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...
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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...
Young Survivors Face Lifelong Risk of New Aneurysms After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
A long-term study of young survivors of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage has found that the risk of developing a new brain aneurysm may continue rising for...
No Sensorimotor Toxicity Observed with Clinical SMN Cassette in scAAV9
A new study in Nature Neuroscience reports that a clinical expression cassette designed to restore production of survival motor neuron, or SMN, protein does not...
Soil Microbes Commonly Depend on Metabolite Cross-Feeding
Soil bacteria may be far less self-sufficient than scientists have traditionally assumed. A large study of nearly 7,000 bacterial isolates from 27 soil microbial communities...
Pilot study links prenatal workplace exposure to quaternary ammonium compounds with birthweight
A newborn’s first stool may be carrying a chemical record of the pregnancy. In a pilot study published in the Journal of Perinatology, researchers Fisher,...
Seven-Day Korean Study Reveals How Biomonitoring Tracks Phthalate and Alternative Plasticizer Exposure
Plastic exposure may be far more changeable from one day to the next than a single urine sample can reveal, according to a new biomonitoring...
Blocking KDM5A/B boosts antitumor immune responses in HHV-8-positive B-cell lymphomas
Zhou, Fiches, Wu and colleagues report that blocking the chromatin-regulating enzymes KDM5A and KDM5B can strengthen antitumor innate immune responses in B-cell lymphomas associated with...
Melamine-Based Carbon Nitride Promises to Remove Common Pharmaceuticals from Water
A seemingly small choice at the beginning of a materials-production process may determine how effectively a promising water-treatment catalyst works, according to an international research...
New combination therapy improves outcomes in preclinical lung cancer studies
Lung cancer models built from patient-derived cells have revealed a potentially powerful way to overcome treatment resistance: pairing the antibody-drug conjugate patritumab deruxtecan, also known...
Ultrathin Suspended Oxide Enables Programmable Mid-Infrared Vision
Mid-infrared cameras are typically associated with military night vision, but their importance now extends far beyond seeing in darkness. They are used to monitor industrial...
New autism research tool reveals how nature and nurture shape children’s risk
Autism research has gained a powerful new analytical tool designed to separate the genetic factors children inherit from their parents from the less visible ways...
How Plant-Specific and Conserved PAF1 Complex Mechanisms Respond to Replication Stress
A new study in Arabidopsis thaliana has identified the polymerase-associated factor 1 complex, or PAF1C, as a central component of the plant response to DNA...