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From Ancient Campfires to Cell-Cultured Steak: How Meat Is Being Reinvented for a Sustainable Future
Meat has shaped human history in ways few other foods can claim. From the earliest days of hominin evolution, regular...
AI Reads the Electrical Rhythm of Labor to Estimate Cervical Dilation Without Invasive Exams
For generations, the progress of childbirth has been tracked in a strikingly low-tech way: a clinician’s gloved fingers, inserted repeatedly...
Blue LED and a Reusable Nanocomposite Light the Way to N-Alkylated Indazolones
Chemists at the Vellore Institute of Technology in India have developed a reusable photocatalyst that can forge carbon–nitrogen bonds in...
Mutational Fingerprints Reveal the Hidden Forces Driving Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed malignancies in men worldwide, yet the processes that sculpt its genome...
Tiny AI Model Learns to Tell Individual Turkeys Apart in Crowded Barns
In the dim, crowded interior of a commercial turkey barn, one bird looks much like another. Thousands of large, white-feathered...
ROS1 Fusion Subtype Shapes Survival in Advanced Lung Cancer, Real-World Data Show
A rare but pivotal genetic alteration in lung cancer is once again in the spotlight, and this time the story...
Stroke Leaves Hidden Fingerprints in Bone, Landmark Scan Study Reveals
More than 100 million people worldwide are living as survivors of ischemic stroke, a number that continues to climb as...
Organoid Study Reveals How WNT2B Mutations Drive Deadly Congenital Diarrhea
A rare and devastating genetic condition known as Diarrhea-9 has long frustrated scientists trying to understand exactly how it destroys...
Spherical Topic Models Bring Coherence to Short-Text Machine Learning
Probabilistic topic models have long served as one of the workhorses of text mining, offering a statistical lens through which...
Nitrate Feeds Vanilla Best as Ammonium Slows Growth, Study Finds
Vanilla is one of the most coveted flavours on Earth, and the world cannot get enough of it. Global demand...
Dogs May Not Respond to Thalidomide, Genetic Study Warns
Thalidomide is one of the most infamous drugs in modern medicine, a sedative withdrawn from the market in 1961 after...
AI Reads Carotid Scans to Predict Which Plaques Will Cause Strokes
Every year, ischemic stroke claims millions of lives and leaves countless survivors with permanent disability, and one of its most...
New Web Tool Lets Researchers Hand-Pick Cells Directly on Spatial Omics Images
Spatial biology has been having its breakout decade. Technologies such as imaging mass cytometry, multiplexed immunofluorescence and other multiplexed imaging...
AI Podcasts Sound Human but Miss the Hidden Rhythm of Real Conversation
Artificially generated podcasts have become one of the most striking demonstrations of how far speech technology has come. Google’s NotebookLM,...
Orphan Bitter Taste Receptors Found on Cell Surfaces, Hinting at Hidden Functions
Bitterness is often dismissed as a nuisance of the dinner plate, the flavor note that makes children push away Brussels...
Mindfulness Therapy Boosts Sexual Self-Esteem in Women After Mastectomy
A randomized controlled trial conducted in Iran has found that an eight-week mindfulness-based cognitive therapy program can substantially improve sexual...
AI-Powered Gamified App Linked to Sharper Blood Pressure Drops in Real-World Study
Hypertension remains one of medicine’s most stubborn paradoxes: effective drugs exist, guidelines are clear, and yet fewer than one in...
Hidden RNA Switch Helps Esophageal Cancer Evade Ferroptotic Cell Death
Esophageal cancer remains one of the most lethal malignancies worldwide, and a new study published in Cellular and Molecular Life...
Free Persistent Identifiers Arrive for Open-Access Journals in New Open-Source Toolkit
Persistent identifiers have quietly become the plumbing of modern science. Every time a researcher cites a paper, links a dataset,...
Epigenetic Switches Could Arm Rice Against Its Deadliest Pathogens
Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet every harvest season it fights a silent war against two devastating enemies:...