There’s no routine screening for pancreatic cancer, most cases aren’t operable, and the five year survival rate after diagnosis is around 13%. It’s a traumatic news.
But new personalized mRNA immunotherapy is showing encouraging results in Phase 1 clinical trials.
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Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
This unbelievable microscopic image taken by Hans Kerp is of an early land plant from ~409 million years ago. Exquisite preservation in Scottish sandstone (Rhynie Chert) reveals sperm cells (upper right) released on a fateful day by the “antheridium.” The paper: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Jeremy Yoder says no war
How do you turn a purple flower white?
Another from lab, led by @damianmicroeco.bsky.social and Emily Glasgow, with big contributions from Martin Henry, Margaret Li, and Amanda Peake.
Mendelian Polymorphisms for the Win!
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A while back I timidly knocked on a neighbor's door to ask if they would mind not pulling up the native Physalis in their side yard. They humored me as I explained why and got a little into the weeds, so to speak. Now this is the ICONIC sign they have posted on the fence behind the plants.
Many plants, unlike most animals, can reproduce as clones [D. Kester, HortScience
18, 831–837 (1983), 10.21273/hortsci.18.6.831]. Cloning plants is...
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'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)
The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.
A rare deletion of BZ1 in the ivy-leaf morning glory eliminates anthocyanin-based pigmentation. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.08.730875v1
