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Vasoactive intestinal peptide promotes cartilage formation and modulates osteoarthritis mediators
Osteoarthritis affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, yet the treatments available to them remain stubbornly palliative. Painkillers, anti-inflammatory drugs...
Layer spacing tunes phase formation and strength in aluminum-copper multilayer foils
In a development that could reshape how engineers join lightweight metals for batteries, aerospace structures and power electronics, a team...
Machine learning finds transaminase for making chiral aminopyrrolidine at scale
Machine learning has delivered a green-chemistry win for the pharmaceutical industry, as researchers in China report the discovery of a...
3D-Printed PEEK Nanocomposites Boost Heat and Strength in Chip Packaging
The world of semiconductor packaging may be on the verge of a quiet materials revolution. Researchers in India have demonstrated...
Dual-view multi-scale feature enhancement improves fine-grained visual classification
Fine-grained visual classification has long been one of the most stubborn problems in computer vision, and a new study published...
New adaptive framework redefines multi-view subspace clustering through structure discovery
In the sprawling landscape of modern machine learning, few challenges are as pervasive—or as deceptively difficult—as making sense of data...
New LUISA algorithm leverages causal relationships for smarter feature selection
Machine learning models are only as good as the features they are built upon, yet many of the algorithms used...
Deep Learning from Zero: How Initialization Shapes Symmetry Breaking and Gradient Flow
For nearly as long as artificial neural networks have existed, one rule has been treated as almost sacrosanct: never initialize...
Trial tests virtual reality hypnosis for patients in protective isolation
Hospitals are, by their very nature, places of healing, but for certain patients they can also become places of profound...
Online forums reveal patient experiences of life after prostate cancer radiation
When men who have undergone radiation therapy for prostate cancer log on to patient forums in the middle of the...
TGF-β expression patterns across meningioma grades revealed by multi-omics analysis
Meningiomas, the most common primary brain tumors in adults, may soon be stratified more accurately thanks to a new study...
Sympathetic Skin Response Detects Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity in Consciousness Disorders
A simple electrical test that measures how the skin reacts to a burst of stimulation may offer clinicians a faster,...
Genomic prediction models tested for timothy grass across Norwegian environments
Timothy grass, the backbone of Northern European livestock farming, has long resisted the genetic revolution that has transformed breeding in...
Simple buffered chromatin purification enables high-yield plant proteomics and epigenomics
For decades, one of the most stubborn obstacles in plant molecular biology has not been a lack of ideas or...
ZNF143 drives fatty liver disease by suppressing mitophagy through SMURF1/TRPV1
A team of researchers in China has uncovered a previously unrecognized molecular pathway that drives metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease...
Chitosan-templated MgO nanorods made via green synthesis boost hydrazine electrooxidation
In a development that could reshape the economics of clean energy conversion, an international team of researchers from Algeria and...
Shrinking paper microfluidic devices enables reagent-saving colorimetric dopamine detection
Researchers in Iran have engineered a dramatically shrunken version of one of diagnostics’ most promising low-cost platforms, achieving a more...
Metal–ligand orbital hybridization boosts efficient, long-lasting d10 carbene TADF OLEDs
Coinage-metal chemistry has long been viewed as a delicate balancing act between light emission and molecular fragility, but a new...
Mapping evapotranspiration in Ethiopia’s Awash Basin with limited climate data
In the highlands and lowlands of Ethiopia’s Awash River Basin, a quiet data crisis has been undermining one of the...
Musculoskeletal disorder burden rises globally and across Asia through 2023
Musculoskeletal disorders now constitute one of the largest and most expensive health challenges on the planet, and a sweeping new...