Locus-Specific Analysis Reveals Genetic Risk Mechanisms Behind Complex Diseases
Genetic studies of complex diseases have generated an enormous catalogue of risk variants, yet the catalogue has often been easier to build than to interpret....
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How AI-Discovered Problem-Solving Strategies Spread and Persist in Human Culture
A new study suggests that artificial intelligence may do more than solve problems in isolation: its discoveries can enter human culture, spread from person to...
How Application Behavior Drives Undermatching in New York City School Choice
New York City’s school-choice system is designed to turn thousands of individual preferences and limited school seats into orderly assignments. Yet a new study suggests...
Researchers reveal how chronic stress drives immune dysfunction in cold tumors
A stress-sensing pathway that helps natural killer cells mature and attack cancer may become a liability when activated continuously, according to a study led by...
How Lipid Metabolism Shapes Cancer Progression and Anticancer Immunity
Cancer cells do not merely consume energy; they redesign the body’s lipid economy to support uncontrolled growth and to weaken the immune response. A review...
Machine Learning Reveals Global Health Aid Funding Disparities
Global health aid is often presented as a force directed toward the places with the greatest medical need. Yet the money that supports hospitals, vaccination...
Freeze-Drying Method Reveals Bacterial Ultrastructure in Scanning Electron Microscopy
Scanning electron microscopy has long offered microbiologists an exceptionally detailed view of bacterial surfaces, but the instrument’s vacuum environment creates a fundamental challenge: biological specimens...
Scientists map plant-fungus symbiosis at single-cell resolution
Ghent, 18 August 2026 — Beneath the soil, tomato roots are not passive anchors but dynamic biological interfaces where plants and fungi negotiate an exchange...
Machine Learning Predicts Microslit Panel Surface Impedance in Grazing Flow
A new machine-learning approach could give acoustic engineers a faster way to predict how microslit panels behave when air rushes across their surfaces, a condition...
UC San Diego Wins $12.3 Million Grant to Study HIV-Methamphetamine Connection
UC San Diego has received a $12.3 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health,...
Engineered Gel Cells Carry Artificial DNA Receptors to Detect and Treat Aflatoxin
Aflatoxin, one of the most dangerous families of foodborne toxins, may soon face an unusual opponent: living cells transformed into microscopic sensing and treatment units....
Air pollution linked to distinct changes in Alzheimer’s-vulnerable brain regions
Air Pollution May Reshape Alzheimer’s-Vulnerable Brain Regions—But the Pattern Changes With Age Common outdoor air pollutants may be associated with structural changes in brain regions...
Anti-CD320 Autoantibodies Linked to CNS Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Myelopathy
A new study has identified autoantibodies targeting CD320, the cellular receptor responsible for transporting vitamin B12 into cells, in a subset of people with idiopathic...
Mizzou Study Finds Minor Schedule Change Dramatically Improves Night-Shift Physicians’ Health
University of Missouri researchers have found that moving the start and end of an overnight hospital shift forward by two hours may improve physicians’ sleep...
Personalized neoantigen vaccine shows promise after surgery for head and neck cancer
Head and neck cancer research is entering a phase in which viral technology, tumor genomics and personalized immunology are being combined into a single treatment...