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October 13, 2025

Blushing plants reveal when fungi are growing in their roots

Credit: Temur Yunusov and Alfonso Timoneda Almost all crop plants form associations with a particular type of fungi - called...

Research identifies potential role of ‘junk DNA’ sequence in aging, cancer

Credit: Photo by Cori Kogan, WSU Health Sciences Spokane The human body is essentially made up of trillions of living...

Phase two CD19-antibody-drug conjugate trial demonstrates promise for aggressive lymphoma

MUSC Hollings Cancer Center part of promising clinical trial for aggressive lymphomaCredit: MUSC Hollings Emma C. Vought MUSC Hollings Cancer...

Scientists identify five new plant species in Bolivia

Credit: John Wood Scientists have identified five new plant species in the Bolivian Andes. The species are all part of...

Device cracks milk protein

'Refolding' molecules to support medical solutionsCredit: Flinders University After gaining world attention by 'unboiling' egg protein, Flinders University scientists have...

The National Academy of Sciences admits IPK scientist Nicolaus von Wirén as member

Credit: IPK/ Andreas Bähring "When I received the news about my election by the members of the Leopoldina, I was...

NPS launches Center on Combating Hybrid Threats to address hybrid warfare

Credit: Staff. Sgt. Jacob Osborne On November 25, 2018, a Russian commercial cargo ship suddenly parked itself across the narrow...

Topology in biology

Credit: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization When can we say that a certain property of a system is...

Water resources: Defusing conflict, promoting cooperation

Credit: Mimi Abebayehu/Wikimedia Commons Rivers are lifelines for many countries. They create valuable ecosystems, provide drinking water for people and...

Chemotherapy can induce mutations that lead to pediatric leukemia relapse

A collaboration led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Shanghai Children's Medical Center and others revealed how thiopurines produce mutations...

Brain-repair discovery could lead to new epilepsy treatments

Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered a previously unknown repair process...

Southeastern US herbaria digitize three million specimens, now freely available online

Credit: Photo courtesy of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Herbarium A network of over 100 herbaria spread out across...

Early-life social connections influence gene expression, stress resilience

Credit: Kay E. Holekamp Having friends may not only be good for the health of your social life, but also...

Perfecting collagen production in osteogenesis imperfecta

By studying the controversial idea that hematopoietic stem cells could give rise to osteoblasts, researchers at MUSC Health aim to...

‘Good cholesterol’ may protect liver

Study in mice, human blood samples, suggests HDL from the intestine may prevent liver inflammationCredit: Brad W. Warner The body's...

Advanced bladder cancers respond to immunotherapy regardless of gene mutation status

Credit: UNC LIneberge Comprehensive Cancer Center CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina--A new study has demonstrated that patients with advanced bladder cancers...

Doctoral student bridges gap between electronics and optics

New chip can revolutionize the current data rate for processors using microwave photonicsCredit: Justin Baetge, Texas A&M Engineering According to...

Top geology award goes to Ian Dalziel of The University of Texas at Austin

Credit: Ian Dalziel Ian W.D. Dalziel, a professor in the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at...

Tulane spin-out company to develop new treatment for pelvic organ prolapse

BioAesthetics Corp. is teaming up with a Tulane biomedical engineering professor to develop better treatment for pelvic organ prolapseCredit: Courtesy...

NIH awards more than $20 million to international HIV database centers