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Epithelial cell chirality emerges through the dynamic concentric pattern of actomyosin cytoskeleton
Molecular chirality of actomyosin induces cell-scale chiral rotation without requiring a chiral arrangement of actomyosin filaments, revealing a key mechanism of cell chirality underlying left–right a...
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December 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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How chirality goes from the molecular level to the cellular one
RIKEN researchers have discovered how right-handed molecules in our cells can give rise to cells that are not symmetrical about their central axes. This discovery is a key step toward determining why ...
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December 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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How Life Solved Its “Impossible” Problem: Leading Chemist Explains Life Doesn’t Need a Miracle to Appear

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How Life Solved Its "Impossible" Problem: Leading Chemist Explains Life Doesn't Need a Miracle to Appear
Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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How Life Solved Its “Impossible” Problem: Leading Chemist Explains Life Doesn’t Need a Miracle to Appear

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How Life Solved Its "Impossible" Problem: Leading Chemist Explains Life Doesn't Need a Miracle to Appear
Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Cancer - The Seed and the Soil
Genetics and the Environment BOTH
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December 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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The specificity and structure of DNA cross-linking by the gut bacterial genotoxin colibactin
Accumulating evidence has connected the chemically unstable, DNA-damaging gut bacterial natural product colibactin to colorectal cancer, including the identification of mutational signatures that are ...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Doctor Answers Vaccine Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
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December 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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The Brainypedia (@thebrainypedia)
Two teenagers in Pennsylvania developed a low‑cost exhaust filter that uses microalgae to convert vehicle emissions into oxygen. According to Chester County Press, Rohan Kapoor and Jack Reichert, both...
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December 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Atom-level enzyme active site scaffolding using RFdiffusion2 - Nature Methods
RFdiffusion2, an extension of the RFdiffusion framework, builds de novo enzyme active sites using atom-level functional group constraints.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Common Infection Is Rapidly Becoming Resistant to Drugs, Scientists Warn : ScienceAlert share.google/0et8YVQHEfvR...
Common Infection Is Rapidly Becoming Resistant to Drugs, Scientists Warn
Thrush is one of the most common infections in the world.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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David Baltimore: The scientist who transformed biology and ushered in the biotech era - The Korea Times
In September, David Baltimore — the scientist who discovered reverse transcriptase, a breakthrough often described as one of the most dramatic turn...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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'Trained' bacteriophages expand treatment options for antibiotic-resistant infections
Antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing challenges to global public health as harmful microbes evolve to evade these medications.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Scientists reawaken exhausted T cells to supercharge cancer immunity
Researchers discovered a way to keep T cells from wearing out during the fight against cancer, and the approach could make immune-based treatments far more powerful. They found that tumors use a parti...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Scientists Have Discovered a Special Type of Immune Cell That Slows Aging : ScienceAlert share.google/CaRJ9meYRGLA...
Scientists Have Discovered a Special Type of Immune Cell That Slows Aging
Researchers led by a team from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel have just discovered a way to destroy harmful 'senescent' cells that accumulate with age and ramp up the kind of tissue dama...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Saalumarada Thimmakka, mother of trees, has died, aged 114
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Along a dusty road between Hulikal and Kudur in southern India, bany...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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An Invasive Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Spread to the Rocky Mountains

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An Invasive Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Spread to the Rocky Mountains
The Aedes aegypti mosquito that can carry dengue, yellow fever, and Zika was thought to be too reliant on a hot and wet climate to survive in the Mountain West. But now, a population is thriving in We...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Science history: Chemists discover buckyballs — the most perfect molecules in existence — Nov. 14, 1985
Over a feverish 10-day period, scientists synthesized and described a new class of carbon molecules, called buckminster fullerenes, after the iconic 20th-century inventor.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Bird Flu’s Human Risk Spurs Phage Therapy Research
Engineering bacteriophages as precision treatments and vaccine vectors
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November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Troubling on so many levels!
US to demand countries share data on ‘pathogens with epidemic potential’ in return for health aid
Draft template seen by the Guardian has no reference to countries receiving benefits for sharing information, such as guaranteed access to medicines developed as a result
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November 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Stanford makes stem cell transplants safer without chemo
A Stanford-led team has replaced toxic pre-transplant chemotherapy with a targeted antibody, allowing children with Fanconi anemia to receive stem cell transplants safely. The antibody, briquilimab, r...
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November 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Microsoft launches 'superintelligence' team targeting medical diagnosis to start
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Microsoft is forming a new team that wants to build artificial intelligence that is vastly more capable than humans in certain domains, starting with medical diagnostics, the ...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Malaria mRNA-based vaccines showing promise in preclinical trials www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...
Malaria mRNA-based vaccines showing promise in preclinical trials
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stopped federal support for mRNA-based vaccines, including malaria vaccine efforts.
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August 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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National Geographic Out of Eden Walk
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek is retracing on foot the global migration of our ancestors in a 38,000 km, seven-year odyssey that begins in Ethiopia and ...
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May 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Proteomic analysis of the effects of Girdin on Jiaogulan-treated type 2 diabetes patients
Jiaogulan (Gynostemma pentaphyllum) is a traditional herb with potential antidiabetic properties. This study investigated the underlying mechanisms of…
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April 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Structural insights into spliceosome fidelity: DHX35–GPATCH1- mediated rejection of aberrant splicing substrates - Cell Research
Cell Research - Structural insights into spliceosome fidelity: DHX35–GPATCH1- mediated rejection of aberrant splicing substrates
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April 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM