- uOttawa multidisciplinary team has built new hydrogels from synthetic peptides that can be customized as needed - a defining hallmark in the emerging era of personalized medicine. - Offers game-changing potential to impact future biomedical applications, from sealing traumatic wounds to closing surgical incisions. - Bonding strength is comparable to commercially available tissue adhesives.

Having a dog, cat or other pet can help older adults stay active and maintain a sense of purpose, but pet-related costs may increasingly strain their budgets, a new poll suggests.

Biodiversity is changing across the planet, yet governments still lack the robust, consistent data needed to track these changes and guide effective conservation. Now, a new study led by the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), proposes a comprehensive roadmap to build a modern, integrated Biodiversity Observation Network (BON) for Europe – one that could become a global model for biodiversity monitoring in the 21^st century. The study has been published in the journal Nature Reviews Biodiversity.

Wide-field quantum sensing with fluorescent nanodiamonds (FNDs) in biological systems offers significant potential for understanding intracellular dynamics at the nanoscale.

We describe the statistical characteristics of optical speckle patterns formed by illuminating biological tissues, commonly called biospeckles. The predominant techniques used to gather information from the movement of speckle patterns are detailed.

Cancer remains a leading cause of death worldwide, with early and accurate diagnosis being paramount for effective treatment. However, traditional diagnostic methods like biopsies are invasive and carry risks, while non-invasive approaches often struggle to identify reliable biomarkers due to tumor heterogeneity and the complexity of biological data. Integrating information across different molecular layers—genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics—holds promise but is technically challenging, particularly in capturing the dynamic metabolic state of tumors.