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Ghana’s Traditional Rice Landraces Outshine Improved Varieties in Key Minerals, Study Finds
Rice feeds more people on Earth than almost any other crop, yet in Ghana the grain on supermarket shelves tells…
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Gut Bacterium Found Migrating to the Liver May Drive Autoimmune Bile Duct Disease
A common intestinal bacterium long associated with pneumonia and hospital-acquired infections may be playing a far more insidious role in…
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Nanovaccine Built From Metal–Organic Frameworks Drives Tumours Into Full Retreat
A cancer vaccine built from a remarkably simple piece of chemistry—a lattice of metal ions and organic linkers, no larger…
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AI Reads Protein Sequences to Find Domain Boundaries Without Any Structural Data
Every protein is a story told in chapters. Biologists call those chapters domains: compact, semi-independent units of three-dimensional structure that…
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Sensible Biotechnologies Raises $47M to Expand Next-Generation Platform for mRNA Medicines
Sensible Biotechnologies said that it has raised $47 million in financing that it will use to advance and scale its…
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Enzyme Duo Revealed as Hidden Driver of Ovarian Cancer Growth
Ovarian cancer remains one of the most lethal gynecologic malignancies, largely because it tends to be diagnosed at advanced stages…
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Scientists Decode the Complete Chloroplast Genome of a Threatened Indonesian Rainforest Giant
Deep in the lowland rainforests of Indonesia grows a towering member of the dipterocarp family that has, until now, kept…
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Tiny Particles, Big Power: 3D Models Reveal How Electrode Microstructure Shapes Battery Performance
Lithium-ion batteries have quietly become the workhorses of modern civilization, powering everything from smartphones to electric vehicles, yet their performance…
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Silent No More: Hidden PROS1 Mutations Drive Dangerous Blood Clotting Disorder
For decades, geneticists have brushed past a class of DNA changes known as synonymous variants, assuming that because they do…
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Marine bacterium reveals its full molecular playbook for devouring bioplastic
Bioplastics were supposed to solve the plastic crisis, but a nagging question has always lingered: what actually happens to them…