Illustration of urease and CA-induced MICP in B. megaterium using urea and CO2 as reactants, respectively. Credit: Scientific Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-07323-9 At more than 470 times the atmospheric concentration of CO₂, a humble soil bacterium does something extraordinary: it turns gas into stone. In the future, could the walls of our houses be partly … Read more

In the rapidly evolving landscape of photonics and integrated optics, the quest for advanced light sources with precise control over their emission properties has long captivated researchers. Nanolasers, miniature lasers embedded within photonic circuits, have played a pivotal role in breakthroughs ranging from high-speed optical communications to innovative medical treatments. For decades, efforts have sought … Read more

Study first author Maureen Kahiu, who earned her master’s degree from Penn State with this research project, maneuvers a light box on a research fairway, used to take closeup photos of turfgrass damage resulting from fungicides that golf course managers use to suppress diseases such as dollar spot. Credit: Pennsylvania State University Golf course managers … Read more

The new system, known as microfluidic EM-based polyclonal epitope mapping (mEM), offers researchers faster, clearer insights that could help accelerate vaccine development and antibody discovery. Credit: Scripps Research A new microchip invented by Scripps Research scientists can reveal how a person’s antibodies interact with viruses—using just a drop of blood. The technology offers researchers faster, … Read more

Many regions of the genome form topologically associating domains (TADs). Parts of the genome within these domains can interact more frequently with each other, while they tend to be isolated from the region outside this domain. This schematic figure shows how the proportions of interactions in TAD-like domains in individual single cells (scDomains) are related … Read more

The main patent for Ohtuvayre, the COPD drug at the heart of Verona’s $10 billion sale, expired in 2020. For Merck to make good on the deal, other secondary patents will need to hold up.

In the remote reaches of the Arctic, a startling ecological transformation is unfolding, revealing profound links between ocean warming, sea ice retreat, and the rise of harmful algal blooms (HABs). Recent integrative ecosystem analyses, focusing on bowhead whale faeces collected over nearly two decades, have shed light on the escalating prevalence of potent marine toxins … Read more

A flood situation at Tisza-Körös confluence nowadays (top) and how could it have looked before water control works (bottom) Reconstruction of the unregulated Hármas-Körös River floodplain at the time of the spring flood in the 18th century. (a) The image endeavors to convey the strip of forest serving as a breaker for the unregulated river … Read more

Current operations chief Renee Gala will succeed Bruce Cozadd at Jazz. Meanwhile, a key study of an Ultragenyx and Mereo drug is continuing past a second interim analysis.

In the dynamic arena of drug discovery, high-content image-based phenotypic screens (HCSs) have emerged as a revolutionary tool, enabling researchers to characterize the biological effects of thousands of small molecules with unprecedented depth and scale. These screens capture cellular responses through detailed imaging, which are then translated into rich, multiparametric profiles that encapsulate complex biological … Read more