A woman with long brown hair sits wrapped in a blue blanket, holding a white mug and using a tissue to blow her nose—illustrating flu symptoms. Recent research shows that Baloxavir cuts influenza transmission in households, offering a new strategy for preventing flu spread among close contacts.

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University of Hong Kong

Baloxavir marboxil proves effective in reducing household influenza spread, marking a breakthrough in antiviral treatments

Single-Dose Baloxavir Reduces Household Influenza Transmission

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Mapping Plant Functional Diversity from Space

Ecologists revolutionize ecosystem monitoring with novel field-satellite integration

Ultra-Strong Aerogels Developed with Materials Used in Bullet-Proof Vests

New type of aerogel was successfully created using a self-assembled nanofiber network involving Kevlar

Number of Ancient Martian Lakes Might Have Been Dramatically Underestimated

Researchers suggest that a least 70 percent of Martian lakes have yet to be discovered

Protein Enhances Grain Size

Plant Scientists Identify New Strategy to Enhance Rice Grain Yield

Since rice is so important to feeding a large portion of the world's population, the identification of genes that enhance grain yield and composition is much desired

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HKU Researchers Generate Tomatoes with Enhanced Antioxidant Properties by Genetic Engineering

The research group manipulated the plant isoprenoid pathway through the utilization of a variant of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A synthase

Researchers Generate Tomatoes with Enhanced Antioxidant Properties by Genetic Engineering

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Dr Tang Yinyao

One difficulty in nanorobot design is to make nanostructures sense and respond to the environment

Chemists Develop World's First Light-Seeking Synthetic Nanorobot

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Move Beyond Policies to Build a Lab Culture Where Safety is Second Nature

Turning Safety Principles Into Daily Practice

End-to-end workflow from liquid biopsy sample to data analysis

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The Agilent Avida Duo workflow enables the detection of DNA variants and methylation markers from the same sample input, with a fast turnaround time. 

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Initiate your analysis from FASTQ files from LBx or methylation samples

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End-to-end workflow from liquid biopsy sample to data analysis. 

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Agilent Technologies

Multiomic Insights from Liquid Biopsy with Agilent Avida and SeqOne Platform

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A team of female pharmacists in the production laboratory uses a high-resolution liquid chromatography device or HPLC SYSTEM to analyze and prepare a new product.

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PerkinElmer

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SCIEX

Maximizing the Performance and Lifespan of Analytical Equipment

Rusty Bishop, PhD, chief commercial officer at TubeWriter.

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Cryovials with orange caps in a green rack surrounded by vapor, illustrating cold-storage sample handling and durable labeling in modern laboratory workflows.

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