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Faster, cheaper genetic tests are helping researchers identify mutations behind hundreds of these disorders, leading to improved diagnosis and treatment.

Scientific breakthrough could reduce food waste and make it easier to add the fruit to prepackaged food It is the bane of every fruit bowl: sliced banana that turns brown before it has reached the table. But such woes could soon be a thing of the past, with gene-edited bananas that keep their freshly peeled colour now one step closer to reaching British shoppers. According to Tropic, the Norwich-based agricultural-biotechnology company that developed the fruit, the bananas have the same taste and texture but stay “fresh, yellow and appetising long after peeling and slicing”. Continue reading...

After winning FDA approval at the end of last year, two nonprofits are now launching their rare immune disease gene therapy Waskyra with a list price of $3.25 million, they told Endpoints News. The nonprofits — ...

Fideuram’s €95 Million AI Fraud A WhatsApp message from the boss is easy to doubt. A follow-up call

A new AI-based model can predict where glioblastoma is most likely to return after initial surgery, potentially giving doctors a chance to treat it before it becomes visible on MRI.

Young adults who use generative artificial intelligence to ask health-related questions are more likely to screen positive for clinically significant anxiety and depression than those who do not use AI for health issues, according to a new study led by University of Florida researcher Yusen Zhai.

Aging progressively affects the functioning of our body and, among other things, deteriorates the ability of the hematopoietic system- the set of organs and tissues responsible for producing blood cells- to maintain adequate blood cell production.

Researchers here provide a proof of concept for the use of Raman spectroscopy to non-invasively measure the burden of senescent cells in an imaged tissue. This works because Raman imaging can provide distinct signatures of different molecules via scattering of photons. Provided the field of imaging is sufficiently constrained, it is possible to produce results that measure differing abundances of specific molecules in different cells. Senescent cells exhibit a range of upregulated and downregulated proteins and other molecules, so in principle creating a system to assess the presence of senescent cells is just a matter of putting in the work to construct and validate a specific implementation. Aging and tissue repair involve heterogeneous remodeling across transcriptional, biochemical, and cellular dimensions, yet prevailing definitions rely on […]

23 сентября 2026 года Франция созвала внеочередное заседание Совета Безопасности ООН. За считанные минуты до начала Anthropic опубликовала препринт: ИИ-модель Claude обнаружила в ДНК бактериофагов ранее не описанную ферментную систему ART (array-associated reverse transcriptases). Структура ART напоминает CRISPR — повторяющиеся массивы ДНК, из которых образуются короткие РНК. Это может оказаться новым механизмом редактирования генов. А может и не оказаться — функция системы пока неизвестна, препринт не прошёл рецензирование, и сама Anthropic называет открытие «предварительным». Тем не менее, Дарио Амодеи зачитал это с трибуны Совбеза ООН — по видеосвязи, из-за океана. Рядом в зале сидел Сэм Альтман. Йошуа Бенжио, один из «крёстных отцов» глубокого обучения, тоже выступил. Три тяжеловеса ИИ-индустрии и науки одновременно сказали мировому сообществу: риски перестали быть абстрактными. Он нашел или нет? Постановка задачи Claude была простой: найти новые обратные

UW–Madison researchers identify new ways to address bacterial infections, which could accelerate alternatives to traditional antibiotics. Biochemists at

arXiv:2609.31482v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI is reshaping the cultural infrastructures through which knowledge is found, synthesized, and held accountable. To make sense of this shift, scholars and policymakers reach for historical analogies of technologies such as the printing press, steam power or electricity. But these comparisons are typically imprecise about which property of the technology carries the comparison, and imprecise analogies produce imprecise governance by designing interventions against the wrong property of the system. This paper offers a diagnostic framework for analyzing how generative AI can transform epistemic and cultural practice. This paper offers a diagnostic framework for analyzing how generative AI can transform epistemic and cultural practice. We decompose each intervention into three coordinates: the epistemic site at which a technology acts, the governing logic by which it organizes its object, and the technical mechanism through which

