22+ hour ago   (55+ words) Soluble magnesium composites are emerging as one of the most intriguing materials of the decade, promising tools that dissolve on command downhole in oil and gas wells, and implants that quietly disappear inside the human body once their work is…...

22+ hour, 10+ min ago   (521+ words) Bacteria are famous for forming patterns, from the concentric rings of Proteus colonies to the branching networks that motile microbes paint across agar plates. Now researchers at Columbia University have turned one of biology’s most familiar workhorses, Escherichia coli, into…...

1+ day, 23+ min ago   (587+ words) A team of researchers in China has sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of the jumping plant louse Bactericera gobica and, by combining it with nearly every other Triozidae mitogenome available, assembled the most comprehensive genetic dataset ever compiled for…...

1+ day, 39+ min ago   (55+ words) Gene editing has long promised a revolution in cancer medicine, yet the promise has remained stubbornly out of reach for one deceptively simple reason: getting the CRISPR-Cas9 machinery into tumor cells, and only tumor cells, is extraordinarily difficult. A new…...

1+ day, 39+ min ago   (80+ words) A team of researchers at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad has shown that an ordinary kitchen staple, corn starch, can be transformed into a surprisingly capable solid electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries when it is combined with the right additives. In work…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (464+ words) Every living cell depends on thousands of distinct protein families, each folding into precise three-dimensional shapes to carry out the molecular tasks that sustain life....

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (74+ words) Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet its two great subspecies have taken strikingly different evolutionary paths when it comes to fighting one of its most destructive diseases. A recent commentary published in Stress Biology by Yachun Su, Shoujian…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (758+ words) Scientists in Japan have taken one of the most detailed looks yet at how large-scale genome disruption inside tumor cells may quietly rewire the immune landscape around them, and their findings could help explain why some cancers mount virtually no…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (542+ words) The Wuzhishan miniature pig has long been considered one of the most promising large-animal models for cardiac research and xenotransplantation, prized for its physiological closeness to humans and its manageable size. Yet despite its growing importance in translational medicine, no…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (599+ words) Chemical bonds are usually treated as the fixed scaffolding of a material, the framework that determines how atoms sit relative to one another and how electrons move through the resulting structure. Yet in certain classes of matter, the bonds between…...