Day March 29, 2026

From 2016 to 2024, there was an increase in labor induction rates across all maternal age groups and across all six race and Hispanic origin groups, according to a March data brief published by the National Center for Health Statistics.…

Upon inflammation, mouse epidermal stem cells (green) proliferate and upregulate H2A.Z(red), a histone variant essential for the long-term propagation of inflammatory memory. Credit: Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University One of the…

Despite an urgent demand for kidney donors in the U.S., about 1 in 4 donor kidneys goes unused. In 2022, more than 71,000 people were on the kidney transplant waiting list, with waitlists often extending as long as five years…

In a zebrafish’s regenerating kidney, newly-discovered finger-like protrusions (in green) hook the new filtration unit, the nephron, into an existing tubule – opening a functional new connection to the kidney’s plumbing. Credit: Caramai Kamei, Ph.D., Iain Drummond, Ph.D., Kathryn W.…

Schematic illustration of SHP (NR0B2)-mediated protection against osteoarthritis. Credit: Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) Osteoarthritis, a condition that causes pain and reduced mobility in joints such as the knees and fingers, is one of the most common…

Two young people are dead and 20 are receiving treatment after a meningitis outbreak at the University of Kent. The students caught up in it belong to a generation that has never been routinely vaccinated against the strain responsible. That…

(L to R) Postdoctoral associate Frederikke Larsen works alongside Dr. Samuel Asfaha in the lab at London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute. Credit: LHSCRI For decades, large portions of the human genome were labeled “junk DNA.” New research from Western…

Credit: Laila Milevski/Cornell University A history of job changes could be a red flag on a résumé, or it could signal a job candidate with an important “mobility benefit” that will help them begin a new job, says new research…

Although heart rate and blood pressure readings from breath-holding tests are usually reliably accurate, another vital measurement could be missing a beat, a University of Alberta study shows. Looking at whether a person’s heart and blood vessels react the same…

Twelve-year-old Jaysen Carr died in July 2025. While he swam in Lake Murray, a reservoir a few miles from Columbia, South Carolina, Naegleria fowleri—a rare amoeba found in warm fresh water—entered through his nose, causing a rapidly fatal brain infection.…

Symptom trajectories. Credit: eClinicalMedicine (2026). DOI: 10.1016 A single conversation can make the difference: brief, structured interventions after a person has attempted suicide significantly reduce the risk of a renewed attempt, according to an international meta-analysis led by the University…

Credit: www.kaboompics.com from Pexels Mass General Brigham researchers found that the intensive cholesterol-lowering therapy evolocumab reduced the risk of a first major cardiovascular event in high-risk patients who did not have known atherosclerosis (the build-up of plaque inside artery walls)…

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center have discovered a biological pathway that helps explain why some bladder cancers do not respond well to immunotherapy. Their findings, published in Cancer…

Illustration of bacteria in the human gut. Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health Chronic inflammation can raise a person’s risk of cancer, and a new study reveals key details about how that might happen…

Inflammation markers may signal depression in women with type 2 diabetes, but vary based on depression symptoms and measures, according to a new study led by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. The findings, published in Frontiers in…

Inflammation markers may signal depression in women with type 2 diabetes, but vary based on depression symptoms and measures, according to a new study led by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. The findings, published in Frontiers in…

As depicted in the image, a newly found regulatory region in the genome leads to increased IL-1? production, leading to a self-sustaining loop. This excess IL-1? also drives the activation of osteoclasts, which ultimately causes bone damage. Credit: Professor Tomokatsu…

Despite a host of checks and balances that usually prevent harmful genetic mutations, sometimes mistakes happen, with serious consequences. Now, researchers from Japan elucidate how a common mutation underlying a common childhood cancer also makes it highly treatable. In their…

In recent decades, income and wealth disparities have widened significantly in many European countries. At the same time, support for populist parties has grown. Previous studies have already pointed out that rising inequality may be contributing to the growth of…

Central Illustration. Credit: JACC: Advances (2026). DOI: 10.1016 Higher left atrial end-systolic dimension (LASD), an increased measurement of the left upper chamber of the heart, and left ventricular mass (LVM), a clinical measurement of the weight of the heart’s left…

a, Left: schematic illustrating microendoscopic calcium imaging. Right: example image showing GCaMP6f expression and GRIN lens implantation in the dmPFC. Scale bar, 500?µm. b, Schematic of calcium imaging from one animal and representative imaging field of view during thermal challenge…

