Day April 25, 2026

Broken wrists are among the most common injuries in children, accounting for about half of children’s fractures. Severely displaced distal radial fractures, where the bones move out of place, are often routinely treated with surgery. However—unlike adults—children have a remarkable…

UZH researchers from the Limnological Station conducting microbial monitoring on Lake Zurich during a field campaign: Water samples are collected using specialized equipment for downstream ecological and molecular analyses. Credit: Gianna Dirren-Pitsch, UZH Researchers at the University of Zurich have…

(A) Schematic of FCCS principle to measure diffusion and protein-protein interaction strength of fluorescent tagged YAP1 and TEAD1 in the nucleus. (B) Representative image of EYFP-YAP1 and TEAD1-mScarlet-I expression in HEK293 LTV cells. A study using tiny retinas grown in…

Brain organoid. Credit: Marina Maletic Why does the same genetic mutation cause a severe brain malformation in some patients but not in others? Researchers from the MOSAIC team at the Paris Brain Institute have developed mosaic human cortical organoids carrying…

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have developed an improved method for creating insulin-producing cells from human stem cells. The results, published in Stem Cell Reports, demonstrate that these cells effectively regulate blood sugar…

The investigational KRAS G12D inhibitor zoldonrasib showed evidence of clinical activity and a favorable safety profile in patients with previously treated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors harbored a KRAS G12D mutation, according to an updated trial analysis presented…

Credit: AI-generated image Korean women with heart disease showed higher awareness and treatment of major risk factors, but lower control rates, pointing to the need for sex-specific strategies to close the gap, according to a study being presented at ACC…

From the Wright brothers’ first flight to the speedy development of COVID-19 vaccines, collaboration has been key to innovation. Paradoxically, even competitors can benefit from collaboration—when they hold different pieces of the same puzzle. But these companies must strike a…

The average age of a young fatal stab victim is now 14, indicates an analysis of the causes of death among children and teens in England between 2019 and 2024, published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. Those of Black ethnicity…

An innovative type of CAR T cell therapy, called KIR-CAR, was shown to be safe, with increasing efficacy corresponding to higher doses of the investigational treatment in nine patients with advanced ovarian cancer, mesothelioma or cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer), according…

Credit: Quentin Martinez from Pexels How do some wealthy families remain in the upper class for many generations, while other rich families do not? That is the question author Shay O’Brien (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) tackles in the sociological study…

Assembly line task setup. Credit: 2026 LASA EPFL CC BY SA In today’s manufacturing environments, upgrading a robot fleet often means starting from scratch—not only replacing hardware, but also reprogramming tasks. Even when two robots are built to perform similar…

The cover illustration depicts zinc finger protein 281 (ZNF281) interfering molecule (ZIM), center, a first-in-class inhibitor that can selectively disrupt the binding of the transcription factor ZNF281 (structure on right) to DNA (double-helix molecule, left). Credit: Science Translational Medicine (2026)…

While some say having lots of kids can make you lose your faculties, a new study suggests otherwise. Research co-led by UT Health San Antonio, the academic health center of The University of Texas at San Antonio, associates a greater…

by Angelika Leute, Kompetenznetz Vorhofflimmern e.V. (AFNET) A prespecified analysis of the NOAH-AFNET 6 trial investigated the impact of kidney function on cardiovascular outcome in patients with device-detected atrial fibrillation. Today, the findings were presented by AFNET board member Prof.…

Orthotopic xenografts of 4T1 and MDA-MB-231 cells with PKC?KO resulted in reduced metastasis. Credit: Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41392-026-02572-0 Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have identified a protein that plays a central role in enabling…

Characterization of immortalized cardiac fibroblasts from Wt1GFP/+;Wt1Cre;ROSA26-tdRFP mouse model. Credit: Disease Models & Mechanisms (2026). DOI: 10.1242 Fibroblasts are an essential component of the heart, as they play key roles in its structure, development and response to cardiac damage. In…

Microscopy image of the mouse hippocampi showing, in green, neuronal connections that act as a “bridge” between both hemispheres. These projections originate from neurons in the right CA1 region and reach equivalent areas on the opposite side, including the left…

Credit: Zulfugar Karimov from Pexels On March 25, a California trial awarded $6 million to a plaintiff who argued that the addictive qualities of social media had caused her harm. Google and Meta, which were the companies that were found…

