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Immunotherapy Shows Promise Against Hard-to-Treat Ovarian Cancer Subtype
A small but important subset of ovarian cancers long regarded as resistant to both chemotherapy and immunotherapy may contain an...
Could Autonomous AI Outperform AI-Assisted Physicians in Delivering the Best Medical Care?
Artificial intelligence is moving from the research laboratory into examination rooms, hospitals and home-care platforms, raising a question that could...
Quantum Light Engines Could Power a New Generation of Microscopic Machines
What happens when a heat engine is reduced to a single atom interacting with particles of light? The question may...
Cardiac stress marker changes may better predict heart disease in older adults
A blood test that captures subtle changes in cardiac strain may offer a sharper way to identify older adults at...
Pesticide exposure disrupts ants’ behavior and navigation
A sudden surge in ant activity after pesticide bait is placed in a home or garden may not mean the...
New framework organizes complex knowledge, evidence, and records across data lakehouses
Traumatic brain injury is no longer being treated as a single event with a single biological signature. A proposed data...
Level III Neonatal ICUs Vary in Patients, Services, and Outcomes
A new study is challenging the idea that all Level III neonatal intensive care units are interchangeable. Although hospitals grouped...
Explainable Biomedical Foundation Model Learns Concepts Through Large-Scale Vision-Language Pretraining
Medical artificial intelligence has reached a point where being right is no longer enough. In hospitals, clinicians must also understand...
Machine Learning Reveals Artistic Fingerprints in Jazz
Jazz has long been treated as an art of the moment: a conversation between musicians, a negotiation with rhythm, and...
MetaboAnalyst 6.0 Advances Exposomics from LC–MS2 Processing to Causal Dose–Response Modeling
Environmental exposures rarely arrive one at a time. People encounter complex mixtures of pesticides, industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics, combustion products...
Study compares cold-stored and room-temperature platelets during cardiac surgery
A new study published in JAMA reports that cold-stored platelets may be just as effective as conventional room-temperature platelets for...
Ocean research offers opportunities for healthier, more sustainable futures
Brazil could improve public health and reduce pressure on marine ecosystems by encouraging greater seafood consumption, expanding nutritionally diverse aquaculture,...
Researchers improve triple-junction solar cells through defect passivation and optical management
Perovskite/perovskite/silicon triple-junction solar cells have taken another significant step toward the efficiency levels needed to transform next-generation photovoltaics. In a...
Arabidopsis Reveals Imbalance Between Chloroplast Proton Motive Force and ATP Levels
Plants are often portrayed as nature’s quiet solar panels, converting sunlight into chemical energy with remarkable efficiency. Yet inside every...
Systematic Review Examines How Antidepressants Influence Breastfeeding Behaviors
A new systematic review is putting a closely watched question in the spotlight: whether taking antidepressants during pregnancy or after...
Machine learning accelerates climate solutions from ideas to real-world impact
AI-Guided Materials Discovery Produces New Methane-Capture Frameworks A new machine-learning-guided workflow has produced two promising materials for separating methane from...
Penn State to Lead National AI Initiative to Cut Geothermal Power Costs
Portland State University is leading a national research effort to use artificial intelligence to make geothermal energy cheaper and less...
Red Blood Cells Inspire Next-Generation Nanocarriers for Targeted Therapies
Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a configurable nanocarrier built from the lipids of human red blood cells,...
New study overturns earlier findings on how plants recover from drought
A sunflower may look recovered after a drought, but inside its stem and leaves, the damage can remain permanently etched...
Derepressed Endogenous Retroviruses Activate Microglia, Driving Inflammation and Cellular Senescence
A dormant viral legacy embedded in the human genome may be helping to push the brain’s immune cells toward chronic...