Tiny creases in soft materials act as rewritable gates that steer and sort droplets
Researchers at Syracuse University report that compression-induced creases in soft surfaces can remotely gate, sort, merge, and even compute with ...
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Machine learning method dicast spots disease-causing DNA deletions short-read tools miss
A machine learning method called dicast, trained on a manually curated multi-technology ground truth, detects structural variants from short-read sequencing ...
Antibiotic Resistance May Depend on Environment, Danish Researchers Argue
Danish researchers argue that antibiotic resistance is a context-dependent state shaped by pH, oxygen, and temperature, a shift that could ...
Engineered Multi-Epitope Protein Yields Reliable New Test for Feline Toxoplasmosis
Researchers fused dominant B-cell epitopes from six Toxoplasma gondii antigens into a single recombinant protein that underpins a highly specific ...
Simple Blood Test Shows Promise for Detecting Multiple Cancers in Horses
A new comparative study finds that serum thymidine kinase 1, measured with tritium-labeled thymidine, shows strong diagnostic accuracy for several ...
Placental Growth Factor as a Triage Test: Weighing the Clinical Evidence
A new analysis in npj Women's Health evaluates whether placental growth factor blood testing can safely and effectively triage women ...
Engineered Viruses Light Up Bacteria in Minutes by Releasing Reporter Proteins
Engineered bacteriophages that carry a split luciferase fragment inside their capsids can detect target bacteria in as little as three ...
New Sequencing Test Shows Strong Accuracy in Spotting Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
A Ugandan verification study found the Deeplex Myc-TB targeted sequencing assay achieved perfect specificity and strong sensitivity for key tuberculosis ...
Stealthy Superbug Emerges in Austria as New Vancomycin-Resistant E. faecium Clone Evades Standard Tests
A novel vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium clone designated ST117/CT7799 has driven a sharp rise in invasive infections in South-Eastern Austria while ...
Cryo-EM Reveals How Cas12a Uses a DNA Guide to Hunt RNA Targets
A new cryo-EM structure of Acidaminococcus sp. Cas12a reveals how the enzyme uses a DNA guide and structural mimicry to ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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