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Heart-on-a-Chip Pumps Blood-Style Flow to Test Drug Effects on Beating Cells
Every heartbeat is a conversation between chemistry and mechanics, and it happens in a moving stream of blood. When a…
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New US Dietary Guidelines Could Push Food Emissions Up by a Third, Study Finds
America’s most influential nutrition document has just been handed an uncomfortable climate report card. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the…
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Anthropic-, Nvidia-Backed Basecamp Research Raise $140M Series C Financing Toward Advancing AI-Designed Drugs
Basecamp Research co-founders Glen Gowers and Oliver Vince work on programmable therapeutics. Basecamp has completed an oversubscribed $140 million Series…
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Protein Maps of Colorectal Cancer Reveal New Biomarkers of Tumor Spread
Colorectal cancer remains one of the deadliest and most frequently diagnosed gastrointestinal malignancies in the world, and clinicians have long…
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Tiny Moss Frogs Reveal How Skin and Thyroid Evolve Together for Life on Land
Deep in the mountain fynbos of South Africa, a frog smaller than a fingernail is quietly rewriting what scientists thought…
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Six Experts Map the Future of Rare Metabolic Disease Research
Rare diseases are defined individually by their scarcity, but collectively they represent one of the largest burdens of unmet medical…
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Prenatal Mercury at Real-World Levels Rewires Development Differently in Male and Female Rats
A single pollutant, swallowed by a pregnant mother in doses that would not raise eyebrows at a seafood counter, may…
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Taxing Food Emissions Could Reshape Diets Across Borders, Study Finds
Fiscal policy has long been a blunt instrument in the hands of governments, but a growing body of research suggests…
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New Genetic Factor Analysis Method Reveals Hidden Shared Roots of Disease
A team of statisticians and geneticists has unveiled a powerful new computational method that promises to untangle one of the…
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Three-Day Methadone Bridge Therapy Keeps People in Opioid Treatment, Study Finds
Methadone remains one of the most effective medications available for opioid use disorder, yet in the United States it is…