An AI technology is effective at planning the delivery of life-saving radiotherapy for cervical cancer and prostate cancer, according to results from a large international trial led by researchers at University College London (UCL) and the London School of Hygiene…

Micrograph of a plasmacytoma, the histologic correlate of multiple myeloma. H&E stain. Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 An artificial intelligence-based tool may help physicians determine which newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients are most likely to benefit from specific therapies, including immunotherapy…

Credit: Cell (2026). DOI: 10.1016 A team led by Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators has created a faster, cheaper way to determine the genes expressed in cancerous tumors. The AI-based tool, which they describe in the journal Cell, could make…

Overview of the dMRI data processing and analysis pipeline. Credit: Communications Medicine (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s43856-026-01614-6 Two researchers at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Miguel Hernández University of Elche…

An artificial intelligence framework that suggests just one to three ingredient swaps can make meals meaningfully more nutritious and less expensive, according to a new study published in PLOS Digital Health by Trevor Chan and Ilias Tagkopoulos of the University…

Credit: Stanford University Every day, millions of Americans open a fitness app, glance at their step count, and may even feel a mild pang of guilt before closing it again. The problem with most health tracking technology is that it…

Credit: Shu-Han Chen / St. Paul’s Hospital / National Taiwan University Osteoporosis is a silent disease where bone loss develops gradually before fractures occur. Current clinical screening recommendations mainly focus on older women and selected high-risk groups, leaving some men,…

“More than 350,000 Americans suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year, and survival sits at roughly 9%,” says Nimit Desai, a research affiliate at the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute, medical student at UC San Diego School of Medicine and co-author…

Spatial organization of TLSs within the tumor microenvironment. Image shows TLSs containing T cells (green), B cells (pink), and follicular dendritic cells (cyan), surrounded by tumor cells (red) and stromal cells (yellow). Credit: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer…

Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) tools are capable of mass-producing academic finance papers that are nearly indistinguishable from human-authored research, according to a new study published in the Journal of Economic Literature. Building an AI research pipeline…

First study author JungHo Kong, shown here, is a postdoctoral researcher at UC San Diego School of Medicine. Credit: UC San Diego Health Sciences Researchers at University of California San Diego have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that…

Credit: Matheus Bertelli from Pexels The rise of generative AI has sparked widespread concern about job security and the future of human work. In his doctoral dissertation at the University of Vaasa, Finland, Zhe Zhu reveals that when employees trust…

Can emotions be forecasted? The question is being asked by Northeastern assistant professor and mental health researcher Joshua Curtiss. Credit: Renee Zhang From the weather to sports to the performance of the stock market, predictions are a regular feature of…

MedMAE linear probing workflow on the downstream task for CVD risk predictions. Credit: Radiotherapy and Oncology (2026). DOI: 10.1016 UBC Okanagan researchers, working with scientists at BC Cancer–Kelowna, have developed a groundbreaking AI model that can help identify breast cancer…

A new computational tool called MARRVEL-MCP helps researchers move toward genetic diagnoses more efficiently by analyzing and interpreting vast amounts of genetic and biological information using everyday language. The study, conducted by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas…

The image on the right shows an example of a heat map generated by the AI model. The red areas indicate a non-functioning MMR mechanism. The model identifies areas containing cancer cells in the image and uses them to predict…

From data to discovery: Starting from disease and drug data (top left), AI scans the scientific literature to identify which drugs may affect wound-related proteins (center left). Computational chemistry then measures the strength of those drug–protein interactions (bottom left). The…

Credit: Water Research (2026). DOI: 10.1016 The presence of the marine bacterium Vibrio vulnificus, which is potentially dangerous to humans, can now be predicted up to five weeks in advance in the Baltic Sea using artificial intelligence (AI). A research…

Men and women who appear hormonally “normal” may still have undetected disruptions in the timing and coordination of their reproductive hormones that could impair fertility, according to research presented at the 28th European Congress of Endocrinology in Prague. Now, a…

Cancer patients who interact with an artificial intelligence (AI) avatar doctor before they meet their real-life consultant feel more knowledgeable and less stressed, according to research presented at the Congress of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO 2026).…

