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Nature is the foremost international weekly scientific journal in the world and is the flagship journal for Nature Portfolio. It publishes the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature publishes landmark papers, award winning news, leading comment and expert opinion on important, topical scientific news and events that enable readers to share the latest discoveries in science and evolve the discussion amongst the global scientific community.

Traditional gene editing rewrites DNA. But a new approach, called epigenome editing, aims to treat the molecular scars we collect throughout our lives.

What’s the Face/Off?I mean AI enhanced faces. It’s your dream face, a visage with no pimples or wrinkles, possessing gorgeous cheekbones, the perfect nose and jawline, and immaculate symmetry, whatever you desire.But now plastic surgeons say that they are increasingly being asked by patients to replicate them in real life.Some 15% of members of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) say they have met patients who show up for consultation appointments with AI beautified faces.1Facing reality?“We can improve and enhance features, but we cannot rewrite anatomy or guarantee a digitally perfect outcome,” BAAPS president Nora Nugent said.“The image can feel like a realistic representation of what patients could look like after surgery, but it may bear very little relation to what is anatomically or surgically possible.”Unlike traditional inspiration images, AI generated photographs can be particularly powerful because they depict the patient themselves—creating the

A new study suggests Insilico Medicine’s AI-designed lung drug may slow biological aging, though more research is needed.

AI-Discovered Drug Reverses Aging Markers In Study, Biotech Says  Bloomberg.comEarly Data Indicates an A.I.-Generated Drug Could Slow Aging  The New York TimesIntegration of proteomic aging clocks in a phase 2a clinical trial supports simultaneous geroprotective assessment  NatureInsilico’s Co-CEO Has Big Hopes That Fibrosis Drug Can Reverse Aging Too  WSJAI-designed drug candidate reverses biological age in clinical study  News-Medical

AI-Discovered Drug Reverses Aging Markers In Study, Biotech Says  Bloomberg.comEarly Data Indicates an A.I.-Generated Drug Could Slow Aging  The New York TimesIntegration of proteomic aging clocks in a phase 2a clinical trial supports simultaneous geroprotective assessment  NatureInsilico’s Co-CEO Has Big Hopes That Fibrosis Drug Can Reverse Aging Too  WSJAI-designed drug candidate reverses biological age in clinical study  News-Medical

In a development that could reshape how surgeons train for some of the most dangerous operations in medicine, a multidisciplinary team of neurosurgeons and engineers in Spain has built and validated a patient-specific, 3D-printed skull base model that replicates the delicate anatomy encountered during endoscopic endonasal surgery, including the internal carotid arteries, the optic nerves […]

Without brain surgery guided by live AI assistance, Rhys Hibbert could have lost his sight to a tumour.

A man has lived for a record nine months with a transplanted pig kidney while waiting for a human transplant.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Hospital for Special Surgery have discovered the stem cells—unspecialized cells that can develop into specific cell types—that give rise to the body's tendons and ligaments, the tissues connecting muscles and bones.

A genetically modified kidney from a pig has worked in a patient with kidney failure for nine months—the longest period yet recorded—US doctors have reported.The transplant kept Tim Andrews, 66, free of dialysis for 271 days, and demonstrated for the first time that a pig kidney can be used as a temporary “bridge” until a human transplant becomes available, according to a case study report published in the Lancet.1Andrews had kidney failure caused by type 2 diabetes. He had just a 9% chance of receiving a human kidney within five years, against a more than 40% risk of dying or being removed from the waiting list for a transplant, the researchers noted.The pig kidney he received worked for nine months before it failed and was removed. After a short period of dialysis, he received another kidney from a deceased human donor.Researchers at Mass General Brigham hospital, Massachusetts—who carried out the...

Insilico Medicine ("Insilico"), a clinical-stage company focused on generative AI-driven drug discovery and development, today announced the publication of a new study conducted in collaboration with an international team of scientists from Harvard Medical School, Stanford University, The Broad Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Peking University and Westlake University.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Hospital for Special Surgery have discovered the unspecialized stem cells that give rise to the body's tendons and ligaments, the tissues connecting muscles and bones.

