Flexible polymer liquid crystal sensor records electrophysiological activity without labels
A new class of soft, flexible sensor could change how scientists record the electrical activity of living cells and tissues. In a study published in...
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Study identifies digital empowerment profiles linked to how older adults perceive aging
As digital technology becomes woven into healthcare, communication, banking and everyday services, a new study is examining an increasingly important question: how does the ability...
MIRACLE Enables Continuous Integration of Multimodal Single-Cell Data
Single cells are transforming biology from a study of averages into a census of individual molecular lives. A new computational framework called MIRACLE is designed...
Researchers Challenge Overestimated Cyclization Efficiency in Small Restriction Enzyme-Digested DNA Fragments
A methodological dispute over how efficiently short DNA molecules close into circles has moved into the spotlight, with researchers R.T. Oliynyk and George M. Church...
Epitaxial Interface Engineering Boosts Transconductance in Molybdenum Disulfide Transistors
Field-effect transistors are the tiny engines behind modern electronics, and one of their most important performance measures is transconductance: how effectively a change in gate...
Molecular Exchange Controls Gene Regulation Complexes, Study Finds
Gene regulation is often portrayed as the work of stable molecular machines: large complexes assembled from precisely arranged parts, operating like miniature factories inside the...
Older Age and Stage Predict Recurrence, Mortality After Curative Colorectal Cancer Resection
Colorectal cancer is often described as a disease whose outlook is determined mainly by how far it has spread, but a new national cohort study...
How Anorectal Sexually Transmitted Infections Spread, Are Managed, and Prevented
Silent Rectal Infections Are Reshaping the Global Fight Against Sexually Transmitted Diseases Anorectal sexually transmitted infections are emerging as an increasingly important global health challenge,...
How Digital Technology’s Changing Landscape Is Shaping Health Outcomes
On July 31, 2026, JMIR Publications released five new News and Perspectives features examining how digital technologies are reshaping public health, maternal care, social policy,...
Scientists locate dormant cancer cells, revealing new treatment targets
Breast tumours may contain hidden “hibernation zones” where cancer cells stop dividing, evade chemotherapy and wait for an opportunity to return. A new study by...
Metadevices Transform Imaging and Displays from Nonresonant to Resonant Phenomena
Metasurfaces are moving beyond the era of simply bending light. A new review from Professor Din Ping Tsai’s group at City University of Hong Kong...
Scientists discover how plants sense when they’ve had enough nutrients
New York University researchers have identified a molecular switch that tells plants when they have absorbed enough nitrogen, a discovery that could eventually help crops...
New obesity classification may improve treatment decisions
Obesity may need to be defined less by a person’s metabolic test results and more by whether excess body fat is disrupting the function of...
Insilico Medicine launches the industry’s first Drug Discovery and Development (DDD) benchmark as a service, to evaluate frontier AI and foundation models on real-world science
image: Leveraging 30+ validated PCC programs and over 12 years of model development experience to create a large-scale real-world “blind test” for frontier AI and foundation...
Losartan and prednisolone for post-COVID syndrome and cardiac inflammation: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Puntmann, V.O., Nagel, E., Beitzke, D. et al. Losartan and prednisolone for post-COVID syndrome and cardiac inflammation: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Nat Commun 17,...