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Machine Learning Tool Pinpoints Crucial Gene Regulation Changes

Changes in our genes affect health risks from heart disease to cancer, but how those genes are turned on and off is just as crucial to health.

16 Oct 2026

The Story Behind the Butterfly’s Enhanced Visual World of Color

Many insects see the world through hundreds of tiny lenses that are grouped together in a visual organ known as the compound eye. Behind each lens sits a cluster of eight light-detecting cells arranged in a pattern that scientists believe has existed for hundreds of millions of years.

10 Oct 2026

Knocking Out Specific Receptor Genes Prevents Dopaminergic Neuronal Cell Death

The protein alpha-synuclein is abundant in healthy brains and plays an important role in enabling communication between nerve cells.

6 Oct 2026

Study Links OCA2 Gene Mutations to Non-Melanin Ocular Developmental Defects

Tiny, striped zebrafish are helping scientists trace how a gene linked to albinism influences eye development, work that may ultimately help explain some of the vision problems experienced by people with the condition and guide the search for new treatments.

29 Sep 2026

AI Decodes Spatial DNA Packaging Patterns Invisible to Researchers

Aging progressively affects the functioning of our body and, among other things, deteriorates the ability of the hematopoietic system- the set of organs and tissues responsible for producing blood cells- to maintain adequate blood cell production.

28 Sep 2026

How Feedback Mechanisms Control Neural Chaos for Stable Visual Processing

What we see appears stable, even though neuronal activity is full of irregular fluctuations. A team led by Dr Mehdi Borjkhani from ICTER has shown, using a minimal model of the primary visual cortex, that two natural feedback mechanisms can constrain chaos and reduce variability in neural activity by up to 93 percent.

23 Sep 2026

Strength Training Induces Fat Breakdown in Obese Mice Without Weight Loss

Just seven days of strength training increased visceral fat burning in obese mice, even before any weight loss could be seen on a scale. In an experiment conducted at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), researchers observed that a short period of strength training activated mechanisms involved in fat breakdown, reduced fat cell size, and decreased fat around the animals' intestines.

23 Sep 2026

Researchers Locate Cortical Cells That Actively Trigger Brain Sleep

What makes the brain fall asleep? For nearly a century, scientists have looked to structures deep within the brain for the answer.

12 Sep 2026

Bees See the World in More Ways Than Previously Thought

Honey bees have long been the model species for studying insect vision.

3 Sep 2026

Super-Resolution DNA Imaging Platform Links Chromatin Loosening to Tumor Progression

Scientists have engineered fluorescent molecules enabling the visualization of DNA organization within living cells with unparalleled resolution, and in fixed cells, nearly the width of the double helix itself.

31 Aug 2026

Single Line T Cell Immunity Fails Maintaining Permanent Zika Protections

CA-Zika virus has been spreading for decades, but it first grabbed worldwide headlines in 2016. That February, with an outbreak sweeping the Americas, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the surge in Zika-linked birth defects a "public health emergency of international concern"-a designation which lasted until that November.

31 Aug 2026

Bulky Molecular CRISPR Systems Barely Fit Inside Single Viral Vectors

The ability to precisely adjust the expression of genes inside the human body - ramping up protective ones and tamping down harmful ones - holds enormous potential for treating and preventing disease.

31 Aug 2026

Researchers Map Immune Molecule Behavior in Affected Motor Neurons

Immune-related molecules change in motor neurons affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but they do not appear to be major drivers of disease progression.

17 Aug 2026

Salk Neuroscientists Discover Computational Power of Traveling Brain Waves

Your brain has something surprising in common with the ocean: waves! Electrical activity washes over the brain's surface, creating what are called traveling brain waves or neural traveling waves.

22 Jul 2026

Demographic Biases Threaten the Fairness of Global Single-Cell Human Atlases

The single-cell "atlases" that are increasingly used to map the human body and as training data for artificial intelligence models, may not represent the world's populations fairly, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

21 Jul 2026

CRISPR Technology Enables First Successful Gene Editing in Biting Midges

Scientists have successfully edited the genome of biting midges, opening the door to new research on how these insects transmit disease.

20 Jul 2026

How Touch Science Shapes Better Cosmetic Products

This pedagogical review explains how skin physiology, mechanoreceptors, trained panels, and standardized methods shape tactile evaluation in cosmetics. It also assesses instrumental tools, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and electronic sensors as promising complements to human sensory testing.

9 Jul 2026