Blood samples from a small lung-disease trial have been run through six independently built ageing clocks, and all six returned the same answer: the patients on the drug looked biologically younger than the patients on placebo. “More lifetimes than humanity lost in all the wars ever fought. If you manage to add 3 years to […] This story continues at The Next Web

Cade Metz / New York Times: Insilico, which uses AI to accelerate drug discovery, says early data shows that rentosertib, a drug developed to treat a chronic lung disease, could slow aging  —  Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition.

Nature is the foremost international weekly scientific journal in the world and is the flagship journal for Nature Portfolio. It publishes the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature publishes landmark papers, award winning news, leading comment and expert opinion on important, topical scientific news and events that enable readers to share the latest discoveries in science and evolve the discussion amongst the global scientific community.

Nature is the foremost international weekly scientific journal in the world and is the flagship journal for Nature Portfolio. It publishes the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature publishes landmark papers, award winning news, leading comment and expert opinion on important, topical scientific news and events that enable readers to share the latest discoveries in science and evolve the discussion amongst the global scientific community.

Dr. Annu Navani shares four low-cost longevity habits rooted in sleep, stress management, nutrition and resistance training for a longer healthspan.

A miniature human bladder with flowing urine revealed that a standard UTI antibiotic struggled where lab tests said it should work.

Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition. Its maker says the drug also seems to reduce the biological hallmarks of age.

Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition. Its maker says the drug also seems to reduce the biological hallmarks of age.

For three years, the case for ambient artificial intelligence in healthcare was told through one scene: a physician

A team of engineers and surgeons in China has built a handheld surgical robot that brings robotic dexterity to laparoscopic surgery in a package small enough to hold in one hand, and their prototype has now shown laboratory performance figures that could challenge the dominance of the multimillion-dollar operating room robots that currently define surgical […]

Lung cancer tumors that respond well to targeted drugs often harbor a hidden population of cells that the drugs cannot touch, and new research reveals that neighboring support cells actively reprogram those survivors into a drug-resistant state. A study published in the Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research shows that mesenchymal stromal cells educated […]

The Gerontological Society of America has thrown its institutional weight behind a sweeping new review of respiratory vaccine evidence, endorsing findings released on September 2, 2026 by the Vaccine Integrity Project in collaboration with the American Medical Association. The endorsement arrives at a moment of heightened public scrutiny of immunization policy, and it places one […]

That number on your vehicle's battery signals four key facts about it. Ignore it at your peril - batteries are less interchangeable than you may think.

Kidney organoids grown from human stem cells have transformed how researchers study kidney development and disease, but they have always shared one stubborn flaw: they lack blood vessels. Now a team at Maastricht University in the Netherlands has unveiled a 3D printed microfluidic chip that coaxes lab-grown kidney organoids to develop their own primitive capillary […]

Prostate cancer remains one of the most frequently diagnosed malignancies in men worldwide, and despite decades of progress in surgery, radiation therapy, and androgen-deprivation strategies, aggressive forms of the disease continue to claim hundreds of thousands of lives each year. A new study published in the Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine has now uncovered […]

Medical artificial intelligence systems are now capable of passing some of the most demanding examinations in medicine, yet a growing body of evidence suggests that these headline-grabbing achievements may say remarkably little about whether such systems are safe, effective, or appropriate for actual clinical deployment. A new commentary published in the Journal of Medical Systems […]

ABC News: Trump admin debuts arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake clone and a Tetris-like wall-building clone; Tetris says it takes IP infringement “very seriously”  —  In “Build the Wall,” players aim to “protect the border” from zombies.  —  Isabella Murray, Nicholas Kerr, and Michelle Stoddart

The collaboration brings together Synastra’s expertise in genomic engineering, AAV vector design, rare-disease gene therapy, and translational development with NewBiologix’s proprietary cell engineering and rAAV manufacturing technologies. The post NewBiologix and Synastra Join Forces to Advance rAAV Manufacturing for Duchenne Gene Therapy appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.

