Pair of malaria parasite proteins could lead to targeted therapies A University of California, Riverside-led team has made an advance in the basic understanding of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for the deadliest form of human malaria, that could make novel, highly targeted anti-malarial therapies possible.
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-....pair-malaria-parasit

Jewelflowers seek friendly environments rather than adapt, study finds As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in places that felt like home, according to a new study from the University of California, Davis. The work, published July 1 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that the ability of plants and animals to adapt to changing climates might be more limited than it appears.
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-....jewelflowers-friendl

Quantum protocol achieves Heisenberg-limited measurement precision with robust spin states Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have achieved exciting progress in quantum metrology, a field that harnesses quantum effects to make measurements with unprecedented accuracy. Their newly developed protocol could potentially benefit emerging technologies such as navigation and sensing of extremely weak signals.
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-....quantum-protocol-hei

Modified inhibitors show promise against coronaviruses by targeting essential Mac1 protein domain A study published in mBio details the vulnerability of coronaviruses to inhibitors of a small protein domain called Mac1, or the "macrodomain," found in all coronaviruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV.
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-....inhibitors-coronavir

Manipulation of light at the nanoscale helps advance biosensing Traditional medical tests often require clinical samples to be sent off-site for analysis in a time-intensive and expensive process. Point-of-care diagnostics are instead low-cost, easy-to-use, and rapid tests performed at the site of patient care. Recently, researchers at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology reported new and optimized techniques to develop better biosensors for the early detection of disease biomarkers.
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-....nanoscale-advance-bi