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Selenium-doped carbon dots deliver dsRNA to combat Phytophthora diseases
Soybean farmers have long battled Phytophthora root rot, a devastating oomycete disease that destroys crops worldwide, but a new breakthrough...
Graph attention model improves recommendations by weighting users’ past interactions
Recommender systems shape much of the modern internet, quietly deciding which films appear on a streaming homepage, which products surface...
Optical strain and spectral-spatial networks decode micro-expressions
Micro-expressions are the fleeting, involuntary facial movements that betray a person’s true emotional state in a fraction of a second,...
Multimodal biosignals power deep learning stress detection
Scientists have taught an artificial intelligence to read stress directly from the body, and the results suggest that a simple...
Genetically predicted vitamin D levels show no link to head and neck cancer risk
Vitamin D has long been cast as a kind of nutritional guardian against cancer, a molecule whose deficiency seemed to...
Adam Optimizer’s Neural Network Training Regimes Mapped Through Observable Measurements
Adam, the adaptive optimization algorithm that underpins much of modern deep learning, has long been treated as something of a...
Culturally tailored food vouchers ease food insecurity in Latino cancer patients
A simple $40 monthly grocery voucher, redeemable at the local stores patients already trust, appears to have done what many...
Machine learning predicts functional outcomes after vestibular schwannoma surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis
Vestibular schwannomas, benign tumours arising from the vestibular division of the eighth cranial nerve, sit in one of the most...
Refractory Status Epilepticus in Mexico: Clinical Features and Management from 102 Patients
Status epilepticus—a seizure that refuses to stop—is one of the most feared emergencies in neurology, and when it shrugs off...
Fractal Analysis Tracks Structural Changes in Cultured Neurons
The intricate branching architecture of neurons has long fascinated neuroscientists, not only for its beauty but because it holds the...
Sorghum cold tolerance genes vary by growth stage, revealing trade-offs
Cold stress remains one of the most stubborn barriers standing between sorghum and the temperate farmland it could otherwise transform....
Multi-omics reveals metabolic regulation of petal color in Phalaenopsis
In a finding that is already rippling through the world of ornamental plant science, researchers in China have pieced together,...
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium carrying Tn1546-plasmid rep17 found in Algerian maternity wards
Two hospitalised patients in obstetrics and gynaecology departments in northeastern Algeria, recovering from post-operative wound infections, turned out to be...
Chemical fabrication of SnO2/Co3O4/Si photodetector for visible-infrared light detection
Researchers in Iraq have fabricated a broadband photodetector that can sense light across both the visible and infrared parts of...
Biomaterials Break Physical Barriers to Boost Drug Delivery in Tumors
For decades, the story of cancer drug delivery has been dominated by chemistry: better ligands, smarter polymers, more potent payloads....
Full-Body AI Agents for Systems Biology and Precision Medicine
Artificial intelligence has transformed biomedical research over the past decade, but most AI systems in biology remain confined to narrow...
3′-Sialyllactose curbs atherosclerosis via gut-immune-cardiovascular axis in mice
A sugar found in human breast milk may hold the key to preventing one of the world’s leading causes of...
Mitochondrial DNA Analysis Uncovers Diversity and Relationships of Black Sea Sturgeons
Sturgeons are among the oldest surviving lineages of bony fish on Earth, having first appeared roughly 200 million years ago...
Gut Microbiome Changes Tied to Drug-Resistant Bacteria in ICU Patients
For decades, intensive care units have been battlegrounds against some of medicine’s most formidable adversaries: bacteria that shrug off nearly...
Giant transposable elements fuel genetic diversity in fermented food fungus
Long before science could sequence a genome, brewers in Japan were unknowingly running one of the world’s longest artificial evolution...