A new expert review in the peer-reviewed OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, explores how core-shell nanoparticles could revolutionize drug delivery systems and play a key role in advancing personalized and precision medicine.

A research team led by William O'Hearn from the German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research has found that female Guinea baboons court males more intensively when they show special foraging abilities. Two baboon groups in their natural habitat in Senegal and one group at Nuremberg Zoo were studied. The now published study furthers our understanding of what animals know about the skills and competences of group members and how they use that information to inform their social decisions.

Identifying therapeutic gene targets is essential for advancing personalized medicine and addressing the genetic basis of diseases. However, traditional experimental methods for discovering these targets are costly and time-consuming. While deep learning has shown promise in identifying biomarker genes, it has struggled to identify therapeutic genes. To address this challenge, researchers have developed an innovative method, the Hypergraph Interactive Transformer, which accurately and quickly identifies therapeutic gene targets using hypergraphs and attention-based learning.

A team of international researchers affiliated to the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), in South Africa indicates in new research that a group of fossils belong to a single, young adult Paranthropus robustus. The fossil not only demonstrates that the species was, like modern humans, a habitual upright walker, but also confirms it was also extremely small. 

This article presents a method for preparing stable and reproducible fatty acid (FA) stock solutions, which are essential for studying lipid signaling, metabolism, and lipid droplets (LDs). The authors developed a technique using ultrasonication and ethanol to create FA micelles, which can be used in both in vivo and in vitro studies. The method eliminates the need for albumin, avoids FA degradation, and allows for precise control over FA concentrations. The authors also compare their method with existing techniques and demonstrate its effectiveness in various biological studies, including the investigation of LD dynamics and lipid metabolism.