Month June 2026

The Tat complex looks like a wide-open bowl with a very thin base. This Cryo?EM reconstruction shows the Tat complex in different orientations, with individual components shown in different colors. The background displays a raw cryo?EM image used to calculate…

High magnification micrograph of Crohn’s disease. Biopsy of esophagus. H&E stain. Credit: Nephron/Wikipedia A detailed cellular study of Crohn’s disease has mapped how gene activity changes across more than 50 cell types in the gut. The study provides an open…

Credit: Image generated by the editorial team using AI for illustrative purposes. In 2020, Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for her work on the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology that allows scientists to precisely modify DNA by cutting it…

An artistic rendering of a human dendritic cell. Credit: Don Bliss & Sriram Subramaniam, National Cancer Institute Creatine, the organic acid that is popularly taken as a supplement by athletes and bodybuilders, supercharges a critical class of immune cells that…

Credit: Mike Jones from Pexels We’ve all made that mistake. A quick trip to the supermarket on an empty stomach ends with a trolley full of fatty, sugary treats that seemed impossible to resist at the time. It speaks to…

Credit: Clara Bastian New research at Edith Cowan University has shed new light on the growing debate between cow’s milk and plant-based alternatives. Results of the study, published in the journal Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, suggest that…

New research, published by the Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), shows that co-workers can have powerful—but opposing—effects on the careers of young workers. While some colleagues foster learning and long-term success, others may hinder career progression through direct competition. The study…

A sign for flu & COVID-19 vaccines is displayed outside a CVS store in Buffalo Grove, Ill., Sept. 23, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, file A study on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness has finally been published after being blocked from…

Credit: Sergei Starostin from Pexels “From burden to solutions—safe food everywhere.” This is the message of World Food Safety Day 2026, where the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are focusing…

Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus mixed biofilm. Credit: Christian Hacker, Orlando Ross and Seána Duggan, University of Exeter Scientists have discovered that two common human pathogens can work together by managing copper in their shared environment—a finding that could open…

Monash University researchers have found in laboratory experiments that a drug that delivers copper to the brain significantly reduces toxic Alzheimer’s proteins and improves long-term spatial memory. The study, published in the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience, shows the compound Cu(ATSM)…

Credit: Cell (2026). DOI: 10.1016 A preclinical study by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, published in Cell, details a connection between the immune system and cuproptosis, a type of copper-induced cell death. The findings suggest…

Credit: www.kaboompics.com from Pexels For the first time, patients have received a new injection for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), thanks to research by King’s College London. Today, patients at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust became the first…

The results of this study point to mutations in the COPA gene as an important driver of cancer progression in small intestinal adenomas. Credit: Professor Shigeki Sekine and Professor Toshiro Sato, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan A signaling system…

Credit: Rushay Booysen from Pexels For years, flavor additives in e-cigarettes have been largely viewed as a secondary concern compared with nicotine. Research and regulation have focused on addiction, nicotine delivery and, more recently, the respiratory effects of vaping. But…

Credit: American Heart Association Synthetic cooling ingredients added to e-cigarettes caused abnormal heartbeats (arrhythmias) and increased cardiovascular risk measures in mice and lab-grown human heart cells, according to new independent research published today in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. This study…

Co-authors Owen Griffith, standing, and Maddie McLaughlin demonstrate the head cooling cap used in the study. Credit: Jaydyn Isiminger / Penn State, Creative Commons Wearing a cooling cap for 30 minutes may improve a person’s sense of well-being, according to…

The January 2025 Gunma symposium at Gunma Ongaku Center brought together global heritage experts to discuss authenticity, communities, and sustainable development through the lens of heritage ecosystems. The event led to the Gunma Declaration on Heritage Ecosystems. Credit: Simon Kieser…

Many people cross bread, pasta and potatoes off their menus, hoping to drop pounds and improve their heart health. But there’s a controversy behind this multibillion-dollar wellness phenomenon: Research is divided on carbohydrate-restricted diets. While high-carb diets are known to…

Early trends have pointed to reductions in traffic congestion, travel times, and air pollution within the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ), the initiative launched by New York City in 2025. Traffic crashes also declined significantly after tolling began, according to a…

Studies of alcohol’s effects on health have offered contradictory findings, with some suggesting a glass of red wine a day is beneficial and others saying even a drop of booze is too much. A new review attempting to clarify the…

