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How Early-Life Stress Leaves Lasting Scars Within Brain Cells
Severe stress during childhood may leave behind more than emotional memories. A new study from Washington University School of Medicine…
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Garlic-Spearmint Nanoemulsion Controls Adzuki Bean Beetles With Minimal Nontarget Effects
Researchers at Kyushu University have developed a plant-based nanoemulsion insecticide that significantly improves the toxicity of garlic- and spearmint-derived compounds…
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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…
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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…
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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),…
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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…
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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…
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Ensoma sheds more staff, pauses preclinical programs to home in on lead gene therapy
Boston biotech Ensoma is doubling down on its lead gene therapy for a rare immune disease, laying off another round…
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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…
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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…