Pusan National and Chung-Ang Develop Next-Gen Self-Renewing Air Filter Coating
Breathing clean air depends on filters that do more than trap particles—they must hold them. In many conventional systems, captured dust can loosen under airflow...
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CHEST Critical Care Achieves First Ever Impact Factor
Glenview, Illinois—CHEST, the American College of Chest Physicians’ flagship journal portfolio, has reported a major milestone for its open-access publication CHEST® Critical Care: the journal...
New Strategy Enables Oxidation-Free, Efficient Oligonucleotide Synthesis
Efficient oligonucleotide synthesis is the bottleneck behind many modern applications, from molecular diagnostics to nucleic acid therapeutics. The current workhorse approach—P(III)-phosphoramidite chemistry—delivers speed and reliability,...
Trace Additive Could Help Compostable PLA Plastics Degrade in Backyards
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (07/29/2026) — A team at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities reports a chemical tweak that could make polylactide (PLA), a...
AI structural atlas reveals kinase specificity across the human proteome
Kinase-driven phosphorylation is a central switch in cell signaling, yet most sites in the human proteome remain poorly characterized. Among the roughly 1.8 million serine,...
Multi-omics Study Uncovers How Androgen Deprivation Reprograms Testis Sertoli Cells
A new multi-omic study has mapped how the human testicular niche remodels when androgen signaling is abruptly removed, offering a molecular view of what Sertoli...
Seafood intake may help close nutrition gaps in Brazil, study suggests
Brazil’s long coastline and rich marine life should, in theory, make seafood a nutritional powerhouse. Yet a new nationwide analysis suggests that the country’s seafood...
Latent Profiles of Age-Friendly Cities in Colombia Linked to Later-Life Ageism
A new study in Colombia is using a sophisticated statistical lens to map how older adults perceive the age-friendliness of their cities and communities—and what...
SACF and GILA multi-site study evaluates CRISPR/Cas9-edited cell transformation in vitro
A new multi-site study published in Gene Therapy reports that two streamlined assays—SACF and GILA—can improve how scientists evaluate whether CRISPR/Cas9-edited cell therapy candidates undergo...
Danish and Swedish Study Links Early Hospital Contacts to Childhood Cancer Mortality
Hospitals are not only places where childhood cancer is treated—they also generate records of earlier health encounters. A new population-based study now asks whether patterns...
Gene base editing reverses Huntington’s disease in mice
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign report that a precision gene-editing strategy can reduce the toxic protein burden and neurological symptoms...
Optical methods tackle complex optimization problems faster and more efficiently
Osaka, Japan—Optimization is the quiet engine behind everything from planning transport routes to organizing huge datasets. But as these problems grow, the brute-force search through...
New Einstein puzzle variant uncovers surprising physics
Aperiodic order is back in the spotlight. A team at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo has engineered optical structures inspired by...
Antioxidant lipid nanoparticles deliver circRNA uricase to treat hyperuricemia in mice
A new preclinical study published in Nature Communications reports a tailored nanomedicine strategy aimed at treating hyperuricemia and its downstream complications in mice. The work...
ProteinGuide Offers Property Guidance for Protein Sequence Generative Models
A new approach dubbed ProteinGuide aims to let researchers steer protein sequence generative models using auxiliary experimental or user-specified information—without the heavy burden of retraining...