arXiv:2609.31358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides a common interface through which AI applications discover and use external resources and tools. It allows language-model agents to ground their reasoning in current system state and interact with heterogeneous services. In medical environments, however, exposing device state and action affordances requires deterministic constraints on possible effects. We present an IEEE 11073 Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC)-to-MCP gateway that exposes metrics, alarms, context references, and semantic metadata as read-only resources, while representing selected action affordances as policy-validated dry-run tools. The term safety-bounded denotes a narrow no-execution property: agent-facing requests dispatch no SDC device operation. A Python prototype supports simulated fault and lifecycle experiments, a software-reference protocol path spanning independent Java and Python implementations, deterministic

arXiv:2609.31255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose agent memory summarizes conversations: it extracts salient snippets, embeds them, and retrieves the top-k into the prompt. A health agent cannot run on summaries: a dose becomes a sentence, "since last week" is resolved at the model's discretion, and a three-month glucose trend cannot be answered by text similarity. We present PIA, a personal intelligence agent deployed alongside a consumer health agent. PIA receives the agent's natural-language requests, decides for itself whether and how to write or read, and turns conversations into typed clinical records and records into a synthesized understanding of the user. Its memory harness consists of four controls -- extraction, memory, retrieval, and understanding -- each a domain-agnostic mechanism with a pluggable health module: schema, medical alias dictionary, knowledge graph, and temporal rules. We show how the same query receives a different answer as the memory

arXiv:2609.30842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation requires robots to regulate force against surfaces whose geometry deviates unpredictably from training conditions. Trajectory-based imitation learning, which reproduces observable outputs, breaks down under such shifts. We propose Impedance Cloning, which instead imitates the biomechanical priors that generate motion -- the stiffness and equilibrium point -- and thereby passively absorbs contact uncertainty. Because these parameters encode intent rather than outcome, they generalize across surface geometries where trajectory reproduction does not. We extract them from bilateral teleoperation demonstrations via a particle filter without force/torque sensors and evaluate the framework on two CRANE-X7 manipulators. In a wiping task with joint-space actions, the trajectory-based baseline loses contact below -6 cm, whereas the proposed method maintains a consistent 4-5 N contact force above -6 cm, with a gradual

arXiv:2609.30714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems are increasingly being explored in medical imaging to improve throughput and reduce clinician workload; however, safe deployment remains challenging because autonomous errors may propagate into downstream clinical decisions. A central requirement is therefore not only strong predictive performance, but also a reliable routing mechanism that determines when the system should proceed autonomously and when a case should be escalated for further review. To address this gap, we propose CRC-Router, a risk-constrained, uncertainty-aware routing module that is applicable to both conventional medical prediction models and agentic medical AI systems. CRC-Router combines multiple complementary uncertainty signals with the predictive score to construct a per-finding routing feature vector, maps this vector to an estimated wrong-accept risk using a lightweight per-finding risk model, and then applies Conformal Risk Control (CRC) to

arXiv:2609.30623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent generative video editing models enable video content modification (e.g., changing a character) but target short clips. Extending them to full multi-shot videos requires tedious work to locate relevant content across shots, segment it into clips, craft context-aware editing prompts for each clip, and repeatedly articulate complex editing intent. To address this, we explore an interaction paradigm for editing through underlying video structures (e.g., scripts, scenes, characters, shots, and their relationships). We present CraftTrace, an interactive prototype that transforms a video into a malleable, multilevel structure for generative editing. Users work in task-centric workspaces to modify elements or reshape relationships, while an AI agent translates and propagates changes across the video. A user study and expert review show that this structure helps users understand videos, formulate and refine editing intent, and explore

arXiv:2609.30448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-generated content is becoming a rapidly growing class of digital artifacts. Because these artifacts accumulate over time, their exponential growth creates a substantial storage, energy, and infrastructure cost for operators and society. At the same time, GPU compute cost continues to fall rapidly with each hardware generation. This divergence raises a fundamental question: when does on-demand regeneration become cheaper than persistent storage? This paper develops a cost model for comparing persistent storage and on-demand regeneration for AI-generated artifacts. The model accounts for corpus growth, HDD and tape price trends, drive replacement, electricity, request skew, caching, generator FLOPs, and future GPU price-performance improvements. For image generation, our analysis shows that prompt-based regeneration does not become cheaper than storage until around 2040, because every cache miss must still rerun the full

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: A look at OpenAI-backed Red Queen Bio, an AI biosecurity startup with $36M raised to design antibody drugs against pathogens, including AI-enabled bioweapons  —  Red Queen Bio is using artificial intelligence to design antibody drugs for novel pathogens—before future AI systems create them

Aging progressively affects how our bodies function. Among other effects, it reduces the ability of the hematopoietic system—the organs and tissues responsible for producing blood cells—to maintain adequate blood cell production. Understanding and measuring this process is especially important for studying how blood stem cells age and identifying ways to preserve or restore their function.

A narrative review finds that the Mediterranean diet may support brain health through gut microbiome, immune, metabolic, and barrier-related pathways, but direct human evidence that microbiome remodeling mediates neuroprotection remains limited. The proposed mechanisms involve microbial metabolites, reduced inflammatory signaling, stronger intestinal and blood-brain barrier function, and possible effects on processes linked to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

One simple lifestyle choice could help you live longer, says longevity expert  Fox NewsLongevity expert says one common habit may be your best investment in a longer life  YahooPet Talk: You can help your pets be heart-healthy  stmarynow.com

One simple lifestyle choice could help you live longer, says longevity expert  Fox NewsLongevity expert says one common habit may be your best investment in a longer life  YahooPet Talk: You can help your pets be heart-healthy  stmarynow.com

Predicting whether a cancer patient will respond to therapy has long been one of oncology’s most consequential gambles. For people with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, the most common and deadliest form of the disease, first-line chemoimmunotherapy can produce dramatic tumor shrinkage in some patients while leaving others with little benefit and substantial toxicity. Now, […]

A tiny molecular scissor that once barely worked in human cells has been transformed into a high-performance genome-editing platform, thanks to a clever engineering strategy that swapped a handful of amino acids and trimmed the enzyme’s RNA guide. In a study published in Molecular Systems Biology, researchers report that a compact CRISPR nuclease called CgCas12n, […]

In a veterinary clinic in Cairo, ten cats with spontaneous mammary carcinoma became the unlikely protagonists of a study that could reshape how aggressive breast cancers are monitored and treated, in animals and possibly in humans. Researchers led by Rasha H. Elsabagh of the Animal Health Research Institute in Egypt applied a therapy built on […]

5 Supplements You Should Consider for Longevity, According to Dietitians  EatingWell

5 Supplements You Should Consider for Longevity, According to Dietitians  EatingWell

A single dose of an experimental CRISPR therapy cut LDL cholesterol and triglycerides by about half in patients with difficult-to-treat lipid disorders. The reductions were still present one year later, with the highest dose lowering LDL by 52.5% and triglycerides by 47.8%.

Dan Buettner says dog ownership may be the best longevity strategy, citing research linking it to fewer heart attacks and reduced loneliness.

A decade of uterus transplantation in the United States has resulted in dozens of healthy births and steadily improving surgical outcomes, according to a new national review led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

CRISPR-Cas9 has transformed the life sciences by giving researchers a seemingly simple tool for cutting DNA at chosen locations, but a new study published in Genome Medicine delivers a sobering reminder that the aftermath of those cuts is far messier than standard screening methods suggest. A team led by Ida Höijer and Adam Ameur at […]

Sugarcane is the most cultivated crop in the world by volume, underpinning an industry that produces roughly 179 million metric tons each year and supplying far more than sweeteners, from biofuels to building materials. Yet the crop remains acutely vulnerable to viral pathogens that can quietly strip away yield, with some fields reporting losses of […]

Cervical cancer remains one of the most stubborn global health challenges, and for patients with locally advanced disease, the standard of care is concurrent chemoradiotherapy, a demanding regimen that combines radiation with chemotherapy to maximize tumor kill. Yet a substantial proportion of women treated this way still experience residual disease, recurrence, or progression. For decades, […]

