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Liquid biopsy approach provides a molecular-based tool for tumor characterization, and is the first to indicate clinical utility of ctDNA for longitudinal surveillance of diffuse midline glioma.

There are many ways to slice and dice genomic data to identify a species of bacteria, or at least find its close relatives. But fast techniques to sequence genomes have flooded the public databases and in a biased fashion, containing lots of genomic data about some species and not enough about others, according to a Rice University computer scientist.

Removing the troublesome impurities of hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide from natural gas could become simpler and more effective.

By studying barn owls, scientists believe they've taken an important step toward solving the long-standing mystery of how the brain chooses what most deserves attention. The finding likely applies to all animals, including humans, and offers new insight into what goes wrong in brains of people who have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Beet juice deicer, a natural alternative to road salt that is considered to be an eco-friendlier winter road management solution, may not be ecologically friendly to nearby aquatic species.

The future looks challenging for plants. Climate change is forecast to bring widespread drought to parts of the planet already struggling with dry conditions. To mitigate the potentially devastating effects to agriculture, researchers are seeking strategies to help plants withstand extreme environmental hazards.

The use of a soft, sponge electrode - instead of a traditional rigid metal electrode - provides a more natural environment for cell development.

Studying the 3D of DNA and its dynamics is revealing a lot of information about gene expression, expanding our knowledge of how cells, tissues and organs actually work in health and disease. Properly producing and managing this large amount of data is both challenging and necessary for the progress of this field. In a perspective paper published in Nature Genetics, researchers call for unified standards and suggest guidelines in this emerging and promising research area.

Hosts starve their microbial denizens of nutrients, essentially enslaving the microbes in their gut so that they are forced to do our bidding.

Researchers are always seeking more reliable and more efficient communications, for everything from televisions and cellphones to satellites and medical devices. However, some of the most exciting techniques are highly energy demanding. Now, researchers are using brain-inspired machine learning techniques to increase the energy efficiency of wireless receivers to make communications greener.