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1-Jul-2025

Brain stimulation can boost math learning in people with weaker neural connections

The strength of certain neural connections can predict how well someone can learn math, and mild electrically stimulating these networks can boost learning, according to a study published on July 1^st in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Roi Cohen Kadosh from University of Surrey, United Kingdom, and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS Biology

1-Jul-2025

Pair of malaria parasite proteins could lead to targeted therapies

University of California - Riverside
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A University of California, Riverside-led team has made an advance in the basic understanding of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for the deadliest form of human malaria, that could make novel, highly targeted anti-malarial therapies possible.

Journal: Cell Reports
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

1-Jul-2025

Self-driving lab: AI and automated biology combine to improve enzymes

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have dramatically improved performance of two important industrial enzymes — and created a user-friendly, fast process to improve many more.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy

1-Jul-2025

Scientists hunt for ligament clues behind the development of curved spines

Trinity College Dublin
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin are assessing how the development of spinal ligaments provide mechanical stability and impact postural support in the spine – with a view to better understanding how developmental “missteps” may contribute to spinal deformations, such as the characteristic curved spines that develop in people with scoliosis.

Journal: Journal of Anatomy
Funder: Fondation Yves Cotrel pour la Recherche en Pathologie Rachidienne—Institut de France, Enterprise Ireland

1-Jul-2025

Scientists target ‘molecular machine’ in the war against antimicrobial resistance

King's College London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have studied a new target for antibiotics in the greatest detail yet – in the fight against antibiotic resistance.

Journal: Nature Microbiology

1-Jul-2025

Research from the University of Kansas suppresses coronavirus by targeting Mac1

University of Kansas
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study published in mBio details the vulnerability of coronaviruses to inhibitors of a small protein domain called Mac1, or the “macrodomain,” found in all coronaviruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV. The findings point toward potential antiviral therapies to combat future coronavirus pandemics and confirm the importance of Mac1 to the viability of the virus.

1-Jul-2025

Natural sensors help in mapping out cells’ own biology

Cornell University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Cornell chemistry and chemical biology researchers have found a new and potentially more accurate way to see what proteins are doing inside living cells — using the cells’ own components as built-in sensors.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institutes of Health