Medical experts have stressed that Hong Kong’s next generation of healthcare professionals must combine clinical rigour with emotional resilience, an open-minded approach to artificial intelligence (AI) and the drive to transform the sector. The remarks came during a panel on the first day of the Global Education Summit, co-organised by the South China Morning Post and HSBC Premier. “We always talk about people going north, going to Shenzhen … for medical services. But I would say that it’s a...

AI evangelists’ bold predictions about the technology’s ability to cure all diseases are overblown and oversimplified, writes Arianna Huffington.

The FDA's TEMPO pilot now lists four devices, including an AI voice agent delivering therapy to Medicare patients without premarket authorization.

Artificial intelligence has transformed biomedical research over the past decade, but most AI systems in biology remain confined to narrow tasks, single data types, or one biological scale at a time. A new Perspective article published in Advanced Science proposes a radical conceptual remedy: a hypothetical “Full-Body AI Agent,” a supervisory multi-agent framework designed to […]

The durability of Meloni’s coalition has been a rarity in postwar Italy, where governments have often fallen before the end of their mandates.

The human gut is home to trillions of viruses, a sprawling community known as the virome, and yet it remains one of the least understood layers of the microbiome. A new review published in the journal Gut Pathogens argues that this viral darkness deserves far more clinical attention, particularly in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell […]

In a finding that could reshape how scientists think about repairing the damaged human heart, researchers at the University of Guelph have shown that the leopard gecko, a small terrestrial reptile best known as a popular pet, can regenerate its heart tissue after serious injury. Using a powerful technique known as quantitative proteomics, the team […]

In a development that could reshape how scientists probe the molecular machinery of legumes, researchers in Poland have created the first transgene-free knockout lines of a key transporter gene in the model legume Medicago truncatula, using a two-stage CRISPR/Cas9 strategy that promises to dramatically accelerate functional genomics in one of agriculture’s most important plant families. […]

The immune system is made up of specialized cells and proteins that help defend the body from pathogens and cancer. Most of the time, the immune system performs its job remarkably well. However, in some situations, the immune system doesn't work well enough or works in overdrive, causing disease.

A Cleveland Clinic first-in-human clinical trial has shown that a one-time infusion of a gene-editing therapy using CRISPR-Cas9 was effective and safe in reducing LDL ("bad") cholesterol and triglycerides in people with medication-resistant lipid disorders through one year of follow-up across all doses.

A lab-grown micro bladder may explain why urinary tract infections (UTIs) return so frequently, according to a study led by researchers at UCL, the University of Oxford and the University of Leicester.

As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it distinctly human.

Federal and state regulators are drawing new boundaries around medical AI, from how the tools are vetted to who bears responsibility when they fail.

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This is far from the only study to indicate that the children of long-lived individuals tend also to be long-lived. The open question is the degree to which this is genetic versus cultural transmission. The construction of very large population databases over the past few decades has produced evidence for genetics to play only a small role in life expectancy for the vast majority of people. Similarly the weight of evidence for lifestyle choice, particularly physical fitness, to be the presently dominant influence on life expectancy is compelling. Against that background, the hypothesis that centenarians are centenarians because they have favorable gene variants that might form the basis for age-slowing therapies faces an uphill battle. Centenarian lifespan extension is frequently accompanied by delayed onset of […]

Unauthorized stem cell treatment may expose patients to medical and financial risks, reinforcing the role of physicians in counseling those considering such treatment abroad.

For more than a century, the adult human heart has been viewed as a terminally differentiated organ, incapable of meaningful self-repair. Cardiomyocytes, the contractile cells that make up the bulk of cardiac tissue, exit the cell cycle shortly after birth and never meaningfully return. When a heart attack destroys a section of muscle, the organ […]

Pig kidneys successfully transplanted into humans  Financial TimesPatient Who Received Pig Kidney Becomes First To Progress to Human Kidney Transplant  Harvard Medical SchoolUse pig organs while patients wait for donors, say scientists  The TelegraphPig kidney kept a man off dialysis for nine months in world first  New ScientistPig kidney works in human body for 271 days - is this the future of organ transplants?  BBC

