An essay presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Istanbul, Turkey (12–15 May) suggests that a new age of obesity drugs could shift the blame for living with obesity from individuals to the food industry—just as smoking has been…

a, Conceptual cartoon of how patient age might distinguish carcinogenic mutations from non-carcinogenic mutations. b. Each line represents a clone that initiates at an age uniformly distributed between 0 and 80?years. Credit: Nature Genetics (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41588-026-02593-z It’s a fundamental…

Jonathan Dumke, a senior forensic chemist with the Drug Enforcement Administration, holds vials of fentanyl pills at a DEA research laboratory on April 29, 2025, in Northern Virginia. Credit: AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File About 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses…

Osteoporosis, which is highly prevalent in postmenopausal women, has long been associated with an increased risk of fractures. A new study suggests it may also increase a woman’s overall risk of death—by as much as 47%—especially within specific ranges of…

An estimated 595 million people globally are living with osteoarthritis. This makes it one of the leading causes of pain and disability. Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease, in which tissues in the joint break down over time. The condition…

A study has found that an emerging class of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs suppresses eating for pleasure, or hedonic feeding, in mice by modulating a reward circuit deep within the brain. This newly charted pathway—separate from previously described mechanisms that broadly…

Helping UK. Credit: Durham University New research from Durham University shows that the way parents instruct and encourage infants to help plays a key role in how helping behavior develops, and that these approaches vary across cultures. The study, published…

A study highlighting key advances in the complexity of aging has been published in Science Advances. The work is titled “The longevity effects of reduced IGF-1 signaling depend on the stability of the mitochondrial genome.” Mississippi State University biologist Jean-Francois…

Researchers from the University of Sheffield are leading work that will significantly influence how health care treatments are assessed and approved across the UK. The researchers, based at the Sheffield Center for Health and Related Research (SCHARR), have developed a…

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience Institute’s Brain Tumor Center have been confirmed as the first in the world to achieve complete remission of a rare pituitary cancer using a novel immunotherapy treatment. The research team, represented by…

Credit: Alcohol: Clinical & Experimental Research (2026). DOI: 10.1111 For people trying to reduce their heavy drinking, the quality of their interpersonal relationships early in their recovery process may contribute to their success. A study published in Alcohol: Clinical &…

From relentless cycles of intrusive memories to loneliness and physical pain, a new study from the University of East Anglia reveals the struggles of refugees who entered the U.K. as unaccompanied minors. Researchers interviewed refugees who fled Afghanistan as children…

Schematic representation depicting the production of malaria epitope-coated BPs in engineered E. coli. Credit: Small (2026). DOI: 10.1002 Malaria is a deadly disease killing more than half a million people every year, but a new vaccine is showing promise as…

A new study presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026) in Istanbul, Turkey (12–15 May) shows that a 1% reduction in annual working hours is associated with a 0.16% decrease in obesity rates across OECD countries. The study…

A new interdisciplinary review published in The Quarterly Review of Biology argues that red meat, once an essential component of human evolution, has become a significant threat to human health and planetary sustainability. Researchers synthesize roughly three million years of…

Credit: Ann H from Pexels Everyone on Earth takes a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue…

Researchers have built implants linking brain signals to movement in paralysis patients. © Jimmy_Ravier_EPFL. Spinal cord injury (SCI) remains one of the most devastating neurological conditions, severing communication between the brain and the body and leaving millions worldwide with permanent…

Emilie Newsham Novak working with the samples at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Credit: Rice University. A team of Rice University bioengineers has developed a new way to create highly realistic “mock” patient samples that could help…

New work explaining the inner workings of artificial intelligence could provide a way around the threat of AI “model collapse,” potentially averting growing numbers of AI hallucinations in the future. First coined in 2024, “model collapse” refers to a scenario…

Conceptual diagram of a multimodal colorimetric dressing and optoelectronic sensor for diagnosing diabetic foot and diabetic diseases. Credit: The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Diabetic ulcers, which occur in patients with diabetes, are dangerous complications that can…

Inside a deep brain stimulation program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), researchers have discovered a brain signal that predicts when a child is about to lose attention—and that a brief, targeted intervention in response to that signal can…

