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FAPI-04 PET/CT outperforms FDG in detecting recurrent breast cancer after surgery
A radioactive tracer engineered to illuminate the fibrous scaffolding surrounding tumor cells — rather than the tumors’ appetite for sugar...
Vision-FFR trial compares vFFR with optical coherence tomography in chronic coronary syndromes
Every day in catheterization laboratories around the world, cardiologists confront the same frustrating category of blockage: the intermediate coronary stenosis,...
Kv1.3 channel targets macrophage immunity to ease fatty liver disease
One of the world’s most common chronic liver diseases may have a surprisingly precise weak point: a single pore in...
How microbes strip halogens from organic pollutants
Deep in contaminated soil and groundwater, some of the most stubborn synthetic chemicals on Earth are being quietly dismantled by...
Mixed brain pathologies common in Down syndrome regardless of Alzheimer’s status
Down syndrome has long been recognized as one of the most predictable models of Alzheimer’s disease in all of medicine,...
Wheatgrass extract nanoemulsion hydrogel enhances dermal targeting against skin cancer
Wheatgrass, the young grass of common wheat (Triticum aestivum), has spent decades as a fixture of juice bars and wellness...
Quantum Dot Catalysts Boost Solar-Powered Hydrogen Fuel Production
A spoonful of catalyst, a flask of water and a beam of simulated sunlight: it is the simplest recipe imaginable...
Rice husk nanocomposite breaks down toxic benzene and toluene using visible light
Every year, the world’s rice mills strip away enormous tonnages of husk, a silica- and carbon-rich agricultural residue that is...
Passive radiative cooling paints bridge materials design and real-world performance
The most promising climate technologies of the decade sometimes arrive in the least glamorous packaging, and few examples are more...
Enhanced Dissolved Gas Features Enable Multi-Grained Power Transformer Fault Diagnosis
Deep inside the humming steel tanks that step electricity up and down the modern grid, failing machines leave a chemical...
Deep Reinforcement Learning Meets Medical Imaging: Promise and Pitfalls
A new map of one of medicine’s fastest-moving frontiers has arrived, and it points toward machines that learn to read...
New variable priority approach improves general out-of-distribution detection
Machine learning models are famously confident, sometimes catastrophically so. Ask a survival model to estimate a cancer patient’s five-year prognosis...
Review maps methods for analyzing cognitive impairment in cancer trials
For hundreds of thousands of cancer survivors, the cruelest legacy of treatment is not the tumor but the fog that...
Federated AI Clusters Patient Health Risks Without Sharing Data
Imagine hospitals scattered across a country jointly teaching a single artificial intelligence to spot hidden health-risk patterns — without a...
Meningioma recurrence risk estimates vary with era, classification, geography, healthcare
When a meningioma is removed, the question that haunts every follow-up scan is deceptively simple: will it come back? For...
Breast cancer survivors face fertility challenges, review finds
For a young woman, a breast cancer diagnosis often lands as a double blow: the immediate threat to her life,...
Unequal colonoscopy follow-up and precancer detection after positive stool blood test
An at-home stool test is only the first half of a colon cancer screening — and skipping the second half...
Injury-Site Monitoring After Spinal Cord Injury: 109 Patients Across Five ICUs
When a severe accident crushes a human spinal cord, the most dangerous hours unfold silently. Surgeons can realign the spine,...
Cross-Species AI Predicts Human Interneuron Genes from Mouse Electrical Signatures
In a result that blurs the line between laboratory animal and human neuroscience, researchers have shown that an artificial intelligence...
Selection mapping uncovers candidate genes for day-neutral flowering in cotton
For decades, cotton breeders transformed a tropical, sun-calibrated plant into a crop that flowers on schedule anywhere on Earth —...