, and Salmonella.
Professor, Physics
A physics professor, whose specialties include high pressure science, explosives, and high radiation flux.

Professor Emeritus of Hydrology, College of Sciences
An expert on water resources, paleoclimatology, and environmental pollution.