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,...
NEWS INDEX
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...
Continuing Inhaled Steroids Early in Pregnancy Doesn’t Worsen Outcomes in Asthma
Asthma treatment during pregnancy is often shaped by a difficult calculation: patients and clinicians must weigh the risks of medication exposure against the dangers of...
Nanoparticles help rice increase yields without sacrificing grain quality
Rice farmers may soon have a new tool for improving both harvests and the quality of the grain on the plate. A field study conducted...
RAS Rewires Ribosomes, Reshaping How Cells Read the Genetic Code
Cancer cells may be able to reprogram more than gene activity and signaling networks. A study led by researchers at Fudan University and Zhongshan Hospital...
Cancer-associated fibroblast SERPINH1 drives epithelial-mesenchymal transition in clear cell kidney cancer
Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common form of kidney cancer and remains difficult to control once it advances beyond the kidney....
Genomic analysis reveals how SARS-CoV-2 entered and spread across Georgia
The movement of SARS-CoV-2 across borders and through communities has left a genetic record in the virus’s genome. A study by G. Veytsel, L. Lyu,...
Mental Health Discussions Common in Publicly Available Generative AI Conversations
Adolescents Are Turning to AI Chatbots for Mental Health Conversations, New Study Examines Artificial intelligence chatbots are becoming an unexpected part of the mental health...
China’s National, Regional Lifetime Risks of Digestive Cancer Development and Death
China is entering a new phase of its cancer epidemic, and a large-scale analysis of global disease data suggests that digestive system cancers now pose...
SUTD, A*STAR IME Researchers Achieve Wafer-Scale Broadband Light Generation via Heavier Isotope
A research team in Singapore has developed a silicon nitride waveguide that can transform a narrow infrared laser pulse into an exceptionally broad spectrum of...
One policy lever could tackle India’s fertilizer pollution and groundwater depletion
A new study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) suggests that India could...
Study finds patients’ writing style may influence whether doctors respond
Patient portal messages are often presented as a direct line between patients and their doctors. In practice, however, a message may pass through several layers...