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Soluble receptor variants fine-tune placental blood vessel growth, study finds
The placenta is one of the most remarkable engineering feats of human biology, building an intricate network of fetal blood...
Teeth Reveal Four Adaptive Zones Shaping Carnivore Evolution
For more than a century, paleontologists and evolutionary biologists have marveled at the way terrestrial mammalian carnivores keep reinventing the...
Scientists Crack the Genetic Transformation Barrier in Tartary Buckwheat
Tartary buckwheat has long been prized as a functional food, packed with bioactive compounds such as rutin and other flavonoids...
Gene Therapy Shows Lasting Two-Year Gains in Infants With Severe Spinal Muscular Atrophy
A single infusion of a gene therapy delivered within the first months of life continues to transform the course of...
Acid-Treated Biochar Traps Radioactive Cesium in Cement Waste Forms
Radioactive cesium is one of the most stubborn contaminants in the nuclear waste stream. It slips through the concrete vaults...
Deep-Learning Framework Crop-GPA 2.0 Cracks the Shared Genetic Code of Crop Traits Across Species
Every improvement in a crop, whether it is a heavier ear of wheat, a more disease-resistant rice plant, or a...
New polyaniline–alumina nanocomposite enables sensitive diazomethane gas detection
Diazomethane is one of organic chemistry’s most useful and most feared reagents. The simple molecule CH2N2 is a superb methylating...
Seeing soccer strategy: GAF images and convolutional LSTM predict match tactics
In a development that sits at the unlikely intersection of computer vision, sports analytics and deep learning, researchers have shown...
TLR4/MYD88 pathway dysregulation drives breast cancer progression in Egyptian women
In a study that could reshape how clinicians think about the inflammatory underpinnings of breast cancer, researchers in Egypt have...
HLA-DRB1 and FCGR2B variants shape immune risk in Pemphigus vulgaris
Pemphigus vulgaris is one of the most feared diseases in dermatology, a rare autoimmune condition in which the body’s own...
Growth and phosphate uptake drivers revealed in Acinetobacter tjernbergiae
Phosphorus is one of those elements that rarely makes headlines, yet civilization depends on it almost entirely. The world’s food...
Efficient Agrobacterium transformation developed for biofuel crop Brassica carinata
Scientists in Australia have developed a robust and reproducible genetic transformation system for Brassica carinata, an ancient East African oilseed...
Micronutrients shape plant root defense through microbiomes and pathogen evasion
Micronutrients such as iron, zinc, copper, manganese and boron have long been treated by agricultural science as little more than...
Real-world FDG PET study separates autoimmune encephalitis from mimics
Autoimmune encephalitis is one of the most perplexing conditions in modern neurology, a disease in which the body’s own immune...
Regulating PGC-1α: interactions, modifications, and drug targeting approaches
The master metabolic conductor PGC-1α, long recognized as the central transcriptional coactivator governing cellular energy metabolism across heart, skeletal muscle,...
APOE and neuromelanin shape Alzheimer’s risk in human brain’s stress hub
Deep in the brainstem, a tiny, pigment-darkened cluster of neurons called the locus coeruleus acts as the brain’s principal source...
Deep soil carbon in alkaline farmland hides a vast overlooked sink
Beneath the ploughed surface of the world’s croplands lies a carbon reservoir that climate scientists have long overlooked. While decades...
Flaky Carbon-Supported NiCo Nanoparticles Enable Efficient Water Splitting Catalysis
Hydrogen has long been touted as a clean fuel of the future, but producing it at industrial scale still depends...
Plasma-Induced Liquid Chemistry Enables Functional Nanocomposite Synthesis
In a development that could reshape how scientists manufacture some of the most versatile materials in modern technology, an international...
Stable thermochromic composites with trace Ag₂HgI₄ show thermal and electric percolation
In a finding that could reshape how engineers think about smart materials, a team of researchers in Mexico and France...