After spending years tracing the origin and migration pattern of an unusual type of immune cell in mice, researchers have shown in a new study how activity of “good” microbes in the gut…
Many mitochondrial diseases have been difficult to study and treat due to inherent challenges in accessing mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Now, researchers in Japan have optimized mitochondria-targeted compounds that can selectively alter the ratio…
What Rina Green calls her “living hell” began with an innocuous backache. By late 2022, two years later, pain flooded her entire body daily and could be so intense that she couldn’t get out of…
“As of my last knowledge update”, “regenerate response”, “as an AI language model” — these are just a few of the telltale signs of researchers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) that science-integrity watchers have found…
An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide — but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study1 of hundreds of ancient human genomes….
Donald Trump’s second term as president of the United States is still less than 100 days old, yet his administration has created an unparalleled cacophony of news in that short space of time…
You know that feeling that your body is getting more “stiff” or “creaky” with age? Well — it’s not just your imagination. A new study shows that, just like the rest of the…
Challenging assumptions about infant memory, a novel functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study shows that babies as young as 12 months old can encode memories, researchers report. The findings suggest that infantile amnesia…
Known as Bedmap3, it incorporates more than six decades of survey data acquired by planes, satellites, ships and even dog-drawn sleds. The results were published in the journal Scientific Data. The map gives…
Anne Trafton | MIT News Converting one type of cell to another — for example, a skin cell to a neuron — can be done through a process that requires the skin cell to be…