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Dynamic Multi Tasking Neurons Help Brains Solve Varied Daily Tasks

What scientific findings proved so compelling that more than 11,000 preliminary copies of them have been downloaded before they finally appeared in today's Nature?

16 Jul 2026

Innovative Bioelectronic Ear Devices Offer New Hope for Asthma Relief

Neuroimmunology, the study of interactions between the nervous and immune systems, is a rapidly growing field enabling new approaches for monitoring and treating inflammatory diseases.

16 Jul 2026

Researchers Discover Surprising Protective Microglia Roles in Dementia

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have discovered that microglia – the main immune cells of the brain – play a critical role in maintaining the stability of neuronal networks in Alzheimer's disease.

16 Jul 2026

New Kinesin-1 Protein Maps Advance Treatment for Incurable Paralysis

A nerve cell resembles a vast tree with branches that communicate with thousands of other cells.

16 Jul 2026

Novel T Cell Immune Path Targets Aggressive Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered a new way in which T cells attack acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells, which may help explain why AML is particularly sensitive to immune-based treatments and could guide the development of future cancer immunotherapies.

16 Jul 2026

Short Peptide Molecular Tool Targets Key Diagnostic Disease-Related Proteins

Proteins regulate a wide range of biological processes inside and outside cells by binding to specific molecular partners.

16 Jul 2026

New Biological Targets Aim to Halt Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Pulmonary fibrosis is a deadly disease where scar tissue grows in the lungs, making breathing more difficult.

16 Jul 2026

MIT Researchers Grow Blood Vessels by Stretching Them

Tissue engineers are developing methods to produce living organs and tissues from cells in order to replace diseased and damaged ones in the body.

15 Jul 2026

Arc Protein Identified as Driving Tau Spread in Alzheimer's Disease

Arc's involvement in tau transmission via extracellular vesicles offers new understanding of Alzheimer's disease mechanisms and potential therapeutic pathways.

15 Jul 2026

Breakthrough Imaging Method Maps Whole Cell Signals

Cells are crowded, dynamic places where thousands of molecules interact in tight quarters. Until now, scientists lacked a reliable way to see many of these molecular interactions as they happen.

15 Jul 2026

Xiaowan Reservoir Study Shows Stable Functions Despite Microbial Community Shifts

Microbial communities in large reservoirs may change markedly from year to year, yet the essential processes they perform can remain surprisingly stable.

15 Jul 2026

Novel Strategy Weaponizes Tumor Cleaning Systems Against Multiple Myeloma

New research out of VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center provides promising evidence for an innovative combination treatment strategy that uses cells' waste removal functions to effectively dismantle multiple myeloma.

14 Jul 2026

Enigmatic MLL4 Protein Drives Leukemia While Suppressing Solid Tumors

The epigenetic modifier MLL4 has an unassuming name-the 4, for instance, indicates it's just one in a family of such modifiers.

14 Jul 2026

New CRISPR Atlas Details How Every Gene Influences Stem Cells

A team led by bioengineers at the University of California San Diego has developed a genome-scale reference map that details how individual genes control the functions and identities of human stem cells.

14 Jul 2026

Shifting Body Temperatures can Keep Malaria from Spreading

The fever experienced by malaria patients exposes parasites to high temperatures within blood cells.

13 Jul 2026

Prolonged C1 Neuron Activation Causes Heightened Long-Term Panic Behaviors

Anxiety disorders affect more than 300 million people globally. Several brain regions have been linked to anxiety, but how these regions connect has been poorly understood.

11 Jul 2026

Global Breakthrough Maps Genes and Cells Regulating Bone Health

In a global breakthrough published in Nature Genetics, researchers have successfully mapped the cells and genes that regulate bone formation and loss at an unprecedented scale and discovered the critical role that blood vessel cells play in bone health.

11 Jul 2026

New Research Links DNA Hypomethylation to Faster Growing Brain Tumors

A form of glioma, a type of brain cancer, tends to progress towards greater malignancy due to an increasing tendency of the glioma cells to transform into immature, stem-cell-like states, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, the New York Genome Center, Harvard Medical School and Mass General Brigham.

11 Jul 2026

Single Experiment Tool Allows Researchers to Test Thousands of Proteins

To prevent viruses from sickening or killing us - whether it's an individual case of hepatitis B or a COVID pandemic - it's crucial to understand how the proteins they make initiate changes in our bodies that allow them to flourish.

11 Jul 2026

Next-Generation Biosensing Shows How Bacteriophages Revolutionize Bacterial Disease Detection

Pathogenic bacteria remain a persistent threat to public health, food supplies, and water systems, particularly as antimicrobial resistance makes infections increasingly difficult to treat.

11 Jul 2026