Day March 18, 2026

Vertebrate embryogenesis follows a pattern known as the developmental hourglass. During mid-embryogenesis, embryos from different species exhibit a high level of molecular and morphological similarity. Credit: Markéta Kaucká Scientists have long observed that embryos of different species within a phylum…

Experimental protocols to evaluate recovery from apoptosis in 661?W cells. Credit: Cell Death & Disease (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41419-026-08436-3 Photoreceptors are specialized cells in the eye that convert light energy into neural signals. Several diseases that cause irreversible vision loss, including…

Images from a high resolution microscope at the University of Michigan help reveal a never-before-observed ring structure that researchers have found helps cells mediate the “perfect” amount of cell death. The green parts of the ring show where it is…

Interim influenza vaccine effectiveness for the 2025 to 2026 season appears to be lower than in recent influenza seasons, but still provides protection for children and adolescents and for adults, according to research published in the March 12 issue of…

People with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, depression or bipolar disorder die on average 10 to 20 years earlier than the general population. The main causes of this are cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, which are triggered or exacerbated by a…

A global study has shown that carbon trading cuts fossil fuel use and boosts the use of renewable energy. Credit: Pexels Carbon trading limits the amount of carbon dioxide an organization can emit. To emit more, organizations must buy unused…

The SPCs support a long-term cell culture. Time-lapse microscopy images of single cell-derived A549 spheroid formation in SPC, over 30 days in culture. Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126 Researchers have developed a capsule-based method that makes it possible to analyze…

Carrie Cuttler, right, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at WSU, points to a screen displaying data about caloric intake and THC, while Ryan McLaughlin, an associate professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience in WSU’s…

Prof. Joseph (Yossi) Tam. Credit: Tom Barnea Researchers have discovered that non-psychoactive cannabis compounds, CBD and CBG, can significantly reduce liver fat and improve metabolic health. The study reveals that these compounds work by creating a backup energy reserve in…

Could vaccines be the key to treating cancer? Credit: Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for over 613,000 fatalities in 2023, per the Centers for Disease Control. But the field of…

Breast cancers (left) show higher nuclear levels of energy-producing enzymes than lung cancers (right), revealing tissue-specific nuclear metabolism. Credit: Alberto Coll Manzano/Centro de Regulación Genómica More than 200 metabolic enzymes, many of which are normally tasked with producing energy in…

Violin plots showing changes in RNA expression. Credit: Allis lab Cancers emerge from many different paths. One path begins early, in embryonic development, when a protein complex called PRC2, which regulates cell differentiation, identity, and plasticity, becomes dysfunctional. PRC2 has…

Scanning electron microscopy images of cultured macrophages. Macrophages with MafB (WT) look mature and well-shaped, while those without MafB (KO) appear round and less developed. Credit: ULiège-Philippe Compère A new study led by Pierre Close’s team (GIGA, Laboratory of Cancer…

Expansion microscopy enabled researchers to count the number of connections between neurons (green points on purple neuron). Neurons exposed to amyloid-beta formed more connections (SSBs = single synaptic boutons), which could be lessened with cancer drug eFT508. Credit: Kaiyu W…

Improved solubility through hydrophobic bonds and CRGDK targeting peptides. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University Recent advances in drug discovery research have led to the development of numerous drug candidate compounds with high therapeutic efficacy. However, many of these compounds possess properties…

The image shows inflammation-induced increases in markers for glial cells including microglia (red), astrocytes (green), as well as the nuclei of all cells (blue) in the mouse hippocampus. These inflammation-induced increases in inflammatory markers did not occur in mice lacking…

The image shows inflammation-induced increases in markers for glial cells including microglia (red), astrocytes (green), as well as the nuclei of all cells (blue) in the mouse hippocampus. These inflammation-induced increases in inflammatory markers did not occur in mice lacking…

by Steven David Pickering, Martin Ejnar Hansen, Yosuke Sunahara, The Conversation Credit: Elle Hughes from Pexels Organic food is often presented as a healthier, greener, or more ethical choice. But when people decide whether to pay extra for organic milk,…

Adult bull shark ‘Chunky’ (foreground) parallel swimming with subadult female ‘Lady Lazarus’ (background). Credit: Natasha D. Marosi Sharks are often viewed as solitary, but a new study—carried out on the Shark Reef Marine Reserve in Fiji—has found that rather than…

A Listeria monocytogenes drug delivery system faces numerous challenges including sufficient invasion by payload-bearing LM, the release of cytotoxic payload and delivery of drug at sufficient intracellular concentration for cytotoxicity in target cancer cells. Researchers developed two approaches of Listeria…

