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Novel DMD Frameshift Variant in Spectrin-Like Repeat 16 Expands Mutation Spectrum
A six-year-old Taiwanese boy with unexplained muscle weakness and a creatine kinase level nearly 20,000 units per liter has led...
Online Weight-Loss Program Helps Mexican Adults, Randomized Trial Finds
Obesity is often described as a personal struggle, but in Mexico it has become a population-wide health emergency—and a new...
Sex-Specific Liver Effects of Sweetened Alcohol and Tannic Acid in Adolescent Rats
Sweetened Alcohol Damages Adolescent Rat Livers Differently in Males and Females A laboratory study has found that consuming alcohol together...
Barley Cold-Inducible Disordered Protein CISP Acts as a Small RNA Chaperone
Cold-Induced Barley Protein Helps Plants Keep RNA Unwound in the Deep Cold A tiny protein found in barley roots may...
Ketamine and Xylazine Combinations Alter Nav1.5 Gene Expression in Pigeons
A routine question in veterinary medicine has produced an unexpectedly precise answer: in pigeons, a single dose of ketamine, xylazine,...
Case Series: Inotuzumab Salvage Therapy for Relapsed B-ALL After CAR-T and HSCT
A small clinical study has delivered an unexpectedly strong signal in one of leukemia medicine’s most difficult treatment situations: three...
Trial tests pancreatic enzymes, bile acids in severely malnourished acutely ill children
A large international clinical trial has found that two biologically promising treatments—pancreatic digestive enzymes and the bile acid ursodeoxycholic acid—did...
Real-World Study Tests Vitamin D’s Impact on Treatment-Free Survival in Early CLL
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is giving researchers an unexpected reason to look more closely at vitamin D. In a large...
GLP-1RA Type 1 Diabetes Trials Criticized for Inadequate Hypoglycemia Reporting
A warning from a new clinical critique is putting a spotlight on a potentially dangerous blind spot in research on...
Statistical Analysis Offers New Insights Into Immunity, Inflammation, and Disease
Biomedical research can hinge on a deceptively small detail: whether a statistical result is reported clearly enough for another scientist...
What Nurses Consider When Recommending mHealth Apps to People With Chronic Conditions
Nurses Say Health Apps Need Trust, Accessibility and Seamless Medical-Record Links Before They Can Transform Chronic-Care Mobile health applications are...
Study Maps Hepatitis C Diversity and Drug Resistance Across Viet Nam
Vietnam’s Hepatitis C Epidemic Reveals a Hidden Map of Viral Diversity and Drug Resistance A sweeping genetic survey of hepatitis...
Why Economic Evidence Matters for Retaining Nurses Across Europe
Europe’s nursing shortage is approaching a point where hospitals may be forced to treat staff retention as an economic emergency,...
Cardiovascular Health in Minority Groups: From Biology to Social and Discrimination Drivers
A sweeping analysis of nearly 2,000 scientific publications has revealed a major transformation in how researchers explain cardiovascular disparities affecting...
Few chikungunya cases in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: emerging public health threat or not?
A surprisingly small number of chikungunya infections detected among thousands of patients with fever in Indonesia’s Yogyakarta region is raising...
Graphical Review of Bibliometric Methods and Applications in Health Sciences
A new graphical review argues that bibliometric analysis could become one of biomedicine’s most powerful navigation systems, helping researchers see...
Machine Learning Model Predicts Odor-Driven Behavioral Preferences for Odorant Molecules
Smells can do more than make food seem appealing or unpleasant: they can steer an animal’s behavior before it has...
PD-CLIP Enables Zero-Shot Fine-Grained Plant Disease Diagnosis Through Contrastive AI Training
Plant diseases are moving faster, spreading farther and becoming harder to identify, creating an escalating threat to global food security....
Metabolomics Reveals Mineral-Driven Adaptation in Lactiplantibacillus pentosus During Milk Fermentation
A Mineral Boost Could Transform How Probiotic Bacteria Ferment Milk A carefully chosen mineral combination has dramatically improved the growth...
DigitalPedon introduces digital twins for soil profile monitoring and global data interoperability
A new open-source software framework is turning the soil beneath our feet into a living digital object—one that can change...