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Researchers at the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research (PICR) have developed a next-generation technology platform designed to dramatically accelerate one of the slowest and most challenging stages of cancer drug discovery: identifying promising compounds that could eventually become new therapies.

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Rainbow Crops expects to announce a collaboration with a seed company on corn soon and is discussing additional partnerships in other crops. The post Rainbow Crops raises $11.25m to scale AI-guided multiplex gene editing   appeared first on AgFunderNews.

Joe Alwyn and Sarah Pidgeon spark dating rumours after Brooklyn PDA photos, as TikTok users react with viral comments and Swift song references

Column | This exercise ‘sweet spot’ is linked to greater longevity  The Washington PostHow weight lifting can help you stay healthier as you age  BBCScientists found the strength training sweet spot for a longer life  ScienceDailyWeekly weightlifting sweet spot may be linked to longer life, study finds  Fox NewsA Doctor Recommends Doing This Twice a Week for Better Heart Health  TODAY.com

Column | This exercise ‘sweet spot’ is linked to greater longevity  The Washington PostHow weight lifting can help you stay healthier as you age  BBCScientists found the strength training sweet spot for a longer life  ScienceDailyWeekly weightlifting sweet spot may be linked to longer life, study finds  Fox NewsA Doctor Recommends Doing This Twice a Week for Better Heart Health  TODAY.com

More than 80% of respondents say they use AI in their practices, but what that means isn’t always clear.

Everyone develops atherosclerotic plaque that narrows and weakens blood vessel walls in later life. A sizable fraction of all human mortality derives from the consequences of that plaque, such as rupture of unstable plaque to cause a stroke or heart attack. The maladaptive formation of blood clots within or attached to the plaque structure greatly reduces the stability of these structures, and is an important contribution to mortality. Here, researchers show that cells driven into a senescent state by the toxic plaque environment generate the circumstances that provoke inappropriate clot formation in and around an atherosclerotic plaque. Of note, other work has suggested that those same senescent cells may be structurally important to a plaque, and removing them may also cause loss of plaque stability. […]

arXiv:2606.15530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evolving populations both respond to and reshape their environments, making fitness landscapes dynamic rather than static. We present a minimal eco-evolutionary model that couples replicator dynamics for a population density with a regenerating resource-driven landscape through a single environmental sensitivity parameter. This allows evolving populations to generate and ride self-induced selection gradients, enabling directed motion in trait space even on initially flat landscapes. Our analysis reveals sustained oscillations, chaotic dynamics, and evolutionary branching. To explain these, we derive reduced dynamical equation that extend Fisher's fundamental theorem to deformable landscapes by incorporating curvature-driven variance dynamics and environmental feedback. Together, these results show how populations actively reshape and self-propel themselves on regenerating landscapes.

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a previously unrecognized way the kidneys regulate water balance - an advance that could lead to improved treatments for polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and other disorders. The study, led by Fouad Chebib, M.D., a nephrologist at Mayo Clinic, is published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

arXiv:2606.16984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly introduced into healthcare settings, yet its integration into fast-paced, high-pressure domains such as Emergency Medical Services (EMS) remains limited. EMS work unfolds across distinct stages, each characterized by different information needs, constraints, and forms of collaboration. Designing effective AI support requires understanding how AI interventions align with, or disrupt, EMS work across its different stages. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 25 EMS clinicians across the United States to examine how existing technologies currently support emergency services workflows and how they envision opportunities for, and concerns about, future AI-based support across different stages of emergency response. Our analysis reveals the cognitive, social, and procedural factors that enable EMS team coordination, which is grounded in situational awareness across distributed roles. EMS

arXiv:2606.16890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aggregate accuracy benchmarks conceal a systematic structure in how large language models fail at electronic health record (EHR) question answering: questions requiring more inferential steps produce disproportionately more errors. Motivated by theoretical results on transformer compositionality limits, we introduce a pre-specified hop-count taxonomy -- the number of distinct reasoning steps required to answer a clinical question from an EHR -- as a principled predictor of model failure. We annotate 313 clinician-generated MedAlign EHR question-answer pairs across four hop levels and evaluate 301 questions in a within-model ablation (claude-sonnet-4-6, zero-shot vs. extended thinking) and cross-architecture replications (gpt-4o and gpt-5.4-2026-03-05, zero-shot). All three models, spanning two providers and two OpenAI generations (GPT-4 and GPT-5), show monotone accuracy decline with hop count: Claude Sonnet zero-shot falls from 30.6%

