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Preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia: more evidence or more perspective needed?
Ventilator-associated pneumonia, or VAP, has long been one of the most stubborn challenges in intensive care medicine. It strikes patients...
Education shapes lifespan timing, but not the causes of death
Education has long been recognized as one of the most powerful predictors of how long a person will live, but...
GLP-1 drugs linked to fewer nerve complications than DPP-4 inhibitors in diabetes
GLP-1 receptor agonists, the blockbuster class of drugs behind medications such as semaglutide and liraglutide, have become famous for reshaping...
Predicting pathology response in triple-negative breast cancer using tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes
In the fast-moving world of breast cancer immunotherapy, few biomarkers have generated as much enthusiasm as tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, the immune...
Noble metal-modified dual MOFs boost photodegradation of carbamazepine
Scientists in China have engineered a triple-function photocatalyst that tears apart one of the world’s most persistent pharmaceutical pollutants far...
Gamma-chain cytokines drive FLT3LG, fostering regulatory-like CD4 T cells in breast cancer
Researchers in South Korea have uncovered a previously underappreciated molecular circuit that appears to help breast cancer turn the body’s...
YouTube comment analysis reveals ideological polarization in Black Lives Matter videos
YouTube comments have long been dismissed as the internet’s noisiest backwater, a place where thoughtful discussion goes to die beneath...
AI ethics clash with social work codes in Hong Kong and Singapore
Whose ethics govern when artificial intelligence enters the counselling room or the social worker’s caseload? A new study argues that...
Symplectic group geometry enables construction of optimal entanglement-assisted quantum codes
Quantum computers promise computational power far beyond anything classical machines can achieve, but that promise comes with a fragile catch:...
Dual policy guides multi-hop reasoning to make knowledge graph recommendations explainable
Recommendation algorithms shape nearly every hour of our digital lives, quietly deciding which films appear on our screens, which products...
Quantum forecasting boosts scheduling in integrated energy systems
Quantum computers are being positioned to transform how the world’s energy systems are forecast and scheduled, according to a new...
Gut bacteria shifts in free-range hens during disease outbreaks
In an era when antibiotic-free farming is no longer a niche aspiration but a regulatory and commercial reality, scientists are...
Vitamin E reduces fat buildup and oxidative stress in liver disease model
Vitamin E, one of the most widely studied antioxidant supplements in medicine, has returned to the center of liver research...
BoLA-DRB3 diversity in Latin American Creole cattle: an updated review
Latin America’s Creole cattle, the hardy descendants of the Iberian livestock that arrived with the first European colonists more than...
New insights into the molecular control of plant endoreduplication
Cells that copy their genomes over and over without ever dividing may sound like a recipe for genomic disaster, but...
Forty-five years studying plant silicon and phytoliths: a personal retrospective
When Martin J. Hodson walked through the door of Dafydd Wynn Parry’s office at Bangor University in Wales on 20...
Ga-68 CTR-FAPI outperforms FAPI-04 PET/CT in radioiodine-refractory thyroid cancer study
In a finding that could reshape how doctors track one of the most stubborn forms of thyroid cancer, researchers in...
Measuring how cardiovascular research informs clinical guidelines
Only about one in every fifty cardiovascular research papers published between successive editions of European Society of Cardiology guidelines ends...
Melatonin shields liver and gum tissues from metabolic syndrome-driven inflammation
Melatonin, the hormone best known for steering the body’s sleep-wake cycle, may also hold the key to taming a destructive...
GRP78 binds alpha-synuclein in vulnerable Parkinson’s disease neurons
Parkinson’s disease has long been defined by the microscopic inclusions known as Lewy bodies, dense aggregates of the protein alpha-synuclein...