Dr Esther Kang. Credit: University of Bristol New research published in Computers in Human Behavior has revealed people trying to resist their food cravings use social media content featuring indulgent treats as a substitute for eating the real thing. The…

Select bags of Lundberg jasmine rice are being pulled from store shelves. Lundberg Family Farms is voluntarily recalling certain bags of the company’s organic white jasmine rice sold nationwide. The Richvale, California-based company told Health that the rice, sold at…

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have inspected two nearby galactic globular clusters, namely NGC 6517 and NGC 7078. The study resulted in the discovery of six new millisecond pulsars in these clusters, which are isolated…

Tormentil grows wild across the U.K., Ireland and Europe. Long before we had modern antibiotics to rely on, people often turned to traditional medicines from plants to treat infections. The root of tormentil (Potentilla erecta), a small yellow wildflower that…

Design and experimental validation of dual-zero-scattering thermal metadevices. (A–B) Schematic comparison showing the elimination of internal distortion. (C) Deep-learning architecture for generating required anisotropic microstructures. (D–E) Experimental results demonstrating perfectly straight isotherms, confirming simultaneous scattering suppression inside and out. Credit:…

Warren Buffett advised that you should never invest in a business you can’t understand. But that hasn’t stopped many investors. New research from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin might help them better understand…

A national study led by investigators from Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University found that transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement, or TTVR, delivered strong early results in real-world practice. Patients treated with TTVR experienced near elimination of tricuspid regurgitation, low rates of stroke,…

Differences in how often older people use the internet are less driven by a person’s age and more by cognitive ability and socioeconomic factors such as education and employment status, a new study reveals. Led by computing academics at Lancaster…

Credit: Anna Shvets from Pexels Mechanical thrombectomy is a life-saving procedure used to remove blood clots from the brain. The complex procedure is needed within hours to achieve the best outcomes, but as it requires specialist expertise, access remains limited.…

Non-affirming religious doctrine may engender internalized homophobia or transphobia among LGBTQIA+ people of faith, undermining the positive mental health outcomes otherwise associated with religiosity and spirituality, a McGill study has found. “There was a lot of diversity in what we…

Alp Tural (at left) and Elif Tural, interior design faculty in the School of Design, prepare students to create spaces rooted in empathy. Their teaching emphasizes designing with people through collaboration, accessibility, and a focus on human well-being. Credit: Evan…

A study from University Hospitals Connor Whole Health has found that pediatric patients with long-term COVID report a high symptom burden that meets or exceeds that of other chronic health conditions. The study describes patient characteristics, care delivery, and provides…

NTU Singapore is working with China’s Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and Swedish biotechnology company Lipigon Pharmaceuticals AB to develop a new inhaled treatment aimed at helping patients recover faster from severe lung infections. The treatment is designed…

Moderate-to-severe disability affects nearly one-third of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a review published online in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Olga Maria Nardone, Ph.D., from University of Naples Federico II in Italy, and colleagues conducted a systematic literature…

Forecasts of the impact of artificial intelligence range from the apocalyptic to the utopian. An October 2025 report from Senate Democrats, for example, predicted AI will destroy millions of U.S. jobs. A couple of years earlier, consultant company McKinsey forecast…

A guaranteed income program for artists led to improvement in financial stability and reduced debt, but also improved their motivation and artistic output, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. “Our main finding…

Credit: Gary Barnes from Pexels A randomized controlled trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of proximal hypoglossal nerve stimulation, or pHGNS, (an implanted stimulation therapy targeting specific sectors of nerves in the tongue) for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) found that…

Credit: Ceinturion, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons A first national-scale study on the lifetime impact of New Zealand’s electricity, transport, and heat sources shows road transport is a “prime target” for electrification. Scientists looked at how 15 energy sources…

Credit: Yan Krukau from Pexels A new study, published in JAMA Network Open, reveals that school-age children and adolescents with medically diagnosed traumatic brain injury (TBI) have significantly higher rates of anxiety/depression, and strong family support and resilience helps alleviate…

An innovative gene-editing strategy could establish a new way for the body to manufacture therapeutic proteins—including certain kinds of highly potent antibodies that are naturally difficult to produce—by reprogramming the immune system itself. The study, published in Science, shows that…

The immune system’s B cells create antibodies that can mount a response against just about anything—either destroying a pathogen or instructing the rest of the immune system to go after the offender. But what happens when these antibodies malfunction? New…