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Artificial intelligence improves the diagnosis of congenital heart defects before birth
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Implantable blastocyst‐like cysts grown from stem cells
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Cyborg microchip valve driven by earthworm muscle
Eating a high fat diet without getting obese?
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Boosting betaine may be a treatment for schizophrenia
Gray matter volume links symptoms in autism
New mechanism allows lower energy requirement for OLED displays
CAPON links Alzheimer’s plaques to neurodegeneration
AdR blockers protect the brain from stroke damage
Trigger region found for epileptic absence seizures
Opto-OISI: imaging connections in the living brain
Flies smell through a gore-tex system
Protein pileup affects social behavior through altered brain signaling
The joys of computational mass spectrometry
Pulses of light can enhance superconductivity
Scientists create new type of self-healing material
Brain clock ticks differently in autism
Supermassive black holes still dark and mysterious
Evolution of the inner ear: insights from jawless fish
Tumor detection during breast cancer surgery
Smarter AI: machine learning without negative data
Nerdnite recap: When the brainbow met the boson
Mutations, CRISPR, and spinocerebellar ataxia
Gene regulator that allows plant rehydration after drought
Researchers create a functional salivary gland organoid ?
Getting a grip on slow but unique shark evolution
Ig Nobel awards: Silly experiments that strike gold
A self-powered heart monitor taped to the skin
Protostars that exhibit large diversity in organic compounds
Scientists solve epigenetic barriers to cloning
Transgenic plants 🌱🌿on acid survive without water
Two genes that regulate how much we dream
Flies use fecal deposits as pheromones
Hippocampal memory isn’t all about place cells
Summer fun: how plants beat the heat
Freedom from fear ?♀️
Blue gene regulation helps plants respond properly to light
Out on a limb: the many ‘brains’ of the octopus
Diagnosing fetal heart disease benefits from explanatory AI
Chaos theory provides hints for controlling the weather
Robotic exoskeleton learns to help people stand up
Nanocarrier spray: better crops without genetic modification
Introducing Nikola, the emotional android boy
Green hydrogen production for fuel cells and fertilizers
Social contact-seeking behavior and loneliness in the brain
New treatment assembles cancer drug inside the body
New lab-grown retinal sheets almost ready for clinical trials
Aug
19

How an herbal medicine protects against inflamed bowels
A Japanese herbal medicine promotes good bacteria and innate immune cells in the gut, which protects against intestinal inflammation. Continue!
Jul
7

Robotic AI helps efficient growth of replacement organs
Humans team-up with a robotic AI to speed up experiments to find the best way to regrow damaged eye tissue from stem cells. Continue!
Jun
20

Extra “eye” movements are the key to better self-driving cars
If self-driving cars make saccades like people, they might make fewer mistakes identifying important features of the road. Continue!
May
26

Palaeospondylus: mystery of vertebrate evolution solved
Micro-CT scans using synchrotron radiation X-rays reveal Palaeospondylus morphology, finally allowing its placement on the evolutionary tree. Continue!
Apr
28

Xist knockout rescues miscarriages in mice
Xist knockout rescues miscarriages in mice whose egg cells lack H3K27me3 epigenetic instructions. Continue!
Apr
27

A new type of cell death discovered in fly guts
A completely unknown type of cell death called “erebosis” has been discovered in the guts of the common fruit fly. Continue!