Oxygen Surges During Sleep May Mark the Heart Risk Hiding in Central Sleep Apnea
For decades, sleep scientists have focused most of their attention on the drops in oxygen that punctuate the nights of people with sleep apnea. Now...
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Epigenetic Boost Fails to Awaken Immune Therapy in Bile Duct Cancer Trial
A closely watched clinical trial testing whether an epigenetic drug could prime bile duct cancer for immunotherapy has returned a sobering answer: the combination did...
Teaching Machines to Build Their Own Graphs: A New Survey Maps the Road to Automated Graph AI
Graphs are everywhere. Whenever a delivery company models a road network, a power grid operator tracks the flow of electricity through a transmission system, or...
AI Learns to Smell, See and Predict Meat Quality Before It Spoils
Every piece of meat that reaches a supermarket shelf carries an invisible history: the genetics of the animal, the stress of slaughter, the pace of...
Hispanic Adults Say Lung Cancer Screening Talks Must Be Clear, Warm and Fear-Free, Study Finds
Lung cancer kills more Hispanic men in the United States than any other cancer, yet the screening test that could catch it early is barely...
Common ‘Forever Chemical’ PFNA Found to Ignite Gut Inflammation at Tiny Doses
A new study has revealed that perfluorononanoic acid, or PFNA, one of the most frequently detected ‘forever chemicals’ in human blood, can dramatically worsen intestinal...
Coated Ferrite Nanoparticles Show Potent, Dose-Dependent Killing of Breast Cancer Cells
A team of researchers in India and Saudi Arabia has unveiled a family of polymer-coated magnetic nanomaterials with striking activity against two of the most...
Fungi Ferment a Greener Route to Critical Metals from Electronic Waste
The mountains of discarded smartphones, LEDs and circuit boards piling up around the world contain a hidden treasure of critical metals, including gallium and rare...
Amorphous Nanoclusters Promise Sharper MRI Scans at a Fraction of the Dose
Magnetic resonance imaging has long relied on a chemical compromise. Contrast agents sharpen the images that doctors depend on to find tumors, map blood vessels,...
Farming soils breathe faster than forests in Northeast India, deep-profile study finds
Soils are not silent. Beneath every forest floor and every paddy field, trillions of microorganisms are dismantling organic matter, releasing carbon dioxide and cycling the...
Ki-67 Proliferation Score Above 45.8% Predicts Chemotherapy Response in Early Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
A large analysis of national registry data has identified a simple, widely available biomarker that may help determine which patients with the smallest category of...
New AI tool maps single cells onto tissue space with unprecedented precision
One of the most stubborn problems in modern genomics has finally been given a serious new contender. Single-cell RNA sequencing can catalog the gene activity...
Green Solvents and Ball Mills Team Up to Pull Valuable Lutein from Microalgae
Lutein, the golden-yellow pigment that accumulates in the human retina and shields our eyes from damaging light, has long been harvested the hard way: from...
Genetic Study Reveals How Ethiopia’s Abergelle Goats Could Grow Faster Through Smarter Breeding
In the rugged, semi-arid highlands of north-eastern Ethiopia, a quiet experiment in genetics has been unfolding across village goat flocks for six years. Researchers with...
Welded Conductive Skin Turns Stretchy Rubber Into Ultra-Sensitive Wearable Sensor
wearable electronics have long faced an awkward trade-off. To sense the faintest tremor of a pulse, a sensor must be exquisitely sensitive; to survive being...
