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Genome-wide study reveals context-specific genetics of gestational traits
The roughly 40 weeks of human gestation represent one of the most physiologically demanding episodes in a person’s life, yet...
T cell mechanosensing drives transcriptional program for tissue-resident memory
Immunologists have long understood that T cells do far more than float passively through the bloodstream waiting to encounter a...
Lattice reconstruction drives rapid exciton drift in van der Waals bilayer
In the layered world of two-dimensional materials, few phenomena have generated as much excitement as the peculiar dance of excitons—bound...
Micro–nanofibre framework traps and clears gastrointestinal microplastics
Microplastics have become one of the most pervasive contaminants of the modern era, detected everywhere from the deepest ocean trenches...
How stretched epithelia bundle keratin and release nuclear constraints
In a discovery that reshapes how scientists understand the mechanical resilience of the tissues that line our skin and organs,...
Unique amyloid-β filament structure found in APP Flemish mutation carriers
Cryo-electron microscopy has revealed an entirely new amyloid-β filament fold in the brains of individuals carrying one of the rarest...
A survey of data augmentation methods in multimodal frameworks
Machine learning systems have become remarkably good at understanding the world when they are allowed to look at it from...
Spectral Client Selection Boosts Reliable Federated Learning in LEO Satellites
The rapid expansion of low Earth orbit satellite constellations has transformed the prospects for global connectivity, but it has also...
Enhanced INFO algorithm enables multi-threshold segmentation of colorectal cancer histopathology images
An international team of researchers has unveiled a sophisticated artificial intelligence technique designed to sharpen the analysis of colorectal cancer...
Tiny conserved proteins discovered in the red flour beetle genome
Tiny genes have long been dismissed as genomic noise, too short to matter and too difficult to detect to bother...
How peroxiredoxins double as hydrogen peroxide scavengers and redox transducers
Hydrogen peroxide has long occupied a paradoxical position in biology. On one hand, it is a reactive oxygen species capable...
WGS2IBI: Cloud Workflow Enables Personalized Bayesian Analysis of Genome Sequences
A team of computational geneticists and epidemiologists has unveiled a cloud-based workflow that promises to strip away one of the...
Microplastics reshape microbial control of soil carbon in saline-alkali soils
Microplastics have become one of the most ubiquitous contaminants on Earth, and a new study suggests that in the world’s...
Extending prognosis from six to twelve months changed fast-tracked end-of-life benefit access
A quiet change to the rules governing Britain’s disability benefits appears to have reshaped who receives fast-tracked financial support at...
Family structure and health-risk behaviors jointly shape adolescent mental health in China
One of the largest adolescent mental health studies ever conducted has revealed that the combination of family structure and clustered...
Whole-genome sequencing reveals genetic predictors of rifabutin susceptibility in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Rifabutin, a lesser-known cousin of the frontline tuberculosis drug rifampicin, may hold new life as a treatment option for multidrug-resistant...
New Stata tool enables weighted quantile sum regression analysis
For more than a decade, one of the most widely used statistical tools in environmental epidemiology has been available almost...
Digital twins analyze lung injury in new airway pressure release ventilation protocol
Researchers at the University of Warwick, in collaboration with clinicians from University Hospital North Midlands NHS Trust and Imperial College...
Machine learning predicts CDK4/6 inhibitor outcomes in metastatic breast cancer
The fight against metastatic breast cancer has taken a significant step forward, as researchers in China have completed one of...
French expert consensus on cladribine tablets for relapsing MS beyond year 4
French neurologists have published a pragmatic guide for one of the most pressing unanswered questions in modern multiple sclerosis care:...