Pig kidneys successfully transplanted into humans  Financial TimesPatient Who Received Pig Kidney Becomes First To Progress to Human Kidney Transplant  Harvard Medical SchoolUse pig organs while patients wait for donors, say scientists  The TelegraphPig kidney kept a man off dialysis for nine months in world first  New ScientistPig kidney works in human body for 271 days - is this the future of organ transplants?  BBC

arXiv:2609.03865v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deng et al. discovered that Drt3b synthesizes protein-primed poly(AC) DNA without a nucleic-acid template. The structures reveal a finite protein architecture and product-associated contacts, but not the renewable dynamical rule that converts a bounded pocket into a long period-2 sequence. We propose that Drt3b is a regenerating protein-substrate free-energy register. The framework specifies a sampled quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) potential of mean force and a preregistered, within-domain first-order electronic-descriptor map for edge-specific activation barriers; physical curvature is admitted only through a training-frozen Taylor-remainder bound that widens uncertainty but never corrects a held-out mean. Conditional hazards derived from those barriers are averaged over unresolved conformational, hydration, protonation, and metal-coordination trajectories to yield a semi-Markov event kernel. Pointwise ratios of competing

Hydrogels have long been considered one of the most promising material platforms for implantable bioelectronics. Soft, water-rich, and chemically similar to living tissue, they promise a gentle interface between electronics and biology. Yet despite decades of enthusiasm, hydrogel-based implants have remained largely confined to laboratory demonstrations, largely because of a single, stubborn failure mode: swelling. […]

Pig kidney works in human body for 271 days - is this the future of organ transplants?  BBCGenetically modified pig kidney keeps man alive for record nine months  The GuardianA Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Still Working After a Record-Setting 9 Months in a Patient  WIREDRecipients of gene-edited pig kidneys successfully receive human organs  STATIn a First, a Pig Kidney Kept a Patient Alive Until He Got a Human One  The New York Times

Pig kidney works in human body for 271 days - is this the future of organ transplants?  BBCGenetically modified pig kidney keeps man alive for record nine months  The GuardianA Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Still Working After a Record-Setting 9 Months in a Patient  WIREDRecipients of gene-edited pig kidneys successfully receive human organs  STATIn a First, a Pig Kidney Kept a Patient Alive Until He Got a Human One  The New York Times

Alexei Oreskovic / Fortune: AI scientist and Google researcher Ray Kurzweil joins BCI startup Subsense, which develops non-surgical BCI tech involving inhaled nanoparticles, as an advisor  —  Ray Kurzweil, the pioneering AI scientist, Google researcher, and “AI visionary,” is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing …

Fake doctor reviews are longer, more detailed, and more trusted than real ones, a gap generative AI is now making easier to exploit.

WashU Medicine surgeons report the first robotic combined liver-kidney transplant, replacing a 16-inch incision with one of about three inches.

Gene-edited pig kidneys could offer a lifeline to patients stuck waiting for a human donor.

In January 2026, Tim Andrews, who had received a genetically edited pig kidney in January 2025, became the recipient of a human kidney. A new Mass General Brigham paper, published in The Lancet, details Andrews' experience and how xenotransplantation could bridge the gap between end-stage kidney failure and a human transplant, allowing a patient to forgo dialysis in the meantime.

As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it distinctly human. These cells, called radial glia, make billions of decisions that determine which kinds of brain cells are created, when they appear and how the cortex—the seat of thought, memory and language—takes form.

Researchers have demonstrated a series of biological tests that could serve as "proxies" for measuring how different regenerative agriculture practices could improve soil carbon—years before it would be possible to measure the carbon directly. The technique offers new insights into how effective various regenerative practices are at improving soil health.

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are overwhelmingly being used in mental health practices to support administrative tasks, but University of Queensland researchers have found they potentially lack privacy, accuracy and governance safeguards.

FDA warned an Arizona firm over unapproved umbilical cord products marketed for autism and ALS, citing unvalidated sterility processes.

A new risk stratification model developed by Northwestern Medicine scientists may help identify patients at lower risk of kidney transplant rejection, informing more personalized treatment and care strategies with fewer adverse side effects, as detailed in a recent study published in Nature Communications.

