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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…
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New AI Tool MANTRA Reads Leukemia Data in Multiple Dimensions to Reveal Hidden Patient Subgroups
Every patient with leukemia carries a molecular story written across multiple layers of data: gene expression, chromatin accessibility, and drug…
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Doubling Chromosomes Turns Goji Relative Self-Fertile by Disarming Its Own Pollen Rejection System
When plants duplicate their entire genome, the consequences ripple through nearly every aspect of their biology, from the size of…
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TinZr: A $65 Open-Source Wearable Puts Multi-Sensor Health Tracking on a Single Tiny Board
A pocket-sized circuit board measuring just 25 by 25 millimeters could change how researchers build wearable health devices. Engineers have…
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Computational Protein Design Supercharges Engineered Immune Cells Against Cancer and Viruses
Scientists in Israel have shown that a computer can help rewire the immune system’s most powerful weapons. In a study…
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New Liposome Design Could Provide Effective Slow-Release Drug Delivery System
Drug delivery systems that can carry a large amount of a drug and release it slowly over time are useful…