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NAD+ Collapse Drives Senescent CD8+ T Cells That Worsen Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative colitis has long been framed as a disease of overactive immunity, a condition in which the immune system attacks…
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Scientists watch a New Zealand estuary breathe, mapping the seafloor’s hidden oxygen pulse
Every estuary has a heartbeat, and for the first time scientists have watched one beat across an entire harbor, day…
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Plant Extracts Show Modest Gains as Add-Ons to Deep Cleaning for Gum Disease, Review Finds
Periodontitis, the chronic inflammatory disease that destroys the tissues anchoring teeth in the jaw, affects a large share of adults…
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Volcanic Rock Buoys Could End Microplastic Pollution in Oyster Farms
Every oyster farm in South Korea’s southern coastal waters floats on a quiet environmental disaster. Roughly 24 million expanded polystyrene…
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Ternary Oxide Catalyst Turns Biodiesel Waste Glycerol into Valuable Glycidol in One Pot
Glycerol, the humble three-carbon alcohol churned out by the billion litres every year as a by-product of biodiesel production, has…
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Sunflower Genes Could Hold the Key to Climate-Proof Crops in the World’s Driest Farmlands
In the parched farmlands of the world’s semi-arid belts, crops rarely face one threat at a time. A field of…
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APOE4 Linked to Potentially Reversible Mechanisms of Brain Blood Vessel Damage in Alzheimer’s
Data from two studies using models of brain tissue and aged mice help explain how APOE4, a genetic risk factor…
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War and Invasive Insects Push a Lifesaving Cactus Toward Collapse in the Horn of Africa
In the arid highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea, a single plant has quietly held together an entire way of life…
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AI Chatbot Plans Liver Biopsy Needle Paths in Landmark Pilot Test
Can a chatbot help steer a biopsy needle through the liver? A new pilot study from researchers at Memorial Sloan…
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From Open Incisions to Intelligent Machines: The Radical Reinvention of Gastric Cancer Surgery
Gastric cancer surgery has traveled an extraordinary distance since Theodor Billroth performed the first successful gastric resections in the nineteenth…