Nicotine E-Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit Traditional Cigarettes
Cigarette smoking remains one of the most persistent and preventable causes of disease worldwide, exposing people to a complex mixture of toxic substances produced when...
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How Co-Transcriptional Splicing Is Detected, Regulated, and Harnessed for Therapy
Co-transcriptional splicing, once viewed primarily as a routine step in messenger RNA production, is emerging as a central regulator of gene expression, genome stability and...
Spinal fluid biomarkers reveal shared synaptic dysfunction across major psychiatric disorders
A new study published in Nature Communications is challenging one of psychiatry’s most persistent assumptions: that major mental disorders can be cleanly separated by their...
Neonatal Neurobehavior: Comparing Two Scales for Assessing Newborns in the NICU
A new study is putting two of the most influential tools for assessing newborn behavior side by side, asking whether the way clinicians measure an...
Normal DNA Re-Replication Observed as Human Stem Cells Differentiate
A process long associated with genomic instability may have a carefully controlled role in human development, according to a study published in Cell Death Discovery....
Pusan National University Researchers Advance Solar Desalination Using Multifunctional Membrane
Freshwater production from oily seawater has long presented a difficult engineering problem: the same membranes designed to purify water can quickly become clogged by oil....
Memorial Sloan Kettering Research Highlights: July 30, 2026
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers have reported a series of findings that could reshape treatment strategies across oncology, from drug-resistant leukemia and bone metastasis...
Scientists uncover a new form of magnetism in quantum materials
A few atomic layers of ruthenium dioxide may be revealing a hidden form of magnetism that disappears in the material’s ordinary bulk state, according to...
Nicotine Pouches Explained: What They Are and How They Work
Nicotine patches are often viewed as the quietest tool in the fight against smoking: a small adhesive strip placed on the skin, releasing nicotine steadily...
Roadkill may push shrinking hedgehog populations toward collapse, study warns
Road traffic may be pushing Britain’s smallest hedgehog populations toward collapse, according to a new study showing that even one or two road deaths each...
Ruxolitinib Prevents Irreversible Autoimmune Endocrine Disorders in APECED
A drug already used to calm overactive immune signaling may offer a way to prevent one of the most devastating consequences of APECED, a rare...
Thirdhand E-Cigarette Exposure Sex-Specifically Alters Lung Function and Gene Activity in Mice
A new study in Pediatric Research is drawing attention to an overlooked possibility in the debate over vaping: the health effects of electronic-cigarette aerosols may...
Blocking Xenophagocytosis May Enable Interspecies Organ Generation
Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo and Stanford University have identified a previously unrecognized immune mechanism that rapidly eliminates donor cells during interspecies organ...
Lipid nanoparticles deliver a powerful one-two punch against oral cancer
Oral squamous cell carcinoma, the most common form of head and neck cancer, is confronting researchers with a problem that remains stubbornly difficult: how to...
Mapping Quark–Gluon Plasma’s Extreme Acceleration in Heavy-Ion Collisions
When two atomic nuclei collide at nearly the speed of light, they create one of the hottest and most energetic forms of matter known to...