Day January 3, 2026

Model of alcohol metabolism leading to acetaldehyde interstrand crosslink (AA-ICL). Credit: Communications Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-08769-3 Alcohol consumption leads to the formation of a toxic compound called acetaldehyde, which damages DNA. A research team from IOCB Prague has now described…

Over a roughly three-year period beginning in March 2020, 1,564 Alaskans died from COVID-19. That’s according to a new report from the Alaska Department of Health, which provides a detailed review of data on how the state fared dealing with…

Potential Research Lines in the Role of GenAI in Key Tourism Marketing Areas and Adjacent Business Areas. Credit: Journal of Smart Tourism (2025). DOI: 10.1177/27652157251371101 Feeling run down and needing a place to recharge, but not sure where to go?…

Doctors may soon be able to diagnose an elusive form of heart disease within seconds by using an AI model developed at University of Michigan, according to a recent study. Researchers trained the model to detect coronary microvascular dysfunction, a…

The era of AI-assisted online violence is no longer looming. It has arrived. And it is reshaping the threat landscape for women who work in the public sphere around the world. Our newly published report commissioned by UN Women offers…

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a novel artificial intelligence tool that not only identifies disease-causing genetic mutations but also predicts the type of disease those mutations may trigger. The method, called V2P (Variant…

ImmunoMatch for predicting cognate antibody chain pairing. Credit: Nature Methods (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41592-025-02913-x A new artificial intelligence model could help design antibodies that better protect the body against viruses and disease. The AI model, known as ImmunoMatch, can predict and…

AI creations have triggered a debate about who controls a person’s identity and legacy after death. In a parallel reality, Queen Elizabeth II gushes over cheese puffs, a gun-toting Saddam Hussein struts into a wrestling ring, and Pope John Paul…

From digital scribes to ChatGPT, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly entering GP clinics. New University of Sydney research warns that technology is racing ahead of safety checks, putting patients and health systems at risk. The study, published in The Lancet…

Continuous gait monitoring for frailty detection. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-67728-y University of Arizona researchers in the Gutruf Lab have developed a comfortable, easy-to-use wearable device that incorporates artificial intelligence to detect subtle warning signs of frailty, signifying a…

Overview of Modeling Approach. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-66200-1 A new study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) could help predict which critically ill patients on ventilators are at…

Overall schematic on the development of intranasal nanoliposomes delivering IFN-? (NLp@IFN-?) for antiviral therapy. Credit: Biomaterials Research (2025). DOI: 10.34133 Respiratory viruses that have diverse strains and mutate rapidly, such as influenza and COVID-19, are difficult to block perfectly with…

During each inference step (left) the incoming key–value pair (kt, vt) might be selected for later eviction, based on predicted binary decisions ?bin ? {0, 1} (we show only a sequence of keys for clarity). The eviction takes place as…

End-to-end diagram of the proposed methodological framework, illustrating the generation of syllogistic arguments from domain-specific ontologies, parameterized input to LLMs, and evaluation tasks including textual inference and premise selection. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550 Manchester researchers have developed a systematic…

Variability between individual radiologists’ measurements. Credit: Communications Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s43856-025-01264-0 Researchers have developed an AI-based tool that accelerates the detection of kidney cancer. Its effectiveness was validated in a study published in Communications Medicine. Diagnosing kidney cancer relies on…

Credit: AI-generated image AI-generated images of doctors have the potential to exaggerate and reinforce existing stereotypes relating to sex, gender, race, and ethnicity, suggests a small analysis in the Christmas issue of The BMJ. Sati Heer-Stavert, GP and associate clinical…

When a doctor can’t find an interpreter, many now reach for Google Translate. It seems like a practical fix to a pressing problem. But a new study warns this quick solution may be putting refugee and migrant patients at serious…

As rates of obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea increase, cases of advanced chronic liver disease and resulting liver scarring or cirrhosis also are rising. Patients are often diagnosed based on symptoms, such as gastrointestinal bleeding,…

Artificial intelligence may be able to reveal how fast your body is aging by analyzing a chest X-ray, according to a new study published in The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. Researchers found that a…

Generative AI–based process reasoning technology. Credit: The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Most of the plastic products we use are made through injection molding, a process in which molten plastic is injected into a mold to mass-produce…

Access to autism evaluations through specialty health care is notorious for long wait times across the United States. In Missouri, many families wait nearly a year for a diagnostic appointment. AI might be a solution to cutting the wait, according…

Example stimuli, model flowcharts, and decision accuracies of models and human observers. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073 Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes—think driving, or reading a room for the…

Credit: Matheus Bertelli from Pexels New Edith Cowan University (ECU) research suggests artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT may help reduce mental health stigma, particularly for people hesitant to seek traditional face-to-face support. The study, published in Behavioral Sciences, was led…

Credit: AI-generated image By the end of the year, the carbon footprint of global AI systems for the whole of 2025 could equal that of New York City. At the same time, AI’s thirst for water could rival that of…

An EnCompass program specifies an agent workflow, which is compiled into a search space object, and inference-time scaling is accomplished through search over the nondeterministic execution paths of the agent workflow. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550 Whether you’re a scientist…

C. elegans roundworms engineered with fluorescent proteins to visualize neurons. Credit: Noma lab, Nagoya University When roundworms stop reproducing, they can still move and function normally but lose their ability to detect certain food odors that once led them to…

Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) and tinnitus are associated with worse physical, psychological, and social health, according to a study published online in Frontiers in Public Health. Lu Zhang and Yong Liao, M.D., from The Central Hospital of Enshi Tujia and…

A study published in Neurology looks at how age may affect recovery for people with spinal cord injuries. “With population growth and improvements in medicine, the number of people diagnosed with spinal cord injury is increasing and the average age…

Nearly half of U.S. adults say starting a new diet is one of their New Year’s resolutions, according to a new Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine/Morning Consult survey. More than 80% of respondents said the cost of groceries is important…

In clinical practice guidelines issued by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association and published online Dec. 18 in both the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Circulation, recommendations are presented for the management of adults…

Adherence to cervical cancer screening guidelines is low, with more than 60% undergoing overscreening, according to a research letter published online Dec. 10 in JAMA Network Open. Michelle B. Shin, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.N., from the University of Washington in Seattle,…

Many girls with ADHD aren’t diagnosed until their late teens or adulthood. My recent research points to a possible explanation for this. The study, published with my colleague Sorcha Walsh, found that while many of the women we interviewed may…

Elisa Arch (right), associate professor of kinesiology and applied physiology, and biomechanics and movement science doctoral student Zahra McKee outfit Iris Sanchez, a senior mechanical engineering major, with an ankle-foot-orthosis (AFO) equipped with sensors to monitor tendon load as part…

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association, along with several other leading medical associations, have issued a new guideline for managing congenital heart disease in adults. The guideline is published in JACC. Congenital heart disease—being born…

A vial of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is on display at the Lubbock Health Department, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas. Credit: AP Photo/Mary Conlon, File When a measles outbreak hit West Texas this year, school absences surged…

Research involving Pompeu Fabra University has concluded that abortions in Spain fell by around 24% during the two months of strict lockdown due to COVID-19 in the spring of 2020. The study, conducted by the researchers Libertad González (UPF Department…

Biological tissue can be formed using 3D printers. Credit: Vienna University of Technology At TU Wien, researchers are developing three-dimensional (3D) printing techniques that can be used to create living biological tissue—for example, to study skin diseases. Roughly one-quarter of…