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Scientists Reveal How Nanovaccines Boost the Immune Fight Against Aggressive Breast Cancers

Nanovaccines show promise in breast cancer therapy, enhancing immune activation and targeting cold tumors, particularly in challenging triple-negative cases.

24 Oct 2025

DNA Cassettes Enable Long-Lasting Antibody Production Directly Inside Patients

A multidisciplinary team of scientists led by The Wistar Institute, including Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, AstraZeneca and Inovio Pharmaceuticals, published today in Nature Medicine a breakthrough in biologic antibody production that happens directly in human subjects in this encouraging first clinical trial of its kind.

23 Oct 2025

Research Pinpoints HMGN1 as Cause of Trisomy 21-Related Heart Abnormalities

Three copies of chromosome 21 causes Down syndrome (DS), and roughly half of children born each year in the United States with DS-approximately 2,600-also have congenital heart defects (CHDs).

23 Oct 2025

Hungry Female Mice Turn Aggressive Toward Pups Only in Specific Hormonal States

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found that hunger can make virgin female mice aggressive towards pups, but only in certain hormonal states.

23 Oct 2025

Biological Bulldozer Mechanism Explains Ants’ Powerful Sense of Smell

Ants have evolved an acute sense of smell, which requires each sensory neuron to choose one scent receptor out of hundreds.

23 Oct 2025

Fully Automated 3D Framework Accurately Maps Fruit Microstructure

Applied to apple and pear fruit, the model achieved very high accuracy, outperforming previous 2D approaches and traditional algorithms.

23 Oct 2025

New Method Brings Precision to Monitoring Beneficial Bacteria After FMT

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and their collaborators have developed a new technology to track beneficial bacteria after fecal microbiota transplants (FMT).

23 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

Salton Sea Dust Causes Immediate Changes to Lung Microbes and Immune Response

Not only does dust from the drying Salton Sea in California smell awful. Researchers at UC Riverside discovered that inhaling the dust might rapidly alter the microscopic environment within the lungs.

23 Oct 2025

Racing Ahead: How Humans Developed Large Brains and Flat Faces

Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the evolutionary advantages of these traits, finds a new analysis of ape skulls by UCL researchers.

22 Oct 2025

Mapping the Molecular Choreography of Nuclear Pore Transport

Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are tiny but sophisticated gatekeepers that control the flow of materials between a cell's nucleus and its cytoplasm by quickly selecting which molecules to transport across the nuclear membrane.

22 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

Disarming Cancer’s Droplet Hubs to Halt Tumor Growth

In a city, coworking hubs bring people and ideas together. Inside cancer cells, similar hubs form-but instead of fueling progress, they supercharge disease. That's what researchers at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health) have discovered inside the cells of a rare and aggressive kidney cancer.

21 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

Serotonin-Producing Gut Microbes May Hold the Key to Treating IBS

Research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, clarifies the complex interaction between gut bacteria and IBS.

21 Oct 2025

Autophagy Protein ATG9A Shields the Skin from Harmful Inflammation

Researchers at VIB and Ghent University have uncovered a key mechanism that protects the skin from harmful inflammation.

21 Oct 2025

Tiny DNA ‘Flowers’ Pave the Way for Smart Medical and Environmental Tools

Researchers at the University of North Carolina have created microscopic soft robots shaped like flowers that can change shape and behavior in response to their surroundings, just like living organisms do.

21 Oct 2025

Leptin-Sensitive Brain Circuit Helps Overcome Anxiety to Perform Essential Behaviors

How do mammals manage to eat in situations that cause anxiety, step into exposed spaces, or slow down when anxiety drives them to keep moving? A new study pinpoints a leptin-sensitive circuit in the lateral hypothalamus that helps to overcome anxiety to perform essential behaviors such as exploring, feeding, and limiting maladaptive hyperactivity.

21 Oct 2025