Weasel Bite Linked to Deadly Tick-Borne Virus in Rare Chinese Case
A 55-year-old woman in northeastern China developed a life-threatening viral illness after being bitten by a Siberian weasel, and clinicians ...
Brain’s Waste-Clearance System Emerges as New Alzheimer’s Treatment Frontier
Alzheimer’s disease has long been framed as a problem of protein misbehavior: amyloid-beta plaques accumulating between neurons and tau tangles ...
New Risk Model Predicts Kidney Disease Years Before It Strikes People With Prediabetes
Prediabetes has long been treated as a warning light on the dashboard of metabolic health, a signal that diabetes may ...
Heart Cells Have a 24-Hour Molecular Switch That Turns Sleep Apnea Damage On
Every night, millions of people with obstructive sleep apnea experience the same silent assault: their airway collapses, their oxygen levels ...
When Democracy Says No: The Strange Paradox of AI Built on the Public’s Values
A deceptively simple thought experiment is rattling the foundations of AI ethics. Suppose an artificial intelligence system is designed in ...
Hand-Sewn Suture Technique Achieves Coupler-Level Vessel Results in Head and Neck Rebuilds
Surgeons in Japan have developed a refined hand-sewing method for connecting blood vessels that they say delivers the safety benefits ...
Clay-Dwelling Bacterium Turns Toxic Selenium Into Crystalline Nanorods Using Its Biofilm as a Template
A bacterium isolated from bentonite clay deposits in southeastern Spain is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how microbes ...
Stigma in the Clinic Strongly Predicts HIV Treatment Interruption in Kenya
Antiretroviral therapy has transformed HIV from a fatal diagnosis into a manageable chronic condition, but the benefits of treatment depend ...
Nanoparticle-Coated Fabrics Promise Antibacterial, Self-Cleaning and Conductive Clothing
Fabrics that kill bacteria, shield the skin from ultraviolet radiation, conduct electricity, and even clean themselves under sunlight are no ...
Hot Spring Archaeon Turns Fats Straight into Methane, Rewriting Methanogenesis Rulebook
For decades, microbiologists have treated the anaerobic breakdown of fats into methane as an obligatory team effort. Long-chain fatty acids, ...
Mamba-Based AI Sharpens Medical Image Segmentation With Position Awareness and Dynamic Upsampling
Medical image segmentation, the task of teaching computers to trace the exact outlines of organs and lesions inside CT scans, ...
Weight-Loss Drugs Outperform Older Diabetes Pills in People with HIV, Real-World Study Finds
People living with HIV face a quiet epidemic that has little to do with the virus itself. As antiretroviral therapy ...
Why Marmoset Brains Stay Smooth: Progenitor Cells Hold the Evolutionary Key
The human brain, with its unmistakable walnut-like landscape of ridges and grooves, is among the most complex structures in the ...
Drones on 5G Now Spot Cracked Building Tiles in Real Time
A team of communications engineers in Taiwan has built a system that lets a drone flying past a building facade ...
Faulty RNA Splicing of SCARB1 Linked to Metabolic Collapse in Early Pregnancy Loss
Anembryonic pregnancy, a form of early miscarriage in which a gestational sac develops but an embryo never forms, accounts for ...
Cold Temperatures Rewire Plant Recombination Through a Chromosome Brake Called SNI1
When the weather turns cold, plants do more than slow their growth. Deep inside their reproductive cells, the very machinery ...
AI Reads Newborn Faces to Spot Prader-Willi Syndrome Earlier Than Ever
Every newborn footprint gets recorded, every hearing screen logged, and every heel-prick blood sample sent for testing. Yet one of ...
Counting Energy Like Calories: The Theory Behind the Activity Calculator for Chronic Fatigue
Chronic fatigue is one of the most disabling yet least understood symptoms in modern medicine. Roughly one in five people ...
Skin aging gene Foxn1 revealed as master regulator of epidermal structure and redox balance
A single transcription factor may hold the keys to how skin ages, according to new research published in BMC Biology ...
Rapamycin Nanoparticles Rejuvenate Aging Spine Discs by Silencing a Cellular Aging Switch
Back pain driven by degenerating spinal discs afflicts hundreds of millions of people worldwide, yet treatment options have barely moved ...