Ireland Science News API

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            "description": "Studying the star, called SDSS J0715-7334, could give astronomers insights into how the universe's first stars were formed",
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            "description": "In complex diseases, many different genetic changes can push cells into the same harmful state, as is the case with melanoma drug resistance. A new platform, PerturbFate, reveals how diverse genetic perturbations funnel into shared disease states, unlocking targets for new therapies. Next, the team plans to move this approach from cultured cells into living models to study aging and Alzheimer's.",
            "content": "Such technology would need to compare many different genetic disruptions at once and track, in detail, how each one changes a cell. Existing approaches could capture only part of that picture, often measuring a single molecular layer at a time or mis... [3733 chars]",
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            "title": "Dark matter could explain earliest supermassive black holes",
            "description": "Dark matter decays could be the missing ingredient explaining how giant black holes formed before the first stars",
            "content": "A growing mystery in astronomy is the presence of gargantuan black holes — some weighing as much as a billion suns — existing less than a billion years after the Big Bang. According to the standard theory of black hole formation, these black holes si... [3205 chars]",
            "url": "https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/04/15/dark-matter-could-explain-earliest-supermassive-black-holes",
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