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Tracking non-tuberculous mycobacteria in Ukrainian patients from 2022 to 2024
Scientists working under wartime conditions have produced the first systematic genomic map of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in Ukraine, revealing a...
Mixed food additives linked to higher hypertension and heart disease risk
One of the largest investigations into the health effects of food additives ever conducted suggests that the real risk may...
Peer navigators using mobile DOT help justice-involved people with HIV
People leaving jail or prison with HIV face some of the steepest odds in modern medicine. The disruption of incarceration—of...
Genetic risk score improves glaucoma screening in large population cohort
Glaucoma, a silent thief of sight that affects roughly three percent of the elderly population, has long frustrated public health...
From preparedness to resilience: rethinking critical care strategies for future pandemics
Contemporary critical care medicine stands at a crossroads, and the physicians and researchers sounding the alarm say the COVID-19 pandemic...
Vestibular implant modulation boosts mid and high frequency gaze reflex
In a striking demonstration of how engineering can stand in for biology, researchers in the Netherlands and Switzerland have shown...
Microwave ablation plus anti-LAG-3 boosts CD8+ T cell antitumor immunity
Microwave ablation, one of the most widely used locoregional treatments for liver cancer, may do far more than simply destroy...
Understanding AI’s societal and technical challenges through transdisciplinary research
Artificial intelligence is often described as a force of nature, an autonomous wave of technological progress that societies must simply...
Disposable graphene–copper sensor enables lysine enantiomer detection in whole blood
A team of Romanian researchers has developed a disposable, stamp-sized electrochemical platform capable of distinguishing between the two mirror-image forms...
MIMO nonlinear RTGC optimal control using Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and Lyapunov stability
The world’s ports handle billions of tonnes of cargo every year, and at the heart of the container terminal sits...
Shape-aware transformer boosts multivariate time series classification accuracy
A new artificial intelligence model that reads time series data the way a skilled human analyst might—by looking at both...
Quantum reinforcement learning adapts to changing environments
Reinforcement learning has always had a quiet flaw at its heart: most of the algorithms that power it assume the...
Building a cheaper single-photon detector: from design to reality
Researchers at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town have reported a systematic development process aimed at building...
Wall-associated kinase-like4 sustains salt tolerance via pectin and redox balance in Arabidopsis
Soil salinization is quietly strangling global agriculture, rendering once-fertile fields barren as sodium accumulates in the ground faster than crops...
Single-cell omics reveal macrophage diversity in organ fibrosis
In a comprehensive new review published in Molecular Biology Reports, researchers from Hangzhou Medical College and Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital...
Genetic links found between BF2 gene, LEI0258 marker, and SNP panel
The immune system of the chicken has long fascinated immunologists because it operates with a stripped-down, elegant version of the...
Gut bacteria linked to rectal cancer diagnosis and treatment outcomes
The trillions of microbes that inhabit the human gut have long been suspected of playing a role in colorectal cancer,...
How two cacao genotypes respond to cadmium at molecular and physiological levels
Cadmium is one of the most troubling contaminants in the global food supply, and chocolate has become one of its...
Dual PET/MR tracers help classify refractory temporal lobe epilepsy subtypes
For patients with drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, the decision to operate hinges on a question that has long frustrated...
Vasoactive intestinal peptide promotes cartilage formation and modulates osteoarthritis mediators
Osteoarthritis affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, yet the treatments available to them remain stubbornly palliative. Painkillers, anti-inflammatory drugs...