A new computational method promises to sharpen one of the most fiddly tasks in modern microbiology: telling apart the many kinds of proteins that power CRISPR immune systems in bacteria and archaea. In a study published in BMC Bioinformatics, researchers at Northwest A&F University in Yangling, China, describe PrePssmCas, a machine learning classifier that fuses […]

Artificial intelligence systems that recommend medications to hospital patients have long been promised as a way to help clinicians sift through complex electronic health records and arrive at safer, more effective treatment combinations. Yet a fundamental weakness has quietly undermined many of these systems, and a new study has finally given it a name: the […]

In 2025, ADM’s regenerative ag programs engaged more than 56,000 farmers across approximately 4.6 million acres, 11 countries, and 10 crops. The post ADM’s Fourth Annual Regenerative Agriculture Report Highlights Growing Resilience Across the Food System appeared first on CropLife.

Diamond prices are falling, leading investors and others to wonder whether the gemstones are losing their luster.

Заявление Anthropic о том, что ИИ-агенты Claude обнаружили в геномных данных бактериофагов ранее не описанную ферментную систему с повторяющимися последовательностями ДНК, некоторые учёные встретили с осторожностью. Строение системы напоминает один из признаков CRISPR, однако её функция пока неизвестна: говорить о новом инструменте редактирования генома преждевременно, пишет Bloomberg. Источник изображений: Anthropic

Doctors have long sought the ability to deliver drugs and molecules exactly where, and when, the body needs

Tehran’s children’s medical center marks its 1,000th pediatric stem cell transplant, underscoring two decades of progress in treating serious childhood diseases.

Every pill that survives the journey from the stomach into the bloodstream owes much of its success to a single molecular gatekeeper. The human intestinal peptide transporter 1, known to pharmacologists as SLC15A1 or simply PepT1, sits in the membrane of intestinal cells and ferries small peptides — and a remarkable range of peptide-like drugs […]

At a time of rampant medical misinformation online, artificial intelligence can do a good job of correcting falsehoods, but the tone of the correction is key, according to new research led by Washington State University.

Few technologies expose the gulf between molecular biology and public acceptance as starkly as CRISPR–Cas genome editing. In medicine, the technology is broadly celebrated as a therapeutic breakthrough, with gene-editing treatments moving from laboratory bench to clinic. In plant breeding, and particularly in Europe, the very same molecular toolkit remains mired in controversy. That contrast […]

A team of ophthalmologists in China has put some of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence chatbots through one of the most demanding real-world tests yet devised for medical AI: deciding which type of refractive surgery, if any, suits a patient’s eyes. The results, published in BMC Medicine, show that five leading large language models […]

For most of the past half-century, biology textbooks have drawn a hard line between two arrested cell states. Quiescence was the quiet, reversible holding pattern that lets stem cells and tissue reserves wait out hard times. Senescence was the terminal verdict: a durable proliferative arrest accompanied by a pro-inflammatory secretory program, widely treated as a […]

Esophageal cancer has long been one of the most lethal and unforgiving of the major malignancies, but the ground beneath the surgeon’s feet is shifting faster now than at any point in the past two decades. A comprehensive review published in Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery synthesizes pivotal evidence from 2024 and 2025 and argues that […]

Neurosurgeons face a deceptively simple problem every time they open a skull: the brain refuses to stay where the scan left it. Once the dura mater is incised, cerebrospinal fluid drains away, gravity pulls on the soft tissue, anaesthetic drugs alter blood volume, and surgical manipulation deforms the delicate architecture beneath. The result is brain […]

Some seeds refuse to die. Date palm seeds recovered from Herod’s Palace near Jerusalem, roughly 2,000 years old, have been coaxed back to life and grown into viable trees. Sacred lotus seeds from northeastern China have germinated after approximately 1,300 years of dormancy. These astonishing cases are not botanical curiosities alone; they represent the outer […]

Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells, or MSCs, have long been celebrated as the workhorses of regenerative medicine. Harvested from bone marrow, fat, dental pulp, periodontal ligament, and umbilical cord tissue, these cells can self-renew, morph into bone, cartilage, and fat lineages, and calm overactive immune responses. Hundreds of clinical trials have tested them for everything from broken […]

