Tiny Data, Big Gains: Small Unlabeled Subsets Slash the Cost of Tabular Self-Supervised Learning
Self-supervised learning has become one of the defining techniques of modern artificial intelligence, powering systems such as GPT and SimCLR ...
Collagen Receptor CD49b Emerges as Key Switch That Lets Breast Tumors Hide From Immunotherapy
One of the most stubborn puzzles in cancer immunotherapy may finally be yielding to a closer look at the scaffolding ...
Aging Stem Cells Lose Their Healing Power, Landmark Review Finds
Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells, or MSCs, have long been celebrated as the workhorses of regenerative medicine. Harvested from bone marrow, fat, ...
Surfactant-Shielded Zeolites Double Cracking Power for Bulky Oil Molecules
Zeolites are among the most industrially important materials in modern chemistry. These crystalline aluminosilicates, with their vast internal surface areas ...
SARS-CoV-2 Enzyme NSP14 Disrupts DHX15-RIG-I Partnership to Silence Antiviral Alarm
When a virus slips into a human cell, the first hours of infection decide much of what follows. The cell’s ...
Cholesterol Gatekeeper NPC1L1 Found to Reshuffle Membrane Cholesterol Between Leaflets
Cholesterol is one of the most famous molecules in medicine, blamed for heart attacks and clogged arteries, yet it is ...
How Silicon Helps a Hardy Millet Beat Salt Stress at the Gene Level
Soil salinity is quietly strangling agriculture. Around the world, roughly a fifth of all irrigated farmland is now affected by ...
First Biosimilar Insulin Glargine Failed to Curb America’s Insulin Spending, Real-World Analysis Finds
When the first biosimilar version of insulin glargine arrived in the United States, policymakers and clinicians hoped it would do ...
Why brilliant healthcare AI keeps failing at the bedside—and how to fix it
Artificial intelligence in medicine has a paradox at its heart. In laboratories and controlled studies, AI systems now routinely match ...
Quantum-Enhanced Beamforming Boosts 6G Sensing and Communication Simultaneously
The next generation of wireless networks is being asked to do two jobs at once: carry enormous volumes of data ...
MRI Signs and Blood Marker Reveal Which Pancreatic Cancer Patients Face Early Recurrence
Pancreatic cancer remains one of medicine’s most unforgiving opponents, and now a team of researchers in China has developed a ...
Injured and Invisible: Chinese Nurses Reveal How Weak Hospital Support Breaks Careers
Nursing is one of the most physically punishing jobs in modern healthcare, and in China the toll is staggering. A ...
RNAi Biopesticides Move From Lab Curiosity to Field Reality as First Products Win Registration
A quiet revolution is unfolding in crop protection. RNA interference, the cellular gene-silencing mechanism that earned a Nobel Prize in ...
Forest soil viruses may dampen how strongly microbes respire as temperatures rise
Beneath every forest floor, an invisible war and an uneasy truce unfold simultaneously. Bacteriophages, the viruses that infect soil bacteria, ...
Immunotherapy Plus Chemoradiotherapy Triples Survival in Esophageal Cancer Study
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma has long been one of the most formidable cancers to treat, and for patients whose disease ...
Weight Loss Rewires Cholesterol Metabolism, but Tiny RNAs Are Not the Driver
Losing weight does far more than shrink a waistline. In men with abdominal obesity, shedding roughly ten kilograms through dieting ...
Antarctic sea bacterium yields enzyme that thrives in cold and extreme salt
In the frigid, salt-rich waters off Antarctica, microbial life has evolved biochemical tricks that no laboratory would casually stumble upon. ...
Holy Basil Helps Scientists Build a Nanomaterial That Senses Antibiotics and Kills Bacteria
A team of researchers in India and abroad has reported a new way to build a multifunctional metal oxide nanocomposite ...
Two Proteins Found on Nearly All Liver Cancer Cells Point to a Dual-Target CAR-T Strategy
Hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of primary liver cancer, remains one of the most formidable targets in oncology. It ...
Sleep Experts Push to Classify Central Hypopneas, the Overlooked Breathing Events That Confuse Apnea Scores
Every night, millions of people experience brief interruptions in their breathing while asleep, and most of those interruptions are tallied ...