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In the world of paediatric medicine, haematopoietic stem cell transplantation is often the last and best hope for children with leukaemia, inherited immune deficiencies, bone marrow failure syndromes and a range of other life-threatening disorders. The procedure replaces a child’s faulty blood-forming and immune system with healthy donor stem cells, offering the possibility of a […]

Gene editing has long promised a revolution in cancer medicine, yet the promise has remained stubbornly out of reach for one deceptively simple reason: getting the CRISPR-Cas9 machinery into tumor cells, and only tumor cells, is extraordinarily difficult. A new comprehensive review published in Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials argues that the missing piece of […]

Artificial intelligence has become an increasingly powerful tool in the search for new medicines, but a persistent problem has haunted the field: neural networks that invent molecules are remarkably creative yet notoriously unreliable. They can propose chemical structures that look plausible on paper but violate basic principles of chemistry or pharmacology, forcing medicinal chemists to […]

A blood test that could help clinicians diagnose autism spectrum disorder in toddlers has moved a significant step closer to real-world use, thanks to a new translational study published in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. Researchers led by Juergen Hahn of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, working with clinical partners in Arizona, Tennessee, and the biotechnology company […]

Chronic kidney disease is one of the world’s most burdensome chronic conditions, a slow and often silent deterioration of renal function that affects hundreds of millions of people and frequently goes undetected until the damage is advanced. Staging the disease correctly is central to everything that follows: it determines how aggressively clinicians manage blood pressure […]

Peppers are among the world’s most valuable vegetable crops, prized for their culinary versatility, vibrant pigments, and nutritional content, yet they remain dangerously vulnerable to cold. Even brief exposure to chilling temperatures can disrupt membrane integrity, suppress photosynthesis, and throw cellular redox balance into disarray, slashing both yield and fruit quality. Now, a comprehensive review […]

Treating inherited diseases is one of the greatest challenges in modern medicine. In the future, targeted gene corrections at the earliest stages of embryonic development could help prevent certain inherited diseases from developing and being passed on to future generations. However, the safety of such approaches depends on how human embryos repair the DNA damage caused during gene editing and on the limitations of available technologies. These questions are addressed in a study published in the journal Nature, led by first author Štěpán Jeřábek, who is affiliated with both Columbia University and IOCB Prague. The research also involved two other IOCB Prague scientists, Iva Pichová and Michal Doležal.

Oesophageal adenocarcinoma is one of the most stubborn cancers in modern oncology. Diagnosed at a stage where the tumour has often already invaded the wall of the gullet or spread beyond it, it carries some of the bleakest long-term survival figures of any major cancer type. Even as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted drugs and, more recently, […]

Artificial intelligence has taken another step into the exam room, and this time the target is one of the most quietly common conditions in women’s health: cystocele, the herniation of the bladder into the front wall of the vagina that affects a large share of women who have given birth. In a study published in […]

Deep learning models can now spot malaria parasites in blood smears, grade diabetic retinopathy from retinal photographs, and detect the earliest structural signatures of Alzheimer’s disease on brain MRI scans, often matching the performance of experienced clinicians. Yet a persistent problem has kept many of these systems out of routine clinical use: they deliver confident-looking […]

Living to 100 may benefit more than one generation. Children of centenarians tend to live longer while delaying major threats to heart health. A study published in JAMA Network Open found that adults with at least one parent who lived to 100 had substantially lower risks of death, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension than people whose [...]

For nearly a century, scientists have known that cutting calories can extend lifespan in laboratory animals, from yeast to mice. Whether the same holds true for humans has been far harder to establish, largely because the tools for measuring human aging are still maturing. A new study published in GeroScience offers some of the strongest […]

Every few seconds inside a scanning suite, a quiet race unfolds between two forces that pull a medical image apart. On one side is the patient, whose breathing, heartbeat and small involuntary shifts blur the geometry of each frame. On the other is the contrast agent itself, flooding through vessels and tissues, brightening some regions […]

A one-year-old boy with a rare mitochondrial disorder that had pushed both of his heart ventricles to the brink of collapse has survived to receive a new heart, thanks to an unconventional sequence of mechanical circulatory support decisions described by cardiac surgeons at the University of Osaka. The case, published in the Journal of Artificial […]

