Methodology of the trial. Credit: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer (2026). DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2025-013906 Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center report encouraging early results from a phase 2 study examining whether immunotherapy can improve results when added to a radiotherapy-based treatment regimen…

Joshua Moreau, Ph.D., assistant professor in OHSU’s Division of Oncological Sciences, the Department of Dermatology, and the Department of Cell, Developmental & Cancer Biology, investigates vaccine methods to mobilize the cells to fight off disease, fend off future threats. Credit:…

Graphical abstract. Credit: Neuron (2026). DOI: 10.1016 Monoclonal antibodies can block a key immune-related protein that drives the spread of brain cell damage in Parkinson’s disease (PD). This protein, called glycoprotein nonmetastatic melanoma B (GPNMB), might be part of a…

Transmission electron micrograph of influenza A virus, late passage. Credit: CDC In most people, influenza stays in the upper respiratory tract—mainly the nose—and clears without spreading further. But during pregnancy, the virus can extend beyond the lungs into the cardiovascular…

“This is our home. If we destroy it, and we can’t build it up, then that’s a part of Earth that’s destroyed, and we won’t be able to get it back.” Matthew, aged 10, isn’t alone in feeling this way.…

Credit: michel amazonas from Pexels Gold prices are at an all-time high, and we are very worried. As disease ecologists, it’s not the economic instability that concerns us, but the fact that a surge in gold mining could have a…

Liver-directed AAV-IL-10 therapy activates antitumor CD8? T-cell immunity and suppresses liver cancer growth. Credit: National Taiwan University Researchers at National Taiwan University have developed a liver-directed IL-10 gene therapy that strengthens cancer-fighting immune cells and suppresses liver tumors in mice.…

The researchers validated their MAPS model using data from the Add Health study on friendship networks, comprising a total of 41,800 high school students, as well as marriage databases from the 50 largest cities in the United States. Credit: Fotogenia—TU…

Credit: Image generated by the editorial team using AI for illustrative purposes. Men are more likely to take risks in tricky situations than women, but whether there is an inherent biological reason behind it is a question researchers have been…

If you scroll through social media for long enough, you’ll probably find videos claiming that listening to songs tuned to “A 432 Hz” can provide an amazing sense of calmness or healing. It’s even claimed that listening to music tuned…

Credit: Image generated by the editorial team using AI for illustrative purposes. When a list of pros and cons won’t cut it, a new decision-making tool developed by Cornell researchers can use artificial intelligence to help make difficult decisions. But…

Humanoid Touch Dream enables a humanoid robot to perform diverse contact-rich tasks, from towel folding and book organization to tight-tolerance insertion, tool use, and bimanual tea serving, by combining stable whole-body control, tactile sensing, and predictive touch-aware learning for dexterous…

Implanted cell capsules are designed to release IL-2 over approximately one week, after which activity declines. Credit: Jeff Fitlow / Rice University Implantable cytokine factories designed to deliver immunotherapy directly at the site of disease have taken an important step…

Researchers at Technische Universität Berlin have discovered that teaching Large Language Models (LLMs) to mimic human intuition and reasoning significantly improves their ability to provide accurate medical care-seeking advice. The study, published in JMIR Biomedical Engineering, suggests a paradigm shift…

Researchers at the University of Vermont have uncovered a powerful new insight about how language works—one that overturns a cornerstone assumption in psychology, linguistics, and artificial intelligence that has stood for more than 70 years. Their study, published in Science…

Immunofluorescence image of the pancreatic islets of a 50-year-old-female without diabetes. This individual had 54% beta cells (GREEN), 9% delta cells (WHITE) and 37% alpha cells (RED). Credit: Pancreatlas (www.pancreatlas.org/ ) Diabetes is the most common and serious chronic disease…

Credit: RDNE Stock project from Pexels Since 2020, Australia has had an ongoing shortage of estrogen patches, which are usually prescribed to help ease menopause symptoms. In March, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) confirmed shortages of several brands and doses…

Heat stress from marine heat waves can create a toxic relationship between seagrasses and a hidden ecosystem of bacteria, transforming a previously beneficial co-existence between marine plants and microbes into a harmful one, a University of Sydney and UNSW study…

How restructuring the public hospitals affected admissions. Credit: KyotoU / Kenji Kishimoto Despite their crucial function, public hospitals often face limited resources and financial distress, and an aging population can further exacerbate any imbalances in medical resource distribution. Furthermore, the…

