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20-Aug-2025

AI learns biological variability to develop a high-performance serum-free culture medium

University of Tsukuba
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have developed an AI-powered model that accounts for biological variability to optimize cell culture media. Using this model, they successfully formulated a high-performance serum-free culture medium that achieves approximately 1.6 times higher cell density compared to commercially available options.

Journal: New Biotechnology

20-Aug-2025

Will climate change promote the spread of Dengue fever through Western Europe?

Wiley
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Although Dengue fever has long been recognized as a disease of the tropics and sub-tropics, a study published in Global Change Biology reveals that it is likely to spread increasingly northward and through Western Europe as climate change expands the Asian tiger mosquito’s habitat.

Journal: Global Change Biology

20-Aug-2025

Most known species evolved during 'explosions’ of diversity, shows first analysis across ‘tree of life’

Frontiers
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Biologists in the US have shown for the first time that global biodiversity is concentrated within a few disproportionately large groups with exceptional rates of evolutionary diversification. This result suggests that rapid radiations, including adaptive radiations, have generated the majority of life on Earth.

Journal: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

19-Aug-2025

Lead-resistant lizards in New Orleans could hold clues to combating lead poisoning

Tulane University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research from Tulane University found that brown anole lizards in New Orleans carry the highest blood-lead levels ever recorded in a vertebrate — amounts that would be lethal to most other animals — yet they appear unaffected. The study, published this month in Environmental Research, found that the lizards’ blood lead levels exceeded all previously reported values for fish, amphibians, birds, reptiles and mammals.

Journal: Environmental Research

19-Aug-2025

For apes, out of sight isn’t out of mind

Johns Hopkins University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A series of hide-and-seek experiments with a bonobo named Kanzi shows for the first time that apes can mentally keep track of multiple familiar humans at once, even when they are out of sight. Kanzi could also recognize caregivers from their voices alone, an ability never before tested on bonobos.

Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Funder: Templeton World Charity Foundation

19-Aug-2025

New research shows how nerve cells can be protected against ALS

Stockholm University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By analyzing millions of messenger RNA molecules (mRNA) during the course of ALS, researchers at Stockholm University, in collaboration with scientists at the Paris Brain Institute and Örebro University, have identified why certain nerve cells are resistant to the disease and what happens in the sensitive nerve cells when they are affected. The study, published in the scientific journal Genome Research, focuses on a hereditary form of ALS caused by mutations in the SOD1 gene.

Journal: Genome Research
Funder: Vetenskapsrådet, EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Åhlén-stiftelsen, Ulla-Carin Lindquists stiftelse för ALS-forskning

19-Aug-2025

Aramchol boosts regorafenib effectiveness in gastrointestinal tumors

Impact Journals LLC
Peer-Reviewed Publication

BUFFALO, NY – August 19, 2025 – A new research paper was published in Volume 16 of Oncotarget on August 19, 2025, titled “The SCD1 inhibitor aramchol interacts with regorafenib to kill GI tumor cells in vitro and in vivo.”

Journal: Oncotarget