Climbing stairs may lower the risk of premature death
Taking the stairs may do more than get people from one floor to another: it could substantially reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease and premature...
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Glucose-sensing probiotics help regulate blood sugar in mice and monkeys
A new class of living medicine could one day help people with diabetes control blood glucose without injections, implanted devices or continuously adjusted external signals....
Accelerated Epigenetic Aging Linked to Metabolic Syndrome in Hispanic and Latino Adults
A new study is putting a high-tech twist on a long-standing question in health science: does metabolic syndrome accelerate biological aging, or can accelerated biological...
Large-scale admixture mapping in All of Us reveals cross-population trait differences
A new analysis of genetic diversity in the United States is offering researchers a sharper way to investigate why health-related traits differ among populations with...
Phytoplankton Responses to Drought and Flood Across the Yellow River Basin
The Yellow River Basin, one of China’s most important and environmentally pressured river systems, is revealing how profoundly water extremes can reshape the microscopic communities...
Deep Learning Speeds Comprehensive Pathology Assessments Using Three-Dimensional Tissue Data
A new artificial-intelligence system could help pathologists search through three-dimensional tissue specimens without forcing them to inspect every microscopic layer by hand. The framework, called...
Meloxicam protects ageing muscle and metabolism through Cdon restoration and oxidative control
Ageing does not weaken the body through a single biological switch. Muscle fibres gradually lose their ability to grow and repair, energy metabolism becomes less...
Common plant-derived chemical may threaten aquatic ecosystems, scientists warn
Pyrogallol, a naturally occurring chemical with applications ranging from photography and dye production to pharmaceuticals and metal processing, may deserve far greater attention as an...
NRG Oncology Earns Perfect Grant Score and Increased National Cancer Institute Funding
NRG Oncology, one of the principal research organizations within the U.S. National Cancer Institute’s National Clinical Trials Network, has secured a new six-year funding award...
Fishbone Catalyst Converts Agricultural Plastic Waste into Olefin-Rich Bio-Oil
A catalyst made from discarded fish bones could turn one of agriculture’s most persistent waste streams into a concentrated source of valuable hydrocarbons, according to...
PRAME-Specific T-Cell Therapy Used in Adolescent With Metastatic Kidney Tumor
Researchers at the Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), Heidelberg University Hospital, the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and collaborating institutions have reported an extraordinary...
Sustainability-labeled US meats cost more, with premiums ranging from 7% to 33%
A new study published in PLOS One reports that sustainability labels on meat products are associated with substantially higher prices in the United States, but...
Study finds extreme weather increasingly predicts North American bird species distributions
Extreme weather is redrawing the map of North American birdlife—and conventional biodiversity models may be missing the scale of the problem. A new Yale-led study...
Variation within species drives tropical forests’ resistance to drought
Forests are often portrayed as collections of distinct species, each with a relatively fixed set of biological characteristics. But a new study suggests that this...
Cathepsin D Hijacking of IL2RG–JAK2 Signaling Disrupts Liver Insulin Action, Study Finds
Hepatic insulin resistance, a metabolic defect that can emerge years before type 2 diabetes, has been linked to a previously underappreciated enzyme that may disrupt...