Maize is the backbone of global agriculture, cultivated on more than 200 million hectares and feeding billions of people as food, animal feed, and bioenergy feedstock. Yet the crop that sustains so much of the world is increasingly under siege. Erratic rainfall, scorching heat waves, soil degradation, and emerging pests and diseases are steadily eroding […]

In May 2026, the historic university city of Coimbra, Portugal, played host to a gathering that many in the aging research community hope will be remembered as a turning point. The SENESCENCE2030 Annual Conference and Industry–Academia Workshop brought together researchers, clinicians, industry representatives, and policy stakeholders from across Europe and beyond with a single, ambitious […]

Semaglutide helped older healthy mice live longer while improving memory, muscle function, blood sugar control, and several biological signs of aging. Its effects went beyond those seen with calorie restriction, raising the possibility that GLP-1 drugs could tap into a separate biological pathway linked to longevity.

Scientists have unveiled a new computational framework that transforms the protein signatures circulating in human blood into concrete, testable hypotheses about the molecular machinery of ageing. The tool, called Protein Expression Net, or PEN, was described in a study published in BMC Bioinformatics and represents an ambitious attempt to bridge a stubborn gap in modern […]

Millions of people with blinding retinal diseases face a treatment regimen that never truly ends: monthly or near-monthly injections of anti-VEGF drugs directly into the eye. Now, a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis published in the journal Angiogenesis suggests that a single administration of gene therapy could dramatically reshape that paradigm, offering durable suppression of […]

A new analysis of more than 23,000 heart transplant recipients suggests that a routine echocardiographic measurement taken one year after surgery may be one of the most powerful predictors of long-term survival available to transplant teams. The study, published in Clinical Research in Cardiology, drew on the United Network for Organ Sharing-affiliated Organ Procurement and […]

Scientists have reported a new strategy for coaxing one of the brain’s most stubborn cell types to change its identity in a way that could reshape how researchers think about repairing the damaged nervous system. In a study published in Experimental & Molecular Medicine, a research team describes an approach called TRANsCre-DIONE, which converts scar-forming […]

Researchers in Germany have unveiled a streamlined genome-editing tool that could make it considerably easier to engineer Bacillus bacteria, a group of microbes that sits at the heart of numerous industrial processes, from enzyme production to the manufacture of vitamins and detergents. The new system, described in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, removes a long-standing bottleneck […]

The human intestine performs some of the most demanding construction work in the body. Its lining turns over roughly every five days, shedding billions of cells and replacing them from a small pool of intestinal stem cells tucked into pockets called crypts. When this assembly line falters, the consequences cascade across an astonishing range of […]

Lung adenocarcinoma is the most common form of lung cancer, and one of its most dangerous tricks is a process called epithelial–mesenchymal transition, in which tumor cells abandon their epithelial identity, take on invasive mesenchymal characteristics, and become harder to treat and more likely to spread. For years, researchers studying the cellular ecosystems that drive […]

For children complaining of heel pain, hip stiffness, or aching knees, one of the most difficult questions a pediatric rheumatologist faces is deceptively simple: is this growing pain, sports strain, or the first sign of inflammatory arthritis? A new pilot study from University Hospital Tübingen, published in Pediatric Radiology, offers the most detailed answer yet […]

Cultured meat, once a science-fiction curiosity, has matured into one of the most closely watched frontiers in food technology, and a comprehensive new review published in Discover Biotechnology offers the most balanced assessment yet of whether it can truly deliver on its promises. The review, led by Roshini Singh of Amity University Uttar Pradesh together […]

Aquaculture now supplies more than half of the seafood consumed worldwide, yet the industry still struggles with one of biology’s oldest problems: controlling when and how farmed animals reproduce. A comprehensive review published in Advanced Biotechnology argues that the answer lies in precision reproductive engineering, combining CRISPR-based genome editing with germ cell transplantation to produce […]

Artificial intelligence has promised to remake medicine for decades, but a sweeping new systematic review suggests the field is at a decisive turning point: the technology is advancing faster than its ability to reach the clinic. Researchers Deepika Yadav, Pooja Yadav and Hemant Yadav, publishing in the journal Discover Informatics, have compiled one of the […]

The speech of people with schizophrenia sounds subtly different from their healthy counterparts. Can AI hear those differences better than human psychiatrists?

