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Science TLDR — 94 episodes

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Episode 92: Engineered TYK2 dependence enables myeloid-selective IL-10 receptor agonism

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Episode 91: Reddit Trending — “It’s Like You’re Trying to Defuse a Bomb”: <i>Fear, Responsibility, and Shame in Young Men’s Sexual Lives</i>

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Episode 90: Validation and analysis of 12,000 AI-driven CAR-T designs in the Bits to Binders competition

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Episode 89: Reddit Trending — Not with a Bang but a Whimper: Congressional Silence Amid an Historic Assault on the Power of the Purse

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Episode 88: GPCR antagonism via rewiring of receptor trafficking and degradation

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Episode 87: Reddit Trending — Did Donald Trump Receive a Mandate for Sweeping Change in 2024?

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Episode 86: Specific targeting of MR1-antigen complexes using nanobodies

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Episode 85: Genome-scale perturb-seq in primary human CD4+ T cells maps context-specific regulators of T cell programs and human immune traits

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Episode 84: Reddit Trending — Predictors and prevalence of support for white nationalism in the United States

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Episode 83: Discovery and engineering of bispecific TCR-mimic antibodies targeting peptide–HLA complex

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Episode 82: Reddit Trending — Substantial under-detection of human rabies cases in the United States

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Episode 81: A blinded, prospective benchmark of in silico antibody discovery anchored to experimental affinity and developability

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Episode 80: Reddit Trending — Educational expansion and the hidden reversal of the Flynn effect—Differential trends across socioeconomic strata

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Episode 79: Reddit Trending — Probability of a timely vocal response in mother-infant interaction and later psychiatric diagnosis: A case-control study

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Episode 78: Covalently PD‐L1 Anchoring Drives Bispecific Nanostructure Assembly for Spatial Control of T Cell Recruitment and Activation

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Episode 77: Reddit Trending — People prefer to negotiate with women, even when outcomes are identical and gender is unknown

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Episode 76: Combination therapy with a novel CD2-targeted costimulatory bispecific antibody overcomes limitations of CD3 T cell engager treatment for solid tumors

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Episode 75: Reddit Trending — A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone

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Episode 74: Discovery of TCR-like antibodies to the KRAS G12D neoantigen via in silico-in vitro workflow

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Episode 73: Reddit Trending — Work from Home and Disability Employment

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Episode 72: From free speech advocates to critics: The Trump administration’s new rhetoric promotes support for censorship among Trump voters

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Episode 71: MAGE-A4/MAGE-A8-targeted TCR-based bispecific T cell engager in recurrent and/or refractory solid tumors: a phase 1 trial

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Episode 70: Language Modeling Materializes a World Model of Protein Biology

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Episode 69: Novel bispecific T-cell engagers overcoming acquired EGFR resistance

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Episode 68: The lived experience of rejection sensitivity in ADHD - A qualitative exploration

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Episode 67: Deep peptide recognition profiling decodes TCR specificity and enables disease-associated antigen discovery

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Episode 66: The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA

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Episode 65: Enable CAR T cell immunotherapy in glioblastoma by modifying its microenvironment via oncolytic adenovirus encoding bispecific T cell engager

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Episode 64: Climate-driven depopulation and adaptation realities in America’s coastal ground zero

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Episode 63: Engineering of acidic pH-responsive anti-CD3 binding antibodies

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Episode 62: Impact of high-power short-duration atrial fibrillation ablation technique on the incidence of silent cerebral embolism: a prospective randomized controlled study

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Episode 61: Improving mitochondria and ER stability helps eliminate upper motor neuron degeneration that occurs due to mSOD1 toxicity and TDP‐43 pathology

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Episode 60: A trophoblast glycoprotein specific 5 T4-Vδ2 bispecific T cell engager recruits Vγ9Vδ2-T cells for tumor-selective cytotoxicity across solid malignancies

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A trispecific antibody engaging T cells with tumour and myeloid cells augments antitumour immunity

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Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact

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Spatially organized inflammatory myeloid-CD8+ T cell aggregates linked to Merkel-cell Polyomavirus driven Reorganization of the Tumor Microenvironment

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SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade

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Guidelines for Early Food Introduction and Patterns of Food Allergy

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Improving dual targeting selectivity in T-cell engagers via synapse-gated and affinity-tuned trispecific antibody design

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A genetic common factor underlying self-reported math ability and highest math class taken

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Profiling Hinge Plasticity in Intact Monoclonal Antibodies for Antigen Recognition

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The impact of CD3 affinity-attenuation on T cell engaging bispecific antibodies: is it really that simple?

