An adult male and female rodent hookworm (Nippostrongylus brasiliensis). Credit: The Briggs Lab, Crystal Gwizdala A parasitic worm might be the impetus behind a new generation of medicine. In a recent review in published in Clinical & Translational Immunology, Neima…

Paraquat is one of the world’s most widely used herbicides. It’s also highly toxic, and some research points to a link with Parkinson’s disease. Its use is highly restricted in some countries, and banned in others. Toward the middle of…

Overview of the study. Credit: 2025 K. Ueno et al., Kanazawa University. A research group led by Dr. Keiko Ueno, assistant professor at the Innovative Clinical Research Center, Kanazawa University, has revealed the status of collaboration between fire-based emergency medical…

A research team led by Professor Yu Seong-woon of the Department of Brain Sciences at DGIST has, for the first time, elucidated the paradoxical protective mechanism of the “p53” gene, which prevents the death of neural stem cells in the…

Overview of the PaperTok system, designed to help users transform academic papers into short-form videos through an iterative workflow. Credit: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2026). DOI: 10.1145 Students in the University of…

Genome analyses have traditionally relied on a linear reference sequence built from a limited number of individuals (left). A pangenome reference sequence (right) extends this reference by incorporating individual sequence differences, making genomic diversity easier to represent and analyze. Credit:…

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted routine health care in unprecedented ways, forcing providers and patients alike to delay or forgo preventive services. At the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Dental Medicine, those disruptions allowed a team of oral health and…

Pharmacological induction of necroptosis is an effective therapeutic strategy in PDAC. Credit: Nature Communications (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-73189-8 Researchers at the University of Cologne’s Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC) have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that makes most pancreatic cancer…

Credit: Kindel Media from Pexels Unpaid caregivers need greater recognition and support to continue the care they provide to their families and friends, and researchers have identified priorities outlining how to achieve this. Flinders University’s Research Center for Palliative Care,…

A recall-by-genotype study shows reduced sensitivity of TRPM8 homLoF carriers to cold-induced pain. Credit: Nature (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10667-5 A comprehensive analysis of 173,303 genomes from Pakistan, published today in Nature, is upending how scientists understand human genetics and drug development.…

A new study from Northwestern University and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago highlights the critical role paid paternal leave plays in supporting new dads’ mental health following the birth of their baby. Using data from a…

The Aleutian Islands experienced a dramatic geologic uplift 5 million to 7 million years ago, new research finds. Credit: Anahi Carrera New research by Brown University geologists confirms that the Aleutian Islands, the archipelago stretching from Alaska to Russia’s Kamchatka…

A new study led by researchers at the University of Texas at El Paso found that use of weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and other GLP-1s is associated with a lower risk of developing alcohol, opioid, nicotine and cocaine use disorders.…

Frédérique Le Roux, professor in the Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, and Immunology at Université de Montréal. Credit: Amélie Philibert, Université De Montréal Oysters filter seawater for food. In the process, they concentrate a wide variety of microorganisms from their…

Treatment of a serious mental illness that can lead to suicide, such as major depressive disorder, often centers on medication and talk therapy with little or no consideration of factors such as social isolation or financial duress. Now, there’s a…

Credit: Towfiqu barbhuiya from Pexels When many of us think about drug overdose, we picture young people at a music festival or people dependent on street heroin. But the latest figures from the Penington Institute show older Australians are increasingly…

Hybridization chain reaction microscopy (HCR) reveals the expression of the syt1 gene (magenta, left), gnrh (yellow, center and right) and gnrhr (magenta, center and right) in the post-metamorphic bat sea star nervous system. Credit: Periklis Paganos At first glance, bat…

Children who spend more time playing outdoors between the ages of 2 and 4 may be less likely to develop emotional and behavioral difficulties later in childhood. That’s according to new research led by the University of Exeter, published in…

The gunpowder midge (Culicoides paraensis), a vector for Oropouche, is three times smaller than a common mosquito, making it the ideal size to pass through mosquito nets. Credit: Erik Jesus de Faria Santana / Wikimedia Commons The Oropouche virus outbreak…

This structure was predicted with high confidence using AlphaFold3 (Abramson et al, 2024) with prediction statistics ipTM/pTM scores of 0.97 and visualized in PyMOL. Credit: EMBO Reports (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s44319-026-00818-0 Researchers at the University of Surrey have identified a protein…

