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Tiny Weld Defects Can Redirect How Aluminum Joints Break
A hidden defect only a fraction of a millimeter long can determine where a friction stir weld ultimately breaks, according...
Why Vacuum-Packaged Beef Turns Brown Remains a Meat Science Mystery
Vacuum packaging is supposed to protect beef from oxygen, extend its useful life and create the conditions for wet aging....
Nanoparticles Could Help Radiation Turn Cancer Immunity Into Durable Treatment
Radiotherapy may do more than destroy cancer cells at the site of treatment: it can also alert the immune system...
Endoscopic Treatment Shows Promise for Chronic Radiation-Related Intestinal Bleeding
Pelvic radiotherapy saves lives by controlling cancers of the prostate, cervix, bladder and other organs, but the treatment can leave...
Cerasomes Combine Liposomes and Silica for More Precise Drug Delivery
A class of hybrid nanoparticles could help address one of nanomedicine’s most persistent problems: how to carry a therapeutic molecule...
Live Cell Shapes Reveal How Tissues Choose Their Final Identities
Cells do not become specialized in a single instant. During development, they gradually change their molecular programs, position, shape, polarity...
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Samples Chlorophyll-a Hotspots
An underwater robot has learned to hunt for the ocean’s richest patches of microscopic plant life, using new measurements to...
AI Finds Greener Way to Extract Cassia Seed Compounds with Ultrasound
A small medicinal plant seed has become the testing ground for a research strategy that combines ultrasound, a biodegradable solvent...
Cashew Study Identifies Stable Varieties for Climate-Resilient Coastal Farming
Cashew breeders in India have identified a small group of varieties that produced consistently under changing growing conditions, offering a...
AI Model Spots Programming Blockages Before Students Ask for Help
When a novice programmer becomes stuck, the warning signs may appear long before a hand rises in the classroom. Typing...
Singapore Study Explores Nursing Home Residents’ Views on a New Hip Protector
A hip protector designed with older adults in mind has passed an important early test in a Singapore nursing home,...
Study Explores Visual Category Learning in Zebrafish and Xenotoca Fish
Two small freshwater fish have learned to sort unfamiliar images into visual categories, offering new evidence that the ability to...
New Artery-on-a-Chip Technologies Advance Construction Strategies and Disease Modeling
Cardiovascular disease remains the world’s leading cause of death, and the arteries—dynamic tubes that constantly bend, stretch, pulse and respond...
Refining Prognosis During Treatment for Molecularly Defined Lower-Risk Myelofibrosis
A New “Living” Risk Score Could Reveal Which Myelofibrosis Patients Are Truly in Danger For patients with myelofibrosis, a diagnosis...
Functional genomics maps broad, convergent asciminib resistance mechanisms in BCR::ABL1
A sweeping genetic map of drug resistance in chronic myeloid leukemia has revealed that cancer cells can evade asciminib through...
Small Cell Lung Cancer Relies on Targetable Nonsense-Mediated Decay for Immune Control
A Hidden RNA-Decay System May Be the Achilles’ Heel of Small-Cell Lung Cancer Small-cell lung cancer, one of the most...
Leaked mitochondrial DNA triggers cGAS-STING signaling, accelerating ovarian aging in oocytes
A tiny genetic escape inside aging eggs may help explain why the ovary is often the first major organ system...
Metabolic Circuit in Tumor-Infiltrating Tregs Drives Cancer Progression by Aging NK Cells
Cancer’s ability to evade the immune system may depend on a metabolic conversation between two very different immune-cell populations, according...
Atlas maps 2.4 million cardiac cells across 209 people, healthy and diseased
A new study presents what its title describes as an integrated atlas of 2.4 million cardiac cells collected from 209...
Multiancestry Alzheimer’s risk score links cognitive decline and neuropathology across populations
Alzheimer’s disease research is entering a phase in which inherited risk is being measured across populations rather than inferred primarily...