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Ancient Architects: How Bizarre Microbes Are Rewriting the Story of Complex Life
Ancient Architects: How Bizarre Microbes Are Rewriting the Story of Complex Life

18 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi

When Emily Aguilar-Pine drove 2,500 kilometres...

Broken Bones, Modified Cells: A Small Trial With Large Implications
Broken Bones, Modified Cells: A Small Trial With Large Implications

15 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi

Osteoporosis is one of the most common...

The Sweetener Question: What the Sucralose-DNA Story Actually Shows
The Sweetener Question: What the Sucralose-DNA Story Actually Shows

14 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi

Few stories in nutrition science travel as...

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Ancient Architects: How Bizarre Microbes Are Rewriting the Story of Complex Life

Ancient Architects: How Bizarre Microbes Are Rewriting the Story of Complex Life

When Emily Aguilar-Pine drove 2,500 kilometres from Montana to Texas in June 2026, she had a small bottle of liquid riding with her in the back of her mother’s SUV. The label read “hopes and dreams.” Inside was a living culture of an Asgard archaeon — arguably one of the most scientifically precious microbes on the planet. It slept in hotel rooms with her. She never let it out of sight. That kind of devotion is not unusual in this field. Researchers who work with Asgard archaea speak...
Broken Bones, Modified Cells: A Small Trial With Large Implications

Broken Bones, Modified Cells: A Small Trial With Large Implications

Osteoporosis is one of the most common conditions in aging medicine, and one of the most consequential. Affecting an estimated 200 million women worldwide, it progressively weakens bone architecture until fractures become almost routine — after a stumble, a cough, a minor fall. Existing drug therapies slow that deterioration, but they do not rebuild what has been lost. A small clinical trial published today in Cell suggests that a one-time infusion of modified bone-marrow cells may do...
The Sweetener Question: What the Sucralose-DNA Story Actually Shows

The Sweetener Question: What the Sucralose-DNA Story Actually Shows

Few stories in nutrition science travel as fast as one connecting a common food additive to DNA damage. When a 2023 study reported that a chemical linked to sucralose — the sweetener in Splenda — broke DNA strands in human cells, it moved quickly through health media. Three years later, the full picture is considerably more complicated, and considerably more instructive about how laboratory findings translate, or fail to translate, into actual risk. The Chemical at the Center The...
A Virtual Cell That Predicts Your Cancer Treatment

A Virtual Cell That Predicts Your Cancer Treatment

One of the persistent frustrations in oncology is this: two patients with the same cancer diagnosis, the same staging, even the same tumor type, can respond completely differently to the same drug. For triple-negative breast cancer, that frustration is acute. TNBC lacks the hormone and HER2 receptors that most targeted therapies exploit, leaving clinicians with a narrower toolkit and fewer molecular handles to guide treatment decisions. A study published in Nature on September 9...
From Undruggable to Unstoppable: How Daraxonrasib Is Rewriting the RAS Story

From Undruggable to Unstoppable: How Daraxonrasib Is Rewriting the RAS Story

For decades, RAS proteins occupied a peculiar position in oncology: among the most commonly mutated drivers of cancer, yet effectively out of reach for targeted therapy. That designation — “undruggable” — is now being dismantled at pace. Just one week after the US FDA granted approval to daraxonrasib (Rasonque) for advanced pancreatic cancer, new data published in the New England Journal of Medicine on September 2 show the same drug shrinking tumours in more than 30% of participants...
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Today In History

Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 18 September.

  1. Fort Ticonderoga NY opened
  2. Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
  3. Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
  4. NY Times starts publishing at 2› a copy
  5. Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board)
  6. the Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air
  7. Even though they lost a double header Yanks clinch pennant #10
  8. Wagon Train premiers
  9. Get Smart premiers
  10. Gemini X is launched
  11. US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of earth & moon together
  12. Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
  13. Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic