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Faulty RNA Splicing of SCARB1 Linked to Metabolic Collapse in Early Pregnancy Loss
Anembryonic pregnancy, a form of early miscarriage in which a gestational sac develops but an embryo never forms, accounts for…
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Cold Temperatures Rewire Plant Recombination Through a Chromosome Brake Called SNI1
When the weather turns cold, plants do more than slow their growth. Deep inside their reproductive cells, the very machinery…
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AI Reads Newborn Faces to Spot Prader-Willi Syndrome Earlier Than Ever
Every newborn footprint gets recorded, every hearing screen logged, and every heel-prick blood sample sent for testing. Yet one of…
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Grail survives adcomm vote as it awaits FDA decision for cancer blood test
Despite a major trial setback earlier this year and increasing questions over its efficacy, medtech Grail has beaten the odds…
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Encrypted AI Training: Blockchain and Homomorphic Encryption Harden Federated Learning
Federated learning has long been pitched as the privacy-friendly way to train artificial intelligence: instead of shipping sensitive data to…
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Immunotherapy Reshapes Advanced Liver Cancer Care in Europe, but Access Lags Behind
Liver cancer has long been one of oncology’s most stubborn challenges, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) — the dominant primary liver…
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Mother and Baby Do Not Share a Metabolic Fingerprint at Birth, Study Finds
For decades, researchers probing the chemistry of pregnancy have faced an uncomfortable practical constraint: the fetus is chemically invisible. Drawing…
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Water Molecules Shield Metal-Organic Framework From Ibuprofen’s Strongest Grip
Every year, tons of ibuprofen slip past wastewater treatment plants and drift into rivers, lakes, and drinking water supplies. The…
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Liver Surgery Gives Cats With Rare Tumours a Far Better Prognosis Than Once Thought
For decades, a diagnosis of a primary liver tumour in a cat was treated as close to a death sentence.…
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Aging Blunts a Protective Gut Lipid Defense That Keeps COVID-19 Mild
Why COVID-19 hits older people so much harder has been one of the pandemic’s most stubborn questions, and much of…