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A stylized mosaic of colored "lipizone" territories across a two-hemisphere brain outline, with the study's headline numbers — 172 lipids, 539 zones, 25µm resolution.
🔭 Science Study

A 3D Lipid Atlas of the Mouse Brain Finds 539 Chemical Zones That Shift Sharply During Pregnancy

A team led by EPFL researchers has published the first whole-brain map of membrane lipids in the adult mouse, in Nature on September 23, 20…

EduFabTech · 6d ago · 5 min read
A stylized cell map inside a brain-shaped scan boundary connects six colored cell-class clusters to four of the disorders studied — Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder — beside the headline figures: 6.3M cells, 1,500 donors, 9 papers.
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Nine-Paper PsychAD Collection Maps 6.3 Million Brain Cells Across Seven Disorders

The PsychAD Consortium profiled more than 6.3 million single-nucleus transcriptomes from nearly 1,500 donors, publishing nine coordinated p…

EduFabTech · 29 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A ranked bar list shows China's research Share jumping 22.4% year over year, far outpacing Japan, South Korea, the US, Germany and the UK.
🔭 Science Report

Nature Index 2026 Finds China's Research Output Up 22% in a Year as Japan and South Korea Also Outpace the West

Springer Nature's 2026 Research Leaders tables show China's weighted research Share up 22.4% year over year, the only top-ten country with …

EduFabTech · 27 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A rising thermometer marks Incendiamoeba cascadensis's 63°C growth record and 70°C survival limit against prior thermal ceilings.
🔭 Science Study

A Hot-Spring Amoeba Pushes the Known Heat Limit for Complex Cells to 63°C

A Cell study published September 22, 2026, describes Incendiamoeba cascadensis, an amoeba from a Lassen Volcanic National Park hot spring t…

EduFabTech · 23 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A single glowing ring stamped with quantum-lattice-gate modules represents one Floquet drive cycle replacing the ghostly stack of thousands of cycles the old method needed.
🔭 Science Study

A Single-Cycle Gate Method Could Cut Quantum Error-Correction Time by Over 1,000x

A Physical Review Letters paper from Chalmers University of Technology and Tianjin University describes a Floquet control method that synth…

EduFabTech · 17 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A Two-Residue Swap in an Ancient Enzyme Motif Lets Biocatalysts Run on a Cofactor Cells Don't Already Use
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A Two-Residue Swap in an Ancient Enzyme Motif Lets Biocatalysts Run on a Cofactor Cells Don't Already Use

A UC Irvine-led team rewired a 2-billion-year-old enzyme motif so engineered biocatalysts run on a cofactor cells don't otherwise use, repo…

EduFabTech · 14 Sep 2026 · 5 min read