Biology
Genomes reveal how Sotalia dolphins diverged while retaining key conserved traits
A new genomic study of South America’s Sotalia dolphins has revealed how two closely related species began diverging after one...
CHAMS-DTA Improves Drug-Target Binding Affinity Prediction with Cross-Hybrid Attention and Multistage Sampling
Drug discovery is getting a new computational assist from an artificial-intelligence model designed to predict how tightly a drug molecule...
Indian Polistine Wasps Harbor Distinct Microbiota Across Four Species
Wasps are often portrayed as solitary villains of the picnic table, but inside their bodies they host complex microbial communities...
Machine learning reveals HLA-DQ2.5’s impact on naïve T-cell receptors in celiac disease
A Machine-Learning Signal in Celiac Disease Turns Out to Be Written in the HLA Genes A person’s immune system carries...
Combining noncoding RNA profiles and HPV genotyping improves cervical cancer risk assessment
A new molecular screening strategy could help doctors distinguish human papillomavirus infections that are likely to disappear from those that...
Scientists develop reporter strain to detect inhibition of bacterial cell-wall biosynthesis
A new bacterial “alarm system” could make it dramatically easier to discover antibiotics that attack one of microbes’ most vulnerable...
Scientists characterize soybean alien addition lines and phenotypic variation from intersubgeneric crosses
A Wild Soybean Cross Has Produced Plants That Seem to Rewrite Their Own Genetic Rules A soybean breeding experiment has...
Genetic study identifies barley hotspots for inherited cold-stress resilience
Barley Plants May “Remember” Cold—And Pass the Advantage to Future Generations A three-generation field experiment has found that barley exposed...
One Health Lessons from Pteropus medius: Nipah Spillover, Microbiota, and Antimicrobial Resistance
Nipah virus and antimicrobial resistance may be converging in the same human-altered landscapes, according to a review that places Bangladesh’s...
Beijing’s Chaoyang District Urban Parks Provide Refuges for Diverse Birdlife
Beijing’s Urban Parks Harbor 68 Bird Species—and Threatened Migrants As Beijing continues to expand, four urban parks in the city’s...
Unexpected Cardiac Tumor Diagnosed as Histiocytosis in Case Report
A mass nearly filling the right side of a woman’s heart has turned out not to be a malignant cardiac...
Engineered Extracellular Vesicles Show Promise for Anti-Aging Therapies
Tiny Biological Couriers Could Turn the Body’s Anti-Aging Systems Back On A new review of extracellular vesicles (EVs) presents these...
Oxypaeoniflorin Prevents Titanium Particle-Induced Bone Loss by Reprogramming Osteoclast Mitochondria via Nrf2
A Peony Compound Could Help Stop the Bone Erosion That Loosens Joint Implants Artificial hips and knees can transform lives,...
Border Terrier’s Widespread Eosinophilia Improves With Dietary Changes
A young Border terrier whose organs became flooded with eosinophils has recovered after a precisely controlled dietary change, offering veterinarians...
Novel DMD Frameshift Variant in Spectrin-Like Repeat 16 Expands Mutation Spectrum
A six-year-old Taiwanese boy with unexplained muscle weakness and a creatine kinase level nearly 20,000 units per liter has led...
Ketamine and Xylazine Combinations Alter Nav1.5 Gene Expression in Pigeons
A routine question in veterinary medicine has produced an unexpectedly precise answer: in pigeons, a single dose of ketamine, xylazine,...
Graphical Review of Bibliometric Methods and Applications in Health Sciences
A new graphical review argues that bibliometric analysis could become one of biomedicine’s most powerful navigation systems, helping researchers see...
ExpoLib Framework Builds MS/MS Exposome Library Tracking Toxicants and Biotransformation Products
Scientists have launched an open mass-spectrometry library designed to help researchers detect hundreds of chemical exposures that routinely disappear into...
Metabolic mapping reveals spatially distinct host carbon reprogramming during Trichinella spiralis infection
A Parasitic Worm Rewires Metabolism in Two Places at Once, Study Finds A parasitic infection caused by Trichinella spiralis appears...
Study Compares BBB-Crossing AAV Capsids for Efficient Central Nervous System Delivery
A new study in mice has sharpened one of gene therapy’s most stubborn problems: getting therapeutic genetic material across the...