Illicit fentanyl use more than doubles medical use in United States
A nationwide analysis of nearly 300,000 patients suggests that illicit fentanyl exposure has become substantially more common than medically supervised use, offering one of the...
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Firefighting linked to biological changes in blood and urine within 24 hours
Firefighters experience measurable changes in proteins circulating through their bodies within a day of battling a fire, according to a new study from UTHealth Houston....
Large Mammals Transform Atlantic Forest Soil Chemistry, Boosting Fertility
In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, large mammals are doing far more than moving through the trees. Tapirs, peccaries, deer, and agoutis are acting as living agents...
Giant Sunflower Family Genome Assembly Opens Path to New Perennial Crops
A pair of prairie plants with roots deep enough to reach several meters into the soil has moved closer to becoming a new generation of...
Dan Landau named inaugural chair of Weill Cornell’s computational biomedicine department
Weill Cornell Medicine is launching a new Department of Systems and Computational Biomedicine, an initiative designed to bring genomics, artificial intelligence and patient-centered research into...
New deterrent system successfully warns golden eagles about wind turbines
Wind turbines may soon have a new way to warn eagles and other large birds before they enter the most dangerous part of a wind...
Goal-Oriented Nutritional Model Incorporates Multiple Modes and Dietary Transitions
A new perspective published in Pediatric Research proposes that pediatric nutrition should be organized around clearly defined goals, multiple forms of assessment, and the transitions...
Study finds racial, ethnic, and income gaps in California EV charger access
California’s electric-vehicle revolution is accelerating, but a new study suggests that the benefits of the charging network are not reaching every community equally. Research published...
Short-chain fatty acids mitigate cisplatin-induced sensory damage and hearing loss via MUTYH
Cisplatin has saved countless lives by attacking rapidly dividing cancer cells, but the same chemical weapon can also injure the delicate sensory machinery of the...
Scientists develop radioafterglow nanoprobes to image hydrogen peroxide deep inside tissues
A new generation of cancer-imaging nanoparticles could make it possible to detect tiny tumors deep inside the body without relying on continuous illumination from an...
Roadmap Advances End-to-End, Task-Agnostic Exoskeleton Control
Lower-limb exoskeletons are moving toward a decisive technological turning point. Instead of asking a wearable robot to identify whether a person is walking, climbing stairs,...
HisToSpatialCNV Predicts Spatial Copy-Number Variations from Pathology Images Using Interpretable Deep Learning
Cancer’s genetic chaos may soon be readable in the ordinary stained images pathologists already examine under a microscope. A new study published in Nature Biomedical...
Open dataset helps Europe redesign buildings for a vanished climate
Europe’s buildings are being designed with weather data that may already belong to the past. Engineers commonly rely on Typical Meteorological Years, or TMYs, assembled...
Purdue compounds shown to stimulate powerful antitumor immune responses
Researchers at Purdue University have developed a small-molecule compound that could open a new route toward cancer immunotherapy by targeting a protein that normally restrains...
Physicists Recreate Collision That Sent a Black Hole Racing Through Space
A Supermassive Black Hole May Be Escaping Its Galaxy at 1,000 Kilometers per Second Astronomers have identified compelling evidence that a supermassive black hole is...