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Malaria-carrying Anopheles coluzzii mosquitoes are skillful foragers, speedily biting the skin and efficiently probing for blood vessels before feeding, then retracting and withdrawing their mouthparts—all in five distinct steps, according to a new #ScienceAdvances study. https://scim.ag/3U8ETki
October 27, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Our new biting paper. The palps have a lot to say about biting! #scienceadvances
October 23, 2026 at 1:01 PM
A new #ScienceAdvances study proposes the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine as a preventative measure against dementia.

The vaccine reduces Alzheimer’s-associated phospho-tau proteins, reprograms myeloid immune cells and limits neuroinflammation. https://scim.ag/4jziXJk
BCG vaccination mitigates tau pathology and restores cognitive function in PS19 mice
Retrospective studies in patients with nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer have reported a significant reduction in Alzheimer’s disease incidence (12 to 78%) among Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) recipien...
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October 28, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Researchers have developed a single-cell–level digital twin to simulate how different treatments can alter maternal immune pathways and affect the time to labor of individual patients.

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October 23, 2026 at 9:04 PM
It’s finally here!

Our latest #ScienceAdvances paper reveals how NRF2 orchestrates a simultaneous defense against formaldehyde and ferroptosis by regulating the SLC7A11 antiporter.

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NRF2 coordinates cystine import and glutathione use to sustain ferroptosis resistance and formaldehyde tolerance in cancer
Cancer cells must balance detoxification of reactive metabolic by-products while preserving redox homeostasis, but how this trade-off is managed remains unclear. The Kelch-like ECH-associated protein ...
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October 28, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Cells make toxic metabolites every minute they’re alive. How do they survive them?

In our latest #ScienceAdvances paper, we report that NRF2 coordinates the defences against genotoxic formaldehyde and ferroptosis resistance by regulating SLC7A11 (xCT)👇

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NRF2 coordinates cystine import and glutathione use to sustain ferroptosis resistance and formaldehyde tolerance in cancer
Cancer cells must balance detoxification of reactive metabolic by-products while preserving redox homeostasis, but how this trade-off is managed remains unclear. The Kelch-like ECH-associated protein ...
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October 27, 2026 at 2:02 PM
A new device can detect scents and transmit them between people across distances, with the potential for long-range transmission.

It marks another stage in the development of human-machine interfaces: enabling the sharing of smell.

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Scentronic: An artificial intelligence–assisted olfactory interface for remote odor sharing and transmission
Recent years have witnessed the surge of human–machine interfaces (HMIs) for various applications. Olfaction is a fundamental chemical sense crucial to perception, memory, and emotion. Current limitat...
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October 23, 2026 at 6:17 PM
The activity of six different genes can help determine patient survival of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), according to a study published by #BISTCommunity researchers at the @crg.eu

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October 27, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Breast milk antibodies show broad antiviral activity and protect mice against influenza, according to new research in #ScienceAdvances. https://scim.ag/47fQCjZ
Polyclonal breast milk–derived secretory IgA confers broad antiviral protection against multiple respiratory viruses
Passive immunization is an important tool for protecting individuals with primary immune deficiencies from infectious diseases and offers a rapid response strategy for protecting vulnerable population...
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October 21, 2026 at 6:04 PM
👩‍🔬New publication, now out in #ScienceAdvances, leb by Eleni Chrysostomou from @philipmour.bsky.social team, shows that muscle stem cells produce a protective Fibrillin-1 matrix to prevent precocious activation.

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October 28, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Spectral tuning and signaling of diverse and far red–sensitive rhodopsins in mantis shrimp eyes - ScienceAdvances

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Spectral tuning and signaling of diverse and far red–sensitive rhodopsins in mantis shrimp eyes
Stomatopod crustaceans (mantis shrimps) have extraordinary eyes with unmatched visual rhodopsin diversity, but their potential for broad color detection remains unclear. Here, we report that 17 rhodop...
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October 27, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Using initial states to identify successful El Niño–Southern Oscillation forecasts 1 year in advance - ScienceAdvances

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Using initial states to identify successful El Niño–Southern Oscillation forecasts 1 year in advance
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the primary source of climate predictability on seasonal and longer timescales over much of the globe, but predicting its phase beyond 9 months has remained chal...
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October 23, 2026 at 10:03 PM
New archaeological discoveries at Shég’ Xdaltth’í’, a 13,800-year-old base camp site in interior Alaska, may provide evidence for a trans-Beringian cultural link with other sites to the west.

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Highlights from an early base camp in Beringia 13,800 years ago: Shég’ Xdaltth’í’ and the Late Pleistocene peopling of Alaska
Human dispersal across the Bering Land Bridge (BLB) was a key event in the peopling of the Americas, but Beringia’s archaeological record remains poorly understood. In response, the Shég’ Xdaltth’í’ s...
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October 20, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Science, helping undo some of the damage climate change has caused to coral reefs.
We all need to celebrate the wins.
October 18, 2026 at 8:37 PM
New in #ScienceAdvances, 12(42), eaef0605
"Deep learning reveals ecological decoupling and rate heterogeneity in Hymenoptera wing evolution"
#Evolutionary_biology #HAIKA
Peng, A., @mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social , Nel, A., @fredlegendre.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al.
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Deep learning reveals ecological decoupling and rate heterogeneity in Hymenoptera wing evolution
Quantifying biomorphological evolution and integrating phenotypic data into large-scale ecological and evolutionary studies are often limited by the scalability, subjectivity, and poor interpretabilit...
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October 19, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Researchers in #ScienceAdvances have demonstrated that brief physical contact between healthy and bleached coral can restore algae to the bleached coral, leading to their full recovery. https://scim.ag/4ilLAZq
Rapid coral bleaching recovery via symbiont transfer from healthy corals
Coral bleaching, the temperature-induced loss of dinoflagellate symbionts, is a major driver of global coral reef decline. Although corals can regain symbionts through repopulation of residual symbion...
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October 16, 2026 at 6:05 PM
A 13,800-year-old Alaska camp holds the earliest sign of a house in North America #FirstAmericans #ScienceAdvances #UniversityOfKansas
A 13,800-year-old Alaska camp holds the earliest sign of a house in North America
On a bluff above Alaska's Tanana River, Ice Age families built a shelter around a hearth, slow-cooked meat in an earth oven and sewed with bone needles. Their stone blades match tools found across the
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October 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have demonstrated that brief physical contact between healthy and bleached coral can restore algae to the bleached coral, leading to their full recovery. t.co/xennKZbdW0 share.google/KzHjj7B5JvVz...
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October 17, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Want to get clean calcium signals from tons of deep-brain neurons in freely moving animals?
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We show how correcting GRIN lens aberrations transforms MINI2P performance, revealing sparse HD coding in sensory thalamus!
Extended field-of-view two-photon imaging in the deep brain of freely behaving mice using lightweight microfabricated corrective optics
Investigating neural circuits underlying complex behavior requires high-resolution imaging of large neuronal populations during naturalistic conditions. Miniaturized two-photon microscopes (MINI2Ps) e...
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October 17, 2026 at 5:16 PM
How does Jonathan, the world’s oldest terrestrial animal at 194 years young, defy aging?

Researchers in #ScienceAdvances sequenced the Aldabra giant tortoise’s genome to discover possible molecular factors related to his remarkable longevity. https://scim.ag/4ia1dTD
October 14, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Our new paper, led by @nickajgraham.bsky.social, shows that #seabirds and native vegetation can drive ecosystem processes that support atoll island climate resilience by helping them to keep pace with sea level rise 🏝️🐦

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October 15, 2026 at 8:45 AM