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InternationalMeasuring dementia threads with peptide dyes
In PNAS, biochemists from Utrecht University and their international colleagues present a new measurement method called FibrilPaint, which makes the growth of harmful protein clumps in the brain visible.
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InternationalWill you become a researcher or an AI user?
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the world in just three years. Isabelle Kohler ponders this rapid transformation and questions whether the focus on output in academia risks undermining the core purpose of PhD training. She argues that PhD students should develop skills and expertise, not just deliver results, and ...
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InternationalSuper antibiotic EVG7 keeps beneficial bacteria intact
It’s been just over a year since C2W | Mens & Molecule first wrote about the super antibiotic EVG7. Now, the Leiden team has returned, showing that EVG7 selectively targets the harmful bacterium Clostridioides difficile without significantly affecting beneficial gut bacteria in a mouse model.