Cellular senescence has long been described as a state of permanent growth arrest, a kind of biological emergency brake that stops damaged or stressed cells from dividing. But researchers have increasingly come to appreciate that the arrested cell is anything but silent. Senescent cells remodel their surfaces, alter their internal architecture and, most strikingly, release […]

Cancer has long been understood as a disease of the genome, driven by mutations that rewire the instructions encoded in DNA. Over the past three decades, however, a parallel truth has crystallized: cancer is equally a disease of the epigenome, the layer of chemical marks that sits atop the genetic code and determines which genes […]

Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: Epsilon Health, which contracts with radiologists who use its AI to generate image reports faster, emerges from stealth with a $20M Series A led by AlleyCorp  —  Epsilon Health, an AI-enabled radiology practice, emerged from stealth with a $20 million Series A round, CEO Rustin Rassoli tells Axios Pro exclusively.

For decades, the human endometrium—the dynamic lining of the uterus that governs embryo implantation, menstruation and the earliest moments of pregnancy—has remained one of the most difficult tissues in the human body to study. Now, a comprehensive review published in Nature Biomedical Engineering maps how a quiet revolution in tissue modelling, spanning organoids, assembloids and […]

Platelet-rich plasma, the amber-colored concentrate spun from a patient’s own blood and injected back into damaged tendons, joints, and wounds, has long occupied a curious place in medicine: widely used, vigorously marketed, yet scientifically underdefined. Now a team of researchers in Catalonia, Spain, has delivered one of the most detailed molecular portraits to date of […]

A team of researchers at Hassan II University of Casablanca has combined blockchain smart contracts with large language model agents to orchestrate crowdsourced pharmaceutical last-mile delivery, reporting that in matched simulations the AI-assisted workflow cut route time by 25 percent and planning time by nearly 79 percent compared with a human-operated baseline. The work addresses […]

Gotu kola, the humble creeping herb known scientifically as Centella asiatica, has quietly become one of the most sought-after plants on the planet. Its leaves contain a family of triterpenoid saponins called centellosides—including asiaticoside, madecassoside, asiatic acid, and madecassic acid—that drive wound healing, neuroprotection, and antioxidant defenses. The cosmetics industry alone has built a market […]

Skin is the body’s first line of defense and its most resilient mechanical shield, stretched, compressed, and sheared thousands of times a day without failing. Yet the cellular machinery that allows this outer organ to continuously remodel itself under physical load has remained remarkably opaque. A new study published in Nature Communications points to a […]

A single infusion of a gene therapy delivered within the first months of life continues to transform the course of one of the most devastating neuromuscular diseases of infancy, according to a comprehensive two-year analysis of real-world outcomes drawn from the Italian national registry. The new findings, published in Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, […]

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Editing a plant’s genes is only half the battle. Before a new, improved trait can ever reach a farmer’s field, scientists must be able to grow a whole plant from just a few edited cells — a process that can be slow, unreliable and, for some plant species, impossible. A new […] The post New Gene-Editing Tool Speeds Regeneration of Hard-To-Breed Perennial Crops appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

Google Health 5.08 is rolling out on Android and iOS as the smallest update since the May redesign. more…

ARPA-H picked teams to build AI agents that could adjust heart failure care, aiming for FDA authorization. Safety questions patients should ask.

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is one of cardiovascular medicine’s most deceptive killers. The disease involves a localized, tumor-like dilation of the abdominal aorta that typically progresses without symptoms until the vessel wall thins to the point of catastrophic rupture. As the aneurysm expands beyond roughly 5 centimeters, the aortic wall undergoes progressive structural degradation, leaving […]

Researchers have taken an important step toward solving one of the biggest challenges in gene therapy for children with metabolic liver disorders: growth itself. As a child's liver grows, some gene therapies that once worked can gradually lose their effect because the treated cells are eventually outnumbered by new, untreated ones.

An international team of researchers, including those at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science Tokyo, has developed a protein language model that brings together two fundamental sources of information about proteins: their amino acid sequences and three-dimensional structures.

