3+ min ago   (628+ words) A coating built from red seaweed could soon replace one of medicine’s most indispensable yet most fragile ingredients....

6+ min ago   (55+ words) Hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of primary liver cancer, remains one of the world’s most lethal malignancies, and its treatment options have changed surprisingly little over the past two decades. Now, a review published in Medical Oncology argues that…...

10+ min ago   (783+ words) Fluorinated waste streams have long been among the most stubborn environmental problems of the industrial age, and few sources illustrate the challenge better than aqueous film-forming foam, the firefighting agent that has contaminated soil and groundwater around airports, military bases…...

29+ min ago   (611+ words) One of the most detailed long-term portraits of children’s aerobic fitness ever assembled suggests a troubling pattern in the final years of primary school. Researchers tracking hundreds of Norwegian children from first through sixth grade found that peak oxygen uptake,…...

35+ min ago   (127+ words) For the smallest and most fragile patients in medicine, nutrition is not simply a matter of growth but a matter of survival, and few interventions have been as consistently associated with better outcomes for very low birth weight infants as…...

2+ hour, 3+ min ago   (668+ words) A detailed immunological portrait of one of the world’s most underappreciated parasitic diseases has emerged from southwestern Iran, where researchers have mapped, with unusual precision, how the human immune system responds to infection with the intestinal worm Strongyloides stercoralis....

2+ hour, 41+ min ago   (96+ words) A sweeping genetic investigation of more than 1,200 elite bread wheat lines has delivered one of the clearest pictures yet of how wheat can defend itself against spot blotch, a destructive fungal disease that thrives in the warm, humid wheat belts…...

2+ hour, 41+ min ago   (72+ words) A sweeping new review of cytochrome P450 enzymes in fish is reshaping how scientists understand the invisible chemical battleground inside aquatic organisms. Published in Discover Biotechnology, the analysis synthesizes decades of research on the heme-containing monooxygenases that sit at the crossroads…...

3+ hour, 24+ min ago   (55+ words) Chemists in Pakistan have shown that the secret to extracting powerful antioxidant compounds from the leaves of the lemon-scented eucalyptus tree lies in matching the polarity of the solvent to the chemistry of the target molecules. In a study published…...