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Study Shows Flatulence Gas Hydrogen is Crucial for Gut Health

Farts are causing a stink in the research world, but in a positive way.

24 Oct 2025

GemPharmatech Teams Up With Memorial Sloan Kettering to Advance Antibody Innovation

GemPharmatech, a global leader in preclinical research solutions and genetically-engineered mouse models, today announced a collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) to accelerate the discovery of new therapeutic antibodies.

24 Oct 2025

Ingestible Bioprinter Revolutionizes Possibilities for Non-Invasive Tissue Repair

The MEDS device enables non-invasive tissue repair in the GI tract, utilizing innovative bioprinting techniques for effective treatment of internal lesions.

23 Oct 2025

Cracking the Code of T Cell Expansion Inside Tumors

The ability of immune cells-particularly CD8+ T cells-to launch a rapid burst of proliferation inside tumors is key to the success of modern day cancer immunotherapies.

22 Oct 2025

Croatian Scientists Rewrite the Story of Cell Division

Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed to act as a motor dragging chromosomes into place during cell division, in fact plays a completely different role in chromosome movement.

22 Oct 2025

Decoding the Genetic Network Behind Soybean Shade Tolerance

In intercropping systems, soybeans grown beneath tall maize plants experience severe shading that disrupts photosynthesis, weakens stems, and limits yield.

21 Oct 2025

Innovative Fluorescent Technique Sheds Light on Cellular Lipid Transport

Lipids are fatty molecules that play critical roles in cell function, including membrane structure, energy storage and nutrient absorption.

17 Oct 2025

Structural Insights into Heat Shock Chaperone Complex and Protein Handoffs

The first full-length structures of two heat shock chaperone proteins in a complex reveal the key structural region regulating their function, according to a new study from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

15 Oct 2025

Breakthrough in Lab-Grown Blood Stem Cells Using Self-Organizing Embryo Models

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development - including the production of blood stem cells.

14 Oct 2025

Molecular Condensates Coordinate Crucial Life Decisions in Cells

A cell can act in astonishingly complex ways. It must decide for itself whether to grow and multiply, rest, specialize, age or die. This applies just as much to mammalian cells as it does to seemingly simple microbes.

14 Oct 2025

Developing GoT-Multi to Track Cancer Evolution and Treatment Resistance

A novel tool created by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and the University of Adelaide has improved the capacity to monitor multiple gene mutations while concurrently recording gene activity in individual cancer cells.

13 Oct 2025

Understanding the Ecological Trap Threatening Winter-Ready Species

Even as autumn days grow shorter, a warming climate means Ohio winters aren't as cold as they were just a few decades ago, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data.

10 Oct 2025

Rat Study Reveals Orbitofrontal Cortex Cells That Power Learning Under Uncertainty

Newly identified brain cells evolved along the theme, "Life is uncertain; Eat dessert first." The neurons, located in the front part of the brain, are most active when the outcome of a decision is uncertain, suggesting that they help with decision making, along with learning and mental flexibility in general.

10 Oct 2025