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Researchers who analyzed the genetics of Alzheimer's disease separately in carriers and non-carriers of the high-risk ε4 version of the APOE gene found nine genetic signals for the disease that never…
For nearly 150 years the branch of a nerve cell has been drawn as a smooth tube, and there is physics behind the drawing. A dendrite is a neuron's receiving branch, and it tapers as it divides. The…
AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo reported on September 13, 2026, that patients whose advanced lung cancer is driven by a mutation in a gene called HER2 went a median of 14.3 months, the halfway point…
Genetic risk scores for common diseases predict less accurately for a person the further that person's ancestry sits from the group the score was built in, and the decline follows a straight line.…
Akeso has disclosed the survival figures behind a lung cancer result it announced without them. At the 2026 World Conference on Lung Cancer, the company reported that patients given its drug…
Researchers at Westlake University and Peking University have built a computer model of breast cancer cells and trained it on more than 38 million measurements of protein levels recorded as the cells…
A picosecond is a trillionth of a second. Light itself crosses only about a third of a millimeter in one. Inside the carbon-based solids chemists want to use to make hydrogen from sunlight, that is…
Children in Denmark who were diagnosed with ADHD or autism between 2012 and 2022 came to resemble undiagnosed children of the same age more and more closely across that decade, according to a study…
Adding radiation or surgery to treat the tumors left after immunotherapy did not help patients with advanced lung cancer live longer, a phase III trial reported Sept. 12, 2026 at the World Conference…
Lanthanum hydride is not a material you can hold in your hand. To make it, you squeeze a speck of lanthanum and hydrogen between the polished tips of two diamonds until the pressure passes a million…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Isembyld, an infused drug for spinal muscular atrophy, on Sept. 11, 2026, for adults and children aged 2 and older who are already taking an existing…
Physicists squeezing water between diamond tips and heating it with lasers report that the ice's oxygen atoms settle into a hexagonal stacking pattern at conditions like those deep inside Uranus and…