arXiv:2606.16149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most medical AI systems improve by scaling additional machinery: more fine-tuning data, more agents, and/or larger retrieval databases. In rare-disease diagnosis, however, such scaling can produce systems that are difficult to deploy, audit, and maintain. We asked whether state-of-the-art diagnostic performance could instead be achieved by extending the reasoning chain of a single AI agent: guiding it with a diagnostic policy, developed through human-AI collaboration and augmenting with freely available biomedical tools. We introduce LiteOdyssey, a lightweight rare-disease diagnostic framework that guides reasoning language model through a clinical genetics workflow. This framework was developed through Policy Iteration with Human Feedback (PIHF) and uses dynamic access to public biomedical tools. On two challenging benchmarks that provide only patient clinical features, LiteOdyssey achieved state-of-the-art performance, with an overall

arXiv:2606.15861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual Question Answering (VQA) in robotic surgery, referred to as surgical VQA, requires high-level understanding of complex surgical scenes and the integration of visual perception with language reasoning, with the potential to support surgical training and intraoperative decision-making. Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown promising performance through parameter-efficient fine-tuning; however, most existing approaches rely on coarse visual grounding, typically limited to bounding boxes, which fails to capture the fine-grained spatial structure of surgical objects. In this work, we propose a unified framework that jointly performs pixel-level segmentation and visual question answering within a single framework. Our approach integrates a VLM with a Segment Anything Model (SAM)-based decoder and represents scene elements as object tokens generated by the VLM. These object tokens guide answer prediction and are further

arXiv:2606.15647v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models have demonstrated impressive performance in enhancing healthcare efficiency across a wide range of medical applications. Nevertheless, their limited ability to perceive, understand, and interact with the physical world significantly constrains their effectiveness in real-world clinical workflows, where safety-critical decision-making and physical execution are tightly coupled. Recently, embodied artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a promising physical-interactive paradigm for intelligent healthcare, enabling agents to operate in complex medical environments. As research in this area rapidly expands, understanding how intelligent agents function as integrated, end-to-end systems in clinical environments becomes increasingly critical. However, existing surveys on medical embodied AI largely emphasize individual aspects or functional components, lacking a unified system-level organization of the field. To support

arXiv:2606.15033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cloze is an open-source web platform for conducting controlled, monitored studies of human-AI conversation in mental health research contexts. Consumer large language model (LLM) products such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are built for individual productivity, and offer researchers little experimental control, inconsistent data export, and no shared safety scaffolding that holds across providers. Cloze gives research teams a single environment in which they configure which models participants converse with, how the AI is instructed, how conversations are scheduled over time, and which safety constraints apply unconditionally, while every message is captured with full provenance (model version, prompt configuration, timing). The platform currently supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and locally hosted open-weight models served through Ollama behind a unified interface, and runs in the cloud or fully on premises so that participant data

CDC MMWR (March 5, 2026): A fivefold increase in suspected donor-derived KSHV infections in organ transplant recipients — 46 cases in 2021–2025 vs. 9 in 2016–2020. KSHV causes Kaposi sarcoma and life-threatening lymphoproliferative disorders in immunocompromised recipients. Routine donor screening is not performed.

Female patients with kidney failure are significantly less likely to be referred to a transplant center for assessment, according to a new study from ICES, London Health Sciences Center Research Institute (LHSCRI) and Western University. The disadvantage widened with increasing age. The findings were published in the May issue of the Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease.

Genome editing technologies have transcended their origins as laboratory curiosities to become powerful clinical tools poised to transform the treatment landscape of human diseases. At the forefront, programmable nucleases such as zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), and CRISPR–Cas systems form the core platforms driving this revolution. Each technology exhibits unique capabilities and […]

In the quest to unravel the mysteries behind human longevity and healthspan—the duration of life spent free from chronic illness and cognitive decline—researchers have long grappled with the intricate interplay of genetics, environment, and lifestyle. While average life expectancy has surged globally over the past two centuries, the proportion of that extended lifespan characterized by […]

Anti-T-lymphocyte globulin (ATLG) for the prevention of graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) reduces complications and infection-related mortality compared with post-transplant cyclophosphamide (PTCy) in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from unrelated donors. Although PTCy was associated with fewer cases of acute (Grade II–IV) and chronic GvHD, this did not result in a survival benefit for patients with blood cancer. These initial results from the GRAPPA study were presented by DKMS as a late-breaking abstract at the European Hematology Association Congress (EHA 2026) in Stockholm.