In 2024, surgeons at Northwestern Medicine completed the first awake kidney transplant.Led by transplant surgeons Satish N. Nadig, MD, PhD and Vinayak S. Rohan, MD and anesthesiologist Vicente Garcia Tomas, MD, the procedure was the first kidney transplant to be performed using single spinal/epidural anesthesia injection rather than general anesthesia at Northwestern Medicine.After the first surgery, Northwestern Medicine established the Accelerated Surgery Without General Anesthesia in Kidney Transplantation (AWAKE) program. Since then, the program has completed 25 transplant operations.

Artificial intelligence systems that can look at a surgical image and answer a clinician’s question are moving rapidly from research curiosity toward genuine clinical utility. But a persistent problem has haunted this field: these models often answer with unwavering confidence, even when that confidence is misplaced. Now, a team of researchers from Italy and the […]

On a sunny spring day at Penn State, Cristin Millett, professor of art in the College of Arts and Architecture's School of Visual Arts, inserted a catheter needle into the umbilical vein of a placenta.

AI can trawl vast amounts of health data which is not specifically related to migraines, but which can be used to identify people predisposed to the condition.

People with a progressive genetic eye disorder see more clearly after receiving engineered grafts that repair the damaged surfaces of their eyes, offering a glimpse at what future treatments could hold.

In lung transplant recipients, detecting nontuberculous mycobacteria in the first year after a transplant may signal heightened risks for death or a repeat transplant and for chronic graft decline.

Europe’s largest urban regeneration project, the Ellinikon, a 6.2 million-sq-m redevelopment of Athens’ former international airport, has completed its latest stage. Called the Courtyards, the 324-unit residential neighbourhood is formed… The post Checking in on Europe’s largest urban regeneration project appeared first on Global Construction Review.

arXiv:2609.11877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many biological discovery problems require experiments to be selected sequentially under constrained budgets. CRISPR screening is a prominent example, as exhaustive perturbation testing is often infeasible and candidate perturbations must instead be prioritized over multiple experimental rounds. Despite the importance of this problem, existing benchmarks for adaptive hit discovery remain limited in scale and diversity. Here, we introduce AssayBench-Loop, a large-scale benchmark for adaptive hit discovery comprising 1,389 CRISPR screens across five phenotype categories. Beyond enabling systematic evaluation, its scale makes it possible to learn acquisition strategies across historical experiments. Building on this resource, we introduce AssayLoop, a sequential experimental design framework combining AssayFormer, a transformer-based amortized acquisition policy trained across historical screens to adapt from experimental feedback, with

arXiv:2609.11877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many biological discovery problems require experiments to be selected sequentially under constrained budgets. CRISPR screening is a prominent example, as exhaustive perturbation testing is often infeasible and candidate perturbations must instead be prioritized over multiple experimental rounds. Despite the importance of this problem, existing benchmarks for adaptive hit discovery remain limited in scale and diversity. Here, we introduce AssayBench-Loop, a large-scale benchmark for adaptive hit discovery comprising 1,389 CRISPR screens across five phenotype categories. Beyond enabling systematic evaluation, its scale makes it possible to learn acquisition strategies across historical experiments. Building on this resource, we introduce AssayLoop, a sequential experimental design framework combining AssayFormer, a transformer-based amortized acquisition policy trained across historical screens to adapt from experimental feedback, with

arXiv:2609.10595v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The adoption of generative AI in software-intensive systems is proceeding rapidly, but current analytical instruments - principally unidimensional maturity models - compress important configurational variation into a single progressive axis. Drawing on an inductive interview study of eighteen senior practitioners across telecommunications, automotive, defence, aviation, banking, energy, government, and enterprise software services, this paper presents the Trustworthy Autonomy Health Check Model: a structured, multidimensional instrument for characterizing how organizations establish trust in GenAI-assisted software engineering. The model organizes eight empirically grounded dimensions into a system layer (Scope of Agent Authority, Assurance Mechanisms, Data Trustworthiness, Architectural Containment, Traceability & Comprehensibility) and an organizational layer (Governance, Human Oversight Posture, Workforce Capability Sustainability),

Pick your favorite zombie movie or television show and you’ll eventually be confronted with dialogue justifying the killing of the zombies with the idea that they are no longer human. “They aren’t people, Rick. They’re just bodies. We have to stop thinking of them as if they’re still alive.” – The Walking Dead “They’re not […]

Команда исследователей из Техасского университета A&M AgriLife Research, Мэрилендского университета и Министерства сельского хозяйства США (USDA) представила инновационную технологию CRISPR-Combo. Метод позволяет одновременно редакти...

