Blood-Based Tumor DNA Offers New Insights Into Head and Neck Cancer
Liquid biopsy is emerging as a potential way to detect and monitor cancer without repeatedly removing tissue from a tumor. In a study scheduled for...
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Supergene solves evolutionary mystery by controlling mirror-image flower development
For more than a century, the South African butterfly lilies of the genus Wachendorfia have challenged botanists with a striking question: how do these plants...
Scientists Discover Path to Ultra-Low-Energy Data Storage
Artificial intelligence is transforming nearly every corner of modern life, but behind every generated image, internet search, recommendation and scientific simulation lies a rapidly expanding...
QUANTUM Alliance Trial Investigates Bispecific Immunotherapy for Rare Leukemia
A new clinical trial is opening a potentially important chapter in the treatment of primary plasma cell leukemia, a rare and exceptionally aggressive blood cancer...
Oxford chemists unlock Appel fluorination using potassium fluoride
Alcohols are among chemistry’s most versatile raw materials, appearing in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, fragrances, polymers and countless industrial intermediates. Yet transforming an alcohol into an alkyl...
Nicotine E-Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit Traditional Cigarettes
Cigarette smoking remains one of the most persistent and preventable causes of disease worldwide, exposing people to a complex mixture of toxic substances produced when...
How Co-Transcriptional Splicing Is Detected, Regulated, and Harnessed for Therapy
Co-transcriptional splicing, once viewed primarily as a routine step in messenger RNA production, is emerging as a central regulator of gene expression, genome stability and...
Spinal fluid biomarkers reveal shared synaptic dysfunction across major psychiatric disorders
A new study published in Nature Communications is challenging one of psychiatry’s most persistent assumptions: that major mental disorders can be cleanly separated by their...
Neonatal Neurobehavior: Comparing Two Scales for Assessing Newborns in the NICU
A new study is putting two of the most influential tools for assessing newborn behavior side by side, asking whether the way clinicians measure an...
Normal DNA Re-Replication Observed as Human Stem Cells Differentiate
A process long associated with genomic instability may have a carefully controlled role in human development, according to a study published in Cell Death Discovery....
Pusan National University Researchers Advance Solar Desalination Using Multifunctional Membrane
Freshwater production from oily seawater has long presented a difficult engineering problem: the same membranes designed to purify water can quickly become clogged by oil....
Memorial Sloan Kettering Research Highlights: July 30, 2026
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers have reported a series of findings that could reshape treatment strategies across oncology, from drug-resistant leukemia and bone metastasis...
Scientists uncover a new form of magnetism in quantum materials
A few atomic layers of ruthenium dioxide may be revealing a hidden form of magnetism that disappears in the material’s ordinary bulk state, according to...
Nicotine Pouches Explained: What They Are and How They Work
Nicotine patches are often viewed as the quietest tool in the fight against smoking: a small adhesive strip placed on the skin, releasing nicotine steadily...
Roadkill may push shrinking hedgehog populations toward collapse, study warns
Road traffic may be pushing Britain’s smallest hedgehog populations toward collapse, according to a new study showing that even one or two road deaths each...