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Medical Xpress / How a rare drug made from scientists' blood saves babies from botulism

When Alessandro Barbera was rushed to a California hospital with infant botulism in October, his father had barely heard of the disease, never mind the rare and costly treatment that likely saved the newborn's life.

Dec 9, 2025 in Medications
Tech Xplore / Geothermal cooling in Hawaii: Report illuminates its potential

In areas with geologically recent volcanic activity and ample underground water flow, like the Hawaiian Islands, geothermal energy technologies present options to augment the electric grid.

Dec 9, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Phys.org / Silver nanoparticles built on viral biotemplate kill more bacteria and slow resistance rise

Antibiotics are no longer able to treat infections as effectively as they once did because many pathogens have developed resistance to these drugs. This phenomenon, known as antimicrobial resistance (AMR), claims over a million ...

Dec 4, 2025 in Nanotechnology
Medical Xpress / Pancreatic cancer cells 'speak the language' of organs they will later invade, study reveals

Even as they develop at their primary site, pancreatic cancer cells are already expressing the genes that will determine where they will metastasize, according to new findings from Columbia researchers. The work, published ...

Dec 8, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / As online GP use overtakes phone calls, who's being left behind?

There are more than 1.4 million appointments a day in general practice in England. Traditionally, patients booked by telephone, braving the "8am scramble." However, a higher proportion of people are now contacting their GP ...

Dec 9, 2025 in Health
Phys.org / Novel compound attacks tuberculosis bacteria's ATP synthase, showing promise against drug resistance

Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have developed a promising new substance for targeting bacteria that cause tuberculosis. The team have produced a compound that inhibits the pathogens' ability ...

Dec 8, 2025 in Chemistry
Medical Xpress / Microbial molecule that disarms inflammation discovered, offering new diabetes treatment strategy

An international research team has uncovered a surprising ally in the fight against insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes: a microbial metabolite called trimethylamine (TMA). Published in Nature Metabolism, the study reveals ...

Dec 8, 2025 in Diabetes
Phys.org / An ancient genetic switch that lets plants grow, adapt and survive

A team of scientists from Monash University has identified a single gene in a land plant that could help explain how plants first evolved the ability to grow continuously, a key trait that allowed them to colonize dry land ...

Dec 8, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / A solid-state quantum processor based on nuclear spins

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential of outperforming classical systems on some tasks. Instead of storing information as bits, like classical computers, ...

Dec 4, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / Greenhouse gases projected to sharply increase extreme flooding in Central Himalayas

Rising greenhouse gas emissions could see the size of extreme floods in the Central Himalayas increase by between as much as 73% and 84% by the end of this century.

Dec 8, 2025 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Glut1 protein may be a potential therapeutic target for kidney disease

Targeting and disabling a certain protein essential to transporting glucose properly through cells (Glucose Transporter 1, or Glut1) could be a new way to fight kidney disease, according to a study led by Partha Biswas, DVM, ...

Tech Xplore / EU launches antitrust probe into Google's data use for AI

The EU announced Tuesday it had opened a probe to assess whether Google breached antitrust rules by using content put online by media and other publishers to train and provide AI services without appropriate compensation.

Dec 9, 2025 in Business