Microplastics, tiny plastic particles pervasive in agricultural environments, interact with and disrupt the microbial ecosystem in the rumen – the first stomach chamber of cattle, reveals an international study.

A new paper in Biology Methods and Protocols finds that we can now distinguish wild from farmed salmon using deep learning, potentially greatly improving strategies for environmental protection.

A new study published in Life Metabolism reports that a single post-meal blood biomarker, 1-hour postprandial SPARC (SPARC-1H), can predict who will benefit most from adopting a Mediterranean diet. The discovery provides one of the clearest examples to date of how precision nutrition can identify individualized dietary responses using a simple blood test rather than complex multi-omics models.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Elucidating the molecular programs that enable tumor cells to evade regulated cell death and anti-tumor immune responses is essential for developing effective therapeutic strategies. In this study, Wang and colleagues employ a series of genetically engineered non-small cell lung cancer mouse models, high-throughput lipidomics assays, and functional perturbation experiments to uncover how tumor cells adapt metabolically to escape ferroptosis and reprogram the tumor microenvironment for CD8⁺ T cell dysfunction.

Whether great minds think alike is up for debate, but the collaborating minds of two people working on a shared task process information alike, according to a study published November 25^th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Denise Moerel and colleagues from Western Sydney University in Australia.

Adipose tissue is a crucial energy-regulating organ in mammals, responsible not only for storing excess energy but also participating in body temperature maintenance and metabolic balance.