Senescent cells accumulate with age in tissues throughout the body, disrupting tissue structure and function with inflammatory secretions. The growing burden of senescent cells is an important contributing cause of degenerative aging. A cell becomes senescent in response to damage induced by some form of stress, or more often when a somatic cell reaches the Hayflick limit on cellular replication. In youth senescent cells are efficiently cleared by the immune system, but immune system aging allows senescent cells to linger and grow in number. Immune cells themselves are prone to reaching the Hayflick limit and entering replicative senescence because they respond to a variety of issues with greater replication to multiply their efforts. Research into neurodegenerative conditions and the state of the aging brain has […]

This eBook brings together expert perspectives on several of the most pressing analytical topics facing today’s cell and gene therapy developers. The post The Analytical Blueprint for Cell & Gene Therapy Success appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.

The executive chair of Oracle and its CEO will be asked to justify why a project budgeted at $10bn is costing taxpayers $17bn more

Gene editing was supposed to be clean. The patent fight wasnt. For fourteen years, CRISPR has moved from a breakthrough scientific idea to a platform technology that promises cures, not just therapies. Investors backed the platform. Patients waited f... Source

In a rare case that is drawing attention across the respiratory medicine community, clinicians have documented the recurrence of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis more than three years after a patient received a bilateral lung transplant—a finding that challenges assumptions about what transplantation can and cannot fix, and that offers a roadmap for diagnosing a disease that […]

Metformin, a widely prescribed, safe and inexpensive drug for type 2 diabetes, is a first-line treatment that lowers blood sugar and improves the body's response to insulin. The drug appears to trick cells into sensing an energy shortage, similar to what happens during fasting or dieting. This activates a key cellular energy sensor called AMPK, which helps trigger cellular waste cleanup and supports cellular repair. Now, a recent review suggests metformin might also help counter some effects of aging.

uniQure filed for FDA approval of AMT-130, a one-time Huntington's gene therapy, and requested priority review. Here is what it means.

Long-lived bats are extreme outliers in the normal mammalian relationships between species body size, metabolic rate, and life span. They are small, have a high metabolic rate, and unlike near all other mammals with those characteristics, many bat species are long-lived. But bat species do exhibit a very wide range of life spans; near neighbor species can have very different paces of aging. Researchers here sequence the genomes of a number of different bat species in search of insight into the mechanisms driving longevity in bats. As is usually the case, the distant end goal of this sort of comparative biology of aging research is to find potential approaches to the development of longevity therapies. That is a long road, and little progress has been […]

arXiv:2609.01653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diagnostic error carries a burden, while unconstrained large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to hallucination and weak integration of quantitative laboratory dynamics. We developed a decision-support pipeline combining disease-specific biomarker correlation graphs, ordinary differential equations (ODEs), deep sequence classification, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). For 103 disease classes from a full blood count (FBC) repository, biomarker networks were used as coupling matrices to generate 30 trajectories per disease (3,090 total). A one-dimensional convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) network classified disease trajectories and six dynamical clusters. A constrained GPT-4o-mini RAG layer used a 19-pattern BMJ Best Practice/NICE corpus to generate differential diagnoses evaluated for diagnostic suitability, evidential grounding, and clinical plausibility. Across five random-seed runs,

arXiv:2609.02113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Classical and current quantum approaches to protein structure prediction (QPSP) face limitations, notably massive qubit requirements restricting near-term models to simplistic on-lattice simulations. We propose a logarithmic-scale variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) that reduces qubit requirements for N torsional degrees of freedom to O(log2N), enabling off-lattice, all-atom simulations. Our architecture extracts molecular torsions from relative phases in statevector simulations. On quantum hardware, a decoder maps the empirical cumulative distribution function (CDF) from basis-state probabilities to bounded torsional variables. These feed a classical algorithm to build heavy-atom coordinates. We use an EfficientSU2 ansatz and multi-stage relaxation to mitigate barren plateaus. Structures are evaluated via a custom hybrid quantum-classical Hamiltonian, alongside Rosetta and OpenMM benchmarks. Evaluation on chignolin and Trp-cage

