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Mapping evapotranspiration in Ethiopia’s Awash Basin with limited climate data
In the highlands and lowlands of Ethiopia’s Awash River Basin, a quiet data crisis has been undermining one of the…
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Musculoskeletal disorder burden rises globally and across Asia through 2023
Musculoskeletal disorders now constitute one of the largest and most expensive health challenges on the planet, and a sweeping new…
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Bristol Myers’ pivotal CAR-T multiple myeloma trial hits primary endpoint
A pivotal trial of Bristol Myers Squibb’s GPRC5D-directed CAR-T cell therapy has hit its primary endpoint, furthering the drugmaker’s efforts…
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Cool façade paints cut heat, energy use, and microclimate warming in tropics
In the sweltering, permanently air-conditioned city-state of Singapore, scientists have completed one of the most ambitious real-world tests yet of…
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Evidence-tiered framework advances optogenetics toward clinical use
Optogenetics, the technique that allows researchers to switch defined cells on and off with light, has become one of the…
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MED1 shapes cancer gene expression in a context-dependent manner
In the dense machinery of gene regulation, few molecules have proven as paradoxical as MED1, a subunit of the Mediator…
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Gut Microbiota Metabolites Show Promise Against Disc Degeneration
In a discovery that could reshape how scientists think about back pain, researchers in China have mapped, molecule by molecule,…
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Avian influenza surveillance in poultry environments and pneumonia patients across three Chinese cities
Avian influenza viruses are continuing to circulate widely in the environments where humans and poultry intersect in China, even as…
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Arthropod-specific RNA virus discovered to boost host stress adaptation
In a finding that challenges the long-standing assumption that viruses are simply burdens to their hosts, researchers in China and…
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New Bacillus cereus strain from refinery sludge shows ethanol production and stress tolerance
Petroleum refinery sludge is one of the least hospitable environments on Earth—a toxic cocktail of hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and chemical…