Artificial intelligence is moving into hospitals, clinics, and classrooms at a pace that few predicted a decade ago, and the students training to become the next generation of physicians and nurses are watching it happen in real time. A new study published in BMC Nursing offers one of the most granular looks yet at how […]

Panelists at the 2026 TIME100 Health Leadership Forum discussed the latest in longevity research.

For Judy Donnelly, participating in a UConn Health research study meant driving from Windham to Farmington, drinking four packets of a supplement each day and undergoing a comprehensive series of tests designed to measure everything from her strength and body composition to her cognitive function.

Editing a plant's genes is only half the battle. Before a new, improved trait can ever reach a farmer's field, scientists must be able to grow a whole plant from just a few edited cells—a process that can be slow, unreliable and, for some plant species, impossible.

Researchers have unveiled a lithium-ion battery separator that pairs the workhorse durability of polypropylene with the rapid biodegradability of poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate), better known as PBAT, and manufactured it using an industrial gravure printing process. The study, published in the Journal of Materials Science: Polymers, reports that the printed, chain-extended PBAT–polypropylene membrane achieves an ionic conductivity […]

Every leaf, tassel, and ear of corn traces its origin to a dome of actively dividing cells smaller than a millimeter across, hidden at the growing tip of the plant. Scientists have long known that this structure, the shoot apical meristem, depends on elegant genetic circuits such as the CLAVATA-WUSCHEL signaling pathway to keep its […]

Today, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®)-an alliance of leading cancer centers-published updated data on the current impact of generic cancer medication shortages in the United States.

A team of researchers has unveiled a printing technology that takes its cue from one of nature’s most overlooked design tricks: foam. In a study published in Nature, the group describes “deep-foam photolithography,” a light-driven process that turns ordinary photosensitized polymer films into intricate, sponge-like structures whose pores can be created, grown, and even collapsed […]

Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) transcription rates vary during development, and their dysregulation is linked to diseases such as cancer and ribosomopathies. Owing to their high abundance and genomic redundancy, the functional significance of rRNA levels remains ...

Every field of specialist knowledge consists of a series of concentric circles, the greatest knowledge at the center, the scientists advancing the state of the art, and the least knowledge at the outskirts, the public at large. In between we find lesser scientists, patient advocates, laypeople with a strong interest in the field, and so forth - various gradations of knowledge. The members of any given ring engage in an educational dialog with the next ring out, and themselves learn from the education efforts of the more knowledgeable neighboring inner ring. The more distant any two rings are, the less they tend to engage with one another directly. Thus we end up with the edifice of public messaging, simplifications of scientific knowledge intended for people […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds profound potential to reshape public health. Although its application accelerates threat detection and targeted interventions, the rapid deployment has outpaced the regulatory, validation, and equity safeguards standard to traditional health interventions.

An AI-designed lung drug lowered blood-protein aging clock readings in 42 patients. The study cannot show that it slows aging, and the drug is unapproved.

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Kidney transplantation remains the gold-standard treatment for patients living with end-stage chronic kidney disease, but the surgery is only half of the story. The other half is pharmacological: for the rest of the patient’s life, the transplanted organ must be shielded from immune attack with carefully calibrated doses of immunosuppressive drugs. Among these, tacrolimus stands […]

More than three-quarters of donated lungs offered for transplantation are not used, according to the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, contributing to a chronic shortage of organs for patients with end-stage lung disease.

Abiotic stresses—drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, and heavy metal toxicity—are responsible for an estimated 40 to 70 percent of yield losses in the world’s primary food crops, and a new comprehensive review argues that the tools to fight back already exist, if scientists can weave them together. Writing in the open-access journal Discover Plants, researchers Richa […]

A phase 2 trial evaluates whether posttransplant cyclophosphamide can support the use of mismatched unrelated donor transplants in patients needing reduced-intensity or non-myeloablative conditioning.

