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What Happens When Light Gains Extra Dimensions

Shaped quantum light is turning ordinary photons into powerful tools for the future of technology.

A global group of scientists, including researchers from the UAB, has published a new review in Nature Photonics exploring a rapidly developing area of research called quantum structured light. This field is changing how information can be sent, measured, and processed by combining quantum physics with carefully designed patterns of light in space and time. By doing so, researchers can create photons capable of carrying far more information than traditional light.

From qubits to higher dimensional quantum states.

Sweet Deception: How Mycobacteria Exploit Immune Receptors to Survive

A new study reveals that Mycobacterium tuberculosis can dodge the host’s immune defenses by targeting an innate pattern recognition receptor on macrophages.

This interaction helps promote the mycobacteria’s ability to survive within the host cells.

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A sugar on mycobacteria binds to the immune receptor dectin-1 on host macrophages, helping the bacteria survive and driving susceptibility to infection.

Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads in Southern Africa at 60,000 years ago

Hunter-gatherers in southern Africa laced their stone arrow tips with poison roughly 60,000 years ago, a new Science Advances study finds.

The discovery pushes back the timeline for poison weapon use from the mid-Holocene to the Late Pleistocene.

Earliest proof of plant poisons on arrows reveals complex Pleistocene hunting in southern Africa.

Loss of Lipin1 Contributes to Multiple Pathological Processes in the Development of Heart Failure

Loss of lipin1 disrupts heart muscle membrane integrity, driving inflammation, fibrosis, and contributing to heart failure.

BackgroundLipin1 has dual functions acting as phosphatidic acid phosphatase required for lipid synthesis and as a transcriptional coactivator. Our previous research demonstrated that lipin1 is critical for maintaining sarcolemmal integrity in skeletal muscle. Given the importance of sarcolemmal stability for cardiac muscle viability and function, we investigated the role of lipin1 in the heart using a novel cardiac‐specific lipin1 deficient (Myh6‐lipin 1−/−) mouse model.

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