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StockWatch: Nektar Shares Flat as $90M Jury Verdict Less than Sought in Lilly Suit
This past week, Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq: NKTR) offered an uncommon example of victory in court translating into defeat on Wall…
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Near-Perfect Long Reads Reveal Hidden Mosaicism Left Behind by CRISPR Gene Editing
CRISPR-Cas9 has transformed the life sciences by giving researchers a seemingly simple tool for cutting DNA at chosen locations, but…
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Machine Learning Meets Forensic DNA: SNPs That Identify Relatives and Separate East Asian Populations
A team of forensic geneticists in China has shown that a panel of roughly 2,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs,…
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AI-Powered Virtual Screening Uncovers Potent New Dual CDK4/6 Cancer Inhibitor
A team of researchers in China has combined machine learning, molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations into a single computational…
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Oral Wnt-blocking pill plus lenvatinib shows promise in endometrial cancer after immunotherapy fails
An experimental oral cancer drug that disrupts a key molecular switch inside tumour cells, when paired with an established targeted…
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When AI Cannot See the Answer: The Mathematical Limit That Optimisation Cannot Cross
A neural network labels a panda as a gibbon after a nearly invisible perturbation, a language model grows worse on…
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High-Dose Vitamin D in Pregnancy Fails to Strengthen Children’s Bones by Age 13, Landmark Trial Finds
One of the most persistent hopes in preventive medicine has been that a simple nutrient taken during pregnancy could lay…
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Amino Acids Emerge as Powerful Stress Shields for Farmed Fish
Fish, like all animals, experience stress, but for the billions of creatures raised in aquaculture systems worldwide, stress is not…
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New Open-Access Journal Puts Sustainable Polymers at the Center of Materials Science
Polymers are quietly the most successful materials story of the modern era, and the scientific community is now giving them…
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Radiation Oncology Takes Center Stage as Mayo Clinic Unveils Research at ASTRO 2026
Boston is about to become the epicenter of radiation medicine. From September 26 through 30, the 2026 American Society for…