A biomimetic microparticle designed to recruit and reactivate CAR-iNKT cells, helping sustain cancer-fighting activity. Credit: Haochen Nan and Song Li / UCLA Immunotherapy has transformed cancer treatment by harnessing the body’s own immune system to fight disease. But many engineered…

MIT researchers are developing an implantable device that contains insulin-producing cells. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Most diabetes patients must carefully monitor their blood sugar levels and inject insulin multiple times per day, to help keep their blood sugar from…

Credit: Cell Biomaterials (2026). DOI: 10.1016 An international research team led by the Levenberg Laboratory in the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has succeeded in developing a first-of-its-kind, three-dimensional implant that combines muscle and fat…

Credit: Pixabay from Pexels A multi-institutional research team in Japan evaluated the impact of the Revised Health Promotion Law and related local ordinances on indoor smoking policies in restaurants and bars. Their analysis identified a modest but significant increase in…

The loss of SRC-3 in Treg leads to immune suppression of glioblastoma in mice: (A) Experimental design for the orthotopic injection of glioblastoma cells (luciferase-labeled CT-2A) into the mouse brain, followed by tamoxifen treatment to induce SRC-3 KO Tregs. (B)…

Colon cancer is the third most prevalent form of cancer in the U.S., and its incidence is increasing among younger adults, particularly those younger than 50. While colon cancer screening has helped prevent and detect it before spreading, major advancements…

Consider two seemingly unrelated medical puzzles. First: Every day, our bodies produce hundreds of billions of new cells, many of which are mutated. If cancer arises from cellular mutation, why don’t we all have the disease all the time? Second:…

Activity of MNK1/2 kinases (red, phospho-eIF4E) in CGRP-positive (green) dorsal root ganglion sensory neurons in arthritis. Credit: The animal and tissue was prepared by Jie Su, the staining and microscopy by Ming-Dong Zhang. Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic autoimmune disease…

A novel macrophage subset Mrep for muscle regeneration and heterotopic ossification in FOP. Mrep accumulates in damaged muscle tissue and promotes muscle regeneration by acting on muscle satellite cells through activin A. While Mrep performs beneficial functions in normal muscle…

T cells (red and blue) infiltrate cancer cells (solid blue). Engineering immune cells to track metabolites made by cancer cells improved immune infiltration, controlling or eradicating human breast tumors in mice. Credit: Livnat Jerby A technique that transforms immune cells…

A biological diagram illustrating how chronic kidney disease turbocharges E. coli in the gut to produce indole, which is converted to indoxyl sulfate (a kidney toxin) in the liver, further worsening kidney disease. Credit: UC Regents Researchers at UC Davis…

Lipid localization at early endosomes: The 3D membrane outlines of an early endosome are overlaid with the Sphingomyelin signal (orange). Credit: H. Mathilda Lennartz / MPI-CBG Biological membranes of cells and their subunits (organelles) are organized into tiny regions (nanodomains)…

Credit: Sora Shimazaki from Pexels If you’ve ever tried a diet to fix gut symptoms, you’ll know it can be hit or miss. One person swears it changed their life. Another follows it carefully and feels no better. This is…

During pregnancy, women can reduce their risk of developing a hypertensive disorder by nearly 30% by limiting sedentary time to no more than eight hours a day and increasing light, everyday physical activity to at least seven hours a day,…

The timeline of proposed local drug delivery method. Credit: PLOS One (2025). DOI: 10.1371 Nearly one in 10 people who are implanted with a surgical fix to their spine will develop a serious bacterial infection, despite prophylactic antibiotic treatment. In…

A section of the brain of a mouse treated with dasatinib and quercetin. The bluish area is the corpus callosum. The dotted outline shows the part of the corpus callosum that is affected by the dasatinib and quercetin. Credit: Crocker…

Spores of the anthrax bacteria (Bacillus anthracis). Credit: CDC The bacteria that cause deadly anthrax disease persist in the earth, a place their ancestors preferred over petri dishes and blood-filled tissues. The bacteria that cause anthrax are called Bacillus anthracis.…

Bone fragment from which 110,000-year-old Neanderthal DNA was extracted. Credit: Diyendo Massilani. Neanderthals split into distinct regional groups that developed genetic differences far sooner than modern human populations typically did, according to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy…

Is it any wonder ancient people thought lightning came from the gods? Even today, a close lightning strike feels like a terrifying brush with the supernatural. Some ancient thinkers, however, suspected the gods had nothing to do with it. They…