Day March 18, 2026

Credit: Polina Tankilevitch from Pexels Blood thinners are a common medication for much of the older adult population, prescribed to prevent blood clots that can cause adverse events like heart attack or stroke. They are often stopped prior to most…

MiRNAs identified in 5-year longevity–predictive models and their targets. Credit: Aging Cell (2026). DOI: 10.1111 Why do some people live longer than others? New research from the University of Minnesota and Duke University, recently published in Aging Cell, investigates how…

A certain blood protein regarded as an early indicator of Alzheimer’s disease also appears to play a role in other disorders. Researchers at DZNE and the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH) at the University of Tübingen have found…

ARIA is associated with expansion of peripheral CD8? TEMRA cells. Credit: Nature Communications (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-68921-3 A team of University of Kentucky researchers has uncovered a surprising clue in the battle against Alzheimer’s disease that could help doctors predict, and…

Credit: Karolina Grabowska from Pexels A research team from the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has developed an innovative AI-based cardiovascular risk prediction tool, called CardiOmicScore. With…

Credit: Artem Podrez from Pexels A new kind of blood test promises to find cancer early—sometimes even before symptoms appear. The pitch is compelling: a single sample of blood could scan the body for dozens of different cancers at once,…

A Biomimetic Platform to Enhance CAR T Cell Therapy Against Leukemia. Credit: Li Feng Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T) cell therapy represents a milestone in leukemia treatment. CAR T works by genetically engineering a chimeric antigen receptor on the…

Integrative multi-omics framework revealing environmental exposure signatures, microbial ecosystems, and molecular subtypes in gastric cancer. Adapted from Chang Y, Hong T, Lin K, et al., Gut (2026). Credit: National Taiwan University A study in Gut shows that gastric cancer is…

Credit: Cardiovascular Research (2026). DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvag034 A new study led by Federation University researchers has identified a specific biological signature within the human kidney that could hold the key to predicting and managing age-related organ failure. The research shows that…

Improving the gap between biological age and chronological age is associated with a lower risk of stroke and improvements in signs of damage in the brain, according to a preliminary study published in Stroke, that will be presented at the…

Credit: Eric Garcia from Pexels People with limited English are significantly more likely to understand the true aim of cancer treatment when given a bilingual consent form, with understanding rising from 35% to 60%, a new study finds. The study,…

Credit: European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (2025). DOI: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf270 Poor gut health could increase the risk of dying early or being hospitalized by almost 10% for people with heart failure, and in the first year after being admitted to hospital…

A mouse wound infection model demonstrated that wounds infected with E. faecalis had dampened immunity, allowing E. faecalis to persist and even enabling co-infecting bacteria like E. coli to thrive. The model allowed researchers to study how lactic?acid?driven immune suppression…

Bacillus subtilis, a rod bacteria. Credit: Paola Bardetti Blow up a long balloon and two things happen: it gets longer and it gets wider. Now imagine a living cell that inflates itself under enormous pressure and yet only grows longer,…