For thousands of years, herbal medicine has accumulated a vast but fragmentary record of which plants seem to help with which ailments. Modern computational biology has tried to bring order to that record by treating herbs, chemical compounds, proteins and diseases as nodes in vast networks, then letting algorithms hunt for hidden connections. The problem […]

Google Health 5.09 rolling out: Cardio Load from third-party workouts, more  9to5GoogleOur new health and safety tools are live in the Google Health app.  blog.googleThe Pixel Watch 5's Blood Pressure And Insulin Resistance Trends Are Rolling Out This Week  EngadgetI wore the Google Pixel Watch 5 for weeks to see if it’s truly worth $399  CNNPixel Watch unleashes Health Guardian with cuff-free blood pressure and insulin trends  PhoneArena

Google Health 5.09 rolling out: Cardio Load from third-party workouts, more  9to5GoogleOur new health and safety tools are live in the Google Health app.  blog.googleThe Pixel Watch 5's Blood Pressure And Insulin Resistance Trends Are Rolling Out This Week  EngadgetI wore the Google Pixel Watch 5 for weeks to see if it’s truly worth $399  CNNPixel Watch unleashes Health Guardian with cuff-free blood pressure and insulin trends  PhoneArena

Following yesterday’s announcement, Google Health 5.09 is rolling out with support for the new Health Guardian features on the Pixel Watch. more…

OpenAI's MentalHealthBench tests responses to 1,215 synthetic mental health conversations, revealing gaps in how AI models seek context and gauge urgency. The post OpenAI’s Mental Health AI Test Reveals Gaps in Context and Urgency appeared first on TechRepublic.

Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."

A CRISPR-based method for disrupting genes across bacteriophage genomes has been developed, creating a faster route to uncover gene functions and engineer phages for potential therapeutic and biotechnology applications. The post New CRISPR-Based Tool Enables Genome-Wide Mutagenesis of Bacteriophages appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.

The Fox News AI Newsletter covers the latest artificial intelligence technology advancements, including the challenges and opportunities AI presents now and for the future.

Qualcomm wants earbuds and glasses, not phone screens, to be the way people talk to AI agents. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, it launched Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2, its first audio chip built for AI agents, and new platforms for smart glasses. Ziad Asghar, who runs Qualcomm’s XR, wearables and personal AI business, […] This story continues at The Next Web

In the Philippines, public health care remains inaccessible to many because of factors including high costs and the limited availability of medical experts. A new study by Ateneo researchers explores how artificial intelligence (AI) could help address this gap by examining the cost-effectiveness of AI-assisted chest radiograph (X-ray) interpretation.

Researchers at Mayo Clinic have designed an artificial intelligence model that could predict an individual's risk of developing pancreatic cancer years before diagnosis. The research was presented at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress 2026 in Washington, Sept. 26–29.

Key leaders Kenneth Greenberg (CEO), Steve Feinstein (CSO) Headquarters San Francisco Total raised $186M Key investors Vida Ventures, ARCH Ventures Partners, Illumina Ventures, Leaps by Bayer, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Eli Lilly ...

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Researchers used CRISPR to remove CD33 from donor stem cells, potentially giving doctors a way to attack aggressive blood cancers without destroying the healthy cells patients need after a transplant. In a 30-patient trial, the edited cells successfully took hold and appeared to shield blood cells from a CD33-targeted cancer treatment.

AI Coding and Hospital Bills More surgery patients left hospital with an anemia diagnosis on their records. Blood

Using data for operations and maintenance work is “incredibly important” in the decades-long lifecycle of offshore wind farms, attendees at the WindEnergy Hamburg 2026 conference were told.