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Glycan shielding enables TCR-sufficient allogeneic CAR-T therapy

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Cancer-induced nerve injury promotes resistance to anti-PD-1 therapy

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AlphaEarth Foundations: An embedding field model for accurate and efficient global mapping from sparse label data

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Single-Chain Fab Chain-Exchange (scFab-PACE) converts targeted prodrugs into functional T cell engagers on tumor cells

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Bispecific antibody-antigen complex structures reveal activity enhancement by domain rearrangement

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Navigating protein landscapes with a machine-learned transferable coarse-grained model

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Sliding Window Interaction Grammar (SWING): a generalized interaction language model for peptide and protein interactions

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Predicting human decisions with behavioural theories and machine learning

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Tuning antibody stability and function by rational designs of framework mutations

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Lying increases trust in science

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Soil and cherry bacterial communities predict flavor on coffee farms

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What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

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3 Papers on Antibody Tumor Penetration and Clearance

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Why people follow rules

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Cross-tissue multicellular coordination and its rewiring in cancer

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Glioblastoma-instructed astrocytes suppress tumour-specific T cell immunity

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Deep-learning-based single-domain and multidomain protein structure prediction with D-I-TASSER

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Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease

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Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness

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Immune checkpoint TIM-3 regulates microglia and Alzheimer’s disease

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A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia

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The end of the genetic paradigm of cancer

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Embodied large language models enable robots to complete complex tasks in unpredictable environments

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Sequencing by Expansion (SBX) – a novel, high-throughput single-molecule sequencing technology

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CD33–CD123 IF-THEN Gating Reduces Toxicity while Enhancing the Specificity and Memory Phenotype of AML-Targeting CAR-T Cells

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AlphaFold prediction of structural ensembles of disordered proteins

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A second-generation M1-polarized CAR macrophage with antitumor efficacy

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Efficacy and Safety of Obinutuzumab in Active Lupus Nephritis

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Triple knockdown of CD11a, CD49d, and PSGL1 in T cells reduces CAR-T cell toxicity but preserves activity against solid tumors in mice

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Deep learning enhances the prediction of HLA class I-presented CD8+ T cell epitopes in foreign pathogens

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Second-generation anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies for Alzheimer’s disease: current landscape and future perspectives

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Scratching promotes allergic inflammation and host defense via neurogenic mast cell activation

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Prior vaccination prevents overactivation of innate immune responses during COVID-19breakthrough infection

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Accelerated enzyme engineering by machine-learning guided cell-free expression

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Discovery of a new class of cell‑penetrating peptides by novel phage display platform

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Learning the language of antibody hypervariability

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System vaccinology analysis of predictors and mechanisms of antibody response durability to multiple vaccines in humans

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Recombinant venom proteins in insect seminal fluid reduce female lifespan

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Autonomous mobile robots for exploratory synthetic chemistry

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A mechanism for hypoxia-induced inflammatory cell death in cancer

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Coordinated inheritance of extrachromosomal DNAs in cancer cells

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Decomposing causality into its synergistic, unique, and redundant components

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Probiotic neoantigen delivery vectors for precision cancer immunotherapy

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Engineered allogeneic T cells decoupling T-cell-receptor and CD3 signalling enhance the antitumour activity of bispecific antibodies

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The hallmarks of cancer immune evasion

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In vivo dendritic cell reprogramming for cancer immunotherapy

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Osr2 functions as a biomechanical checkpoint to aggravate CD8+ T cell exhaustion in tumor

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Circadian tumor infiltration and function of CD8+ T cells dictate immunotherapy efficacy

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ITPRIPL1 binds CD3ε to impede T cell activation and enable tumor immune evasion

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Neutrophil profiling illuminates anti-tumor antigen-presenting potency

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Immunoinformatics Approach to Design a Chimeric CD70-Peptide Vaccine against Renal Cell Carcinoma

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Sequence clustering confounds AlphaFold2