In a new JNeurosci paper, a Boston College research team led by John Christianson explored how a pathway between two areas of the brain—the insular cortex and prefrontal cortex—supports social decisions in male rats. Why did the researchers choose to…

Pancreatic cancer cells (blue) growing as a sphere encased in membranes (red). Credit: National Cancer Institute The targeted RAS inhibitor daraxonrasib was found to be safe and showed signs of efficacy in patients with previously treated RAS-mutant metastatic pancreatic cancer,…

For people living in regional and remote communities, where access to a GP or pathology services can involve long travel distances and large out-of-pocket expenses, point-of-care testing (POCT) offers a convenient way to receive timely health information closer to home.…

An international partnership designed to improve equality in access to genomic medicine for a rare disease has now provided potentially life-saving genetic testing for over 1,100 families across the world. Congenital Hyperinsulinism affects the pancreas, causing blood sugar (glucose) levels…

Credit: Gustavo Fring from Pexels In the 1940s, medical researchers began using randomized controlled trials to assess the efficacy of health interventions. In RCTs, researchers create randomly assigned treatment and control groups, administering the potential remedy to only the first…

Credit: Journal of Nuclear Medicine (2026). DOI: 10.2967 A newly developed targeted radiopharmaceutical treatment can effectively slow tumor growth in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), according to new research published in the May issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. In…

Telecom quantum-dot chip mounted for cryogenic measurements. The device contains electrically controlled quantum dots embedded in a nanophotonic circuit, which allows the generation and routing of highly coherent single photons in the telecom O-band. Credit: Marcus Albrechtsen/ Niels Bohr Institute,…

Credit: Harald Ritsch Researchers from the group of theoretical physicist Hans Briegel have collaborated with NVIDIA to develop an AI method that automatically generates efficient quantum circuits, a key bottleneck in making quantum computers practically useful. The work was published…

Science is lying, and nicotine is good for you, according to a wave of new health and wellness influencers, including celebrity fitness coach and former “Biggest Loser” host Jillian Michaels and Andrew Huberman, a tenured professor at Stanford University’s School…

Ticks can transmit Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, alpha-gal syndrome, tick paralysis and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Credit: Illustration by Alex Angelich, University Communications Early-season tick bites have been driving more people to emergency rooms since 2017, and Virginia, along with several…

Volunteers with the Billion Oyster Project restore oyster habitat along the New York Harbor shoreline. In new research from the University of Washington, researchers explore how evolution can alter nature-based infrastructure projects like this one. Credit: Steven DeWitt/Witness Tree Media…

Pictured here is the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223, or MACS J1149 for short, which is located about 5 billion light-years away in the constellation Leo. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, C. Willott (National Research Council Canada), R. Tripodi (INAF– Astronomical…

Severe bleeding after trauma can rapidly become life-threatening. In a new doctoral thesis from Karolinska Institutet, Marcus Wannberg examines how the body’s coagulation system begins to fail early after injury, which injuries most often lead to fatal bleeding, and how…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the tools that are central to global health decision-making in areas like disease control policies, financing and vaccination strategies, such as infectious disease modeling. This brings new opportunities to the modeling landscape, but could…

Jeffrey Stansbury, Ph.D., senior associate dean for research and professor at the CU Anschutz School of Dental Medicine, has four properties he wants the next generation of dentures to include: that they are cheaper, faster to make, and more durable…

After weeks (or months) of putting it off, you book a longer appointment with your GP to talk about your mental health. You explain that you’ve been feeling low, anxious and overwhelmed. They suggest seeing a psychologist. But how do…

For almost everyone, a psychiatric admission leads to long-term illness. Credit: Tomas Bertelsen / Psykiatrisk Center København Only a very small number of people never return to psychiatric services after being admitted once. That is the conclusion of a new…

Left: In wild-type cells, RLF/ZFP292 support the proper function of the CoREST complex, leading to the removal of active histone marks and preventing excessive expression of differentiation-associated genes. Right: In the absence of RLF/ZFP292, CoREST complex function is impaired, resulting…

PTM dynamics broadly alter protein drug-binding sites. Credit: Scripps Research Inside every human cell, proteins are constantly being tagged with small chemical modifications after they’re produced. Known as post-translational modifications, or PTMs, these can change how a protein folds, where…