Experts urge discussing nicotine e-cigarettes as smoking cessation tools
Cigarette smoking remains one of the leading preventable causes of death in the United States, killing nearly half a million people each year. Although millions...
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Cooperation May Hold the Key to Reproductive Success
Fertilization is usually portrayed as a microscopic race: millions of sperm cells competing to reach a single egg, with only one emerging victorious. A new...
GLP-1 Versus DPP-4 Drugs: Cardiovascular Outcomes in Diabetic Kidney Failure Patients
People with diabetes who develop both heart failure and end-stage kidney disease face one of medicine’s most difficult cardiovascular challenges. Their risk of hospitalization, arrhythmia,...
Science and Public Health Efforts Combat Misinformation to Save Children’s Lives
A new award presentation in Pediatric Research frames misinformation as a direct threat to child survival, arguing that scientific knowledge can save lives only when...
Stress Recruits Small Heat Shock Protein 1 to Mitochondrial Surface, Preventing Apoptosis
Mitochondria are often described as the power stations of the cell, but they are also strategic decision-makers in cellular survival. When damage becomes too severe,...
Variable Strides Linked to Osteosarcopenia in Community-Dwelling Older Women
A subtle change in the way older adults walk may offer an important clue about a condition that combines two major threats to healthy ageing....
Response Clarifies Causal and Translational Inference Linking Ambient PM2.5 to Lung Cancer
A new scientific reply has reignited debate over how researchers should interpret the relationship between outdoor air pollution and lung cancer. Published in the British...
Immune Signals Could Predict Treatment Responses in Difficult-to-Treat Depression
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a possible biological link between ketamine, psychedelic compounds and rapid improvement in treatment-resistant...
Bentham Science Launches New Journal, Current Surgical Endoscopy
Bentham Science Publishers has announced the launch of Current Surgical Endoscopy, a new peer-reviewed journal designed to track the rapid evolution of endoscopic surgery and...
Disordered Atoms Organized into Rows and Columns Enable Sustainable Catalysis
Scientists have created an unusually ordered version of a chemically complex alloy that could help reveal how advanced electrocatalysts work atom by atom. The material...
Hospital-recommended practices may reduce breastfeeding rates, research review suggests
A review of 78 international studies is challenging some of the most persistent beliefs about breastfeeding during the first days after birth, arguing that routine...
New informatics tools transform biodiversity data into actionable policy insights
Biodiversity data are accumulating at an extraordinary rate, yet the information needed to understand ecological change often remains fragmented, inconsistent, and difficult to convert into...
How Immunity, Age, Viral Shedding, and Community Exposure Shape Household Flu Spread
Influenza transmission within households is shaped by far more than whether one person becomes infected, according to a study by M.K. Sauter, J. Kleynhans, J....
Alveolar Capillary Dysplasia: How Health System Data Illuminate Rare Disease
Alveolar capillary dysplasia is one of medicine’s most devastating diagnostic puzzles: newborns appear to have lungs, but their microscopic architecture prevents those lungs from performing...
Mitophagy-Driven Mitochondrial DNA Release Connects Radiation to Immunogenic Death in Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer may be one of the most difficult cancers to treat, but new research points to a microscopic event inside damaged cells that could...