A study examined racial and ethnic disparities in rates of heat-related illness (HRI) hospitalizations among U.S. adults from 1998 to 2022. The findings showed that hospitalization rates for HRIs have increased overall in the U.S., with Black adults experiencing the…

More than 40% of older people admitted to U.S. hospitals have dementia, yet only half of them have been diagnosed with memory and cognitive difficulty. Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators have developed a comprehensive screening method that identifies previously undiagnosed…

Oxytocin plays a significant role in team competitions. Oxytocin levels rose most sharply following matches against well-known rivals. Credit: University of Zurich The “love hormone” oxytocin (OT) plays a role not only in moments of intimacy but also in competitive…

New research in the PsyCh Journal introduces and validates a psychological concept called atimiaphobia—defined as an intense fear of losing honor or being labeled shameless. Atimiaphobia is culturally specific in its origins and manifests through intrusive thoughts, hypervigilance, emotional turmoil,…

Suspended MoS2 samples. Credit: Nature Physics (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-026-03297-1 Controlling heat flow is a major challenge for many technologies. In electronic and photonic devices, for example, heat dissipation can limit the performance and efficiency, as well as their potential for…

A study on the future of Australia’s housing market has revealed that even well-intended housing market interventions could significantly worsen housing affordability and homelessness in the country due to the impacts of climate change. The research, by Peyman Habibi-Moshfegh and…

Study flow diagram for sample collection and processing. Credit: Nature Communications (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71448-2 A finger prick blood test combined with online brain testing—all done from home—could one day effectively identify people’s risk of developing dementia, according to a new…

A new analysis presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026, Istanbul, Turkey, 12–15 May) examined daily oral orforglipron treatment for the treatment of obesity, with or without diabetes, in users aged 65 years and over, with results and…

An electronic 96-channel pipette was one of the tools used to scale up and allow the team to perform over 7,000 parallel experiments that uncovered more than 100 bNAb escape mutations across 15 viral strains. Credit: Lori Chertoff/The Rockefeller University…

HIV-1 GFP-CA SR imaging. Credit: Nature (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10453-3 Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism by which HIV-1 can infect resting immune cells. The discovery challenges a decades-old assumption in HIV biology, and…

The Maryland Dove docked at Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland. This ship is a reconstruction of the Dove, a 17th-century trading vessel that, alongside the passenger ship the Ark, carried colonists to found Maryland in 1634. Credit: Jenn Dorsey, Historic…

Sun-powered plane Solar Impulse 2 crashed recently, despite successfully circumnavigating the world in 2016. The experimental plane Solar Impulse 2, which completed a historic round-the-world trip in 2016 without using jet fuel, crashed into the Gulf of Mexico recently, its…

Task design of silhouette construction (Study 1) with intracranial recordings. Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-026-02291-3 When facing new situations or problems, humans typically rely on knowledge they acquired in the past. Specifically, neuroscience studies suggest that the brain reorganizes…

Credit: Stéf -b. from Pexels Total hip arthroplasty leads to the best outcomes in the treatment of moderate-to-severe hip osteoarthritis, according to a new study published in The Bone & Joint Journal by the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio…

A new study presented at the European Stroke Organization Conference (ESOC) 2026 shows that after decades of decline, stroke incidence is rising again, driven by higher rates in some ethnic minority populations and concentrated among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. The study…

Riskier anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) use has been linked to poorer mental health symptoms, new Griffith University research has found. Ph.D. Candidate Ben Bonenti from Griffith’s School of Applied Psychology examined the mental health and psychological factors associated with higher AAS-related…

For adults with severe scabies, higher-dose ivermectin plus permethrin is not superior to standard-dose ivermectin plus permethrin, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Charlotte Bernigaud, M.D., Ph.D., from the Hôpital Henri-Mondor in Créteil, France,…

New research presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Istanbul, Turkey (12–15 May) shows that higher body mass index (BMI) is associated with more financial problems, loneliness, and stress. And these relationships may be bidirectional: higher BMI could lead…

After breast cancer surgery, many women are told to limit how much—and how soon—they exercise. “Traditional guidelines question how soon women treated for breast cancer can exercise and how much weight they can safely lift, particularly in mastectomy and axillary…

A study presented at the European Stroke Organization Conference (ESOC) 2026 suggests that both very low and very high resting heart rates are linked with an increased risk of stroke. As the largest population-level study to examine this relationship, the…

To reveal the intricate architecture of the neonatal intestine, the team used specific antibodies to stain the delicate proteins that exist between cells and bind cells together during development. These sites of joining are called tight junctions and include the…