Researchers have developed an enhanced wearable motion-tracking system that could improve the accuracy of fitness trackers used to monitor exercise and training. The team provides details in an article published in the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics. Current…

A research team led by the University of Waterloo has created a new monitoring system to save lives and significantly reduce health-care costs in brain-injury cases through the early detection of infections in intensive care units. A paper on the…

Kyushu University researchers use Dynamic Chest Radiography (DCR) to evaluate the severity of Pulmonary Regurgitation (PR), a common complication after treatment of the congenital heart disease Tetralogy of Fallot. The analysis only requires the patient to hold their breath for…

Axial CT image with i.v. contrast. Macrocystic adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic head. Credit: public domain A shift in the way people think about and treat pancreatic cancer could be on the horizon based on positive results from the pivotal randomized…

A Cheviot goat. Credit: Sampurna Roychoudhury New research shows Cheviot goats are one of the UK’s most genetically distinct goat populations. Led by Newcastle University, this is the first genetic study to determine the ancestry and genetic health of a…

An example of partial response. 58-year-old patient with neuroendocrine neoplasm of the pancreas with hepatic and bone metastases. Previously treated with chemotherapy, hemithyroidectomy, PRRT with 177Lu-DOTATATE, Lanreotide, Everolimus, trans-arterial chemo-embolization of liver metastases.Credit: SNMMI. A new type of peptide receptor…

Fictive example of a study using routinely collected data involving data collected in a tertiary referral hospital (hospital 1) and a primary care hospital (hospital 2). Credit: BMJ (2026). DOI:10.1136/bmj-2025-087812 International guidelines on the use of routinely collected data set…

In each cell of your body, DNA is stored in structures called chromosomes. When cells divide, these chromosomes are copied, but over time, the copying process degrades. After many cycles of making copies, the ends of the chromosomes become shorter…

Delftia. Credit: Camila Loyola Scientists commonly use bacteria as tiny factories that can produce molecules for uses ranging from drug development to pollution remediation. Recently, NC State biologist Carlos Goller and former undergraduate students Pushkar Sai and Andrew Hoyek did…

Austin Zwick, associate teaching professor in the College of Professional Studies and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, explains how cities can fix their planning systems to address housing crises. Housing in cities across North America has become…

Credit: RDNE Stock project from Pexels A defendant stands in the dock. An expert describes them as a “psychopath.” In an instant, one word threatens to eclipse their history, circumstances and the crime itself. In Ireland, England and Wales, judges…

The neglected psychological support needs for caregivers of people with dementia in the UK could soon be addressed with a major multicenter trial led by University of Manchester psychologists. Lead researchers Dr. Lydia Morris and Professor Katherine Berry will trial…

Compared to conventional imaging techniques, prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET imaging provides superior detection of bone metastases in prostate cancer patients, a critical indicator of a patient’s long-term survival. Outcomes data revealed that patients with even just one bone…

A study of 19 patients with treatment-resistant depression treated with psilocybin in Switzerland found psilocybin was associated with a significant reduction in depression symptoms. The study is published in The Lancet Regional Health—Europe. Psilocybin—a naturally occurring psychedelic compound found in…

Credit: Artem Podrez from Pexels A Phase III clinical trial led by Neeraj Agarwal, MD, FASCO, senior director of clinical research at Huntsman Cancer Institute and professor of internal medicine at the University of Utah (the U), has found that…

Credit: Anna Tarazevich from Pexels The largest real-world study ever conducted on prostate cancer in Brazil analyzed data from 670,205 patients treated through the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) over a 16-year period, between 2008 and 2023. Published in the…

German Rodriguez Ortiz, a doctoral graduate of UTEP’s Environmental Science and Engineering Program, is the lead author of a study that found solar panels at the Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility in Alamogordo—a region frequently affected by dust storms…

Credit: Victoria University of Wellington In high-performance sport, success is often measured in medals, rankings and results, but far less attention is paid to the human cost of achieving them. For Wayne Aquila, Master of Commerce graduate, this tension became…

Immunohistological analysis of human post-mortem cerebellar sections. Credit: Kessen Patten In Canada, between 3,000 and 4,000 people are living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease that remains incurable. ALS is best known for the degeneration of motor neurons, which…

Theories about the cause of the phenomenon The Hum abound, from acoustic pollution originating from human sources, to sounds that nature itself makes. Or that the ear itself produces the humming sound. Credit: Idun Haugan, NTNU Some people occasionally hear…

