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Researchers found inspiration for recent breakthroughs in cancer therapy from unexpected things, such as vitamin precursors, sound, and the menstrual cycle.

Lost and then recovered blood supply when limbs get compressed causes nerves to go haywire.

By spreading out tightly packed information in neural networks, a new set of tools could make AI protein models easier to understand. 

Scientists are exploring how RNA might have jump-started life four billion years ago and how it's now advancing drug development with RNA-based therapies.

Short peptides can self-assemble into net-like structures that kill bacteria. Now, researchers have discovered how to control and enhance this ability.

A single-dose chlamydia vaccine could help koala populations bounce back from the devastating disease, preventing them from becoming functionally extinct.

The innate immune system sees drugs as threats, but researchers are taking advantage of this response to make cancer therapies more effective.

A new study recasts placental implantation as “coopetition,” showing how maternal and fetal cells both resist and enable invasion, with clues to pregnancy health.

Making blood in the lab can be hard because scientists don’t know what triggers a key final step in red blood cell maturation. A new study may change that.

Investigating autophagy deficits in the amygdala, this postdoc explores new therapeutic strategies for treating chronic pain.

Emotional or rewarding experiences can preserve memories of concurrent ordinary events, offering insights into how the brain decides what to keep and what to forget.

Years before people develop rheumatoid arthritis, their blood teems with activated immune cells that could serve as biomarkers for early diagnosis.

For the first time, scientists sequenced Robertsonian chromosomes, which can cause Down syndrome and cancer.

Purkinje cells, the neurons of the cerebellum, appear to die in an organized pattern, overturning previous beliefs that neurodegeneration occurs homogenously.

A student-led experiment compares bacterial protein synthesis on Earth and in the ISS under microgravity conditions.

Researchers developed a new AI tool for the preliminary identification of questionable journals that exploit the open-access system.

From CASP to the Virtual Cell Challenge, researchers are leveraging science competitions and high-risk, high-reward grants to drive their fields forward.

From forged acceptance letters to fake DOIs, a publishing scam put Iraqi students and their degrees at risk. The fraudster? A university professor.