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Substantia nigra gene variants linked to acute antipsychotic movement disorders in schizophrenia
A new genetic study is bringing the brain’s movement-control circuitry into sharper focus, suggesting that a person’s risk of developing...
Folate-Targeted Alpha-Lipoic Acid Nanoparticles Protect Neurons in Parkinson’s Cell Model
Parkinson’s disease has long been associated with the gradual loss of dopamine-producing neurons, but the molecular events that push these...
New Techniques Evaluate Lung Function During Cellular Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion
For decades, the decision to accept or reject a donor lung has depended on a narrow set of measurements taken...
Accounting for Model Uncertainty Improves Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation Guidance
For patients living with ventricular tachycardia, the most dangerous part of the disease is often hidden inside electrically damaged heart...
Hypercontractile embryos from older female mice experience implantation failure
A hidden mechanical failure inside the earliest stages of life may help explain why fertility declines so sharply as females...
European summit plant communities show widespread thermophilization, weakly linked to climate warming
Europe’s highest plant communities are getting warmer in character, but not necessarily because the climate above them is warming in...
Scientists design tissue-specific mammalian enhancers that function in mouse embryos
A new study reports a step toward treating mammalian gene regulation as an engineering problem: rather than searching through the...
Long-Term Ambient Air Pollution Exposure Linked to Global Cancer Burden
A new global analysis has linked long-term exposure to three widespread air pollutants with millions of newly diagnosed cancer cases,...
Disrupted Cellular RNA Balance Drives MDA5 Activation During Viral Infection
For decades, antiviral immunity has been described as a molecular surveillance system built to distinguish the genetic material of invading...
Atomic electron tomography reveals crystal nucleation and growth in high-entropy alloys
High-entropy alloys are built from an unusual recipe: instead of relying on one dominant element with smaller additions, they combine...
Experts develop consensus approach for spatially aware clustering beyond benchmarking
Spatial biology has created a problem that conventional clustering benchmarks were never designed to solve. In technologies such as spatial...
Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Achieved Using a Laser Wakefield Accelerator’s MeV Electron Source
Ultrafast electron diffraction has taken a major step toward becoming faster, smaller and more precisely synchronized. In a new proof-of-principle...
Dipole glass enables cryogenic energy storage through unit-cell polar disorder
A new approach to energy storage could keep advanced electronics running in environments where conventional batteries and capacitors begin to...
Wigner Polarons Reveal Wigner Crystal Dynamics in Monolayer Semiconductors
Electrons Freeze into a Quantum Lattice—and Light Can Now Make Them Move For decades, Wigner crystals have represented one of...
Integrated 2D Photosensitive Memory Enables Direct Conversion of Light into Tokens
Artificial intelligence may soon begin processing images before digital data ever reaches a conventional computer. In a study published in...
Scientists Identify Factors Governing Human β2-Adrenergic Receptor–β-Arrestin Complex Assembly
A new study published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology is clarifying how one of the most important signaling complexes...
LAPO Uses LLMs to Optimize Adaptive Query Paths in Key-Value Stores
Researchers have unveiled a new artificial intelligence framework designed to make complex database searches dramatically faster, combining large language models...
Benchmarking ESM2 Across Scales for Predicting Viral Entry Proteins
Viral entry proteins are among the most consequential molecules in infectious disease biology. Positioned at the interface between a virus...
Single-cell RNA sequencing maps gonadal changes during sex reversal in orange-spotted grouper
A single-cell transcriptomic study of the orange-spotted grouper, Epinephelus coioides, is offering an unprecedented view of how a fish gonad...
US Study Links Sex, Race, Education, Income, and Insurance to Early-Onset CVD
A nationwide analysis of more than one million young adults in the United States has revealed striking differences in the...