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Caregivers May Be Reliable Voices for Blood Cancer Patients’ Quality of Life
For patients battling cancers of the blood and bone marrow, answering a quality-of-life questionnaire can be a surprisingly heavy burden....
Scientists Chart a Common Roadmap to Bring Senescence Medicine Into the Clinic
In May 2026, the historic university city of Coimbra, Portugal, played host to a gathering that many in the aging...
Silkworm Silk Turned Into Magnetic Lanthanum Adsorbent That Strips Phosphate From Wastewater
A single silk worm cocoon, normally destined for the waste stream, has become the unlikely foundation of a new weapon...
Vonoprazan-Based Dual Therapy Outperforms Esomeprazole Against H. pylori While Gut Microbiota Recovers
A head-to-head clinical comparison from China has found that a two-drug regimen built around vonoprazan, a member of the newer...
The Slow Drain: Tiny Electronic Currents Threaten Solid-State Battery Storage
Solid-state batteries have been heralded as the next great leap in energy storage, promising higher energy densities, improved safety and...
Gamma Rays Help Scientists Breed Superfood Chia for India’s Drylands
Chia, the tiny seed that has become a global superfood sensation, may soon have a new home on India’s rainfed...
Spring-Loaded Blunt-Tip Needle Lets Doctors Diagnose and Destroy Kidney Tumors in One Sitting
For patients diagnosed with a small kidney tumor, the traditional pathway has often meant two separate procedures: first a needle...
Hands-On Experience Holds the Key to CPR Confidence Among Indian University Students
When someone collapses in cardiac arrest, every minute without bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation lowers the odds of survival. Yet across India,...
Crystalline Cage Materials Poised to Transform Water Purification and Drug Delivery
Metal–organic frameworks, the family of crystalline porous materials built from metal ions and organic linkers, are moving from laboratory curiosities...
CRISPR Reshapes Maize Breeding for Drought Tolerance and Better Nutrition
Maize is the backbone of global agriculture, cultivated on more than 200 million hectares and feeding billions of people as...
Predictive Model Designs Stronger Cobalt-Lean CrMnFeCoNi Multicomponent Alloys
Metallurgists have long been fascinated by the CrMnFeCoNi system, the family of face-centered cubic (FCC) multicomponent alloys that includes the...
Pomegranate Peel Extract Extends Shelf Life of Marinated Korean Native Chicken
A fruit peel most people throw away may soon help keep one of Korea’s best-loved chicken dishes fresh for longer....
Dogs With Brain Tumors May Hold the Key to Better Human Meningioma Treatment
A landmark effort to systematically classify brain tumors in dogs has revealed striking similarities between canine and human meningioma, while...
Scientists Discover How a Common Vitamin Could Repair the Gut Barrier in Colitis
Ulcerative colitis, one of the two major forms of inflammatory bowel disease, has long been treated as a problem of...
Sweet Additive Helps Cheap Nickel-Cobalt Films Split Water for Hydrogen
Hydrogen has long been touted as a clean fuel of the future, but producing it without fossil fuels remains one...
Signaling Antagonism Helps Macrophages Identify Threats in Complex Ligand Mixtures
Macrophages are the sentinels of the innate immune system, patrolling tissues and continuously sampling their surroundings for signs of danger....
Physicists Realize Square-Root Topological States in Visible-Light Plasmonic System
Topological photonics has spent the past decade borrowing one of the most powerful ideas in modern condensed-matter physics: the notion...
Salt-Tolerant Coastal Plants Reveal Potent Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Compounds
Two unassuming plants that thrive in the salt-sprayed marshes of India’s Cuddalore coast are emerging as serious candidates in the...
RNA Acetylation Enzyme NAT10 Helps Glioblastoma Resist Radiotherapy
Glioblastoma, the most aggressive and deadly form of brain cancer, has long defied the best efforts of oncologists. Even with...
AI Reads CT Scans to Tell Two Deadly Sarcomas Apart
Deep in the retroperitoneum, the crowded space at the back of the abdomen where the kidneys, pancreas, and great vessels...