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Tech Xplore / OpenClaw's creator says 2026 could be the year of general AI agents
Peter Steinberger's artificial intelligence agent tool OpenClaw has taken the tech world by storm with its ability to execute real-life tasks such as checking him in for his flight to Tokyo.
Phys.org / Protein complex protects central RNA quality control from disruption
A research team led by Professor Dr. Niels Gehring from the Institute for Genetics has shown that the coordinated interaction of three proteins plays a central role in nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD). NMD is a mechanism ...
Medical Xpress / Genetic code of growing bacterial threat identified using whole-genome sequencing
Scientists at Houston Methodist Research Institute have discovered that a fast-rising strep bacterium comes in more forms than expected, including ones that may lead to life-threatening infections. The study, led by James ...
Medical Xpress / Mavacamten improves obstruction in adolescents with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Adolescent patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) who received the drug mavacamten saw a significant improvement in left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) gradient, a measure of blood flow obstruction ...
Medical Xpress / The meningitis vaccine now sits at the center of two health crises
The UK has recently seen a resurgence of meningococcal B (MenB) disease, with a cluster of cases in Kent described as "unprecedented" by the health secretary, Wes Streeting. As attention turns from the current MenB outbreak ...
Medical Xpress / Targeting protein BCL-2 may create a promising pathway to reversing pulmonary fibrosis
Researchers at National Jewish Health and collaborating institutions have uncovered a critical mechanism driving persistent pulmonary fibrosis and identified a promising strategy to reverse it. The recent study published ...
Medical Xpress / uPAR-targeted CAR T cells shrank solid tumors and cleared metastases in mice
Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy—CAR T for short—has been a major advance in treating blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma. But the immunotherapy has struggled against solid tumors for two main reasons: Tumor ...
Medical Xpress / Q&A: How studying two different viruses can lead to new strategies for more potent antiviral treatments
Beyond both being viruses, HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 don't seem to have a lot in common. HIV-1 is a retrovirus that integrates with its host's DNA for life and can be passed down from mother to child, while SARS-CoV-2 is contagious ...
Phys.org / Journalism scholars document newspapers' role in reconstruction-era authoritarianism
When Bella Astrofsky, who's poised to graduate in May with a bachelor's degree in journalism, began digging through 19th-century newspapers, she did not expect to help inform how historians understand the end of Reconstruction ...
Medical Xpress / Q&A: Should you trust trending peptide injections?
If you could inject yourself with a substance that purports to make you tanner, fitter, and healthier, would you? Many people are saying "yes." Online, social media influencers tout vials of substances with names like BPC-157 ...
Medical Xpress / New biomarker for immunoglobulin A nephropathy identified
Immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy is an autoimmune disease characterized by the deposition of circulating IgA-containing immune complexes (IgA-ICs) in the glomerular mesangium, leading to mesangial cell proliferation, enhanced ...
Medical Xpress / With help from AI, eye images offer window into cardiovascular risk
A new system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assess cardiovascular risk based on images of the eye captured during eye exams demonstrated strong correlation with a standard cardiovascular risk assessment, according ...
