On the occasion of World AIDS Day, UCSF reported in Nature on a small but significant trial: a combination of therapeutic vaccine, bNAbs (10-1074 and VRC07-523LS), and lefitolimod enabled 7/10 participants to maintain low viremia after planned ART interruption, with cautious monitoring and clearly defined safety criteria.
An MIT team has developed artificial tendons made of tough hydrogels that connect lab-grown muscles to a robotic skeleton. The new muscle-tendon unit enables grippers to close about three times faster and exert thirty times more force, operating stably for more than 7,000 cycles, with an 11x better power-to-weight ratio.
Why do we hear clear words in our native tongue but an unbroken blur in a foreign language? Two UCSF studies show that the superior temporal gyrus learns phonotactic rules and, with a fast “reset”, marks word onsets and offsets. This explains bilingualism, helps the clinic and inspires better speech-recognition systems
The new generation of in-flight connectivity arrives with the Viasat Amara solution: a dual-band electronically controlled phase antenna, developed with the support of ESA's ARTES program, agilely connects LEO and GEO networks for lower latency and higher capacity, bringing more stable video calls and reliable streaming to more passengers.
FACES, a new chemogenetic method from UC San Diego, enables slip-specific and organelle-specific monitoring of lipid flows in living cells. By selectively "igniting" the signal only at the meeting point of fluorogen and FAP, it is revealed how phospholipids are transferred through membranes, ER-mitochondrial contacts and trans-Golgi domains.
Artificial intelligence and the CANDiT algorithm guide differentiation in CDX2-low colon tumors, by activating AMPK/PRKAB1 they selectively affect the CSC population and promote the loss of malignant identity. The strategy shows promising effects on organoids and paves the way for biomarker-guided clinical trials