Deep Learning Screens Maize Seed Vigor from RGB Images with Automated Tuning
A smartphone-style photograph of a maize seed could soon reveal far more than its color and shape. Researchers have developed an artificial-intelligence system that uses...
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R-loop Scarlet-RL suppresses scarlet transcription, guiding migratory locusts toward plant volatiles
Migratory locusts may be guided toward plants by a molecular transporter best known for giving insect eyes their color, according to a study that links...
Composite Metamaterial Surface-Wave Barriers Improve Isolation of Railway-Induced Vibrations
A New Underground Metamaterial Barrier Could Cut Subway and High-Speed Rail Vibrations by More Than 80 Percent Trains carry people and goods at remarkable speeds,...
Study tests hydrolytic stability of alternative PVC plasticisers under accelerated worst-case conditions
A Hidden Chemical Clock May Be Ticking Inside Plastic Medical Tubes Plastic medical tubing is often treated as an inert part of modern healthcare: a...
Gallium Nitride–Ferrite Doping Alters Polypyrrole Nanocomposite Structure and Optical Properties
A hybrid nanomaterial that combines gallium nitride, iron oxide and the electrically active polymer polypyrrole has shown an unusually wide optical band gap, suggesting a...
Off-Label Leptin Improves Sleep, Weight, and Eating-Disorder Symptoms in Teen
A 12-day course of an experimental hormone treatment was followed by improvements in sleep, physical restlessness, body weight and eating-disorder symptoms in a 17-year-old girl...
Italian Study Examines Adherence and Outcomes with Perindopril-Based Antihypertensive Regimens
A single daily pill containing several blood-pressure medicines may help patients stay on treatment for years—and could be linked to substantially lower risks of heart...
Stained Lymph-Node Biopsy Assesses Axillary Restaging in Node-Positive Breast Cancer
A simple change in how surgeons identify lymph nodes could offer a new route to reducing the extent of axillary surgery for some people with...
What Determines Quality Laboratory Services at Northwest Ethiopia’s Government Specialized Hospitals?
A Hidden Weakness in Ethiopia’s Hospitals: Why Laboratory Quality Is Failing Patients A hospital laboratory can be the quiet engine behind nearly every major clinical...
Randomized Trial Tests Mindfulness Intervention to Improve Hemodialysis Treatment Adherence
A Mindfulness Experiment in Dialysis Patients Offers a Subtle Lesson About Chronic-Care Adherence For people with end-stage kidney disease, staying alive often means organizing life...
SGLT2 Inhibitors Linked to Cardiorenal Benefits Across CKM Syndrome Stages 2–4
A large analysis of clinical-trial evidence suggests that sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors protect the heart and kidneys across multiple stages of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic disease, including...
Tirzepatide Improves Blood Sugar Control as Add-On to Basal Insulin, Analysis Finds
A pooled analysis of two large clinical trials suggests that tirzepatide can substantially improve blood-sugar control in people with type 2 diabetes whose glucose levels...
Optimal Nitrogen and Phosphorus Fertilization for Bread Wheat in Northwestern Ethiopia
A Fertilizer Formula Nearly Doubled Wheat Yields in Ethiopia’s Northwestern Highlands A carefully calibrated fertilizer combination has more than doubled bread wheat yields in parts...
Plant Density, Weed Control Affect Okra Growth, Yield, Profitability and Weed Infestation
In Nigeria, a simple change in how densely okra is planted—and how weeds are controlled—could dramatically reshape the economics of one of Africa’s most important...
Gene-level RNA sequencing masks widespread transcript-level remodeling during adaptation to hypoxia
Oxygen deprivation may be rewriting the molecular instructions inside cells far more extensively than conventional RNA sequencing analyses reveal, according to a new study of...