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New atrioventricular valve regurgitation emerges after transcatheter aortic valve replacement
The rise of transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, has transformed the treatment of severe aortic stenosis, offering a minimally...
MicroRNAs curb scar-forming liver cells, enabling fibrosis regression in zebrafish
Tiny genetic switches called microRNAs may offer a new way to reverse liver fibrosis, one of the most stubborn and...
Wood-based adsorbents remove pharmaceuticals from wastewater, review finds
Every year, industrial and domestic effluents discharge roughly 0.3 billion tons of micropollutants into the world’s water bodies, a cocktail...
Multiferroic BiFeO3 ceramics boost electromagnetic power via magnetostatic surface waves
In a result that could reshape how engineers think about radio-frequency signal control, a team of researchers in Brazil and...
Fe–Ni–Ce Catalysts Tune Carbon Structure in Methane Decomposition
In the global race to produce clean hydrogen without pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, one of the most elegant...
Organic acid cross-linked PVA/starch films extend apple shelf life
A team of researchers in New Delhi has developed a biodegradable food packaging film made from polyvinyl alcohol and starch,...
Selenium-doped carbon dots deliver dsRNA to combat Phytophthora diseases
Soybean farmers have long battled Phytophthora root rot, a devastating oomycete disease that destroys crops worldwide, but a new breakthrough...
Graph attention model improves recommendations by weighting users’ past interactions
Recommender systems shape much of the modern internet, quietly deciding which films appear on a streaming homepage, which products surface...
Optical strain and spectral-spatial networks decode micro-expressions
Micro-expressions are the fleeting, involuntary facial movements that betray a person’s true emotional state in a fraction of a second,...
Multimodal biosignals power deep learning stress detection
Scientists have taught an artificial intelligence to read stress directly from the body, and the results suggest that a simple...
Genetically predicted vitamin D levels show no link to head and neck cancer risk
Vitamin D has long been cast as a kind of nutritional guardian against cancer, a molecule whose deficiency seemed to...
Adam Optimizer’s Neural Network Training Regimes Mapped Through Observable Measurements
Adam, the adaptive optimization algorithm that underpins much of modern deep learning, has long been treated as something of a...
Culturally tailored food vouchers ease food insecurity in Latino cancer patients
A simple $40 monthly grocery voucher, redeemable at the local stores patients already trust, appears to have done what many...
Machine learning predicts functional outcomes after vestibular schwannoma surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis
Vestibular schwannomas, benign tumours arising from the vestibular division of the eighth cranial nerve, sit in one of the most...
Refractory Status Epilepticus in Mexico: Clinical Features and Management from 102 Patients
Status epilepticus—a seizure that refuses to stop—is one of the most feared emergencies in neurology, and when it shrugs off...
Fractal Analysis Tracks Structural Changes in Cultured Neurons
The intricate branching architecture of neurons has long fascinated neuroscientists, not only for its beauty but because it holds the...
Sorghum cold tolerance genes vary by growth stage, revealing trade-offs
Cold stress remains one of the most stubborn barriers standing between sorghum and the temperate farmland it could otherwise transform....
Multi-omics reveals metabolic regulation of petal color in Phalaenopsis
In a finding that is already rippling through the world of ornamental plant science, researchers in China have pieced together,...
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium carrying Tn1546-plasmid rep17 found in Algerian maternity wards
Two hospitalised patients in obstetrics and gynaecology departments in northeastern Algeria, recovering from post-operative wound infections, turned out to be...
Chemical fabrication of SnO2/Co3O4/Si photodetector for visible-infrared light detection
Researchers in Iraq have fabricated a broadband photodetector that can sense light across both the visible and infrared parts of...