Acute myelocytic leukemia (AML). For years, treatment of older patients with acute myeloid leukemia—an aggressive cancer of the blood and bone marrow—has required injections administered in a clinic for five to seven consecutive days each month, in addition to an…

An early clinical study shows that a new oral drug is safe and well tolerated in patients with chronic heart failure. The study, led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet, has been published in The Lancet. Heart failure with reduced pumping…

A new strategy for delivering GLP-1 drugs to patients with obesity or who were overweight resulted in up to a 12% reduction in body weight after 36 weeks, according to a randomized phase II clinical trial published in Nature Medicine.…

STOC-T imaging of the human cornea. The technique makes it possible to visualize different layers of the cornea, including cells and nerve structures. Credit: Optica Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has become one of the foundations of modern ophthalmology. A patient…

Ubiquitin-like pathways with opposite effects coordinate epithelial homeostasis. In stratified epithelia, NEDD8 maintains progenitor identity, whereas SUMO2 promotes differentiation. These epithelial states are associated with changes in the surrounding microenvironment, including T cells, dendritic epidermal T cells, fibroblasts, neutrophils, and…

Credit: Towfiqu barbhuiya from Pexels Drug awareness and prevention programs have often relied on shock tactics—graphic stories, fear-based messaging and one-time assemblies meant to scare students into avoiding illicit drugs. But evidence suggests those approaches rarely lead to lasting behavior…

Summary of themes influencing detoxification from opioid substitution treatment (OST). Credit: Addiction (2026). DOI: 10.1111 Addiction services must urgently consider the way they offer support for those wanting to come off opioid substitutes through detoxification, according to researchers at Imperial…

Credit: Ron Lach from Pexels Cognitive behavioral therapies for insomnia (CBT-I) are increasingly being delivered online to improve accessibility. However, although insomnia and anxiety frequently occur together in older adults, few interventions address both conditions simultaneously. A new digital platform…

In a step forward for patient-centered cancer research, a new pilot project reveals that 84% of participants had a positive experience using a newly developed online tool created by the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology called the Participant Engagement…

Credit: Laila Milevski/Cornell University The high cost of fresh fruits and vegetables and the need to restock them frequently can be barriers to healthy eating for low-income families. New research shows that online grocery shopping, combined with incentive programs, can…

Men are overrepresented when it comes to heart disease, but there are certain conditions that mainly affect women, such as “broken-heart syndrome.” Stress and anxiety are common in this group. A new study led by researchers at Uppsala University and…

According to a study published in Neurology, the risk for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and certain brain diseases may go in both directions. Studies have shown that having a TBI may increase the risk of developing a stroke, dementia, epilepsy…

The study provides critical evidence of how climate change is reshaping ocean ecosystems and the urgency of accelerating solutions. Credit: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) led one…

Credit: artawkrn from Pexels Researchers are warning that obesity is reshaping the global cardiovascular disease crisis, as trend data covering 204 countries reveal that heart disease now peaks in people ages 50–54 rather than the elderly and increasingly in South…

A study by researchers from the University of Cambridge, the British Heart Foundation Data Science Center at Health Data Research UK and The George Institute for Global Health is the first to analyze obesity trends from 2019 to 2025, using…

Lauren Ellenburg, a nurse, prepares a combination measles, mumps and rubella vaccine for a patient at Tiger Pediatrics in Easley, S.C., March 17, 2026. Credit: AP Photo/Mary Conlon, File A prominent OB-GYN group announced vaccine recommendations on Wednesday that differ…

Oak panels in different shades of red have been installed on the current door. They will be exposed to the elements to test which paint withstands the climate best, and which colour best suits the cathedral’s stone and surroundings. The…

Credit: Abdullah Hussain from Pexels The presence of minerals in oilseeds, such as Brazil nuts (Bertholletia excelsa) and cashews (Anacardium occidentale), does not guarantee that the body will use them. A study conducted at the Diadema campus of the Federal…

The COVID-19 pandemic did not push nurses out of hospitals or other care settings as feared, but nurses left their primary jobs at nearly double the rate from 2018 to 2022, finds a University of Michigan study. The study, which…

Credit: Thirdman from Pexels New research in the June 2026 issue of Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network finds that small, targeted prompts delivered to both patients and providers at the right moment can significantly increase the number of…