No Sensorimotor Toxicity Observed with Clinical SMN Cassette in scAAV9
A new study in Nature Neuroscience reports that a clinical expression cassette designed to restore production of survival motor neuron, or SMN, protein does not...
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Soil Microbes Commonly Depend on Metabolite Cross-Feeding
Soil bacteria may be far less self-sufficient than scientists have traditionally assumed. A large study of nearly 7,000 bacterial isolates from 27 soil microbial communities...
Pilot study links prenatal workplace exposure to quaternary ammonium compounds with birthweight
A newborn’s first stool may be carrying a chemical record of the pregnancy. In a pilot study published in the Journal of Perinatology, researchers Fisher,...
Seven-Day Korean Study Reveals How Biomonitoring Tracks Phthalate and Alternative Plasticizer Exposure
Plastic exposure may be far more changeable from one day to the next than a single urine sample can reveal, according to a new biomonitoring...
Blocking KDM5A/B boosts antitumor immune responses in HHV-8-positive B-cell lymphomas
Zhou, Fiches, Wu and colleagues report that blocking the chromatin-regulating enzymes KDM5A and KDM5B can strengthen antitumor innate immune responses in B-cell lymphomas associated with...
Melamine-Based Carbon Nitride Promises to Remove Common Pharmaceuticals from Water
A seemingly small choice at the beginning of a materials-production process may determine how effectively a promising water-treatment catalyst works, according to an international research...
New combination therapy improves outcomes in preclinical lung cancer studies
Lung cancer models built from patient-derived cells have revealed a potentially powerful way to overcome treatment resistance: pairing the antibody-drug conjugate patritumab deruxtecan, also known...
Ultrathin Suspended Oxide Enables Programmable Mid-Infrared Vision
Mid-infrared cameras are typically associated with military night vision, but their importance now extends far beyond seeing in darkness. They are used to monitor industrial...
New autism research tool reveals how nature and nurture shape children’s risk
Autism research has gained a powerful new analytical tool designed to separate the genetic factors children inherit from their parents from the less visible ways...
How Plant-Specific and Conserved PAF1 Complex Mechanisms Respond to Replication Stress
A new study in Arabidopsis thaliana has identified the polymerase-associated factor 1 complex, or PAF1C, as a central component of the plant response to DNA...
Experimental sheep infection reveals Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus spread and diagnostic clues
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) is drawing renewed scientific attention through a study examining how the pathogen spreads through the bodies of experimentally infected sheep...
Randomized Trial Tests Stochastic Vibration and Early Weight Gain in Opioid-Exposed Newborns
A new randomized clinical trial is testing whether a surprisingly simple form of sensory input could help opioid-exposed newborns gain weight during the fragile first...
China Study Ranks Indoor VOC Sources by Their Attributable Disease Burden
China’s indoor air problem is moving into sharper scientific focus as researchers examine not only how much pollution people breathe inside buildings, but also where...
Multicolor Electrochromic Actuators Enable Biomimetic Skin-Muscle Coupling
Researchers have unveiled a new approach to making soft robots and wearable machines look and move more like living organisms: flexible actuators that combine muscle-like...
Honeybee Gut Symbiont’s Colibactin Helps Defend Against Pathogens
A gut bacterium that shortens the lifespan of honeybees may nevertheless help them survive a potentially lethal infection. Researchers have found that Frischella perrara, a...