Biology
Merging Metasurfaces with Image Sensors Enables Ultra-Compact Optoelectronics
Optoelectronic imaging is rapidly shrinking while gaining capability, a shift driven by needs in autonomous navigation, portable medical diagnostics, and...
Software Enables Researchers to Decode Lymphoma’s Cellular Architecture
Cancer outcomes are shaped not just by malignant cells, but by the spatial ecosystem around them—immune neighborhoods, vasculature, and stromal...
Elephant Vaccine Early Results Show Protection Against Deadly Virus
More than 15 years of collaboration between Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and Houston Zoo has produced the first peer-reviewed...
New Imaging Reveals Plant Tissues in Greater Detail
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) and the Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad, have introduced a new...
Blocking Axl Protein Shows Promise for Building Stronger Bones
Osteoporosis steals bone strength over time, leaving millions worldwide more vulnerable to fractures and disability. While today’s therapies can slow...
Tissue-Resident Immune Cells Protect Human Lungs from Viral, Bacterial, Fungal Infections
A new Nature Immunology study reveals that the human lungs harbor a long-lived “reservoir” of tissue-resident memory T cells (T_RM),...
Nanotube Links Enable Communication Between Social Amoebae
Social amoebae coordinate as individual cells form shifting, cooperative assemblies. New findings now suggest that this coordination is supported by...
AI Camera System Tracks Bumblebees, Offering Affordable Insect Monitoring
Researchers at Oregon State University have created a low-cost, semi-automated, AI-enabled monitoring approach that uses remote cameras to survey bumblebees...
TIE1 suppresses fertilization-independent endosperm development by recruiting PRC2
In fully autonomous apomixis, plants can generate clonal seeds without fertilization, a strategy that could stabilize hybrid vigour in crop...
Forces of Push and Pull Shape How Blood Flows Through Vessels
Blood vessels must form in a way that is both precise and reliable, so that oxygen and nutrients can reach...
How the body’s natural recycling system may reduce inflammation
Leuven, Belgium — 28 July 2026 — Researchers from VIB and KU Leuven, working with international collaborators, report that disabling...
Bubble streams help sperm whales sleep deeply underwater
Sperm whales don’t sleep the way most animals do. Instead of drifting quietly at the surface, these massive mammals can...
Chitosan Hydrogel Stabilizes Red Blood Cell Membranes for Environmental Sensors
Natural cell membranes excel at biological recognition, but translating their sensing abilities into practical devices is notoriously difficult. Once embedded...
Nagoya Institute Scientists Identify Molecular Basis of Red-Green Color Vision
Primate color vision depends on three cone pigments that all bind the same chromophore, 11-cis-retinal. Yet small differences in the...
Rapid path to antibiotic resistance accelerates spread and treatment failures
Antibiotic resistance is evolving faster than many treatment pipelines can keep up with, largely because bacteria can acquire survival traits...
Study Finds Casdatifan Produces Durable Tumor Responses in Advanced Kidney Cancer
A new multi-center Phase 1 study is testing casdatifan, an investigational oral therapy designed to inhibit hypoxia-inducible factor-2 alpha (HIF-2α),...
Senolytic PROTAC Slows Age-Related Intervertebral Disc Degeneration in Male Mice
Aging intervertebral discs are a major contributor to chronic low back pain, yet the biological chain of events that turns...
Nuclear Escape Accelerates as Stress Builds Inside the Atomic Nucleus
Under prolonged stretch, epithelial tissues can’t simply “hold on”—they remodel. A new Nature Physics study from IBEC reveals how cells...
Lipid Regulator Modulates Sonic Hedgehog Pathway, Shaping Heart and Lungs
Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have identified a precise way the Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) pathway is regulated during...
Stomach Signals Help Brain Build Memories, New Study Reveals
Viral memories may be more than a brain phenomenon. French writer Marcel Proust’s childhood recollections—triggered by the taste of a...