Microbes Turn Corn Stalks Into Dinner
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have evolved a strain of the bacterium Pseudomonas putida that can consume three major sugars found in...
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Trk and IGF1R Signaling Linked to Delayed Ewing Sarcoma Growth
Ewing sarcoma, an aggressive cancer that predominantly affects children and adolescents, has long challenged researchers because of its ability to grow rapidly, spread to distant...
Tuning Chiral Asymmetry Opens New Dimension for Lithium–Sulfur Battery Catalysts
A New Spin on Lithium–Sulfur Batteries Could Make Them Faster, More Stable, and More Powerful Lithium–sulfur batteries have long been regarded as one of the...
Nirsevimab Immunization Outcomes in the First Two Years
Nirsevimab, a long-acting monoclonal antibody designed to protect infants from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), was associated with a substantial reduction in hospitalizations caused by RSV-related...
Endometriosis Linked to 46% Higher Type 2 Diabetes Risk in Women
Endometriosis may be linked to a substantially higher risk of type 2 diabetes, according to the largest study yet to investigate how the chronic gynecological...
Slow Electrons Discovered in 2D Material Could Enable New Memory Devices
Scientists have discovered an unusual electronic state in the two-dimensional magnetic material Fe₅GeTe₂, where large groups of electrons move collectively at exceptionally low effective speeds...
UChicago Medicine Cancer Center and Lilly Partner to Expand Clinical Trial Access
The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center and Eli Lilly and Company have launched a two-year partnership aimed at expanding patient access to cancer...
Far-apart time crystals synchronize their oscillations
Physicists at TU Dortmund University have shown that continuous time crystals can synchronize with one another across surprisingly large distances inside a semiconductor. The finding,...
Baylor College of Medicine secures multimillion-dollar deal to advance xenoliver transplantation research
Baylor College of Medicine has launched a new research center dedicated to solving one of transplantation medicine’s most persistent problems: the shortage of human organs....
New study brings hope against deadly virus threatening carp populations
Koi herpesvirus, also known as cyprinid herpesvirus 3 (CyHV-3), is one of the most destructive viral pathogens in freshwater aquaculture. It can move rapidly through...
When Fever Fails, Infected Tadpoles Cool Down to Combat Viruses
Fever is widely recognized as a powerful defense against infection. Across the animal kingdom, many species raise their body temperature to slow pathogens or improve...
Scientists infer millisecond protein dynamics from missing signals in NMR spectra
Proteins are often portrayed as elegant molecular machines with a single, well-defined structure. In reality, many proteins constantly shift among several conformations, flickering between shapes...
CXL Scale-Up Fabrics Enable One-Chip-Like Data Center Designs
AI datacenters are approaching a point where adding more processors no longer guarantees faster results. As machine-learning models expand across hundreds or thousands of accelerators,...
Novel Cathode Material Advances Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries Toward Commercial Viability
Storing renewable energy remains one of the central challenges of the clean-energy transition. Solar panels and wind turbines can generate electricity without burning fossil fuels,...
Bone marrow cancer leaves immune cells poorly prepared to defend
A previously underexplored population of immune cells in the bone marrow may help explain why some patients with multiple myeloma or acute myeloid leukemia respond...