In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue computer beat the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov. After the match, a visibly angry Kasparov said through gritted teeth: “The computer hasn’t proved anything yet.” That “yet” would take another 20 years.In the wake of his defeat, Kasparov developed what he called “centaur” chess, with humans and computers working as a team. This new approach consistently beat even the best computer models. Then in 2017, a pure AI model named AlphaZero started beating these new hybrid centaur teams. Fast forward less than 10 years and today any smartphone can beat the current world chess champion, Magnus Carlsen.A recent perspective in JAMA warns us that an analogous moment to 2017 has already been and gone for medicine.1 And we didn’t even notice. It was thought that doctors could use a similar centaur model in medicine, where human judgment steers the machine for the better. Yet...

Depressive symptoms may be prevalent for kidney transplant recipients before and after transplantation, according to study data published in Kidney360.About 40% of patients with end-stage kidney disease experience depressive symptoms, which may be associated with adverse outcomes like CV events and mortality, according to Mara McAdams-DeMarco, PhD, professor in the departments of surgery and population health at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, and colleagues. However, studies evaluating the prevalence of depressive symptoms throughout the kidney transplant process are

Foaming photopolymers as a high-resolution biomimetic printing platform  NatureSee more headlines & perspectives on Google News

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A well-connected family’s fight to access a potential treatment for their son highlights the barriers most rare disease patients struggle to overcome.

A well-connected family’s fight to access a potential treatment for their son highlights the barriers most rare disease patients struggle to overcome.

The accumulation of senescent cells is an important contribution to degenerative aging; the inflammatory secretions of senescent cells actively degrade tissue structure and function. Animal studies have shown that selective destruction of senescent cells produces a meaningful degree of rejuvenation in old animals, alongside reversal of the pathology and progression of many age-related conditions. Senescent cells exhibit a sizable number of metabolic differences from normal cells, and researchers continue to explore these differences in search of novel ways to selectively destroy senescent cells. Here find an example of a novel finding, in which researchers explore the increased glycolysis that supports senescent cell energy metabolism and find a way to sabotage it. Aging is a complex biological process, which is affected by several factors, lifestyle, diet, […]

Korea's medical tourism industry is on the cusp of its next leap, driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and anti-aging care converging to reshape treatment across specialties. Panelists at the Medicon Black Roundtable on Tuesday said Korea already has skilled medical staff and technology and AI now makes possible what wasn't before. Hosted by The Korea Times and the Korea Medical Tourism Promotion Association (KMTPA), the roundtable brought together specialists from Korea's five key medical tourism fields: ophthalmology, plastic surgery, dermatology, dentistry and health checkups. Panelists examined how AI and anti-aging could fuel Korea's medical tourism leap, from diagnosis to treatment. "Combine Korea's clinical strengths with AI, K-beauty, wellness and its national brand, and medical tourism can go beyond simply attracting foreign patients," said Kim Jae-kyoung, managing director of Content and Business Planning at The Korea Times. With anti-aging drawing growing interest,

Korea's medical tourism industry is on the cusp of its next leap, driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and anti-aging care converging to reshape treatment across specialties. Panelists at the Medicon Black Roundtable on Tuesday said Korea already has skilled medical staff and technology and AI now makes possible what wasn't before. Hosted by The Korea Times and the Korea Medical Tourism Promotion Association (KMTPA), the roundtable brought together specialists from Korea's five key medical tourism fields: ophthalmology, plastic surgery, dermatology, dentistry and health checkups. Panelists examined how AI and anti-aging could fuel Korea's medical tourism leap, from diagnosis to treatment. "Combine Korea's clinical strengths with AI, K-beauty, wellness and its national brand, and medical tourism can go beyond simply attracting foreign patients," said Kim Jae-kyoung, managing director of Content and Business Planning at The Korea Times. With anti-aging drawing growing interest,

In a development that blurs the line between synthetic materials and living tissue, researchers have unveiled a new class of self-assembling, 3D-printable materials that closely mimic the architecture and behavior of biological tissues. Known as jammed interconnected bilayer emulsions, or JIBEs, these materials can be produced in remarkable quantities—up to deciliter-scale volumes within minutes—and contain […]

Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage biotechnology company powered by generative AI, today announced that it has dosed the first patient with Rentosertib (known as ISM001-055 / INS018_055) in GENESIS-IPF-3, a Phase III clinical trial (NCT07687459, CTR20262475) at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, while Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital has also enrolled its first patient on the same day.

