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Radiotherapy Reimagined as an Immune Weapon Against Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the most common and deadliest form of pancreatic cancer, remains one of oncology’s most stubborn adversaries. Even...
Complement Emerges as Central Player and Drug Target in Neurological Disease
The complement system, a sprawling network of plasma and membrane-bound proteins long regarded as little more than a first-response killing...
Plasma Activation Supercharges Copper Electrocatalysis to Turn CO2 Into Fuels
Turning carbon dioxide back into useful chemicals has long been one of the most tantalizing goals of the clean-energy transition....
Scientists Map the Hidden Genes That Let Cassava Survive Herbicide Attack
Cassava, the starchy tropical root that feeds hundreds of millions of people across Latin America, Africa and Asia, has long...
AI Learns to Check Itself: New Framework Makes Language Models Honest About Their Own Confidence
Large language models have a confidence problem. They can produce fluent, polished, persuasive answers that are simply wrong, and they...
Soil Moisture and Traditional Mowing Shape Carpathian Grassland Diversity
Deep in the foothills of the Western Carpathians in southern Poland, a quiet agricultural landscape is rewriting what scientists know...
Dual-State Structures Reveal How Drugs Switch the Immune Receptor GPR84
A receptor long viewed as one of the more enigmatic members of the lipid-sensing G protein-coupled receptor family is now...
Faster Amyloidosis Typing with High-Flow Mass Spectrometry Reaches the Clinic
For patients with amyloidosis, the difference between receiving the right treatment and the wrong one can hinge on a deceptively...
Why City Life May Reshape How Animals Learn From Each Other
Cities are among the most demanding environments that animals have ever encountered. Concrete, traffic, artificial light, chemical runoff and constant...
AI Learns the Physics of Brain Folding to Predict How the Brain Takes Shape
The human brain is one of nature’s most striking examples of form following physics. Over the course of fetal development,...
Cheap DNA Fingerprint Panel Traces the Maternal Roots of Tea
Tea is one of the world’s oldest and most beloved beverages, and the genetic identity of the plants that produce...
AI Model Spots Dangerous Lung Collapse in Newborns With Unprecedented Accuracy
A quiet revolution is unfolding inside the neonatal intensive care unit, and it arrives not through a new drug or...
New Long-Read RNA Sequencing Workflow Cracks Tough Splicing Variants in Rare Disease
Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed a streamlined laboratory and analysis workflow, called RAPID, that brings targeted long-read RNA...
Chickpea Varieties Reveal Metabolic Secrets of Zinc Tolerance
Zinc is one of those nutrients that plants cannot live without, yet too much of it can quietly poison them....
MXene Dose Unlocks Faster Oxygen Evolution in Nickel Cobalt Oxide Catalysts
The slowest step in the hydrogen economy may just have gotten a serious upgrade. In a study published in the...
First NAM Population in Italian Ryegrass Pinpoints Genes Behind Seed Shattering
Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) is one of the most important forage grasses in temperate agriculture, prized for its rapid...
Gut Fungus Found Lurking in Prostate Tumors Speeds Cancer Growth in Mice
A fungus long considered a quiet, harmless resident of the human body may play a far more sinister role in...
Baby Reflexes That Return in Old Age May Signal Failing Minds, Study Finds
Deep in the brainstem lie ancient motor programs that every human being is born with. Primitive reflexes, such as the...
Fermentation Rewrites the Antioxidant Story of Black and Yellow Highland Barley
On the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, at an altitude of nearly 3,000 meters, farmers have cultivated highland barley for centuries and turned...
Enzymes and Fermentation Team Up to Strip Bad Flavors from Mealworm Protein
Edible insects have been heralded as one of the most sustainable protein sources on the planet, but there has always...