AI Biologist XunZi Identifies Targets That Could Modify Disease
A new artificial intelligence system has identified a pair of potential disease-modifying targets in Parkinson’s disease, then helped guide experiments...
Researchers unveil untethered insect-scale piezoelectric robot with multiple biomimetic capabilities
A tiny robot inspired by dragons, qilins, chimeras, fish, and sea lions has demonstrated an unusual combination of speed, strength,...
Insilico Medicine Uses AI to Discover Targets for Rare Sinonasal Cancer
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Aug. 4, 2026 — A new study is showing how artificial intelligence and multi-omic biology can expose...
UMass Amherst AI tool advances personalized radiation dosing for prostate cancer treatment
Radiopharmaceutical therapy (RPT) is entering a new era in cancer treatment, but one of its biggest limitations has remained stubbornly...
Halide Solid Electrolytes Advance All-Solid-State Batteries Through Interface and Performance Design
The race to build safer, more powerful batteries has brought a once-overlooked class of materials into the spotlight. Researchers from...
WSU study finds working from home doesn’t ensure breastfeeding success
SPOKANE, Wash. — Working from home is widely regarded as one of the most breastfeeding-friendly employment arrangements available to new...
Reproducible 3D Human Brain Tissue Model Studies Healthy and Disease-Linked Microglia Phenotypes
Microglia, the brain’s resident immune cells, are moving to the center of neuroscience as researchers seek to understand how they...
How IL33 and IL1RL1 Variants Alter IL-33/ST2 Signaling Structure and Function
A molecular investigation into a patient’s unexplained thrombocytopenia has uncovered evidence that the interleukin-33 pathway may play a more direct...
NICE Versus BOADICEA for Breast Cancer Risk Assessment in Women Under 50
A new study is putting two very different approaches to breast cancer risk assessment head to head, asking whether primary-care...
Mapping Pancreatic Cancer’s Tissue Architecture with Computational Pathology
Pancreatic cancer is often described as one of the most difficult cancers to detect and treat, but its danger is...
Study examines links between mother-to-child HIV exposure and neurodevelopmental disorders
A systematic review and meta-analysis published in Pediatric Research has examined how exposure to HIV during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding...
Compositionality Continuum Offers Framework for Studying Intelligence’s Neural Basis
A long-standing assumption about intelligence is being challenged by a new perspective in neuroscience: the ability to combine familiar elements...
Stabilizing Flapping-Wing Robots Amid Sudden Disturbances
Flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles are turning one of nature’s most efficient flight strategies into a new class of robotic technology....
Scalable High-Density Integrated Photonic Convolution via Spatiotemporal Interleaving
A new silicon photonic architecture could make optical convolution far denser and more adaptable, offering a potential path toward faster...
Intense Femtosecond Lasers Trigger Ultrafast Optical Switching in Doped Semiconductors
A burst of intense femtosecond laser light can make a semiconductor change its optical behavior almost instantaneously, according to a...
Cat training program supports children with developmental disabilities—and benefits cats too
A structured cat-training program for children with developmental disabilities produced measurable benefits for both sides of the human–animal relationship, according...
High-Power Pulses Stabilize Light Distribution Across Multicore Fibers
Light sent through a seven-core optical fiber can spontaneously reorganize itself into a remarkably stable and evenly distributed pattern when...
How Transposable Elements Adapt in Clinically Important Adult Stem Cells
Transposable elements, once dismissed as genomic “junk,” are emerging as active regulators of cell identity, stress responses and disease. A...
Novel method enables genetic risk studies in rare immune cells
Genetic risk for autoimmune disease may be hiding in the spaces between genes. A study published in Nature Genetics has...
3D Genome Mapping of Rare Immune Cells Uncovers New Crohn’s Disease Genes
Antwerp, 4 August 2026 — The genome is often described as a linear sequence of DNA, but inside a living...