Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain There’s a long-held belief in diabetes prevention that weight loss is the main way to lower disease risk. Our new study challenges this. For decades, people…
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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 180 — NASA is Closed for Business
NASA is Closed for Business – And Other Top Space Stories – YouTube Watch On On Episode 180 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the…
Stabilization of neuropathy scores seen after gene editing therapy for rare nerve disease
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain University College London’s National Amyloidosis Center leads a multinational team reporting that a single infusion of an in vivo gene-editing therapy (nexiguran ziclumeran) produced rapid, deep,…
AI in an ‘industrial bubble’ but will benefit society: Bezos
Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos has invested in the American generative AI start-up Perplexity. Artificial intelligence technology is in an “industrial bubble,” Amazon founder Jeff Bezos told a tech conference in…
Swiss solar furnaces recycling watchmakers’ waste metal
Panatere metallurgical engineer Jean-Francois Dionne, wearing a thermal protective suit, shows an aluminum ingot. A Swiss company inaugurated two solar furnaces on Friday in a watchmaking city, aimed at melting…
Couples should never go to bed angry, right? It might be time to rethink that
Credit: AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin It’s late at night, and you have been stewing all day about something your partner did to annoy you. The time to resolve it…
Sugar Chains in the Brain: New Pathway Behind Depression Found
Summary: Scientists have discovered that depression can be driven by abnormal sugar modifications on proteins in the brain, offering a new molecular pathway for understanding the disorder. Chronic stress was…
Motherhood Flips Brain Switch That Triggers Aggression
Summary: Researchers discovered that female mice gain access to aggression after giving birth through a brain circuit usually dormant in non-pregnant females. The same neurons drive aggression in males but…
Tiny sugars in the brain disrupt emotional circuits, fueling depression
A mouse model displaying depression-like behaviors was established by exposing animals to chronic variable stress (left). A multi-omics approach was then applied, using high-resolution mass spectrometry to analyze O-glycan composition…
Molecular coating cleans up noisy quantum light
Optical micrograph of the monolayer tungsten diselenide sample, with the right-hand side functionalized with PTCDA. Credit: Mark Hersam / Northwestern University Quantum technologies demand perfection: one photon at a time,…
