Gut Microbe Lactobacillus plantarum Shows Modest Weight Loss Benefits in Major Meta-Analysis
A common bacterium found in fermented foods and dietary supplements may offer people with obesity a small but genuine helping hand, according to one of...
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USP22 Keeps Aging Stem Cells Young by Stabilizing Key Bone-Building Protein
Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells, or BMSCs, are the quiet workhorses of the skeleton. They replenish bone-forming osteoblasts throughout life, and their regenerative power underlies...
Wavelet-Enhanced Mamba and Graph Networks Revolutionize Time Series Anomaly Detection
The relentless growth of the Internet of Things has transformed ordinary environments into vast webs of interconnected sensors, each streaming measurements around the clock. From...
Scientists Pin Down Genes Behind Cotton’s Defenses Against Wilt Disease
Verticillium wilt has long been one of the most stubborn enemies of cotton farmers worldwide. Caused by the soil-borne fungus Verticillium dahliae, the disease invades...
Journal Retracts Review on Phage Therapy in Blood Cancers Over Citation Concerns
The Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology has retracted a review article that examined the promise of phage therapy and the...
Virtual Dermatology Symposium Breaks Barriers for Rural Medical Students
Dermatology has long been one of the most competitive and exclusive gateways in American medical education, and a new initiative suggests that the virtual meeting...
Rare Hot-Loving Microbes Drive Toxic Souring in Oil Reservoirs
Deep beneath the seabed of China’s Bohai Bay, an invisible chemical war is being waged by some of the smallest combatants in the petroleum industry....
Terahertz Signals Go Around Corners: Reflection and Transmission Unlock Non-Line-of-Sight 6G Links
The terahertz band has long been heralded as the promised land of wireless communications, offering vast swaths of unoccupied spectrum that could carry data at...
Post-Stroke Fatigue Makes Returning to Work a Complex Journey of Reinvention
For millions of stroke survivors worldwide, the moment they are declared medically stable is often treated as the finish line of rehabilitation. Yet for people...
New Synthetic Nanobody Library Streamlines Cryo-EM Studies of Small Proteins
Structural biologists searching for a faster way to visualize the smallest and most stubborn proteins now have a new tool at their disposal. A research...
Simple Heat Treatment Boosts Wear and Corrosion Resistance of Rare Earth Magnesium Alloys
Magnesium has long been celebrated as the lightest structural metal available to engineers, offering a combination of high specific strength, excellent castability, and remarkable vibration...
Plant Arginine Mimic Canavanine Disrupts Cancer Cell Metabolism and Signals
Colorectal carcinoma remains one of the most challenging malignancies to treat, and researchers continue to search for metabolic vulnerabilities that can be exploited therapeutically. One...
Bone Crystals and the Clock of Death: X-ray Study Tests a Forensic Dating Dream
How long ago did this person die? It sounds like a simple question, but for forensic anthropologists confronted with a set of weathered, skeletonized remains,...
Hidden Fractal Geometry Explains the Strange Scaling Laws of Cities
Cities are strange mathematical objects. They grow, expand, and interconnect in ways that stubbornly refuse to obey the tidy geometry taught in school, and a...
One Nanomaterial, Two Jobs: MOF-Derived Cobalt Ferrite Hybrid Cleans Water and Boosts Solar Cells
The two most urgent shopping lists in modern materials science—clean water and cheap solar power—rarely share a single item. Yet a team of researchers in...
