Biology
Organic fertilizer helps biochar immobilize cadmium in contaminated soil
Cadmium contamination in farmland is a persistent threat to crop safety because the metal can be taken up by plant...
Asteroid impact may have reshaped tuna evolution alongside dinosaur extinction
A long-standing idea proposed that the 66-million-year-ago asteroid impact that ended non-avian dinosaurs—along with many large marine predators—opened an ecological...
Wild snapdragons subtly change color to attract bees
Flower color is often treated like an aesthetic detail, but new research shows it can be the product of intense...
Root developmental zonation persists despite changes in cell wall pH
In a discovery that could reshape how scientists think about plant development, researchers report that the spatial “zoning” patterns emerging...
Genes rapidly reactivate expression following thermal stress exposure
Heat waves don’t just exhaust people—they force cells to rethink what they can afford to do. For years, scientists have...
Arabidopsis Researchers Map N1-methyladenosine mRNA Methylation
In a breakthrough for plant epitranscriptomics, researchers report that Arabidopsis thaliana uses N1-methyladenosine (m1A) to modulate mRNA behavior with base-level...
Helical Flow Enables Opto-Thermoviscous Microrotation for Multiview 3D Microscopy
Micromanipulating tiny objects in 3D—especially in highly viscous environments—has long been a stubborn challenge. Force-based approaches often lose effectiveness as...
Predictable Microbial Shifts Build Community-Wide Resilience to Environmental Stress
Microbial communities rarely behave like chaotic crowds. Instead, new work in Nature Microbiology suggests they may shift in strikingly orderly...
Structure-Guided PCSK9 Vaccine Demonstrates Promising Preclinical Results
Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) continues to be a major global killer, and elevated LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) remains a key, modifiable...
Greek Cave Snail Identified, Named for Hermes and His Nymph Caretaker
A team at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has identified a completely new genus and species of subterranean...
Compact genetic switch offers new potential therapies for drug-resistant epilepsy
Targeted gene therapy is increasingly viewed as a promising route for patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, a condition that affects roughly...
Metabolomic Profiling Reveals Subtype-Specific Molecular Programs in Pediatric Ependymoma
Ependymoma, a pediatric brain tumor with distinct molecular subtypes, remains difficult to stratify beyond genetics because its metabolic landscape has...
NIH Grants $10.7 Million to Advance Sensory Biology at OU Medicine
The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine has secured a five-year, $10.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to build...
New Model Uncovers Hidden Disease Signals and Predicts Health Outcomes
A new Nature study from Mass General Brigham and collaborators proposes a Bayesian way to turn messy, longitudinal electronic health...
AI designs functional CRISPR-like nucleases surpassing natural models
Artificial intelligence is beginning to redesign the molecular machinery that powers genome editing. A new Science report describes how researchers...
UW Physician-Scientist Honored by Association for Molecular Pathology for Exceptional Service
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Daniel E. Sabath, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Washington, has been named the 2026 Meritorious Service...
Enhanced Bayesian Hybrid Inference Using Genome Sequence Data
A new statistical framework promises sharper answers to a long-standing question in conservation and evolutionary genetics: who is a hybrid,...
TSPAN7 Builds Transmembrane Skeleton, Stabilizing Tubular Membranes via Spiral Assembly
Tetraspanins are four-transmembrane proteins best known for organizing cell membranes into specialized microdomains that recruit lipids and partner proteins. Over...
What Animals Do Before Going to War
Intergroup conflict is common across the animal kingdom, shaping how social species survive and reproduce. A new review in Trends...
Blood Test Detects 90% of Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer
Researchers at Kanazawa University report a blood-based diagnostic approach that could make early pancreatic cancer screening more feasible and improve...