Striatal Endocannabinoids Drive One-Shot Learning
A single emotionally significant experience can sometimes reshape behavior almost instantly. A new study published in Nature Neuroscience reports that this remarkable form of “one-shot...
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New hope for Parkinson’s: Stronger muscles may help protect the brain
Parkinson’s disease is increasingly being viewed as more than a disorder of movement. As populations age worldwide, the progressive neurodegenerative condition is placing a growing...
AI Enhances Oncology Clinical Trials
Cancer clinical trials are entering an era in which artificial intelligence could influence nearly every stage of the research process, from deciding which patients are...
Causal Graph Neural Networks Advance Data-Driven Healthcare Research
Artificial intelligence may be exceptionally good at recognizing patterns in medical data, yet that strength can become a weakness when algorithms leave the hospitals and...
A 50°C change determines whether ultrathin magnetic films stay intact or disintegrate
Magnetic memory could be approaching a major materials breakthrough after researchers in Japan developed a two-step heating method that produces ultrathin iron–palladium films with an...
Fully Tunable On-Chip Meta-Generator Enables Multidimensional Poincaré Sphere Mapping
Light could soon become as programmable as digital data, thanks to a new on-chip optical device that can generate and control complex polarization states across...
Tiny Particles Defy Action-Reaction Symmetry to Stay in Motion
From schools of fish and flocks of birds to microscopic particles that assemble, scatter, and move as though they were alive, active matter is challenging...
Scientists uncover new vulnerability in acute myeloid leukemia
HOUSTON—Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have identified a previously unrecognized weakness in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), suggesting that drugs designed to...
Neonatal BDNF Levels Linked to Respiratory Disease in Extremely Preterm Infants
A molecule best known for helping neurons survive and form connections may also provide an early biological signal of respiratory disease in the most vulnerable...
Engineered helper plasmid boosts AAV production by tuning E4orf6 and L4-22/33K expression
A redesigned helper plasmid has increased the production of adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors by controlling the relative expression of two adenoviral regulatory factors, according to...
Editors Issue Expression of Concern Over Study on WEB-2086 Breast Cancer Findings
A new editorial notice in the British Journal of Cancer has placed a formal question mark over a study that reported promising laboratory effects from...
How Inflammatory Gut–Liver Crosstalk Drives Disease and Reveals New Treatment Targets
A new review in Experimental & Molecular Medicine is drawing attention to the gut–liver axis as one of the body’s most influential biological communication networks—and...
DNMT1-Targeted Macrophages Deliver Drug-Loaded Nanoparticles to Reduce Heart Transplant Fibrosis
Heart transplantation can replace a failing organ, but the procedure does not end the biological struggle. Even when a graft survives the initial immune attack,...
Cerium(III) Lanthanide Complex Delivers Highly Efficient Dual-Channel Doublet Emission
A new study has brought an unusual lanthanide complex into the spotlight by demonstrating highly efficient dual-channel doublet emission from cerium(III), opening a potentially important...
CAFs Suppress Pancreatic Cancer Immunity Through the Lin28B-STING Axis
Pancreatic cancer has long been described as a disease protected by its surroundings. Rather than existing as an isolated mass of malignant cells, a pancreatic...