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Cortical thinning precedes high amyloid levels by at least seven years
A new study in Nature Neuroscience reports that changes in the thickness of the cerebral cortex can appear at least…
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Microwave Plasmonic Resonators Reach Deep-Subwavelength Exceptional Point to Boost Sensing
A new study has reported a way to push exceptional-point physics into an unusually small microwave platform, creating a deep-subwavelength…
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Gut cGAS–STING–IFN signaling promotes obesity by reducing microbiota-derived IAA in male mice
A molecular alarm system best known for detecting misplaced DNA may be helping drive obesity from inside the intestine, according…
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Chemigenetic Biosensor Tracks Endogenous Ras Activity in Living Cells During Drug Research
Ras, one of the cell’s most influential molecular switches, has become the focus of a new live-cell imaging technology designed…
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Chronic Kidney Disease in Women: Global Burden and Metabolic-Cardiovascular Connections
Chronic kidney disease has become a rapidly expanding global health threat for women, with the number of women living with…
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Molecular Self-Assembly Enables High-Throughput DNA Fragment Synthesis from Overlapping Oligonucleotides
DNA synthesis has become one of synthetic biology’s most powerful enabling technologies—and one of its most persistent bottlenecks. Although researchers…
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Dynamic duo weaves hierarchical DNA materials using two classes of biomolecular nanomachines
Researchers in Japan have developed a molecular construction system that uses two chemically powered biomolecular machines to build interconnected DNA…
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Wiley Launches First Spectral Analysis API Portfolio to Speed Substance Identification
Wiley has launched a new portfolio of application programming interfaces designed to bring spectral databases, chemical-analysis algorithms, and predictive models…
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Wildlife Disease Increases with Urban Density, Habitat Connectivity and Climate Change
Coyotes are becoming an increasingly important signal of how urban growth, fragmented habitats and a warming climate are reshaping wildlife…
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Localized recurrent connections control neural activity dimensionality across brain regions
A new study suggests that the brain’s neural activity may be governed by a surprisingly simple principle: strong, highly localized…