AI-Powered Imaging Spots Skin Cancer Before It Becomes Visible
Basal cell carcinoma is the most common form of skin cancer worldwide, and for most patients it is highly treatable...
Fungal invader strikes diabetic patients: review maps deadly aspergillosis risk
Invasive aspergillosis has long been understood as a menace confined to the profoundly immunosuppressed: patients battling leukaemia, enduring months of...
Tiny Biosensors Could Detect Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Years Before Symptoms
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and prion disorders are among the most formidable challenges in modern medicine,...
Drug Combinations Show Broad Synergy Against Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Herpesviruses
Human herpesviruses are among the most persistent pathogens in medicine, establishing lifelong infections that alternate between long periods of latency...
New AI Learns to Explain Itself by Masking Time Series Data
Artificial intelligence has become remarkably good at reading the streams of numbers that modern sensors produce, but it has remained...
Sandy Secrets Beneath Brazil’s Cerrado: New Study Rewrites the Story of Tropical Ferralsols
Deep beneath the soybean fields now spreading across the Brazilian state of Piauí lies a soil whose story has long...
Lab-Grown Tumor Organoids Illuminate How Cancers Evade, Tolerate, and Resist Treatment
Treatment resistance remains one of the most stubborn obstacles in modern oncology, and a comprehensive new review published in the...
Dual ECMO and Impella Strategy Enables Emergency Mitral Valve Replacement in Shock
Surgeons in Japan have reported a striking case of a 61-year-old man who survived emergency mitral valve replacement after acute...
Nanofiber Mats Turn Amphotericin B Into a Safer, Sustained Topical Antifungal
Amphotericin B has long been regarded as one of the most powerful antifungal agents in clinical medicine, a drug of...
Twisted Peptide Shape Reveals How Plants Reopen Stomata After Immune Alarm
Every leaf faces a dilemma. The microscopic pores called stomata that dot the plant epidermis are simultaneously the gateways for...
Slow Heat, More Char: New Study Maps How Ioncell Cellulose II Fibers Turn Into Carbon
Carbon fibers have long been the quiet backbone of modern engineering, hiding inside aircraft wings, wind turbine blades and defense...
Salt-Tolerant Synthetic Rice Reveals Hormone Rewiring After Genome Duplication
When plants double their entire genome, the result is often assumed to be a hardier organism, better armed against drought,...
One in Five Brain Tumor Patients Dies in Angolan Hospital, Study Finds
More than one in five patients admitted to a major Angolan hospital with tumors of the brain and other intracranial...
Human Stem Cell Assay Catches Seizure Risk Before Drugs Reach the Clinic
Drug-induced seizures remain one of the most disruptive safety failures in modern pharmaceutical research, derailing promising molecules across therapy areas...
Scientists Watch Single Platinum Atoms Rearrange During Catalysis, Revealing Two Kinds of Active Sites at Once
For nearly a century, chemists have puzzled over the exact location on a catalyst’s surface where molecules transform. Now a...
Molecular Efficiency Decides Which Alpine Desert Plants Survive Warming Climates
On the vast, wind-scoured expanses of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, plants live on the edge of what is biologically possible. The...
AI Learns to Pick Better Evidence: New Method Rebuilds How Chatbots Find Answers
Retrieval-augmented question answering has become the invisible engine behind many of today’s AI assistants. When a large language model is...
Young Andean Rosettes Gambit: Juveniles Bet Big on Water They May Not Have
High in Colombia’s Chingaza páramo, at 3,300 meters above sea level, a small, ground-hugging rosette plant is revealing how age...
Brain Shape May Help Explain Why Blood Cancer Rates Differ Between Ancestries
For nearly a century, scientists have known that the nervous system can influence tumors that arise within the brain itself....
Parents Leaving the Hospital With Medically Fragile Infants Say Discharge Training Falls Short
For parents of newborns diagnosed with surgically correctable congenital anomalies, the journey from prenatal diagnosis through surgery and finally to...
