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Gut microbe remote-controls breast cancer — and one enzyme switch can cut the connection
A multidisciplinary team identifies Ruminococcus lactaris as a key tumor-promoting gut bacterium that produces UDP-GlcNAc to hijack the host O-GlcNAcylation system, driving breast cancer progression via an OGT–NFIB–KIT positive-feedback loop.
Biomimetic nanoparticles target infection, inflammation and bone loss in periodontitis
A new biomimetic nanoparticle treatment for periodontitis is designed to tackle infection, inflammation and tissue damage at the same time. In laboratory and rat studies, the system killed key periodontal bacteria, shifted immune responses towards repair and reduced bone loss.
Q&A: How do infections get past the placenta’s defenses?
For nine months, the placenta is the primary support system of the fetus, providing both nourishment and protection. Within hours of birth, it is usually discarded as medical waste. But this organ carries clues for the child’s future health and additional pregnancies for the mother.
INRS and the Pasteur Network bring together scientists from 25 countries in Québec to strengthen the fight against pandemics
Held in North America for the first time, the Pasteur Network Annual Meeting highlighted how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies can advance global health preparedness and response.
Smart packaging film ‘lights up’ under UV as meat loses freshness
Food spoilage causes chemical changes that are not always easy to detect by appearance alone. To provide a clearer indication of freshness and quality, researchers have developed a smart packaging film that changes color and glows under ultraviolet (UV) light as meat loses freshness.
Genetic hitchhikers make Aspergillus infections even harder to treat
Resistance to antifungal medicines in the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus is proving more persistent than previously thought. Research shows that fungicides used in agriculture, even those with a different mode of action from these medicines, can help maintain this resistance. This is because different resistance genes ‘hitchhike’ together.
Gut microbe remote-controls breast cancer — and one enzyme switch can cut the connection
A multidisciplinary team identifies Ruminococcus lactaris as a key tumor-promoting gut bacterium that produces UDP-GlcNAc to hijack the host O-GlcNAcylation system, driving breast cancer progression via an OGT–NFIB–KIT positive-feedback loop.
Biomimetic nanoparticles target infection, inflammation and bone loss in periodontitis
A new biomimetic nanoparticle treatment for periodontitis is designed to tackle infection, inflammation and tissue damage at the same time. In laboratory and rat studies, the system killed key periodontal bacteria, shifted immune responses towards repair and reduced bone loss.
Q&A: How do infections get past the placenta’s defenses?
For nine months, the placenta is the primary support system of the fetus, providing both nourishment and protection. Within hours of birth, it is usually discarded as medical waste. But this organ carries clues for the child’s future health and additional pregnancies for the mother.
Perpetual Next signs agreement to accelerate the roll-out of standardized biomethanol plants
Perpetual Next have signed a License and Engineering Agreement with Air Liquide Engineering and Technologies for the supply of syngas-to-methanol technology for Perpetual Next’s first biomethanol facility, with an option to extend across other biomethanol sites.
AFYREN and Terrial renew their partnership for French-manufactured potash fertilizers
AFYREN and Terrial today announce the renewal of their strategic partnership with the signing of a new multi-year fertilizer supply contract, worth several tens of millions of euros This long-term contract strengthens both companies’ commitment to making French agriculture more sustainable and less dependent on international fertilizer markets.
Smart packaging film ‘lights up’ under UV as meat loses freshness
Food spoilage causes chemical changes that are not always easy to detect by appearance alone. To provide a clearer indication of freshness and quality, researchers have developed a smart packaging film that changes color and glows under ultraviolet (UV) light as meat loses freshness.
New CRISPR proteins expand editing access to heart disease genes
A researcher has used his AI-supported Sequence Display technology to expand the targeting abilities of CRISPR/Cas9, evolving several variants of a compact Cas9 that could efficiently target stretches of DNA previously inaccessible for editing. The evolved Cas9s were successfully used to edit two genes found in coronary heart disease.
Simulator predicts jumping genes’ roles in changing genome size
Researchers have created a new computational tool that works from an inferred ancestral point and evolves forward to the modern-day genome to trace the insertion and deletion dynamics of these ’jumping genes’, known as transposable elements.
INRS and the Pasteur Network bring together scientists from 25 countries in Québec to strengthen the fight against pandemics
Held in North America for the first time, the Pasteur Network Annual Meeting highlighted how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies can advance global health preparedness and response.
Syrian Arab Republic launches coordinated public health response following poliovirus detection in Deir Ezzor
The Ministry of Health is strengthening vaccination and surveillance activities to protect children following the detection of poliovirus type 1 (VDPV1) in two children aged between 6 and 13 months who developed paralysis in Deir Ezzor Governorate.
New AI method spots outbreak signals in sparse and noisy data
A new early-warning method could help detect disease outbreaks even when case data are sparse, delayed or incomplete. By using topological data analysis to capture the underlying shape of epidemic time series, the system remained accurate even when up to half of the surveillance data were missing.