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Heart unloading boosts cardiomyocyte regeneration via epicardial NRG1–ERBB4 pathway
For more than a century, the adult human heart has been viewed as a terminally differentiated organ, incapable of meaningful...
Partially covalent desolvated cations boost electrochemical CO2 conversion
Electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction has long been celebrated as one of the most promising routes for turning waste emissions into...
How a disease-spreading tick reproduces without males
The Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, has long posed a puzzle to evolutionary biologists and public health officials alike. Unlike...
Damaged lysosomes undergo budding-type fission driven by mitochondrial vesicles
In a discovery that reshapes how biologists think about cellular quality control, researchers have identified an entirely new mechanism by...
Gene mutation dosage predicts prognosis and metastasis across 60,000 cancer samples
In one of the largest analyses of tumor genetics ever assembled, an international team of researchers has shown that the...
Countries’ traits shape health chatbot adoption worldwide, new study finds
A new study published in Nature Health offers one of the most comprehensive pictures to date of why people in...
Galectin-1-high monocytes boost functional memory CD8+ T cell generation
When a virus invades the lungs, the immune system mounts a noisy, visible battle: fever, inflammation, floods of white blood...
Anti-swelling biphasic conductive hydrogels enable 3D-printed implantable bioelectronics
Hydrogels have long been considered one of the most promising material platforms for implantable bioelectronics. Soft, water-rich, and chemically similar...
Engineering a kinase-controlled allosteric switch for improved performance
Scientists have unveiled a powerful new strategy for building protein switches that can be turned on and off by cell...
Wireless contactless well plate tracks cardiac organoid and 3D tissue contraction
In a development that could reshape how scientists study the beating heart in the laboratory, researchers have unveiled a wireless,...
Shape-memory polymer nanocoatings redistribute stress in brittle battery cathodes
Stress-induced fracture has long been recognized as one of the primary culprits behind the degradation of positive electrode active materials...
Exciton interactions enable spin control for bright spin LEDs
Spin light-emitting diodes, devices that translate the orientation of an electron’s spin into the polarization of the light they emit,...
Scientists melt diamond at 1 TPa using shock compression experiments
Carbon, the backbone of all known life and one of the most abundant elements in the universe, has just yielded...
ATRX partners with 9-1-1 and CST to protect genome replication and telomeres
Every time a human cell divides, it must copy roughly six billion letters of DNA—a feat accomplished by molecular machines...
Ferricyanide enables peptide hydrazide ligation in neutral water
Chemists have unveiled a simpler, faster way to stitch together the molecular building blocks of proteins, and the trick involves...
QFRS: Standardizing reporting of forecasting, evaluation, and trading claims in quantitative finance
The world of AI-driven financial forecasting has long suffered from a quiet credibility crisis. Machine learning models routinely report dazzling...
A Unified Generative Distribution Framework for Multimodal Learning
In a development that could reshape how machine learning systems handle the messy, heterogeneous data of the real world, researchers...
Graph neural networks automate conjecture discovery in number theory research
Graph neural networks, the deep learning architectures that have transformed everything from molecular design to social network analysis, are now...
Metformin restores mitochondrial quality control in Down syndrome fibroblasts
Mitochondrial dysfunction has long been recognized as a central feature of Down syndrome, but the precise reasons why the cell’s...
Multiomics approach reverses age-related disease susceptibility in oysters
In the world of infectious disease, aging is almost universally a liability. As animals grow older, their immune systems typically...