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New Late-Breaking Abstracts for the 2026 MASCC/ISOO Annual Meeting
A major collection of late-breaking research from the 2026 MASCC/ISOO Annual Meeting has been published in Supportive Care in Cancer,...
THINKERS: AI Combines Neural and Expert Reasoning for Lung Cancer Brain Metastases
A new artificial intelligence model is opening a potential path toward more personalized treatment for patients whose lung cancer has...
Symptom Appraisal and Help-Seeking Behaviors Delay Cancer Diagnosis in Young Adults
Cancer is often described as an older person’s disease, but a qualitative study of young adults in the United States...
Cancer Survivors’ Follow-Up Oncology Visits Shifted to Primary Care, Study Finds
Cancer survivors who leave specialist oncology clinics for follow-up in primary care are not disappearing from the cancer system, according...
Outcome Scale Alters Treatment Effect Estimates in Traumatic Brain Injury Trials
A new analysis of traumatic brain injury trials is challenging a common assumption in medical evidence: that results measured with...
Connectome-Constrained Fly Vision Model Reveals Stable Direction Representations Within Limited Scales
A new study of a connectome-constrained model of the fruit fly visual system has uncovered a striking limit to neural...
Study Maps Tobacco MADS-Box Genes and Their Roles in Axillary Bud Development
A previously overlooked genetic network may help explain why tobacco plants rapidly produce side shoots after their main growing tip...
Gypsy Retrotransposon Insertion Causes Stay-Green Chinese Cabbage by Blocking Chlorophyll b Breakdown
Chinese cabbage may have found a new way to remain green long after its leaves would normally begin to yellow....
Human long noncoding RNA localization is isoform-specific, obscured by gene-level analysis
Long non-coding RNAs have long been treated as if each gene produces a single molecular identity: one RNA, one cellular...
Dual clocks reveal Turkevich gold nanoparticle kinetics through operando video analysis
Gold nanoparticles have long announced their birth with a dramatic change in colour, shifting from pale yellow to deep ruby...
Smart Wearable Hydrogel Devices Promise Precision Drug Delivery Through Skin
Wearable drug-delivery patches are moving beyond the familiar image of a passive adhesive strip. A new critical review in Biomedical...
HydroGym Trains and Evaluates AI for Active Fluid Dynamics Control
Fluid dynamics has a new training ground for artificial intelligence, and its name is HydroGym. An international research team has...
Stereotactic radiation shows favorable bowel-related quality of life in localized prostate cancer
Philadelphia—A large randomized clinical trial has found that stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), an increasingly used form of highly focused...
Scripps Research’s Jeffery Kelly Elected to European Academy of Engineering
LA JOLLA, California—Jeffery Kelly, the H. Lutcher Brown Professor of Chemistry at Scripps Research, has been elected to the European...
Buried Underwear Reveals Land Use Is Crucial for Soil Health
Soil may be hidden beneath our feet, but its biological activity could soon become one of the most visible indicators...
How plants evolved molecular switches to survive rising heat
Ghent, 26 August 2026 — Plants cannot escape a heat wave, retreat into shade or move toward a cooler environment....
T Cells Mount Powerful Defense Against Zika Virus
Zika virus vaccines have long faced a difficult immunological problem: the antibodies they generate may protect against infection, but they...
Zika Vaccine With E Protein Fusion-Loop Mutations Protects Through CD8+ T Cells
Zika virus vaccine research has taken a decisive turn toward understanding not only whether vaccination prevents infection, but also which...
Scientists develop general strategy for multicolor fluorogenic peptides enabling wash-free bioassays
A new study in Nature Chemistry describes a general strategy for turning short peptides into brightly coloured fluorescent reporters that...
Altered bone marrow niche creates innate immune memory linked to heart dysfunction
A new study has identified the bone marrow as a possible command center for a form of immune memory that...