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How Single-Atom Catalysts Work and Why They Matter Science

How Single-Atom Catalysts Work and Why They Matter

Single-atom catalysts isolate individual metal atoms on a support surface to drive chemical reactions with unprecedented efficiency, slashing precious...

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How GLP-1 Drugs Like Ozempic Work—and Why They Matter Health

How GLP-1 Drugs Like Ozempic Work—and Why They Matter

GLP-1 receptor agonists mimic a natural gut hormone to regulate blood sugar, suppress appetite, and promote weight loss. Originally developed for diab...

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How Cat Cancer Research Helps Fight Human Tumors Science

How Cat Cancer Research Helps Fight Human Tumors

Scientists mapped cancer genetics across nearly 500 cat tumors and found striking overlaps with human cancers, opening new paths for treatments that c...

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What Is ECMO and How Does It Keep People Alive? Health

What Is ECMO and How Does It Keep People Alive?

ECMO — extracorporeal membrane oxygenation — is a life-support machine that does the work of the heart and lungs outside the body. Here is how it work...

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Depression Starts With a Cellular Energy Failure Health

Depression Starts With a Cellular Energy Failure

Scientists from the University of Queensland and University of Minnesota have discovered that depression may begin as an energy crisis inside brain an...

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How Scientists Design Proteins From Scratch Science

How Scientists Design Proteins From Scratch

De novo protein design lets scientists build entirely new proteins that never existed in nature—unlocking potential breakthroughs in medicine, vaccine...

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What Is Intratumoral Immunotherapy and How Does It Work? Health

What Is Intratumoral Immunotherapy and How Does It Work?

Intratumoral immunotherapy injects immune-activating drugs directly into tumors, converting them into self-made vaccines that can attack cancer throug...

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How Gene Therapy Works—and Why It's Changing Medicine Science

How Gene Therapy Works—and Why It's Changing Medicine

Gene therapy targets the genetic root cause of disease by adding, silencing, or editing faulty DNA inside a patient's own cells. Here is how it works,...

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How Hair Follicles Work—and Why Growing Them Matters Science

How Hair Follicles Work—and Why Growing Them Matters

Hair follicles are tiny, highly sophisticated organs that drive every strand on your body. Scientists have now grown fully functional ones in a lab fo...

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Gut Bacteria and Serotonin: Hope for IBS Sufferers Health

Gut Bacteria and Serotonin: Hope for IBS Sufferers

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have identified two gut bacteria capable of producing serotonin, opening new therapeutic avenues for the m...

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What Is Graft-Versus-Host Disease and How Is It Treated? Health

What Is Graft-Versus-Host Disease and How Is It Treated?

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a serious complication of bone marrow and stem cell transplants where donor immune cells attack the recipient's bo...

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MIT's Gut Protein Discovery May Transform IBD Treatment Science

MIT's Gut Protein Discovery May Transform IBD Treatment

MIT researchers have identified intelectin-2, a protein with a dual role in gut defense — it reinforces the intestinal mucus barrier and directly kill...

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