The decades-old scientific quest to create brand-new proteins has been turbocharged in the era of artificial intelligence.
Biotechnology
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In 2005, a research team led by University of Zurich economics professor Ernst Fehr published a study in the journal Nature that provided evidence for the first time that intranasally administered oxytocin can increase trusting ...
Social Sciences
Aug 12, 2026
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Food and pharmaceutical manufacturers increasingly seek lipids with carefully controlled fatty-acid compositions. However, natural oils usually contain mixtures of closely related fatty acids, and conventional enzymes often ...
Biochemistry
Aug 12, 2026
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Students who attended public school pre-K performed better academically through high school than those in family-based child care, according to new research from Florida International University.
Education
Aug 12, 2026
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Whether it's neurons responding to electrical signals or plants stretching toward light, nature is filled with examples of biological materials that respond to their environment. Now, researchers want to develop new responsive ...
Polymers
Aug 12, 2026
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Modern biomedicine increasingly relies on enormous amounts of image data. Although computers can do part of the analysis work, biologists often still need to look through the images themselves. This takes time.
Biotechnology
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For more than two decades, the quasar PHL 1811 has been considered the prototype of a rare class of "intrinsically X-ray weak" quasars, thought to produce unusually little X-ray radiation. But in 2024, the Einstein Probe ...
Fourth-year veterinary students matched—and experienced clinicians outperformed—an AI-enabled digital stethoscope in diagnosing heart murmurs and arrhythmias in cats and dogs, according to a new study from North Carolina ...
Biotechnology
Aug 12, 2026
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University of Bristol–led researchers have identified a naturally occurring gut molecule that could strengthen chickens' immune response against a wide range of bacterial infections. This development, published today, Aug. ...
Veterinary medicine
Aug 12, 2026
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Online conflict tends to advance social movements rather than undermine them, according to new research from McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management.
Political science
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