Scientists discover the nutrient that can supercharge cellular energy Researchers discovered that leucine, a nutrient found in protein-rich foods, can supercharge mitochondria by protecting crucial energy-producing proteins inside cells. The breakthrough uncovers a powerful new link between diet and cellular energy — with possible implications for cancer and metabolic disease treatments.

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MIT scientists discover amino acid that helps the gut heal itself MIT scientists have identified cysteine — an amino acid found in foods like meat, dairy, beans, and nuts — as a potent trigger for intestinal repair. In mice, a cysteine-rich diet activated immune cells that released healing signals, helping stem cells rebuild damaged intestinal tissue after radiation exposure. Researchers say the discovery could eventually lead to new dietary therapies for cancer patients suffering from treatment-related gut damage.

Who reports wildlife the most? 300,000 citizen science records uncover participation bias In recent years, citizen science methodology has gained significant momentum and is becoming increasingly important in large-scale ecological and conservation research. By involving volunteers, it enables a level of spatial and temporal coverage that would often be unattainable within traditional research frameworks.

Capturing an elusive step in molecular sandwich making Since their discovery in the 1950s, metallocenes—chemical compounds where a metal atom sits "sandwiched" between two carbon rings—have been at the heart of organometallic chemistry research, finding applications in catalysis, materials design, energy, sensing, drug delivery and more. Yet knowledge of their formation has been limited, due to the transient nature of their unstable intermediates.

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Biotech company Imperagen announced on Thursday a £5 million ($6. 7 million) seed round led by PXN Ventures, with participation from IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone.

A Differentiable Measure of Algebraic Complexity: All theoretical results are mechanically verified in Lean 4 and confirmed via small-scale experiments. Provably Exact Discovery of Group Structures arXiv:2511. 23152v4

Group-Aware Matrix Estimation and Latent Subspace Recovery arXiv:2605. 20559v1 Experiments on synthetic, recommendation, ecological, and neuroscience datasets show that GAME is most beneficial in structured missingness regimes, where subgroup-aware regularization improves both reconstruction accuracy and latent subspace fidelity. Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern matrix completion problems often involve heterogeneous data whose rows simultaneously belong to many meta-categories, such as demographic and age groups in recommendation systems, or region and recording session labels in neural electrophysiological experiments.

arXiv:2502. 07860v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) is a prevalent addictive disorder affecting an estimated 29. 5 million Americans. It is characterized by impaired control over alcohol consumption despite negative consequences. The number of diagnostic criteria met by an individual typically determines the severity of AUD. Research into AUD focuses on understanding individual susceptibility differences and developing preventive strategies. Alcohol vapor inhalation has emerged as a promising method for pathophysiological investigations in animals, allowing researchers to control the dose and duration of alcohol exposure. This approach is crucial for studying the escalation of voluntary alcohol-drinking behavior. Current commercial systems for alcohol vapor generation have limitations, including combustion risks and the need to adjust multiple parameters.