Many scientists are trying to determine just how much medical intervention can lengthen the human lifespan. But Daniel Promislow, senior scientist and scientific advisor at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, is interested…

Antagonism of A2aR and knockdown of GluN2B-NMDARs in iSPNs attenuate LID behaviors. Credit: Neuron (2026). DOI: 10.1016 Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that suppressing excitatory synaptic transmission in a small group of neurons in the brain may reverse levodopa-induced dyskinesia…

Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist medications have gained widespread attention for effectively treating obesity, lowering blood sugar and decreasing the risk of cardiovascular disease. Some researchers have proposed that these drugs may also influence the biology of aging, but direct…

Researchers at WashU Medicine found that adults who regularly experience short or poor-quality sleep, as well as those who work night shifts, face a significantly higher risk of developing osteoarthritis and requiring hip or knee replacement surgery. Led by Elizabeth…

A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2026 annual meeting found that sleep problems in middle-aged and older adults are tied to lower psychological well-being nine years later. The link was stronger in women than in men, suggesting…

Credit: Lina Jan from Pexels A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2026 annual meeting found that poorer sleep health according to wrist actigraphy and insomnia symptoms during adolescence predicted a higher likelihood of an overnight hospital stay…

Credit: Karolina Grabowska from Pexels It’s increasingly common to see headlines and social media conversations about the rise in colorectal cancer among younger adults. In fact, the growing incidence of colorectal cancer in people under age 50 helped drive the…

A female green hermit hummingbird hovers over a tropical species of spiral ginger in Las Alturas, Costa Rica. Credit: Pedro Juárez A new study by plant biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, challenges a longstanding idea that stems…

Credit: Julio Lopez from Pexels Affective polarization—i.e., an aversion toward supporters of the opposing party—has been shaping American society for years, including when it comes to finding a partner. A new sociological study by Dr. Ansgar Hudde and Shannon Taflinger…

Dace Gao and Deyu Tu are part of the research group that have succeeded in artificially mimicking the ion signaling of heart muscle cells. Credit: Thor Balkhed For the first time, scientists have succeeded in artificially mimicking the ion signaling…

Credit: Anna Tarazevich from Pexels Prostate cancer screening is one of the most common decisions men face in primary care, yet many patients make that choice without fully understanding the potential benefits and harms. A new editorial by UNC physician…

Mats in the Shenandoah River. Credit: George Mason University You’ve probably seen slimy mats of brownish green clinging to rocks in streams or on lake beds, and perhaps not given it another thought. But George Mason University’s Rosalina Stancheva Christova…

Image illustrating how hot holes excited in graphite/graphene electrodes are transferred to a moiré structure with characteristic periodic potentials. Credit: Dr. Jorge Esteban Rojas Gatjens. Quantum materials, materials with properties that are governed by the laws of quantum mechanics describing…

Regular follow-up calls from a pharmacist can help people lower their “bad” (LDL) cholesterol by reminding them to take their medication, based on research presented at the British Cardiovascular Society conference in Manchester. When high-risk patients received follow-up calls from…

Virtually every living thing on Earth, from Patagonian penguins to newborn human babies, has been touched by the synthetic chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find a sample of…

Representative whole-body PET/CT based organ and tissue segmentation before and 12 months after bariatric surgery in a 20-year-old woman. Coronal PET/CT images and automated segmentation maps show multi-organ structural remodeling, including reductions in subcutaneous adipose tissue, visceral adipose tissue, liver,…

Representative SV2A PET images comparing synaptic density in healthy and disease states. The left panel shows [18F]SynVesT-1 PET distribution volume (VT) maps of the brain and spinal cord in a naïve control mouse and a mouse with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis…

(A-C) Representative whole-body maximum-intensity projection images and regional fused PET/CT images from three histologically confirmed osteosarcoma patients who underwent paired [68Ga]Ga-B7-H3-BCH PET/CT and 18F-FDGE PET/CT within 7 days. (D) Multimodal imaging evaluation of patient 3, including X-ray, MRI (T2-weighted imaging,…

Credit: Anna Tarazevich from Pexels High-risk localized and locally advanced prostate cancer patients treated with apalutamide—a next generation neoadjuvant androgen-receptor pathway inhibitor (ARPI)—plus hormone therapy before and after prostate cancer surgery resulted in more major pathologic responses and reduced the…

The agent-based model of cumulative cultural evolution. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2026). DOI: 10.1073 Our capacity for innovation, rather than being the work of random variation, is based on an intrinsic understanding of how the world…