Credit: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology People often say that seeking psychiatric care can feel intimidating. Patients may feel burdened when they first open up about their emotional distress, while medical staff must accurately understand a patient’s extensive…

In a new study from Karolinska Institutet, researchers investigated whether AI-generated versions of two common CBT techniques would be perceived as equally culturally relevant and acceptable as versions adapted by a human psychologist. The findings, published in JMIR Formative Research,…

A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic’s Cardiovascular Innovation Research Center, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system capable of interpreting some of the most complex heart scans in medicine, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging…

Artificial intelligence models using electronic health records and patient-reported outcomes may help identify cancer survivors at increased risk for emergency department visits, hospitalizations and worsening symptoms after treatment, according to a new study from Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of…

Credit: University of Rochester / Kelley et al. When a person goes into deep sleep, waterlike fluid circulates around the brain, washing away metabolic waste that is linked to diseases such as Alzheimer’s. This process, known as the glymphatic system,…

Whole-body 3D reconstruction. Credit: Ertürk Lab | Helmholtz Munich Obesity affects far more than metabolism and fat storage. It alters immune activity, nerve structure, and tissue organization across multiple organ systems, increasing the risk of diseases including type 2 diabetes,…

Workflow for prediction of 177Lu-PSMA therapy absorbed dose using pre-therapy 18F-PSMA PET Credit: SNMMI. A new machine-learning approach for prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) could estimate radiation dose to tumors and healthy organs before…

Ads generated by artificial intelligence are nearly indistinguishable from human-made ones, but new research shows they consistently underperform compared to human-made work when it comes to predicting short-term sales impact. The first-of-its-kind study from global research firm Ipsos in collaboration…

Aging reduces strategy use. Credit: Nature Human Behaviour (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-026-02468-7 When most humans reach late adulthood, their ability to coordinate movements and maintain balance, broadly referred to as motor control, tends to gradually decline. While these changes in motor…

Credit: Vlada Karpovich from Pexels Some of the most powerful interventions to slow or improve frailty are also the most ordinary: regular movement, adequate nutrition, and meaningful social connection. It almost sounds too simple for a condition now recognized as…

Immune surveillance maintains microbiome homeostasis across the life span. Credit: PLOS Biology (2026). DOI: 10.1371 Trillions of microorganisms live in the human gut, collectively forming the gut microbiome. They support important bodily functions, including digestion, metabolism, and the immune system.…

First author Jinrui Lyu and senior author Uwe Rudolph hold an illustration of a mouse hippocampus, the brain region central to learning and memory that was the focus of the study. The curved layers in the drawing represent hippocampal structures…

Positively stained NEPC markers (top) are lost when Sirt1 is silenced (bottom). Credit: 2026 Nunes de Almeida et al. Journal of Experimental Medicine. 10.1084 Researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center have identified a gene that drives the development of…

Credit: Bü?ranur Ayd?n from Pexels A new study from Flinders University researchers describes the perspectives of aged care staff on when and how they communicate with families to plan end-of-life care—and identifies that increased training and resources are needed to…

Core parts of the language network (shown in teal) reside in the left frontal and temporal lobes. Credit: Evelina Fedorenko The brain’s capacity to use and understand language expands rapidly in the first years of life, as babies start to…

Credit: MART PRODUCTION from Pexels Underlying cardiovascular risk, rather than older age, drives complications such as venous thromboembolism, cardiomyopathy and heart failure during pregnancy, according to new Weill Cornell Medicine research. The findings may encourage doctors to more actively address…

Ebola virus isolated in November 2014 from patient blood samples obtained in Mali. The virus was isolated on Vero cells. Credit: NIAID A vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus will be ready by the end of the…

Ebola virus isolated in November 2014 from patient blood samples obtained in Mali. The virus was isolated on Vero cells. Credit: NIAID The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has declared the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo…

Using female zebrafish as a model, researchers have found that aerobic exercise may influence various connections in the body to lessen the damaging health impacts of environmental nanoplastics. In the study, published in The FASEB Journal, adult female zebrafish were…

Scientists and physicians should advocate to protect the vaccine research infrastructure that has saved an estimated 154 million lives over the past 50 years, according to a new commentary by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and the University of Washington.…