Harmonizing Personalized Cancer Vaccines to Advance Cancer Immunotherapy
Personalized cancer vaccines are moving from an experimental promise toward a more structured form of immunotherapy, but the field still faces a problem that cannot...
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Astrocytes Directly Control Brain Circuits That Consolidate Memories
A new study has revealed that astrocytes—long regarded primarily as support cells for neurons—can directly control the brain circuits that help preserve memories during sleep....
Preoperative Chemo-Immunotherapy Outperforms Immunotherapy Alone in Head and Neck Cancer Patients
Head and neck cancers may respond far more dramatically to a preoperative treatment strategy that combines chemotherapy with immunotherapy than to immunotherapy alone, according to...
Novel intervention may improve outcomes for malnourished children
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital have identified a microbiota-derived metabolite that may help repair one of the most dangerous consequences...
Physics-Informed Networks for Data Generation and Noise Removal in Distributed Acoustic Sensing
Distributed acoustic sensing, or DAS, is moving closer to becoming an intelligent nervous system for infrastructure, transportation and industrial facilities. A new study published in...
Study exposes gaps in agricultural sustainability monitoring
A quarter of the sustainability records collected from cocoa farms were manipulated, according to a new study that exposes a hidden vulnerability in the systems...
Study reveals how pioneering osprey pairs drive population recovery
A small number of unusually adventurous ospreys may hold the key to restoring the species across Europe, according to a new study from Bournemouth University....
Antibodies, antiretrovirals and CCR5 blockade limit HIV reservoir seeding in infant macaques
A multi-pronged treatment strategy combining broadly neutralizing antibodies, antiretroviral therapy and a drug that blocks the HIV coreceptor CCR5 has limited the establishment of viral...
Carbon Reduction Goals Decouple Emissions from Land-Use Efficiency: Driving Forces Revealed
A new study is drawing attention to a challenge at the heart of the climate transition: how to improve the way land is used without...
Neurodevelopment After Birth at 21 Weeks: A Case Series With Follow-Up
A new case series examining infants born at just 21 weeks of gestation is intensifying one of neonatology’s most difficult conversations: how far medical care...
One Country, Two Oceans, Twenty Times More Sharks
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — For millions of years, sharks left behind a remarkably detailed record of their presence—not in bones or teeth, but in something...
Most smokers remain unaware that smoking dramatically increases heart disease risk
A large international study has found that millions of smokers still do not fully understand how tobacco damages the cardiovascular system, despite more than two...
Gluons Carry the Proton’s Baryon Number, Study Finds
A decades-old question about what makes a proton a proton has taken a significant step toward an answer. New results from the STAR Collaboration at...
Study examines depression treatment choices among Veterans Health Administration outpatients
Depression care in the US Department of Veterans Affairs health system appears to be moving in an unexpected direction. A large cohort study of 1,582,834...
Determining a Fungus’s Age Is Surprisingly Difficult, Scientists Say
Fungi may be among the oldest living organisms on Earth, yet scientists still cannot answer one of the simplest questions about them: how long do...