How Accurate Must Newborn Point-of-Care Glucose Tests Be, and Why
A new Pediatrics Research commentary asks a deceptively simple question: how accurate does “accurate enough” really need to be for point-of-care glucose testing in newborns?...
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Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping Duration Linked to Phototherapy Days in Preterm Infants
A team investigating preterm birth has turned to a simple, controllable delivery-room variable: how long clinicians delay clamping the umbilical cord. In a retrospective, single-center...
Stretchable Antenna Keeps Wearable Health Sensors Aligned With Human Motion
Wearable medical monitors are built to track the body in real time, but everyday motion can be unforgiving. Bending, stretching, running, or even simple posture...
Study Finds Alzheimer’s P-tau217 Biomarker Weak in Preclinical Research
A new observational analysis draws on blood samples from the ESTHER study to test whether common blood-based biomarkers can forecast Alzheimer’s dementia years before any...
3D-Printable Materials Heal Bodies, Enable Better Robots, Recover Critical Minerals
A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has created a new 3D-printable material that behaves like living tissue’s built-in sorting system....
Xi’an Jiaotong team finds temperature-dependent single-molecule magnetostrictor behavior
A surge in big-data and quantum-device development is pushing materials toward the atomic scale, where conventional magnetism often fails. One key limitation is the superparamagnetic...
Bubble streams help sperm whales sleep deeply underwater
Sperm whales don’t sleep the way most animals do. Instead of drifting quietly at the surface, these massive mammals can hang suspended roughly 25 meters...
Brown Bullhead Catfish Cancer Reveals Novel Transmissible Melanoma
Brown bullhead catfish melanoma in Lake Memphremagog is a single clonal cancer lineage that appears to spread between individuals, according to new genetic analyses combining...
Clonal Division Memory in Humans Splits Between Healthy Blood Formation and AML
A new study published in Nature Communications reports that the history of how human blood cells divide leaves behind a “clonal memory” that behaves differently...
New initiative aims to secure AI systems used in scientific research
Artificial intelligence is becoming a core instrument of scientific discovery, but it introduces a vulnerability that conventional cybersecurity often misses: models, datasets, and automated agents...
Houston Methodist Researchers Create Biodegradable Implant for Targeted Cancer Immunotherapy
Houston Methodist Research Institute scientists have unveiled a biodegradable implant intended to deliver cancer-fighting immunotherapy drugs directly within tumors for prolonged periods. The goal is...
How Molecular Cooperation Between Polymers and Primitive Membranes Enabled Life
Researchers at Hebrew University report a simple chemical link that could help explain how early Earth chemistry transitioned toward cell-like organization. Their work shows that...
Family Medicine Residency Directors Say Programs Do Not Assess Self-Directed Learning Directly
Family physicians are expected to keep learning throughout their careers, yet a new survey suggests that residency training may not consistently measure whether trainees can...
Chitosan Hydrogel Stabilizes Red Blood Cell Membranes for Environmental Sensors
Natural cell membranes excel at biological recognition, but translating their sensing abilities into practical devices is notoriously difficult. Once embedded in artificial materials, biomembranes often...
Maternal, Neonatal Cytokine Signals in Twins Suggest Immune Dysregulation in Autism
A new exploratory study is adding fresh data to the long-running question of whether immune activity around birth might influence neurodevelopmental outcomes. Reporting in Pediatric...