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27 October, 2025
World-Leading Neurologist Professor Peter Goadsby appointed to lead a new Division of Biomedical Sciences at KAUST
KAUST is transforming Saudi Arabia's health and neuroscience expertise with the addition of pioneering leadership.
26 October, 2025
Turning spoiled food waste into commercial products
Saudi Arabia has pledged to divert 90% of its waste from landfills by 2040. New technology at KAUST is sustainably recycling spoiled dairy and fruit juices into valuable products. KAUST has launched a pilot study to demonstrate value of this technology across multiple Saudi industries.
23 October, 2025
Microbes at Red Sea vents show how life and geology shape each other
A new study led by Professor Alexandre Rosado has revealed an unusual microbial world in the Hatiba Mons hydrothermal vent fields of the central Red Sea, a site first discovered by one of his co-authors and colleagues, Assistant Professor Froukje M. van der Zwan.
15 October, 2025
Mica enables simpler, sharper, and deeper single-particle tracking
A simple mica-based method boosts the tracking precision and depth of single particles without the need for complex hardware.
14 October, 2025
Professor Petra Marhava joins BESE as an assistant professor in Plant Science
At KAUST, Marhava will lead innovative projects investigating how plants cope with environmental challenges, particularly temperature extremes and drought stress.
12 October, 2025
Cancer’s hidden sugar code opens diagnostic opportunities
How a small set of glycan genes could help detect and classify tumors.
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