Osr1 is expressed in adipogenic progenitors and preadipocytes. Credit: Nature Communications (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-68147-9 A team of scientists has identified an unexpected embryonic “starting point” for several brown-fat depots: a small cell niche around the dorsal aorta. Using a combination…

New research from The Ohio State University College of Medicine is the first to objectively measure multisensory losses in COVID-19 patients. “Our goal is to understand why some long COVID patients experience different profiles of sensory losses while others do…

For decades, language barriers have hindered researchers’ ability to assess child-caregiver relationships in refugee populations—an important component in designing and implementing interventions that promote the healthy development of displaced children. But a recent study led by Yale’s Qusai Khraisha validates…

Germline–somatic interactions in breast cancer. Credit: Nature (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10197-0 Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have made an important discovery about how genetic mutations in breast cancer patients can interact and drive resistance to certain drugs called…

Compressive stress promotes mammary cancer growth and activates the Rho-ROCK mechanotransduction signaling pathway. Credit: Science Advances (2026). DOI: 10.1126 A new study led by researchers at Adelaide University and published in Science Advances reveals why some cancers can grow and…

a) At the individual level, lived experience emerges from the dynamic coupling between mind and body. b) In dyadic interactions, each person’s mind–body system is coupled with the other’s, giving rise to a shared interbeing space. Credit: Neuroscience of Consciousness…

Higher psychopathic traits correlated with reduced thickness of cortical areas among intimate partner violence convicts. Credit: MART PRODUCTION: www.pexels.com/photo/wounds-on-the-persons-knuckles-7699487/ A team of researchers from Spain was curious to know if people with high psychopathic traits have anomalies in the brain’s…

Experimental task and computational model of adaptive mentalization. Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-026-02219-x How quickly do we perceive whether a person we are interacting with is clever or predictable? Be it in a game, a conversation or a negotiation,…

Credit: Mass General Brigham Loss of communication can be among the most devastating symptoms for patients with paralysis. A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham Neuroscience Institute and Brown University describes an investigational implantable brain computer interface (iBCI)…

Fluorescent HiLyte647-labeled A?42 confirms the identity of cell-derived fibrillar deposits. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2026). DOI: 10.1073 A new study led by researchers from VIB and KU Leuven shows that immune cells called microglia can actively…

Yingying Wang, associate professor of special education and communication disorders, explains the process of identifying good cochlear implant candidates. Credit: University of Nebraska-Lincoln A cochlear implant is a complex electronic device that can improve hearing in individuals with severe to…

A section of a preserved human brain on display at the Museum of Neuroanatomy at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, N.Y., on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2003. Credit: AP Photo/David Duprey, File “Exercise your brain,” experts advise people hoping to…

Can smartphones or smartwatches help detect early signs of neurological or mental illness? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) monitored a group of participants wearing connected devices, and used artificial intelligence to analyze data such as heart rate, physical…

Josh McDermott (left), professor of brain and cognitive sciences and associate investigator at the McGovern Institute sits with graduate student Ian Griffith in the speaker array room where they conducted the study. Credit: Steph Stevens MIT neuroscientists have figured out…

Summary illustration. Left: In young animals, dominant inter-neuronal inhibition in the network makes animal movements more stable but more stereotypic. Right: In adults, with increased inhibition by astrocytes replacing neuronal one, the neural network in the brain allows more flexible…

Redundancy and information-limiting correlations among visual neurons increased during learning discrimination tasks. Credit: Science (2026). DOI: 10.1126 When you get better at a skill—recognizing a familiar face in a crowd, spotting a typo at a glance, or anticipating the next…

The new generation of Alzheimer’s disease drugs—the first proven to change the course of the disease—typically extend independent living for patients by 10 months. Called monoclonal antibodies, they reduce the accumulation of a harmful protein, amyloid, in the brain and…

Credit: Kampus Production from Pexels Age is more than just one number. While neuroscientists used to think of cognitive aging as a single trendline, they now realize that vast individual differences require a more predictive and personalized approach. As they…

Credit: Institute of Science Tokyo Boron agents termed GluBs, developed by Science Tokyo researchers, have overcome a key limitation in cancer therapy by entering tumor cells through a pathway that standard drugs cannot use. The GluBs target ASCT2, a transporter…

Heat generated by alternating magnetic fields (AMF) helps common antibiotics work better against prosthetic joint infections, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center found. The study, published in Scientific Reports, advances previous research at UT Southwestern that demonstrated the efficacy of…