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UC San Diego Health Tops California, Joins National Honor Roll
UC San Diego Health has been named California’s leading hospital system and one of the top 20 health care systems…
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Smithsonian scientists untangle Hawaiian honeycreeper evolutionary family tree
Smithsonian researchers have reconstructed the most comprehensive evolutionary map yet of Hawaii’s honeycreepers, a spectacular group of birds whose rapid…
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Merck’s $11B anti-TL1A bet delivers 1 win, 1 loss in midphase inflammatory disease trials
A phase 2 trial of Merck & Co.’s anti-TL1A monoclonal antibody has missed its primary endpoint, closing off one avenue…
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Pathos AI pads pipeline with $2.2B Alphamab deal, AstraZeneca pact
Pathos AI has agreed to pay $125 million for a bispecific antibody-drug conjugate from China’s Alphamab Oncology, while adding a…
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Glutamate co-release by inhibitory nigral neurons reverses motor deficits in Parkinson’s mice
A surprising discovery in Parkinson’s disease research is challenging one of the field’s most familiar assumptions: that restoring movement necessarily…
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Scientists Reveal How Centromeres and Inner Kinetochores Work
A new review in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology is bringing the hidden architecture of chromosome inheritance into sharper focus,…
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Researchers combine two materials on one photonic chip to generate new frequencies
Modern photonic chips are already capable of performing remarkable optical tasks on surfaces smaller than a fingernail, but a new…
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Gelatin-Stabilized Liquid Metal Enables Conductive Hydrogels for Sensing, Energy Harvesting
Researchers at Fuzhou University have developed a gelatin-stabilized liquid-metal hydrogel that combines stretchable electronics, artificial intelligence and solar-energy conversion in…
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Drug duo targets cancer and senescent cells, extending lifespan in elderly mice
A three-drug combination that exploits a metabolic weakness shared by cancer cells and senescent cells has extended post-treatment survival and…
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GSA Responds to Senate Funding Bill Language Affecting Federal Grants
Senate appropriators have reached a bipartisan agreement on a short-term government funding measure that would delay implementation of a proposed…