Greater concussion symptom history is associated with increased odds of tinnitus, and associations with cognition, depression, and anxiety are larger among those with tinnitus, according to a study published online June 19 inSports Medicine Open. Niki A. Konstantinides, Ph.D., from…

Pothole season, summer construction season or maybe bad weather. No matter the time of year, it’s no surprise commuters who drive to work may start their day already feeling a bit on edge. Unlike a single stressful event, commuting can…

Barry Kreiswirth, Ph.D., of the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI), in front of a surveillance map. Kreiswirth and colleagues at Quest Diagnostics are assessing the nationwide implications of drug-resistant strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae. Their latest work is…

Voluntary blood donation drive in Sierra Leone for World Blood Donor Day. Credit: Lifeline Nehemiah Projects An innovative community-led initiative has transformed blood donation practices in rural Sierra Leone, offering a potentially scalable blueprint to tackle critical health bottlenecks across…

Exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in many weedkillers, was linked to changes in several hormones that support pregnancy and fetal development—in one of the few studies to examine how a widely used herbicide may affect the body during pregnancy.…

A joint study by the University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital suggests that a newborn’s upper lip frenulum is unlikely to be a major cause of breastfeeding difficulties. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, followed 264 mother–infant pairs…

Australian women trying to start a family through IVF are being offered optional extras with little or no evidence that they work, new research has found. A University of Melbourne-led study analyzed data from trials, looking at the effectiveness of…

Credit: RDNE Stock project from Pexels A randomized clinical trial conducted across five countries in 47 pediatric emergency departments, including Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, established that both commonly used IV fluids for treating septic shock—balanced…

A new study from UTHealth Houston has found that the common sexually transmitted infection Mycoplasma genitalium, also known as MGen, does not appear to increase the risk of recurrent preterm birth. The findings are published in The American Journal of…

Credit: Towfiqu barbhuiya from Pexels A new study finds that a class of oral and intranasal medications known as gepants may be an effective and well-tolerated treatment for vestibular migraine (VM). The findings are published in the journal Otolaryngology–Head and…

ESSDAI scores over 24 weeks of treatment with leflunomide–hydroxychloroquine or placebo: (A) Mean ESSDAI corrected for baseline, indicating the treatment effect of leflunomide–hydroxychloroquine versus placebo after 8 weeks, 16 weeks, and 24 weeks. Error bars indicate SEM. (B) Within-treatment paired…

Micrograph of a plasmacytoma, the histologic correlate of multiple myeloma. H&E stain. Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 Patients with multiple myeloma who received a new immunotherapy combination lived significantly longer without their cancer worsening and showed early signs of improved survival…

Study demonstrates the potential of personalised assistive technologies for people with impaired hand function. Credit: Medical University of Vienna Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna, in collaboration with ETH Zurich, the Technical University of Munich and Medical Faculty Belgrade,…

(L-R) Siobhonne Breen, Dominika Fuhs, Cornelia Landersdorfer, with Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a petri dish. Credit: Monash University A Monash University-led study has found that an unusual pairing of two commonly used antibiotics can kill and stop the spread of resistance…

Colorectal cancer cells expressing levels of coenzyme Q. Credit: Shah Lab, Rogel Cancer Center Scientists know that colorectal cancer cells require large amounts of iron and that as cancer becomes more aggressive, the cells have even higher amounts of iron.…

Co-expression of EGFR, C1QC, SPP1, and THBS1 in CD68+ macrophages in the TME of human CRC. Credit: Cell Death & Differentiation (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41418-026-01774-x Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna have described a mechanism in metastatic colorectal cancer that…

Credit: Anna Tarazevich from Pexels As new colorectal cancer screening guidance draws attention to the growing number of testing options, the American Gastroenterological Association urges patients and primary care providers to understand how those options compare. AGA experts emphasize that…

Immunofluorescence image of mouse colon cancer. Areas lacking GATA6 expression are LGR5-negative, indicating cells that have the potential to spread to the liver. GATA6 is shown in red, Lgr5-GFP in green and nuclei in blue. Credit: Norihiro Goto Lab Loss…

First authors of the study, from IGTP’s Biostatistics Unit. Credit: IGTP The Biostatistics Unit at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), in collaboration with researchers from several Catalan health care and research institutions, has published the DIVINE study…