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Lab Models Take Center Stage in the Race to Improve Cancer Immunotherapy
Cancer immunotherapy has transformed the treatment landscape for many patients with solid tumors, delivering durable responses in diseases that once...
Common Lupus Gene Variant Boosts Antiviral Defenses at the Cost of Autoimmunity Risk
Why do genetic variants that raise the risk of autoimmune disease remain so common in the human population? Evolutionary logic...
Soy Compound Genistein Shows Promise Against Diabetes-Linked Bone Loss
A humble molecule found in soybeans may hold the key to one of medicine’s most overlooked complications. Genistein, a naturally...
Retracted Fish Nutrigenomics Paper Exposes Undeclared AI Use and Fake References
A review article that promised to map the future of fish nutrigenomics has been struck from the scientific record, and...
AI-Inspired Algorithms Sharpen a Copper-Based Optical Sensor for Arsenic-Tainted Groundwater
Arsenic in the groundwater of Bangladesh remains one of the world’s most severe environmental health crises, with naturally mobilized arsenic...
Scientists Combine Genome and Gene Expression Data to Pinpoint Genes That Set Soybean Height
Plant height may seem like a simple trait, but in soybean it sits at the heart of one of agriculture’s...
African Tree Bark Extract Shows Striking Power Against Breast Cancer in Rats
A towering tree planted along the roadsides of Cameroon and Uganda, valued mostly as an ornament and a source of...
Vitamin cocktail fails to protect the brain after cardiac arrest in landmark trial
A combination therapy that many emergency and critical care physicians had hoped could shield the injured brain after cardiac arrest...
Photon-Counting CT Now Yields Density and Atomic Number Maps
Computed tomography has long been one of medicine’s most powerful windows into the human body, but a fundamental limitation has...
One Atom Apart: Crystal Wiring Trick Pushes Perovskite Solar Cells Past 27 Percent
Perovskite solar cells have spent more than a decade rewriting the record books, but the most valuable real estate in...
Selenium Spray Supercharges Antioxidant-Rich Chinese Dwarf Cherry Fruit
A single trace element, applied as a simple foliar spray at just the right moments of fruit development, can transform...
RUNX3 Emerges as a Master Switch Behind Cancer Chemoresistance
Chemotherapy remains one of the most powerful weapons in modern oncology, yet its effectiveness is routinely undermined by a stubborn...
Immune Enzymes From Neutrophils Quietly Switch Off Fat Burning
For years, immunologists have regarded neutrophils as short-lived first responders, cells that surge into infected or injured tissue, unleash a...
Chemists Program Alkenes With Switchable Radical and Organometallic Sorting
Chemists at Wuhan University have unveiled a nickel-catalysed reaction that can build an impressive range of alkene architectures from the...
Waste Apples Turned Into Lactic and Succinic Acids at Pilot Scale
Every year, a substantial share of the apples grown across Europe never reaches a consumer. The European Union harvested roughly...
Information Theory Meets Machine Learning to Catch Industrial Cyberattacks
Industrial control systems quietly run the modern world. They purify drinking water, route electricity through power grids, manage chemical plants,...
Human-Centered Design May Close Agriculture’s Stubborn Technology Adoption Gap
Despite a decade of breathless headlines about artificial intelligence, agricultural robots, and fully autonomous farms, the berries, avocados, oranges, and...
Scientists Block a Survival Switch That Lets Melanoma Cells Spread
Melanoma is among the most aggressive forms of skin cancer, and its deadliest feature is not the original tumor but...
Muscle Strains Leave Lasting Fat Deposits That Rehabilitation Cannot Reverse
Muscle strains are among the most common injuries in sport, striking everyone from weekend joggers to elite professionals, and they...
Spirocycle Turns Sulfur Into a Multicentred Catalyst Through Through-Space Orbital Engineering
Chemists have long relied on a single trick to make the inert atoms of the p-block of the periodic table...