2Cleveland Clinic Center for Therapeutics Discovery (C3TD), Cleveland Clinic Research, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
3College of Pharmacy, Korea University, Sejong, Korea.
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Blame the model, not the machine—better data helps 3D-printed metamaterials match predictions
Additive manufacturing, such as 3D printing, provides an excellent opportunity to design metamaterials: materials with an engineered structure that leads to desired properties such as, for instance, resistance to vibrations. However, a major challenge was that the predicted metamaterial response often failed to match real-world behavior.
Researchers at the University of Groningen have now shown that the unexpected behavior of 3D-printed metamaterial structures is not due to structural defects, as was commonly believed, but that the material simply needs to be properly characterized to obtain models with high predictive accuracy. The results were published in Materials Horizons on June 3, 2026.
Biomarker-matched drug combos shrink treatment-resistant melanoma in preclinical models
A new study led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has identified a way to tailor drug combinations based on specific tumor biology to improve outcomes for treatment-resistant advanced melanoma.
In preclinical models from patients with treatment-resistant tumors, combining standard BRAF and MEK inhibitors with a drug to block proteins in the BCL2 family—which drive tumor growth—induced tumor regression in a molecularly defined subset of resistant tumors, suggesting a path toward biomarker-guided therapy.
The study, published in Nature Communications, was led by Vashisht Gopal Yennu Nanda, Ph.D., associate professor of Melanoma Medical Oncology and Translational Molecular Pathology, in collaboration with senior author Michael A. Davies, M.D., Ph.D., chair of Melanoma Medical Oncology.
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It is because the phantom primal eye is centrally evoked by the cellular as generic APS identically with all the contents of special sense information that Leibniz’s “like can only interact with like” condition is satisfied by the non-physical primal eye “monad”—as opposed to Descartes’s cellular pineal gland.
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Tiny magnetic waves could unlock quantum computers the size of a penny
A team of physicists has overcome a major obstacle in quantum computing by dramatically increasing the lifetime of magnons, tiny magnetic waves that can carry quantum information. The researchers extended their lifespan from just a few hundred nanoseconds to as long as 18 microseconds, nearly 100 times longer than previously achieved. The advance could eventually help make ultra-compact quantum computers, potentially as small as a 1-cent coin.
The international research team, led by Andrii Chumak of the University of Vienna, also uncovered an important insight. They found that the lifespan of magnons is not ultimately limited by the laws of physics, but by the quality of the material they travel through. Their findings were published in Science Advances.
Strange Things Are Happening in Quantum Computing
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Quantum computing is supposed to be one of the most exciting new technologies that humanity is working on, with companies promising it can be used in chemistry, material science, logistics, and finance. Over the years, those use cases have been slowly eroded, but investment in quantum tech has only increased. Why? Let’s take a look.
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Why Scientists Started Age Reversal Trials in the Eye
If this therapy could rejuvenate the whole body, why did researchers begin with the eye?
The answer comes down to safety, precision, and a part of the body where results can be measured directly making it the ideal first step toward human age-reversal trials.
“Geometric Framework for Biological Evolution” by Vitaly Vanchurin
This is a ~1 hour 7 minute talk titled “Geometric Framework for Biological Evolution” by Vitaly Vanchurin (http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/~vitaly/) given to our Center (https://allencenter.tufts.edu).