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Your Jawbone Could Reveal Your Sex With Over 90 Percent Accuracy, New Study
5+ hour, 47+ min ago (84+ words) When forensic investigators recover human remains, one of the first and most fundamental questions they must answer is simple to ask but often difficult to answer: was this person male or female? A new study published in the International Journal…...
Chemotherapy Speeds One Aging Marker in Breast Cancer but Leaves Epigenetic
6+ hour, 4+ min ago (520+ words) A new study is challenging one of the most common assumptions in the fast-growing field of biological aging research: that the different blood tests used to measure how fast a person is aging are, at some level, measuring the same…...
Engineered E. coli swarms record chemical and light inputs in visible
6+ hour, 14+ min ago (521+ words) Bacteria are famous for forming patterns, from the concentric rings of Proteus colonies to the branching networks that motile microbes paint across agar plates. Now researchers at Columbia University have turned one of biology’s most familiar workhorses, Escherichia coli, into…...
New Sequencing Method Maps RNA Isoforms Across Brain Cells With Single-Cell
6+ hour, 50+ min ago (529+ words) Every cell in the brain carries essentially the same genome, yet the same gene can produce a startling variety of RNA molecules. Through a process called alternative splicing, segments of a gene’s transcript can be included, skipped, or rearranged, generating…...
Seaweed-Derived Coating Matches Heparin at Keeping Blood From Clotting
8+ hour, 2+ min ago (628+ words) A coating built from red seaweed could soon replace one of medicine’s most indispensable yet most fragile ingredients....
Jumping Plant Lice Genome Study Rewrites the Family Tree of Triozidae
8+ hour, 28+ min ago (587+ words) A team of researchers in China has sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of the jumping plant louse Bactericera gobica and, by combining it with nearly every other Triozidae mitogenome available, assembled the most comprehensive genetic dataset ever compiled for…...
Springer Nature Honors Standout Editors With 2026 Awards
8+ hour, 40+ min ago (662+ words) Springer Nature has opened the nomination and selection process for its Editor of Distinction Awards 2026, an annual program designed to recognize the editors whose behind-the-scenes judgment keeps the scientific record trustworthy....
AI Translates Light Microscopy Into Electron-Microscope Detail to Speed
8+ hour, 43+ min ago (534+ words) Mapping the wiring of the brain at nanometer resolution has long demanded a punishing trade-off: electron microscopy can reveal every synaptic cleft and organelle, but imaging even a cubic millimeter of neural tissue this way takes months or years of…...
BenchHub Turns Computational Biology Benchmarking Into a Living,
9+ hour, 36+ min ago (618+ words) Every day, computational biologists release new methods for analyzing genomes, single cells, microbiomes and molecular signatures, and every day researchers struggle with the same question: which method actually works best for their data? The answer usually depends on benchmarks—structured…...
Cicada Genomes Decoded to Safeguard a Traditional Medicine’s Future
9+ hour, 39+ min ago (55+ words) In the world of traditional Chinese medicine, few raw materials are as quietly ubiquitous as Cicadae Periostracum, the papery slough that cicadas abandon when they molt from nymph to adult. For centuries, this discarded exoskeleton has been prescribed for sore…...