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Medical Xpress / Expert explainer: Strategies to improve childhood vaccination uptake

Protecting children is a shared responsibility, says health and rehabilitation sciences Ph.D. candidate Meron Mengistu. As a graduate researcher in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Western Ontario, her ...

Aug 6, 2026
Phys.org / A cooperative approach to reproductive success

Fertilization is often imagined as a frantic race, with millions of sperm competing for a single prize. But new research by a team of evolutionary biologists from Syracuse University, the University of Siena in Italy and ...

Aug 2, 2026
Medical Xpress / Turning a common oncogene's metabolic grip on cancer cells into a fatal weakness

For all its persistence as an adversary, aggressive breast cancer carries a weakness of its own making. A University of Helsinki research group has been investigating where this weakness comes from and how it can be exploited. ...

Aug 4, 2026
Phys.org / Why some nitrogen-processing enzymes are more efficient than others

Nitrogen gas is abundant in Earth's atmosphere, but most living organisms can't readily use it. Only a subset of microbes with enzymes known as nitrogenases can break nitrogen gas apart and convert it into ammonia.

Aug 2, 2026
Phys.org / Unexpected bond-breaking order reveals a new path to bioluminescence

The dancing lights of fireflies and the eerie blue sparkle in crashing waves get their glow when a molecular square of carbon and oxygen atoms breaks. New research from Stanford University has shown that mechanical force ...

Aug 4, 2026
Phys.org / Pluto's hazy atmosphere may be collapsing as it moves farther from the sun

Pluto is on an icy march away from the sun. In 2114, it will turn back, but until then, its elliptical orbit will carry it to colder and darker parts of the outer solar system. This is Pluto's first time entering the outer ...

Aug 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / US regulators approve Moderna flu vaccine

Vaccine manufacturer Moderna said Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved its new influenza vaccine, nearly six months after the regulator briefly rejected an application for review.

Aug 6, 2026
Medical Xpress / No clear evidence that common embryo transfer techniques improve IVF success

Preparation techniques used before embryo transfer, considered the most critical step in the IVF process, show no proven effect on pregnancy rates and remain inconclusive because of limited or low-quality data, a new Cochrane ...

Aug 5, 2026
Phys.org / Mechanical shortcut' rapidly carries organic particles into the deep ocean

The processes that capture carbon from the atmosphere and store it on the seabed are crucial for climate balance. However, assessing these mechanisms is often complicated because it requires measurements ranging from the ...

Aug 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / WHO chief says Ebola outbreak is outpacing response as aid workers strike over pay

The world's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak is spreading faster than efforts to fight it, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday during a visit to Congo where some health workers are striking over a lack ...

Aug 6, 2026
Medical Xpress / First-in-class small molecule inhibitor shows promise against pancreatic cancer in preclinical studies

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed an experimental drug with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) to target the "undruggable" PDZ domain of the GIPC1 protein, which helps different types of cancer, including pancreatic ...

Aug 5, 2026
Medical Xpress / Cancer cells hijack a fatty acid to escape immune attack in liver metastases

Liver metastases are among the most common and deadly forms of cancer spread. Now, researchers at VIB and KU Leuven, with international collaborators, have discovered how cancer cells exploit a fatty acid abundant in the ...

Aug 5, 2026