Biology
Sex differences in sepsis treatment responses revealed by preclinical meta-analysis
Sepsis’s Hidden Sex Gap: Massive Analysis of 83 Animal Studies Finds Males Consistently Fare Worse — From Mortality to Organ...
Indian street dogs weigh food rewards against human affection, study finds
Chicken Today, Cuddles Tomorrow: Street Dogs Reveal the Shifting Currency of the Human–Dog Bond For ten days on the streets...
How Shared Genetics Link Major Depression to Physical Health Conditions
Major depressive disorder is often discussed as a disorder of mood, but its effects are rarely confined to the mind....
PGAM1 Links Glycolysis and Autophagy to Control Growth and Stress Resilience
A familiar enzyme at the center of cellular energy production has been found to perform a second, unexpectedly powerful job:...
Satellite observations underestimate widespread carbon accumulation in mature forests
For decades, mature forests have been treated as if their ability to store additional carbon gradually fades toward a biological...
Variant-specific antibodies complement broadly reactive imprinted antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 variants
SARS-CoV-2 variants may be met by two complementary layers of antibody protection, according to a study published in Nature Immunology....
Kaggle Challenge Reveals Lessons for Particle Picking in Cryo-Electron Tomography
Cryo-electron tomography has transformed structural biology by allowing researchers to visualize molecular machinery inside cells and other complex biological environments....
New insights reveal how GluN1–GluN3A NMDA receptors open and respond to modulators
A new study is drawing attention to one of neuroscience’s most important molecular machines: the NMDA receptor, a membrane protein...
Haem Identified as a Maternal Factor in Ticks
A tick’s first meal may be less important for survival than scientists thought. New research on the castor bean tick,...
Panobinostat Protects Splenic B Cells from Radiation Damage, Altering IL-17 Signaling
Radiation Treatment May Have an Unexpected Ally in Panobinostat, a Drug That Helps Rebuild Damaged B Cells Radiotherapy can be...
Climate, land use shape bacterial diversity and nitrogen cycling in headwater sediments
Freshwater streams may look alike on the surface, but beneath the water, their sediments harbor bacterial communities shaped by forces...
Interpretable DNABERT Models Predict DNA Replication Origins in S. cerevisiae
DNA’s replication machinery may be ancient, but one of the newest tools for studying it borrows its logic from artificial...
Kirsten Falk, 1963–2024: Remembering a Scientific Life
Kirsten Falk, a German scientist whose early experiments helped reveal how the immune system identifies infected cells, has been remembered...
How p53 Drives and Could Treat Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases
A protein famous for preventing cancer may also help explain why the immune system turns against the body in rheumatoid...
Engineered Komagataella phaffii Boosts Full-Length Human Type III Collagen Production
A genetically engineered yeast is producing a laboratory-made version of human type III collagen that folds into the same distinctive...
New T2T Bread Wheat Genome Assembly Enables Detailed Satellitome Mapping Re-analysis
Bread wheat’s genomic “dark matter” has come into sharper focus in a new analysis that maps thousands of repetitive DNA...
Ionic Liquid Boosts Microalgal Lipid Extraction for Biofuel Research
Microalgae are being investigated as compact biological factories for renewable fuels, and a new study suggests that an ionic liquid...
Biothreat Test Shows Similar Sensitivity on Two Automated PCR Platforms
Rapid identification of dangerous biological agents can determine how quickly first responders isolate a hazard, protect exposed populations and begin...
Two Tests Could Sharpen Transcription Factor Footprints in V-Plots
A graphical method for locating transcription factors on DNA could become more reliable with two simple tests that distinguish genuine...
Liver Transplant Study Links Long-Term Survival to Immune Epigenetic Remodeling
A long-term study of liver transplant recipients has found that the most pronounced changes in DNA methylation occurred between five...