Pregnancy Causes Astonishing Brain Changes – Why haven’t we noticed this before?
Pregnancy changes more than the body—it reshapes the brain in surprising, lasting ways.
Medicine
Adipokine Balance: How fat coordinates metabolism
Why can losing weight be so challenging? How does obesity contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes?
Universal genetic testing efficiently diagnoses hospitalized infants and ends racial disparities
A new study shows that universal genetic testing for infants in intensive care provides a five-fold increase in genetic diagnoses and eliminates racial disparities
Cloak and Cure: Disguising Nanoparticles as Immune Allies
Imagine if medication could travel directly to the source of your illness and unpleasant side effects could be a thing of the past? This is the intriguing promise of nanoparticles!
Development of a ‘Molecular Can Opener’ for Drug Delivery
Physicists utilized large-scale computer modeling to develop a cage-like structure and paired opener towards the goal of efficiently delivering therapies.
Helping Cancer Cells “Grow” Could Be the Key to a Cure
Cancer is one of the world’s deadliest diseases. While traditional treatments focus on killing these diseased cells, research is exploring a new approach: pushing cancer cells to become healthy cells.
New Genetic Study Illuminates Biology of Raynaud's Syndrome
Using a data set of over 10,000 people with Raynaud syndrome, scientists have identified genes underlying the biology of the cardiovascular condition.
Nature Teaches Us How to Edit DNA
By studying how the cell repairs DNA damage, researchers have developed a new technology to edit large DNA fragments in bacteria cells.
Self-Taught AI: The Secret to Learning Without Supervision
Machine learning influences many aspects of our lives, from ChatGPT to healthcare. How do these models learn such diverse tasks on such a large scale?
Researchers Take a Closer Look at the Sometimes Missing X Chromosome in White Blood Cells
Using an international collection of nearly 900,000 samples, researchers have probed into the biology behind the fairly common loss of an X chromosome in white blood cells.