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: The AI boom is fueling a resurgence in VC bets in “moonshot” sectors such as BCI; Dealroom says non-AI deeptech funding has topped $150B since the start of 2024  —  Tech investors are rediscovering the kind of long-shot sci-fi bets that helped build Silicon Valley.

Korea's medical tourism industry is on the cusp of its next leap, driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and anti-aging care converging to reshape treatment across specialties. Panelists at the Medicon Black Roundtable on Tuesday said Korea already has skilled medical staff and technology, and AI now makes possible what wasn't before. Hosted by The Korea Times and the Korea Medical Tourism Promotion Association (KMTPA), the roundtable discussion brought together specialists from Korea's five key medical tourism fields: ophthalmology, plastic surgery, dermatology, dentistry and health checkups. Panelists examined how AI and anti-aging could fuel Korea's medical tourism leap, from diagnosis to treatment. "Combine Korea's clinical strengths with AI, K-beauty, wellness and its national brand, and medical tourism can go beyond simply attracting foreign patients," said Kim Jae-kyoung, managing director of Content and Business Planning at The Korea Times. With anti-aging drawing growing

arXiv:2609.10197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We show that on any closed orientable real-analytic Riemannian surface, any smoothly immersed closed immortal curve-shortening flow converges to a unique non-constant closed geodesic.

arXiv:2609.09735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Healthcare systems, mental health, and public well-being are increasingly affected by cyberbullying and harmful online interactions. This paper presents CareGuard, an early-warning framework designed to support healthcare-driven mental health protection and proactive online safety through the detection of cyberbullying-related content using advanced natural language processing techniques. CareGuard integrates zero-shot semantic labeling with fine-tuned transformer-based models, including BERT, DistilBERT, and RoBERTa, to enable robust and context-aware classification across sensitive cyberbullying categories. To improve efficiency and reduce unnecessary computation in healthcare-oriented monitoring settings, the framework incorporates an emotion-aware filtering mechanism alongside cosine similarity-based semantic screening, allowing the system to focus on semantically relevant and emotionally salient content. Experimental results on

arXiv:2609.09533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinician review of every AI output is often proposed as a safeguard in mental healthcare, but vigilance research suggests this approach fails at scale and may paradoxically reduce safety. Drawing on our experience deploying an AI coaching tool across 350,000+ conversations between therapy sessions, we describe how we arrived at a three-layer human-on-the-loop oversight framework combining preventive design, real-time monitoring, and continuous clinician evaluation. We show how specific findings from clinical review drove iterative improvements, and offer practical recommendations for mental health professionals evaluating AI systems.

Hair loss affects nearly half of all men and up to a third of women worldwide, yet the treatments available to them have barely changed in decades. Now, a comprehensive review published in Materials Today Bio argues that a quiet revolution is underway at the intersection of materials science and dermatology: intelligent microneedle systems capable […]

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple unveils a new Health app with Apple Intelligence, featuring an Insights tab, “readiness” and Health Age metrics, and more, rolling out later in 2026  —  Alongside the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, Apple on Wednesday introduced a redesigned Apple Health app …

Intravenous gene therapy extended lifespan, reduced neurological symptoms, and improved disease markers in a Sandhoff disease cat model, supporting further investigation of systemic AAV gene therapy for this disorder. The post Gene Therapy Extends Lifespan and Reduces Symptoms in Sandhoff Disease Cat Model appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.

In a two-year head-to-head trial, researchers found that two very different dietary approaches produced similar changes in body weight. A Mediterranean-style eating plan adapted to Southern food preferences helped participants lose about as much weight as WeightWatchers over two years, but it produced substantially greater improvements in reported diet quality. The comparison was part of [...]

Mutations are changes in the molecular "letters" that make up DNA, the genetic blueprint for cells. Mutations build up with age in every cell when DNA is damaged or when cells make mistakes in fixing or copying it.