arXiv:2609.02436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative Brain-Computer Interfaces (cBCIs) offer a promising mechanism to augment team decision-making, but existing approaches rely exclusively on evidence available only after a decision has been made and reported, such as reaction time or stated confidence. This limits their use to explaining or discounting a decision after the fact, rather than informing a team's response before it is finalised. We tested whether spatial-covariance EEG features could instead provide a genuinely pre-emptive signal of an operator's decision correctness, available within the response window itself, and whether such a signal depends on cognitive workload. Using a continuous virtual reality target-detection task, participants (N = 23) completed a within-subject workload manipulation (High vs. Low). At the team level, weighting votes by this pre-emptive neural signal, available before a response is committed, produced substantial accuracy gains on

arXiv:2609.02006v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A compressed student has two shapes that need not agree: the weight it deploys at inference and the weight family its training can reach. We show that a state-of-the-art weight-inheritance distiller, Low-Rank Clone (LRC), deploys a full-width student MLP but ties training to a teacher-induced slice, leaving 62.5-81.4% of each deployed matrix's independent linear degrees of freedom unreachable-paid for at inference, never trainable. Our principle is one line: train what you deploy. From the identical LRC warm start, we make the training object the entire deployed matrix, with no change in deployed shape, deployed parameter count, or inference FLOPs, via two mergeable realizations (Dense-LRC and CORE-LRC) that both collapse to one deployed weight. This recovers stranded capacity: taking the stronger realization per teacher, +2.36/+2.71/+10.45 Avg9 over matched-budget plain-LRC baselines across three teachers (Llama3.2-3B, Llama3.1-8B,

A new report documents 592 silicosis cases among California engineered stone workers, including 31 deaths and 65 lung transplants since 2019.

The biggest healthy aging ‘blind spots’ — and doctors’ favorite biohacking tools for longevity  New York PostThis Simple Habit Could Help You Live Longer. But Does It Actually Work?  VICEU.S. News & World Report Survey: Health Experts Rank Core Lifestyle Habits Ahead of Biohacks for Longevity  MorningstarSpotlight: Redefining longevity: What does healthy aging actually mean?  Oakville NewsHere Are the Top Strategies for Healthy Aging, According to 63 Experts  Yahoo Health

The biggest healthy aging ‘blind spots’ — and doctors’ favorite biohacking tools for longevity  New York PostThis Simple Habit Could Help You Live Longer. But Does It Actually Work?  VICEU.S. News & World Report Survey: Health Experts Rank Core Lifestyle Habits Ahead of Biohacks for Longevity  MorningstarSpotlight: Redefining longevity: What does healthy aging actually mean?  Oakville NewsHere Are the Top Strategies for Healthy Aging, According to 63 Experts  Yahoo Health

Scientists study the underlying causes of a disease or test potential new drugs in animal models or cells obtained from human biopsy specimens before clinical trials. However, disease models in animals do not mimic actual human disease, and biopsy specimens are difficult to access for research purposes. Lab-grown tissues engineered from stem cells reprogrammed from human cells, called human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), are rapidly emerging as a more reliable and accessible model in medical research.

Scientists developed tiny robots that use sound waves instead of motors to move, a design that could eventually benefit miniature medical devices.

The most common metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes or fatty liver disease leading to metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a fibrotic condition of the liver, are consequences of the dysfunctional state of metabolism that results from being overweight and sedentary. These conditions are rare in thin, fit people, even in later life when the damage of aging makes metabolism more vulnerable and inflammatory. Excess visceral fat tissue is known to promote the accumulation of senescent cells. While cells become senescent throughout life, in youth they are promptly cleared by the immune system. That clearance falters with age, allowing senescent cells to linger and accumulate. The metabolic dysfunction produced as a consequence of being overweight accelerates this process. In today's open access paper researchers review […]

Scientists study the underlying causes of a disease or test new potential drugs in animal models or cells obtained from human biopsy specimens before clinical trials.

Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, today announced the release of a series of frontier specialist models for chemistry and biology, trained through its MMAI Gym for Science framework.

Laboratory experiments found that vanillin, a common vape flavoring, altered the development of human embryonic stem cells.

The recent flood of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and content has undoubtedly brought along an unwelcome bug from the human-made content it scrapes from: bias. AI has been noted to form, copy, and amplify harmful stereotypes of already marginalized groups.