Cognitive and Physical Disabilities Shape Depression Risk, Recovery in Older Chinese Adults
Depression in later life is often treated as a disorder of mood alone, yet a new study of Chinese older adults highlights how closely emotional...
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Randomized Trial Tests Losartan and Prednisolone for Post-COVID Syndrome and Cardiac Inflammation
The long shadow cast by COVID-19 is moving deeper into the territory of cardiovascular medicine. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial published in Nature Communications examines...
Engineered bispecific antibodies boost macrophage killing of B-cell lymphoma
A new study describes a high-throughput strategy for engineering bispecific antibodies that could help macrophages destroy malignant B cells more efficiently, offering a potential new...
Scalable In-Process Inspection for Direct-Ink-Writing Additive Manufacturing
A new study is putting a high-tech “watchdog” inside one of additive manufacturing’s most promising processes. Researchers B.T. Weston, M.E. Zelinski, H.Z. Ammar and colleagues...
New wearable sensors improve uric acid monitoring, review finds
Wearable Sensors Could Turn Uric Acid Monitoring Into an Everyday Health Check Uric acid, a waste product formed when the body breaks down purines, may...
Spectroscopy System Detects Aerosols Using Common Surfaces
Researchers have demonstrated an infrared spectroscopy system that can detect chemical aerosols from a distance by using light reflected from ordinary surfaces, including traffic signs,...
Divergent Porcine Astrovirus 4 Forms Distinct Respiratory and Gastrointestinal Genetic Clades
Porcine astrovirus 4 is emerging as a more genetically complex virus than its name might suggest, according to a study published in npj Viruses. Researchers...
Preoperative Dual Immunotherapy Shows Promise in High-Risk Early HER2-Negative Breast Cancer
WASHINGTON — A combination of two immunotherapy drugs produced substantially higher rates of tumor eradication when added to chemotherapy before surgery in patients with high-risk,...
Netherlands Joins CTAO ERIC as Observer
Bologna, Italy — The Netherlands has officially joined the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CTAO ERIC) as an Observer, opening a new...
Nationwide Study Tracks Hepatitis B Reactivation and Liver Dysfunction During Infliximab Treatment
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an umbrella term for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, is becoming an increasingly significant public-health challenge worldwide. The burden is rising...
Corisin triggers proteostasis stress, causing epithelial damage and lung fibrosis
A new study published in Nature Communications reports that corisin, a virus-associated molecular factor, can disrupt the protein-management systems of lung epithelial cells and initiate...
New study finds shampoo routines may increase household water waste
A Shower’s Smallest Habits May Be Driving Much More Water Waste Than Expected, Study Finds The length of a shower may depend less on who...
Pan-cancer pro-angiogenic atlas reveals tumor-educated pericyte-driven anti-angiogenic resistance
Anti-angiogenic drugs were expected to starve tumors by cutting off their blood supply. Yet many cancers eventually adapt, finding alternative ways to grow new vessels...
Insilico Medicine Launches Industry’s First Drug Discovery Benchmark-as-a-Service for Frontier AI Models
Insilico Medicine has launched what it describes as the first Drug Discovery and Development Benchmark as a Service, a testing framework designed to determine whether...
Imaging Reveals How Brain–Body Interactions Shape Systemic Disease
The brain is increasingly being understood not as an isolated command center, but as part of a continuously communicating biological network that includes the heart,...