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Improving Fuel Cell Durability With Fatigue-Resistant Membranes

Vehicles speeding up and slowing down can cause cracks in fuel cells, but new fatigue-resistant membranes may help boost fuel cell durability.
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Scientists Code ChatGPT To Design New Drug Compounds

Generative AI like ChatGPT can do more than help write emails — it can also design new drugs to treat disease, reports a new study that shows how AI can generate unique molecular structures as potential drugs.
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MXene-Coated Devices Can Guide Microwaves in Space and Lighten Payloads

Waveguides are the pipes that direct and focus electromagnetic waves in telecommunications satellites and terrestrial devices like microwaves and phones.
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Technique Makes T Cells 100 Times More Potent at Killing Cancer Cells

Current immunotherapies work only against cancers of the blood and bone marrow. T cells engineered by Northwestern and UCSF were able to kill tumors derived from skin, lung and stomach in mice.
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Corn Genome's Collective Power Against Multiple Pathogens

Experimental corn lines with resistance to four pathogens have been developed., taking researchers a step closer to corn that can withstand changing disease dynamics.
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Pregnancy Alters Gut Microbiome and Impacts Immune Response

Pregnancy leads to an eruption of physiological and metabolic changes in the body. Among many of these changes are dramatic fluctuations in the immune system, but how these changes may take place has alluded scientists until now.
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Producing Green Steel from Toxic Industrial Waste

Researchers have developed a new method for processing the waste created by aluminum production. The method extracts significant amounts of high-quality iron from the waste that can be used directly in steelmaking.
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Scientists Take the “Blue” Out of Blue Cheese

Blue cheese can be yellow, white, orange and green, all while maintaining the same texture and flavor, more or less.
Increasing the pore size of this chromium-containing MOF improved its ability to carry and deliver two common drugs: ibuprofen and 5-fluorouracil. Credit: Fateme Rezaei
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Acid-Treated Polymers Are Superior Stores for Drug Delivery

After the twists and turns of discovering a drug molecule, pharma companies still face a mighty challenge: delivering their candidate drugs to the area of the body where they are needed.
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Two New Mold Species Discovered in Southwestern China

Researchers have discovered two new freshwater hyphomycete (mould) species, Acrogenospora alangii and Conioscypha yunnanensis, in southwestern China.
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