A thin film that dissolves on the tongue in seconds, delivering a prized antioxidant without water, pills, or syringes, has long been a goal of pharmaceutical and food scientists. Now, researchers...
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Liver cancer rarely arises in a healthy organ. In most cases, hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of primary liver cancer, develops after years of...
For decades, the design of nanoparticle drug delivery systems has been an exercise in patient, expensive trial and error. Formulation scientists would mix lipids, polymers...
A thin film that dissolves on the tongue in seconds, delivering a prized antioxidant without water, pills, or syringes, has long been a goal of...
When bacteria invade the body, macrophages are among the first defenders on the scene. These immune cells engulf pathogens, sound inflammatory alarms, and coordinate the...
Audio is everywhere in the digital world, from streaming platforms and voice assistants to medical dictation and confidential business calls, yet most people never think...
Flavonoid C-glycosides occupy a curious corner of food chemistry: they are abundant in some of the world’s most familiar plant foods, yet for decades they...
Inflammatory bowel disease, encompassing Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, is rising at an alarming pace worldwide, and its roots lie as much in the environment...
For more than three decades, amyloid has been the organizing principle of Alzheimer’s disease research. The sticky protein fragment, which accumulates into plaques in the...
A team of researchers at Tianjin University has developed a scalable process that converts the mycelium of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger into partially deacetylated...
When it comes to mosquito-borne disease, the bite is where everything begins. Viruses such as dengue, West Nile, and chikungunya cannot jump from a mosquito...
In the strange world of one-dimensional quantum magnets, the elementary carriers of magnetism refuse to behave like ordinary particles. In most three-dimensional magnets, a disturbance...
Microplastics have turned up in yet another staple of the global diet, and this time the evidence comes with unusually rigorous analytical backup. Researchers at...
A compound drawn from one of the most storied plants in traditional Chinese medicine may hold unexpected power against a rare and aggressive blood cancer....
The transition from medical trainee to junior faculty member is one of the most disorienting career shifts in academic medicine, and a new commentary argues...
In an industrial corner of East Java, Indonesia, a turpentine factory has been quietly discharging one of the most stubborn wastewater streams in the chemical...
