Biology
Drift metrics predict how synthetic clinical text fails on real patient notes
Researchers show that lexical and embedding-based drift measures between synthetic and real clinical text moderately predict how much de-identification models...
Computational screen of 407,270 natural compounds yields four predicted dengue polymerase inhibitors
A purely computational study screened 407,270 natural compounds against the dengue virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and identified four candidates with...
DNA Barcodes Reveal a New Bean Clam Species Hidden in Kuwait’s Intertidal Waters
DNA barcoding of Kuwaiti intertidal clams has revealed a deeply divergent lineage now described as Didimacar bajelaopsis, a new noetiid...
Wildfires and Logging Leave Lasting Scars on Patagonia’s Southern Beech Forests
A 60-year field study in Tierra del Fuego finds that logging and wildfire, especially in combination, have permanently altered the...
Omega-3 Fatty Acids Linked to Better Lung Health in Smokers Through Epigenetic Recovery
A large observational study of former and current smokers found that higher blood omega-3 fatty acids were associated with better...
Faster Radar or Sharper Optics: Rethinking Satellite Burn-Severity Mapping
A study of 9,129 North American wildfires finds that radar delivers the fastest post-fire satellite imagery while multispectral sensors map...
Survey Finds Limb Deformities Common in Finnish Dachshunds and Tied to Less Exercise
An online survey of Finnish Dachshund owners found that musculoskeletal disorders and abnormal limb conformations are common in the breed...
Mitochondrial DNA methylation signals in WGBS are mostly technical artifacts
A systematic analysis of hundreds of WGBS datasets finds that apparent mitochondrial DNA methylation is driven mainly by technical artifacts,...
Human Stem Cell Fusion Emerges as a Rare but Promising Route to Tissue Repair
A systematic review finds that only 47 human studies address fusion between mesenchymal stem/stromal cells and tissue-specific cells, suggesting regenerative...
Invasive Phragmites reshapes salt marsh soil microbes without changing diversity
A study of a Connecticut brackish salt marsh found that invasive Phragmites australis was associated with shifts in soil bacterial...
Endangered Mexican Pine Held Its Climate Niche for 21,000 Years
Ecological niche modeling shows the endangered Mexican pine Pinus rzedowskii has maintained a stable climatic niche from the Last Glacial...
Plackett–Burman Screening Pinpoints Key Media Factors Boosting Bacillus Protease Output
A 12-run Plackett–Burman screening identified agitation speed, sodium nitrate, magnesium sulphate and carbon source as the dominant factors raising extracellular...
DNA Methylation Links Failing Fat Cell Formation to Obesity and Diabetes
A new review describes how aberrant DNA methylation and premature senescence of fat cell precursors drive adipose tissue dysfunction in...
Kaempferol Eases Muscle Wasting in Mice With Cancer Cachexia
A study combining bibliometric mining, network pharmacology and mouse experiments identified the plant flavonoid kaempferol as a candidate compound against...
Pandemic EVIDENCE Collaboration gathers global findings on NPIs at Banff conference
Researchers from 13 countries met in Banff, Canada, to review what the COVID-19 pandemic revealed about the quality of evidence...
New DNA Damage Assay Uses Stable Human Hepatocytes to Mimic Human Metabolism
Researchers built an in-cell ELISA that measures the DNA damage marker γH2AX in stable, non-proliferating human hepatocytes and detected dose-dependent...
Placental BMP8B–SULF2 Signaling Defect Linked to Preeclampsia
Researchers report that reduced BMP8B expression in preeclamptic placentas may impair trophoblast invasion through the BMP8B–SULF2 signaling axis.
AI Learns to Read Equine Emergency Ultrasound Windows in Proof-of-Concept Study
A deep learning model trained on ultrasound images from six healthy horses could recognize most standardized FLASH examination windows, though...
L-Arginine Supplementation Boosts Amino Acid Digestibility in Heat-Stressed Pigs
Supplementing heat-stressed growing pigs with 0.20% free L-arginine increased the apparent ileal digestibility and serum concentrations of most essential amino...
U-Net Variants Compared for Automated Lung Tumor Segmentation on CT Scans
A comparative study of nine U-Net-based deep learning configurations found U-Net with a VGG16 backbone achieved the best overall lung...
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