Verena Ruprecht's team found that epithelial cells in zebrafish and mouse embryos use the E-cadherin complex to engulf dying cells while staying sealed. The release links this to chronic inflammation, but every experiment it describes was done in embryos, so that link goes beyond the work.
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Physicists at Saint Louis University and CNRS found that focusing gain through opaque layers swings several times wider than correlation-free theory predicts. The average still matched theory, so the excess spread is the part that reports on the medium.
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John Cryan's lab at University College Cork found only the decaf half of 31 coffee drinkers improved on two memory tests. Cryan suspects gut microbes, but the blinded trial ties them to the result without showing they caused it.
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UW-Madison researchers linked higher blood levels of the gut-made compound ImP to faster cognitive decline in nearly 1,200 people. Evidence that ImP causes harm so far comes from mice, so lowering it to slow dementia is still an idea for the future.
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NTU scientists built a compound that starves Mycobacterium abscessus of energy; paired with the drug clofazimine it cut the microbe a hundredfold in four days. Two other teams mapped the same bacterium's virus defenses and a related pathogen's toxin-firing weapon.
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Northwestern researchers report that silencing somatostatin neurons in the mouse central amygdala reduced cannabinoid-heightened fear of fox odor. With a synthetic drug and genetic silencing, the circuit is a lead on cannabis-linked panic, several steps from any human treatment.
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Palaeontologists describing Norellraptor barsboldi found about 30% of 194 microraptor anatomical changes also arose in birds, but in a different order. That mismatch is the team's case that microraptors and birds each evolved flight on their own.
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GIFS and AAFC researchers have mapped a fourth Camelina subgenome, work they say makes wild relatives' diversity easier to breed into the oilseed. Better yield or oil from that diversity has not yet been shown.
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University at Buffalo researchers grew salivary organoids from human stem cells that survived and integrated in mouse glands for over 40 days. The goal is replacement tissue for radiation and Sjögren's dry mouth, where gland stimulation and artificial saliva have fallen short.
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Researchers at Hungary's HUN-REN Biological Research Center built MALVINA, a machine-learning method that measures bacterial invasion, buildup and DNA damage in the same human cells. It separates infection patterns that averaged readouts make look identical, down to single cells.
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Veiled chameleon embryos form the pre-gastrulation cavity once thought unique to mammals, a Nature Communications study reports. The team proposes the lizard as a model for the earliest human stages, a period scientists rarely get to observe directly.
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Kris Burkewitz's lab finds an ER calcium channel is essential for a mitochondrial mutation to extend worm lifespan. It explains an old aging puzzle in one worm mutant, a long way from showing how metformin, an aging-drug candidate, works in people.
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University of Würzburg researchers report that Chlamydia fills about 90 percent of its infectious-form DNA package with host sphingolipids. Disrupting that lipid-DNA bridge could block infection at its start, they say, though the binding site is not yet resolved.
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McMaster University researchers report that one flu or COVID infection sped motor decline in animal models of ALS. The work points to respiratory infection as an accelerant of the disease that treatment can blunt, but so far every result comes from animals.
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A team including University of Chicago neuroscientists recorded source, sink and spiral waves of neural activity, and linked different tasks to distinct patterns. The link is an association, so it shows the waves track what the brain is doing and leaves open whether they help direct it.
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NTU Singapore researchers report that cells shuttle cholesterol into lysosomes to keep them acidic and intact while digesting damaged mitochondria. The suggested link to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's is still an inference from cell experiments.
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A Baylor College of Medicine team used a structure-prediction workflow called GluePlex to find where a molecular glue grips the protein VAV1 before any experiment showed it. A separate group later reached the same conclusion in the lab.
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UNIST-led chemists calculate that packing a liquid-hydrogen tank with the porous crystal IRMOF-20 stretches its time to empty from about 64 days to 221. Those figures come from a model of a transport-scale tank, and no working vessel has yet been tested against them.
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UC Riverside's Andrey Bekker and colleagues tie oxygen's persistence after the Great Oxidation Event 2.3 billion years ago to recycled phosphorus. If that loop held oxygen up for long stretches, something besides scarce oxygen may have slowed the rise of complex life.
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Yemen's Houthis are advancing on Bab al-Mandab, the strait carrying 87% of Eritrea's maritime trade by value and US$520 billion of China's a year. Share and dollar value rank the exposed countries differently, and the researchers' US$30 billion estimate for a 30-day blockade is a global total.
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