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Pencil-Shaped Zinc Oxide Heterostructure Boosts Solar Water Splitting Performance
Hydrogen has long been heralded as the clean fuel of the future, but producing it without fossil fuels remains one…
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Doctors Know Stigmatizing Words Harm Patients, Yet Most Cannot Spot Them in Charts
Every day, clinicians at hospitals across the United States write thousands of notes describing their patients. Some of those notes…
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Greener HPLC Method Promises Safer Quality Control for Antidepressant Sertraline
Sertraline hydrochloride, one of the most widely prescribed antidepressants in the world, has long relied on laboratory testing methods that…
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Transplant Drug Rewires Prostate Tissue in Two Distinct Phases, Rat Study Finds
A drug long used to keep transplanted organs from being rejected may also be a powerful tool for dismantling the…
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Liver Metastases Shorten Survival on Chemotherapy but Not Immunotherapy in Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most formidable challenges in oncology. It is the seventh leading cause of cancer-related death…
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Secrets of Oldest Land Animal’s 194-Year Lifespan Revealed with Epigenetics
Jonathan has lived most of his life on the island of St. Helena, a British Overseas Territory in the South…
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Carboxyl-Coated Nanotubes Grip Tuberculosis Drug Isoniazid, Quantum Study Shows
Tuberculosis still kills roughly two million people every year, and its first-line drug, isoniazid, is increasingly undermined by bacterial resistance…
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Gut Microbes Trigger Calprotectin to Protect Newborns from Infection
The immune systems of newborns are incredibly different from adults, however, the mechanisms that enable early-life immunity remain poorly understood.…
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Cuckoo Search Algorithm Tames Memory-Hungry Data Stream Mining
A team of computer scientists at North Minzu University in Yinchuan, China, has unveiled a new algorithm that promises to…
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A Simple Electrical Measure May Predict Who Develops Sarcopenia
A single number printed out by a bathroom-scale-sized device may reveal, years in advance, which older adults are on the…