A flowering plant long used in traditional Chinese medicine may hold a genuine molecular key to slowing aging, according to a new study published in the journal Biogerontology. Researchers at Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine report that Erigeron breviscapus Hand-Mazz., a daisy-like herb native to southwestern China, extended the lifespan of laboratory roundworms by as […]

Angle mapping, sub-millimeter implanter pens, and verifiable graft counts are redefining what “advanced” means in hair restoration.  The

Around this time last year I was attending an aging conference in Manchester, listening to a talk about fly aging, when my phone started pinging. News outlets were reporting that a hot mic had caught Russia’s and China’s leaders discussing the possibility of living forever. “With the developments of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously…

Emergency departments around the world share a stubborn problem: patients arrive in waves that never quite match the number of doctors on duty. When demand outstrips staffing, waiting rooms swell, care slows, and the risk of harm climbs. Yet despite years of enthusiasm for machine learning models that can predict patient surges, almost none of […]

arXiv:2609.30134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural behavior cloning compresses demonstrations into large models, making individual actions difficult to trace and policy updates costly. Retrieval policies retain access to demonstrations but struggle with mismatch between recorded and live behavior. We introduce Behavior Predictive Control (BPC), which synthesizes policies without end-to-end policy training by combining an action-aware retrieval metric, a Hankel-based action-continuation prior, and a closed-form one-step residual correction. Inspired by behavioral systems theory, BPC predicts future actions by blending stored observation-action data that best reconstructs the recent runtime observation--action history. Across simulated benchmarks and real-robot deployments, BPC is competitive with learned policies such as $\pi_{0.5}$ (surpassing it in some cases), while reducing policy fitting from hours to seconds on consumer GPUs and supporting closed-loop control upwards of 75 Hz

arXiv:2609.29341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Consumer-facing skincare AI must coordinate visual evidence, product information, tool use, and user-facing actions within explicit evidence and safety boundaries. This study evaluates SkinAgent AI, a non-diagnostic multimodal framework that combines visual concern routing with grounded and auditable LLM-based orchestration. The architecture includes routing for Acne, Pores, and Wrinkles; photograph-based skin-type estimation; count-informed ordinal acne-severity support; typed tools; database-grounded recommendation and action functions; deterministic safety, privacy, and evidence checks; approval before state-changing actions; and structured trace and replay mechanisms. Visual-model performance and system-level agent behavior were evaluated separately. Across three seeds, the skin-condition routing model achieved 99.84% +/- 0.07% accuracy. Skin-type estimation achieved 88.85% accuracy, while count-informed acne-severity support

arXiv:2609.29123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In cross-lingual zero-shot text-to-speech, the accent of the reference leaks into the target speech. We propose accent analogy guidance (AAG), a training-free sampler term that subtracts an accent direction estimated from the model's own predictions for one synthetic voice rendered in both languages, so the voice cancels and only the accent remains. By a blind LLM accent judge on real dubbing data, reweighting classifier-free guidance between reference and text, and its variants, stay near one identity-accent trade-off curve; we score a method by its speaker similarity above that curve at equal accent ($\Delta$SIM). Across four open TTS models AAG lies above the curve: on OmniVoice $\Delta$SIM is +0.11 to +0.27 on three test sets (accent 3.51 to 4.28 on a 1-5 scale at speaker similarity 0.29, where reweighting keeps 0.02); MaskGCT and CosyVoice 2 also lie above their curves, and on F5-TTS it is more native than any reweighting setting.

The human brain is terrible at healing itself from injury or disease. But some animals can harness their

Selena Gomez and Francia Raisa are trending again as Reddit users revisit the 2017 kidney donation and Gomez's 'in debt' comment.

A decade of uterus transplantation in the United States has resulted in dozens of healthy births and steadily improving surgical outcomes, according to a new national review led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ulcerative colitis has long been framed as a disease of overactive immunity, a condition in which the immune system attacks the lining of the colon with unrelenting ferocity. Most existing therapies, from corticosteroids to modern biologics, are built on that premise: they try to dampen T cell activation or block the recruitment of inflammatory cells […]

A team of computer scientists at Somali National University in Mogadishu has built and verified a prototype system that could one day let Somali speakers describe their symptoms in their own language and receive medical information grounded in English-language textbooks, complete with page-level citations. The work, published in Discover Artificial Intelligence, tackles a problem that […]

Drug discovery is in the midst of one of the most consequential transformations in its history, and a sweeping special issue of the journal Molecular Diversity, published in September 2026, captures the scale of that change. Guest edited by Taoda Shi of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, the collection brings together 58 articles that map […]

