Biology
Metagenomic sequencing for respiratory virus detection: methods and future directions
A sweeping analysis of how metagenomic next-generation sequencing is being used to detect viruses in respiratory samples has revealed both...
Five-year surveillance of Culicoides biting midges and arboviruses in South Korea
Across the barns, cattle sheds, and racetracks of the Republic of Korea, a painstaking five-year trapping campaign has produced one...
Coastal tidal flats host varied microbes with multiple functional redundancy patterns
Tidal flats are among the most inhospitable habitats on Earth’s surface, places where communities of microorganisms must endure being alternately...
Who gets enteropathogenic E. coli infections and what else they carry
A common gut bacterium long dismissed as a threat mainly to infants in developing countries may be far more relevant...
Engineered bacteria recycle CO2 to boost succinic acid production efficiently
In a development that could reshape how industry manufactures one of the most versatile platform chemicals in the bioeconomy, researchers...
MissenseHMM annotates missense variants by jointly modeling pathogenicity scores
Every day, laboratories and clinics around the world generate genetic sequences in which a single letter of the DNA code...
Genome skimming uncovers multipartite mitochondrial DNA in parasitic nematode
The giant kidney worm, a parasitic nematode that can grow to more than a meter in length and destroys the...
Reader Poll Highlights Key Trends in Precision Medicine and Synthetic Biology
The way science spreads is changing. Where journal articles once reached their audiences almost exclusively through library subscriptions and citation...
Multivalent mRNA-exosome vaccines turn cold tumors hot via immune reprogramming
In a bold bid to ignite the immune system against cancers that have learned to hide, researchers at Case Western...
Kudoa Parasites in Canary Islands Seafood Pose Emerging Human Health Risks
In the Canary Islands, roughly one in six residents carries antibodies against a little-known fish parasite that has quietly been...
Mangosteen peel extract and α-mangostin curb blood clot formation
The purple rind of the mangosteen, a tropical fruit long prized in Southeast Asian traditional medicine, may hold the key...
DHA eases colitis by rebalancing gut microbes and repairing the gut barrier
In a finding that could reshape how scientists think about dietary interventions for inflammatory bowel disease, researchers in China have...
New multiproxy study suggests megaraptorids were agile apex predators
Some of the most fearsome predators of the Cretaceous world were, according to new research, far lighter than their bone-crushing...
Border veterinary quarantine: overlooked one health shield against zoonotic disease invasion
In the global fight against animal and zoonotic disease, the most important battles are often fought not in laboratories or...
Leaf cutting triggers dynamic flavonoid shifts in Isatis indigotica roots
In a discovery that could reshape how one of traditional Chinese medicine’s most important plants is cultivated, researchers report that...
Vitamin D Alters DNA Repair Machinery in Systemic Sclerosis Patients
Vitamin D, one of the most extensively studied micronutrients in human medicine, has long been associated with bone health, immune...
Genome sequencing reveals chromosomal fusion behind early XY sex chromosome evolution in catfish
In a discovery that offers one of the clearest snapshots yet of sex chromosomes caught in the act of being...
Early-life stress and teen alcohol alter rat behavior and brain lipids by sex
Early-life stress may not affect everyone in the same way, and a new study in rats offers some of the...
Male bumblebees show greater activity and behavioural flexibility than workers
In a finding that overturns a long-standing assumption about who the clever ones are in a bumblebee colony, researchers at...
Genome-wide study across ancestries reveals genetic roots of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
In the largest genetic investigation of its kind to date, an international team of researchers has mapped the genetic architecture...