Last common ancestor may have climbed vertically, regardless of limb structure
COLUMBUS, Ohio—The last common ancestor shared by humans and chimpanzees may have looked less like a modern ape than many scientists have assumed, but it...
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SUNY Poly Receives $15K Health Forward Foundation Grant for Respiratory Care Research
SUNY Polytechnic Institute has received a $15,000 grant from the Health Forward Foundation to develop a physiologically realistic mechanical lung model, a project designed to...
Patient-specific blood–brain tumor barrier chip predicts glioblastoma treatment responses
Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat brain cancers, yet its response to therapy can vary dramatically from one patient to another. A...
Natural leaf coatings could help hydrochar store carbon more effectively
Hydrochar, a carbon-rich material made by processing wet plant biomass in hot, pressurized water, may have a hidden defense system that helps it resist chemical...
Severe mental illness tied to higher dementia risk and earlier strokes
A large analysis of health records from Catalonia, Spain, has found that people living with severe mental illness face substantially higher recorded rates of dementia...
Scientists Develop Real-Time Control Systems for Engineered Biology
Engineered living cells are becoming miniature biological factories, capable of producing medicines, sustainable chemicals and other valuable products. They can also be designed to sense...
Immunotherapy Shows Promise Against Hard-to-Treat Ovarian Cancer Subtype
A small but important subset of ovarian cancers long regarded as resistant to both chemotherapy and immunotherapy may contain an immune-activating weakness, according to a...
Could Autonomous AI Outperform AI-Assisted Physicians in Delivering the Best Medical Care?
Artificial intelligence is moving from the research laboratory into examination rooms, hospitals and home-care platforms, raising a question that could redefine modern medicine: should patients...
Quantum Light Engines Could Power a New Generation of Microscopic Machines
What happens when a heat engine is reduced to a single atom interacting with particles of light? The question may sound like science fiction, but...
Cardiac stress marker changes may better predict heart disease in older adults
A blood test that captures subtle changes in cardiac strain may offer a sharper way to identify older adults at risk of cardiovascular disease and...
Pesticide exposure disrupts ants’ behavior and navigation
A sudden surge in ant activity after pesticide bait is placed in a home or garden may not mean the treatment has failed. New research...
New framework organizes complex knowledge, evidence, and records across data lakehouses
Traumatic brain injury is no longer being treated as a single event with a single biological signature. A proposed data architecture described by researchers from...
Level III Neonatal ICUs Vary in Patients, Services, and Outcomes
A new study is challenging the idea that all Level III neonatal intensive care units are interchangeable. Although hospitals grouped under the Level III designation...
Explainable Biomedical Foundation Model Learns Concepts Through Large-Scale Vision-Language Pretraining
Medical artificial intelligence has reached a point where being right is no longer enough. In hospitals, clinicians must also understand why an algorithm produced a...
Machine Learning Reveals Artistic Fingerprints in Jazz
Jazz has long been treated as an art of the moment: a conversation between musicians, a negotiation with rhythm, and a form of expression in...