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VITAL predicts peptide–protein interactions quantitatively while accounting for molecular interfaces
Peptide–protein interactions sit at the center of many biological processes, from cellular signaling and immune regulation to the action of...
Co-Packaged Optics Could Boost High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence
The next great leap in artificial intelligence may depend on a technology that does not make processors faster at all....
Room-Temperature Cavity-Magnonic Source Generates Correlated Microwave Magnon-Polariton Pairs
Microwave technology is entering a new phase in which quantum behavior may no longer be confined to dilution refrigerators and...
Study uncovers hidden drivers behind aggressive childhood cancers
Children with rhabdomyosarcoma whose tumours lack the genetic marker traditionally associated with the most dangerous form of the disease may...
Quantum Simulators Gain Reliable Error Estimates
Quantum simulators have long promised to reveal how complex quantum matter behaves—systems so difficult to calculate that even the most...
Calcified Tissue International and Musculoskeletal Research Names New Co-Editors-in-Chief
The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) has announced a major change in the scientific leadership of Calcified Tissue International and Musculoskeletal...
New necroferrins strategy simultaneously targets necroptosis and ferroptosis
A new review in Ferroptosis and Oxidative Stress examines whether one class of compounds could suppress two interconnected forms of...
Delayed Bioorthogonal-Like STING Activation Enhances mRNA Vaccine Antitumor Immunity
A new mRNA vaccine strategy designed to activate antitumor immunity without undermining the production of vaccine antigens has shown promising...
Flowering Plants’ Taxonomic Traits Reveal a Globally Consistent Biogeographic Pattern
Plants may look wildly different from one continent to another, yet a new global analysis suggests that the world’s flowering...
Cortical thinning precedes high amyloid levels by at least seven years
A new study in Nature Neuroscience reports that changes in the thickness of the cerebral cortex can appear at least...
Microwave Plasmonic Resonators Reach Deep-Subwavelength Exceptional Point to Boost Sensing
A new study has reported a way to push exceptional-point physics into an unusually small microwave platform, creating a deep-subwavelength...
Gut cGAS–STING–IFN signaling promotes obesity by reducing microbiota-derived IAA in male mice
A molecular alarm system best known for detecting misplaced DNA may be helping drive obesity from inside the intestine, according...
Chemigenetic Biosensor Tracks Endogenous Ras Activity in Living Cells During Drug Research
Ras, one of the cell’s most influential molecular switches, has become the focus of a new live-cell imaging technology designed...
Chronic Kidney Disease in Women: Global Burden and Metabolic-Cardiovascular Connections
Chronic kidney disease has become a rapidly expanding global health threat for women, with the number of women living with...
Molecular Self-Assembly Enables High-Throughput DNA Fragment Synthesis from Overlapping Oligonucleotides
DNA synthesis has become one of synthetic biology’s most powerful enabling technologies—and one of its most persistent bottlenecks. Although researchers...
Dynamic duo weaves hierarchical DNA materials using two classes of biomolecular nanomachines
Researchers in Japan have developed a molecular construction system that uses two chemically powered biomolecular machines to build interconnected DNA...
Wiley Launches First Spectral Analysis API Portfolio to Speed Substance Identification
Wiley has launched a new portfolio of application programming interfaces designed to bring spectral databases, chemical-analysis algorithms, and predictive models...
Wildlife Disease Increases with Urban Density, Habitat Connectivity and Climate Change
Coyotes are becoming an increasingly important signal of how urban growth, fragmented habitats and a warming climate are reshaping wildlife...
Localized recurrent connections control neural activity dimensionality across brain regions
A new study suggests that the brain’s neural activity may be governed by a surprisingly simple principle: strong, highly localized...
Global study finds traumatic brain injury causes vary widely
Every year, traumatic brain injury kills nearly 5 million people worldwide and affects tens of millions more, yet a new...