A small four-wheeled robot that rolls autonomously down greenhouse aisles, aims a multispectral camera at individual tomato seedling leaves, and instantly reports their chlorophyll, nitrogen, and moisture status has been developed and field-tested by researchers in China. The system, described in Smart Agricultural Technology, combines laser-based navigation, a clever image-based quality gate, and a machine-learning […]

Leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease transmitted by sand flies, continues to burden millions of people across tropical and subtropical regions, yet its drug pipeline remains strikingly thin. A new review published in Molecular Biology Reports by Derya Topuz Ata, Anıl Ata and Zeynep Tuba Odacı of Ankara University argues that the path to better therapies lies […]

When the editors of the Journal of General Internal Medicine opened the submission portal for their eighth Medical Education Theme Issue, they received 113 manuscripts and accepted just over 25 for publication. The resulting collection, assembled with the help of 12 associate editors specializing in medical education, arrives at a moment of unusual turbulence for […]

Gastric cancer surgery has traveled an extraordinary distance since Theodor Billroth performed the first successful gastric resections in the nineteenth century. What was once a brutal open operation, carried out in traditional operating theaters with limited visualization and high morbidity, has become a field defined by keyhole incisions, high-definition cameras, robotic arms, and increasingly, artificial […]

A single infusion of genetically corrected autologous hematopoietic stem cells can provide lasting clinical benefits for patients with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that impairs immune and platelet function, exposing affected children from an early age to severe infections, bleeding episodes, eczema and autoimmune complications.

Katie Roof / Business Insider: Sources: OpenEvidence, an AI search engine for doctors, raised $250M at a $15B valuation, up from $12B in January; it could be open to selling itself  —  OpenEvidence, an AI search engine for doctors, is the latest AI darling to raise back-to-back funding rounds.

More than 90% of children born with the rare bone marrow condition Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS) survive beyond age 20. But fewer than 30% live beyond age 50. Long-term survival could improve if clinicians act on early signs of high risk, according to a study published, in The New England Journal of Medicine.

A study has raised a question that many women would understandably want answered: Could hormone replacement therapy (HRT) protect against dementia? The research found that women who had used HRT were less likely to receive a dementia diagnosis during follow-up, particularly if they had undergone surgery involving their reproductive organs. But the results do not establish that HRT caused the difference.

A new review was published in Volume 18 of Aging on September 8, 2026, titled "How to live for centuries: common denominators of organisms with exceptional longevity."

Targeting senescence decreases fibrosis and boosts the response of cancer cells to immunotherapy

Mechanisms by which primary tumor cells acquire metastatic capability through metabolic and signaling adaptations are currently poorly understood. We demonstrate that tumor-intrinsic ceramide metabolism, amplified by dietary fat, initiates colorectal ...

Fibrotic remodeling of tissues and tumors establishes immunosuppressive microenvironments that drive organ dysfunction and, in cancer, limit response to immunotherapy. Senescent-like cells are conserved drivers of fibrosis and therapeutic targets, yet ...

Scientists have known for years that neural activity in the brain's motor cortex doesn't just happen when people perform actions. Neurons associated with actions—reaching with a hand to grasp an object, for example—also fire when a person watches someone else perform an action. This observational activity, which underlies a concept known as "mirror neurons," may play a role in how humans and other primates learn to perform physical tasks.

When it comes to balancing hormonal changes during the transition to menopause, less can be more. Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil demonstrated this when testing an alternative to conventional therapy. Rather than replacing estrogen, the team activated only one type of estrogen receptor in cells. This approach had broad metabolic benefits without stimulating the growth of reproductive tissues, such as the uterus and breasts. That is important for individuals with a genetic predisposition to developing tumors.

At a time of rampant medical misinformation online, artificial intelligence can do a good job of correcting falsehoods, but the tone of the correction is key, according to new research led by Washington State University.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease in which motor neurons are gradually lost, leading to muscle weakness and, as the disease advances, difficulty breathing and swallowing. Existing medicines can slow disease progression to some extent, but no treatment has been established that fundamentally reverses the disease process. Mitochondrial dysfunction is considered a potential therapeutic target because mitochondria play a central role in cellular energy production and are frequently impaired in ALS.