Zanidatamab Shows Promise in Early-Stage HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Trial
A new clinical study is drawing attention to the possibility of treating HER2-positive breast cancer before surgery with a next-generation antibody designed to attack the...
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Early-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease Advances, Yet Health Inequities Persist
A global shift is transforming the medical story of inflammatory bowel disease in children. In a commentary on Yue and colleagues’ population-based study, researchers describe...
Alanine tRNA Fragments and MEG3 Variant Vary with Tissues and Parkinson’s Severity
Parkinson’s disease may be leaving behind a molecular trail far more intricate than previously understood. A new study published in npj Parkinson’s Disease reports that...
GLP-1 Drugs and Tuberculosis Risk in People With Type 2 Diabetes
A new study published in Nature Communications is putting a widely used class of diabetes medicines under the microscope, asking whether glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists...
In-Situ Friction Stir Forging Produces Near-Net-Shape Soft Magnetic Composite Parts
Soft magnetic components are the quiet workhorses of modern technology. They channel and reshape magnetic fields inside electric motors, transformers, inductors, sensors and power-conversion systems,...
Scientists uncover design rules for high-performance thermoelectric materials
A new theoretical study from Tokyo Metropolitan University could change how scientists search for the next generation of thermoelectric materials—substances capable of converting wasted heat...
New analysis maps China’s ozone pollution pathways and mitigation strategies
China’s progress in reducing fine particulate pollution has exposed a more elusive threat in the nation’s atmosphere: ozone. A new article in Engineering warns that...
Alcohol reshapes liver zonation and immune-metabolic programming in metabolic syndrome-associated liver cancer
Alcohol is doing more than adding calories or damaging liver cells one by one. A new study by Tian, Xue, Sun and colleagues examines how...
National labs collaborate to accelerate qualification of critical nuclear components
The United States is turning to robotic metal 3D printing in an effort to solve one of nuclear energy’s most stubborn manufacturing problems: the limited...
Blood-camouflaged liquid metal nanoparticles combat aggressive breast cancer
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) has earned its reputation as one of oncology’s most formidable challenges because it removes the molecular handles that make many other...
GPR52’s Role in Breast Cancer Cell Organization and Collective Invasion
Breast cancer cells do not always spread as solitary invaders. In many of the most difficult-to-treat tumors, they move through surrounding tissue as coordinated groups,...
Hertz Foundation Entrepreneurship Award Backs Open-Access Human Cell Surface Map
A New Open-Access Atlas Could Solve One of Drug Development’s Biggest Delivery Problems For a promising medicine, identifying the right biological target is only the...
Scientists discover molecule fueling one of breast cancer’s deadliest forms
Australian researchers have identified a molecular vulnerability that could help explain why triple-negative breast cancer so readily spreads through the body—and may have revealed a...
Experts urge free, standard automatic crash alerts in every new vehicle
Automatic Crash Alerts Could Become the Next Essential Vehicle Safety Feature A technology that can summon emergency help before a crash victim is able to...
Drug combination shows promise against advanced prostate cancer
A new study from researchers at the University of Michigan has identified a potential two-drug strategy for treating an aggressive form of prostate cancer that...