Parkinson's Link to Gut Bacteria Suggests Unexpected, Simple Treatment(sciencealert.com)

105 points by pelasaco 2 years ago | 32 comments

New viruslike entities found in human gut microbes(science.org)

139 points by drooby 2 years ago | 58 comments

'Vampire Squid from Hell' Reveals the Ancient Origins of Octopuses(sciencealert.com)

33 points by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 10 months ago | 5 comments

NASA's New Horizons Discovered a Large Surprise in the Kuiper Belt(sciencealert.com)

45 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 18 comments

The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive(sciencealert.com)

123 points by georgecmu 2 years ago | 50 comments

Once lush Sahara was home to a surprisingly unique group of humans(sciencealert.com)

127 points by gmays 1 year ago | 29 comments

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.

Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads(nature.com)

331 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 196 comments

Nature news article from February 2025 about an inexpensive blood test that can detect pancreatic cancer before it spreads to other parts of the body.

The ovary doesn't retire after menopause(news.northwestern.edu)

55 points by gmays 8 days ago | 6 comments

Northwestern University news release on a study finding human ovaries show increased inflammation and tissue structural changes decades after menopause.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

Scientists Untangle the Biology of an 'Undruggable' Cancer Gene(nytimes.com)

4 points by gumby 23 days ago | 2 comments

New York Times article on scientists working out the biology of a cancer gene long considered undruggable; the capture shows only a captcha page.

Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome(academic.oup.com)

359 points by MattSayar 1 year ago | 350 comments

Open-access PNAS Nexus journal article describing trisomic rescue in trisomy 21 cells by allele-specific multiple chromosome cleavage with CRISPR-Cas9.