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Protozoan Waste Packets Turn Out to Be Shields for Dangerous Bacteria
Every drop of natural water, every handful of soil, and even the interiors of our own bodies teem with protozoa,...
AI Learns to Draw Decision Boundaries as Readable Equations
Machine learning models are famous for their uncanny accuracy and infamous for their opacity. A random forest or a neural...
PET Imaging Reveals Whether Immunotherapy Drugs Actually Reach Their Tumour Targets
Immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed the treatment landscape for many cancers, yet a stubborn problem continues to shadow their clinical...
Cryo-EM Reveals the Dynamic Machinery That Switches Genes On
Every cell in the human body carries the same genome, yet a neuron, a hepatocyte, and an immune cell behave...
Baby Girls Look Longer at Faces Than Boys Within Hours of Birth, Study Finds
Within hours of drawing their first breath, newborn babies may already display one of the most quietly provocative differences in...
AI Framework Aligns Scanning Medical Images by Separating Motion From Contrast Flow
Every few seconds inside a scanning suite, a quiet race unfolds between two forces that pull a medical image apart....
Banana Peel Hydrogel Packed With Drought-Defying Bacteria Boosts Iron and Zinc in Cowpea
Scientists in India have engineered a biodegradable hydrogel bead that carries a drought-tolerant bacterial consortium straight into the root zone...
Engineered T Cell Receptors Push Into Solid Tumors as 2026 ASCO Data Offer Hope and Caveats
A wave of clinical data presented at the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting has given researchers and...
Chinese Nursing Interns Want Mentors Who Teach With Empathy, Not Just Hierarchy, Study Finds
A new qualitative study from China is turning a spotlight on one of the most quietly consequential relationships in modern...
Cryo-EM Reveals How Cas12a Uses a DNA Guide to Hunt RNA Targets
The CRISPR world has long been organized around a simple division of labor: some Cas enzymes are steered by RNA...
Ontologies Could Be the Missing Link That Finally Makes Big Data Work in Healthcare
Modern medicine produces an extraordinary torrent of information. Electronic health records, medical imaging archives, wearable sensors and biomedical research databases...
Statistical model reveals why Ghanaian cocoa farmers mix rehabilitation strategies on aging farms
Cocoa has long been the backbone of rural Ghana, supporting more than 800,000 smallholder households and anchoring a substantial share...
Twenty-Five Years of Cancer Research: Stunning Breakthroughs and Sobering Setbacks
Twenty-five years ago, the idea that a patient’s cancer could be read, decoded and treated according to the specific mutations...
Rare High-Grade Thyroid Cancer Grew Into a 13 cm Neck Mass and Spread to the Lungs
A 58-year-old woman lived for six years with a steadily enlarging lump in her neck before the mass grew large...
SPIFFI Delivers Real-Time Super-Resolution Imaging of Living Cells in a Single Shot
Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy has transformed modern cell biology, allowing researchers to peer into structures far smaller than the diffraction limit...
Cyano-Engineered Polymer Beats Glass With Record Infrared Refractive Index
For decades, the optical world has been ruled by a quiet division of labor. When engineers needed materials that bend...
NINJ1: The Membrane-Rupturing Protein That Decides How Cells Die and How Tumors Thrive
Every day, billions of cells in the human body die in a controlled and deliberate fashion, a process that scientists...
Air Conditioning Averts More Than 5,000 Heat Deaths a Year in the US
As heat waves intensify across a warming world, one of the most consequential questions in public health has been how...
Cohesin Builds Molecular Fences That Keep Active Genome Domains From Mixing
Inside the nucleus of every human cell, roughly two meters of DNA are packed into a space only a few...
New AI Pipeline Sorts Breast Tissue Scans Into Benign and Malignant With Striking Accuracy
Breast cancer has overtaken lung cancer as the world’s most commonly diagnosed malignancy, and it remains one of the leading...