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New Metric Predicts How Much Biodiversity a Landscape Could Actually Support
For decades, ecologists have measured biodiversity the way an accountant audits the past: by counting what is already there. Species…
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Male Nurses in Tanzania Fight Stereotypes That Erode Identity and Care
Nursing is often described as the backbone of health systems, yet the people who deliver that care are frequently judged…
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Mass Spectrometry Uncovers Hidden Bacterial Targets of Tularemia Immunity
Tularemia, the disease caused by the intracellular bacterium Francisella tularensis, has long occupied an uneasy place in infectious disease research.…
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Astrocyte Redox Switch Linked to Synapse Damage in Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis has long been framed as a disease of myelin, the fatty insulation that immune cells strip away from…
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Cured but Not Free: Leprosy Survivors in Ghana Still Face Supernatural Fear and Hidden Fees
In a small community in Ghana’s Volta Region, people who have been medically cured of leprosy continue to live with…
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New Model Weighs Invasion Risk Where Allee Effects Meet Demographic Chance
Invasive species managers face an uncomfortable truth: whether a handful of introduced animals becomes a self-sustaining population or quietly fades…
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DNA Typewriter, PEtracer Map Mouse Development Through Organogenesis
A mouse embryo at the four cell stage, and polar body. [Clouds Hill Imaging Ltd. / Corbis Documentary / Getty…
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From Discovery to Development
The Era of Modality Convergence: Why Drug Development Is Being Rewritten The life sciences industry is entering a new era,…
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Scientists pinpoint genes that shape how long a cow stays pregnant
Gestation length in dairy cattle has long been treated as a background number in breeding records, a date on a…
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Machine learning uncovers temperature-stable oxide for tiny capacitors
Capacitors are the quiet workhorses of modern electronics, storing and releasing charge in radiofrequency modules, integrated circuits and microwave telecommunications…