AAT/SERPINA1 Pi*Z Variant Influences Gestation; AAT Prevents Preterm Birth in Mice
A genetic variant best known for damaging the liver and lungs may also influence how long pregnancy lasts, according to a new mouse study published...
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High Capital Costs Limit Renewable Energy’s Global Climate Mitigation Impact
A new global analysis has found that the climate benefits of renewable energy depend on a financial variable often hidden behind the headlines about solar...
Drug-Resistant Rest Tremor Linked to Slower Parkinson’s Disease Progression
A symptom long regarded as one of Parkinson’s disease’s most visible and disruptive signatures may carry an unexpected message about what happens next. A new...
Survey reveals what people really think about generative AI
Reddit’s Four-Year AI Debate Reveals a Public Torn Between Trust and Distrust Generative artificial intelligence has become one of the most rapidly adopted technologies in...
AI model detects mutations and predicts biomarkers across 32 cancer types
A single artificial intelligence model has demonstrated that routine cancer biopsy images may contain far more biological information than pathologists can readily see under a...
Laboratory differences may mislead scientific AI models, researchers warn
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Artificial intelligence could dramatically accelerate the search for technologies that transform carbon dioxide into useful fuels, but a new multi-laboratory study...
Turning AI Breakthroughs Into Public Health Action
Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase in health care—not primarily as a tool for discovering experimental drugs or generating medical images, but as a...
Elite athleticism needn’t compromise longevity or fertility
For more than three decades, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have been testing a deceptively simple question: can an animal become extraordinarily athletic...
Phage contingency loci let viruses hedge against bacterial defenses
Bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria, are often portrayed as highly specialized molecular machines: particles that recognize a host, inject their genetic material and redirect...
Six-Year Ugandan Study Reveals How Sexual-Stage Antibodies Block Plasmodium falciparum Transmission
Malaria researchers are turning attention to one of the most difficult stages of the disease cycle to control: the brief window in which the parasite...
Where to Prioritize Cropland Restoration: Integrating Natural, Economic, and Spatial Stability
The question of where to restore cultivated land is becoming increasingly urgent as cities expand, soils degrade and climate pressures reshape agricultural production. A new...
N-glycosylation stabilizes CD155, helping colorectal tumors evade NK-cell surveillance
Colorectal cancer may be using a molecular disguise to slip past one of the immune system’s most aggressive patrols. A study by Xu, Zhang, Yang...
DOPAL Links Dopamine Dysregulation to Neurodegeneration, Systematic Review Finds
A molecule produced every time the brain breaks down dopamine is emerging as a possible missing link between dopamine imbalance and the progressive nerve-cell loss...
Practical Toolbox Enables Improved In Vitro Fibrosis Modelling
Fibrosis is one of medicine’s most persistent and difficult biological problems: a repair response that refuses to switch off. Across the heart, lungs, kidneys, liver...
Orai1 Calcium Entry Regulates Lipolysis and Mitochondrial Activation During Brown Fat Thermogenesis
A new study has identified a calcium-signaling pathway that helps brown fat convert stored energy into heat, offering a sharper view of how the body’s...