LSU researchers' new invention - a syringe that can temporarily store adult stem cells so that they can be delivered and given to the patient from the same device - is the booster physicians and veterinarians need to treat tendon injuries more effectively.

Researchers use Fiber Bragg Grating Advanced Signal Processing

Nootkatone Studies Could Lead to Prevention of Lyme Disease. LSU Chemical Engineering (ChE) Professor Kerry Dooley, LSU ChE Department Chair and Professor Mike Benton, and LSU Department of Biological Sciences (Biol. Sci.) Professor Roger Laine will continue their work on a project that could bring affordable and effective insect repellent to the masses, possibly decreasing the number of Lyme disease, malaria, and West Nile virus cases around the world.

Each year, LSU's Office of Research & Economic Development honors the exceptional research and scholarship of two LSU faculty as Distinguished Research Masters.

An LSU freshman is on her way to having her name and work part of mathematics history. Meet Calcea Johnson. While in high school in New Orleans, Johnson discovered a new proof for the Pythagorean Theorem.

An LSU researcher has developed a new vaccine against bovine respiratory disease (BRD) and related illnesses that kill around 8 million calves each year and cost the U.S. cattle industry more than $1 billion.