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Graphene Oxide Meets Methylglyoxal in New Attack on Chronic Wound Biofilms
2+ min ago (86+ words) Chronic wounds are among the most stubborn problems in modern medicine. Diabetic ulcers, pressure sores, and venous leg ulcers can persist for months or years, resisting conventional antibiotics and dramatically reducing patients’ quality of life. A major reason for this…...
Stranded Porpoise Genome Reveals Hidden Lineage and Shrinking Habitat in
2+ min ago (706+ words) A single finless porpoise that washed ashore on Kozhikode beach on India’s Arabian Sea coast has turned out to be far more than a sad stranding record....
Giraffe and Rhino Blood Chemistry Revealed in Landmark NMR Metabolomics
19+ min ago (83+ words) In one of the most rigorous metabolomic comparisons ever attempted on African megafauna, researchers have mapped the circulating blood chemistry of giraffes and white rhinoceroses using proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, revealing striking differences between two of the world’s most…...
Smart Polymer Patches Promise a New Era for Chronic Wound Healing
19+ min ago (55+ words) Chronic wounds are one of medicine’s quietest burdens. Millions of people worldwide, particularly older adults and patients with diabetes, vascular disease, or other long-term conditions, live with wounds that refuse to close for weeks, months, or even years. Conventional dressings,…...
Mango Auxin Genes MiYUCCA10A/B Trigger Early Flowering and Stress Tolerance
19+ min ago (107+ words) Auxin is the master hormone that quietly choreographs nearly every stage of a plant’s life, from the first division of an embryo to the unfurling of a flower and the swelling of a fruit. Now a team of researchers at…...
Cell-Free Ribosomal RNA Offers a New Molecular Yardstick for Viral Lysis of
33+ min ago (83+ words) Every day, viruses kill an estimated 10 to 40 percent of the microbes in the ocean, a process known as the viral shunt. When a virus bursts its host cell, the cell’s contents spill into the surrounding seawater as dissolved organic matter…...
Scientists Discover a Rare Bisexual Population in a Tick Long Thought to
33+ min ago (680+ words) In the humid forests of Maranhão state, in the eastern reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, a team of Brazilian parasitologists has overturned one of the more persistent assumptions about a common Neotropical parasite....
Jumping Genes Divide the Animal Kingdom into Sea and Land Clades
5+ hour, 17+ min ago (648+ words) Transposable elements are often described as genomic parasites, DNA sequences that copy and paste themselves around the genome of their host. Yet these mobile fragments are far more than molecular clutter. They reshape genome architecture, drive the birth of new…...
A four-way interaction in the rhizosphere - Nature Reviews Microbiology
10+ hour, 30+ min ago (161+ words) Nature Reviews Microbiology (2026) Cite this article This Genome Watch discusses recent evidence on the interactions among a plant, a fungal pathogen, its bacterial endosymbiont and the rhizosphere microbiome, highlighting how such multipartite relationships shape plant health and disease, with implications…...
How Organoids Became Biology’s Most Powerful Miniature Laboratories
7+ hour, 32+ min ago (709+ words) Organoids have quietly become one of the most consequential tools in modern biomedical science, and a comprehensive new tutorial published in Nature Protocols now offers the research community a sweeping guide to what these miniature tissues can actually do. Written…...