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OSPREY trial broadens neurostimulation treatment options for obstructive sleep apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea, a disorder in which the upper airway repeatedly collapses during sleep, may be entering a new era...
Postglacial Colonization and Isolation Shape Venustaconcha ellipsiformis Population Structure, Informing Conservation
A new range-wide genetic study of the freshwater mussel Venustaconcha ellipsiformis has revealed how ancient glaciers, changing river systems, and...
Gestational Age Shapes Links Between Group B Strep Genomics and Disease Onset
For decades, Group B Streptococcus has presented doctors with a deceptively simple question: why do some newborns develop a rapidly...
Data Sharing and Public Legitimacy: What’s Wrong and How Can It Improve?
A growing push to share health and research data is running into a problem that cannot be solved by technology...
Targeted Alpha-Synuclein Degradation Blocks PFF-Induced Aggregation
Parkinson’s disease research has taken a significant step toward a strategy that attacks one of the disorder’s most persistent biological...
Imaging shows how a tumor-fighting drug causes cellular breakdown
Cancer drugs are designed to attack the molecular machinery that allows tumors to grow, divide, and spread. Yet once a...
Noah Golowich Wins Hertz Thesis Prize for Explaining AI’s Stable Outcomes
Noah Golowich’s Theory Explains How AI Can Learn Stable Strategies in Games and Unfamiliar Worlds When an artificial intelligence system...
Scientists Uncover Fresh Insight Into a Complex Scientific Mystery
Long polymer chains are among the hidden structures that shape the modern world. They give plastics their strength, help biological...
Scientists map hair follicle formation across time and space, revealing organ development
Johns Hopkins scientists have created a molecular “time machine” that reconstructs how hundreds of hair follicles develop, offering an unprecedented...
KAIST develops technology reversing irreversible biological changes, advancing aging and cancer research
A cell that has become cancerous, aged or otherwise abnormal may appear to have crossed a biological point of no...
IDAMS Study Improves Early Prediction of Severe Dengue Outcomes
Dengue fever is entering a new era of clinical risk assessment as researchers seek to identify, as early as possible,...
Ultra-stretchable piezoelectric sensor monitors aircraft impacts across wide temperature ranges
Aircraft could soon gain a far more sensitive sense of touch. A new study by Zhou, Wei, Xu and colleagues...
Apophis Flyby in 2029 Offers Rare Opportunity for Planetary Science and Defense
Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid roughly 340 meters wide, will sweep past Earth on April 13, 2029, in one of the...
Telemedicine-Supported Home Injections Offer New Care Model for Breast Cancer Patients
Breast cancer patients receiving injectable gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist therapy may be able to shift a significant part of their treatment...
Hydrogel platform streamlines creation of living tissue models
Researchers at Tampere University have developed a light-activated hydrogel platform that could make the construction of advanced biomaterials faster, simpler...
Brexit Transformed the UK Healthcare Workforce but Failed to Alleviate Doctor Shortages
BOSTON, MA — Britain’s decision to leave the European Union was followed by a rapid transformation in the way the...
Mainz cell biologist Uwe Wolfrum honored for major contributions to vision research
Inherited retinal disorders are among the most devastating genetic diseases affecting human vision. They damage the retina—the light-sensitive tissue at...
Targeted lipid nanoparticles enable in vivo editing of human blood stem cells
A new study reports a strategy for delivering gene-editing technology directly to human haematopoietic stem cells inside the body, using...
How Climate Change Tests the Long-Term Resilience of Power Systems
For more than half a century, power-system resilience has been treated as a question with a relatively narrow answer: how...
Deep Learning Precisely Grades Schistosoma japonicum Liver Fibrosis Using Ultrasound Images
A new study published in Nature Communications is putting artificial intelligence at the center of a difficult medical challenge: determining...