UCLA and UCSD scientists inserted DNA-encoding methylmercury detoxification enzymes into the genome of an abundant human gut bacterium. The engineered bacterium detoxified methylmercury in the gut of mice and dramatically reduced the amount that reached other tissues, such as the brain and…
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Study of facial bacteria could lead to probiotics that promote healthy skin
The composition of bacterial populations living on our faces plays a significant role in the development of acne and other skin conditions such as eczema. Two species of bacteria predominate in most people, but how they interact with each other, and how those interactions may contribute to…
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Treatment regimen for aggressive blood cancer
Study data reveal how a specific sequence of cancer therapies can improve outcomes for patients with hard-to-treat lymphomas
Relapsed/refractory (R/R) mature T and natural killer (NK)-cell lymphomas (TNKL) are aggressive blood cancers often resistant to frontline therapies. A team of Mass…
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Minerals deal does not provide Ukraine with security guarantees – MP
The minerals deal with the United States does not provide Ukraine with security guarantees, member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Iryna Friz (European Solidarity faction) believes.
“The…
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Turkmenistan’s ‘Gates of Hell’ crater has been burning for 40 years. And nobody knows why
Most fires burn through their fuel in a few hours, days or weeks. When underground fossil fuel deposits catch alight, however, the fires can rage for decades.
The Darvaza Gas Crater, also known as the ‘Gates of Hell’, is a 60m-wide (196ft) pit in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert, which has…
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Demining and Restoration of Affected Territories’
On Friday, May 2, at 15.30, the press center of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency will host a press conference entitled “Investments in Ukraine: Demining and Restoration of Affected Territories.”
Key topics: prospects for foreign investments in demining projects of Ukrainian…
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Frontline report: What Russian commanders plan in Pokrovsk and what actually happens there are two different wars
Today, there is interesting news from the Pokrovsk direction.
Here, Ukrainian counterattacks pushed the Russians out of several key positions, endangering their whole operation to encircle Pokrovsk. As a result, the Russians were forced to completely abandon their attempts to take the town,…
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Madrid Open: Coco Gauff thrashes Iga Swiatek to reach final
Coco Gauff produced a stunning display to thrash four-time French Open champion Iga Swiatek 6-1 6-1 and reach the final of the Madrid Open.
Gauff, 21, had never beaten her Polish opponent on clay before but took just 64 minutes to dispatch the world number two.
American Gauff will play world…
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European Markets Pause While UK And Ireland Show Mixed Signals
What’s going on here?
While the European markets paused for Labor Day, the UK’s FTSE 100 nudged upwards, and differing PMI data painted a contrasting picture for the UK and Ireland.
What does this mean?
Monday’s holiday left the Stoxx Europe 600,…
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What Liberation Day Means for Europe, Hungary and the 2026 Hungarian Election
Liberation Day was one of the most consequential days for the global economy since the end of the Cold War—perhaps even since the Second World War. Whatever comes of the trade war that has resulted, the phase of globalization that started…
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