A groundbreaking multicenter clinical trial has unveiled an innovative, data-driven approach to identifying liver transplant recipients at imminent risk for organ rejection due to medication nonadherence. Pioneered through collaboration between the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Texas Children’s Hospital, the study leverages the Medication Level Variability Index (MLVI)—a novel, electronic health record […]

College students have rapidly adopted generative AI, but critical questions remain about its use for mental health support. In a study co-led by investigators at Mass General Brigham, 18% of surveyed college students reported using artificial intelligence (AI) for mental health. Students with more severe mental health symptoms were more likely to do so. The findings are published in the Journal of Affective Disorders.

A research team from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has shown that a one-time administration of a gene therapy expressing the metabolic factor FGF21 can prolong health span in old mice. The 27-month pharmacology study, published in Molecular Therapy, shows sustained beneficial effects across multiple endpoints associated with aging and health span.

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has announced a pivotal advancement in the realm of biomedical research with the formation of the ISSCR Consortium on Advanced Stem Cell-Based Models in Drug Discovery and Development. Bayer, a global leader in life sciences, stands prominently as a Founding Member of this groundbreaking consortium. This initiative […]

In a groundbreaking advancement poised to revolutionize assistive technology for individuals with severe paralysis, researchers have demonstrated that a person with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can now communicate, work, and navigate the digital world independently using a brain-computer interface (BCI) directly from their home. This innovative system, detailed in a recent Nature Medicine publication, transcends […]

A new study demonstrates that a person with severe paralysis caused by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can use a brain-computer interface (BCI) at home to communicate, work and interact with the digital world—without the need for researcher support. Published in Nature Medicine, the results mark a significant step toward delivering practical assistive technology for people with severe speech and motor impairments.

In a groundbreaking initiative that melds the latest advances in artificial intelligence with the enduring challenges of medicinal chemistry, researchers at Indiana University have launched an ambitious project aimed at revolutionizing the search for effective treatments against Alzheimer’s disease. This multimillion-dollar venture, bringing together the expertise of Indiana University School of Medicine and the Luddy […]

The Seattle Fire Department has been using artificial intelligence to listen to every 911 medical call in the city since December 2023, according to a GeekWire investigation published this week. The AI, built by Copenhagen-based startup Corti, monitors calls in real time and prompts dispatchers to route certain callers away from emergency response and toward […] This story continues at The Next Web

Researchers from Amsterdam UMC, in collaboration with other hospitals, have successfully completed the first Phase III study of an in vivo CRISPR therapy. In this large-scale, double-blind trial, 80 patients with hereditary angioedema were randomized to receive either the CRISPR therapy or a placebo. CRISPR therapy is a medical technique that allows doctors to precisely modify errors in cellular DNA to treat specific hereditary diseases.

In recent years, the integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) into various facets of life has accelerated dramatically, with college students emerging as one of the most avid adopters of this technology. A pioneering study conducted by researchers at Mass General Brigham sheds light on a particularly critical and complex area of AI utilization: its […]

A.J. Vicens / Reuters: Google says a Chinese-linked hacking group targeted US and Canadian academic, medical, and military research institutions from September 2023 to November 2025  —  A Chinese-linked hacking group spent more than a year secretly stealing data from U.S. and Canadian academic …

A new multicenter study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai suggests that a novel electronic health record-based marker can help clinicians identify transplant patients at high risk for organ rejection due to not taking their medications as prescribed-and intervene before the rejection happens.

In a landmark multicenter study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, an innovative electronic health record (EHR)-based marker has emerged as a promising tool for predicting and preventing organ rejection in adolescent transplant patients. This novel marker, known as the Medication Level Variability Index (MLVI), leverages fluctuations in routine […]

Deep learning unveils how drugs affect the dynamics of key structures within the cell. A new study maps condensate morphology to functional outcomes and sheds light on markers of health.  The post AI Predicts Gene Regulation for Drug Discovery Using Condensate Morphology appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.

A new multicenter study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai suggests that a novel electronic health record-based marker can help clinicians identify transplant patients at high risk for organ rejection because they are not taking their medications as prescribed—and intervene before the rejection happens.

A Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health study of 147,000 adults over 30 years, published June 2, 2026 in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, found that 90–119 minutes of weekly strength training reduces all-cause mortality by 13%, CVD death by 19%, and neurological death by 27%. Here is the complete guide.

A research team from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has shown that a one-time administration of a gene therapy expressing the metabolic factor FGF21 can prolong health span in old mice.

How much strength training do you really need to live longer? Not much  The Times of IndiaHow weight lifting can help you stay healthier as you age  BBCScientists found the strength training sweet spot for a longer life  ScienceDailyWeekly weightlifting sweet spot may be linked to longer life, study finds  Fox NewsHow Much You Should Exercise to Live Longer, According to a New Study  EatingWell

How much strength training do you really need to live longer? Not much  The Times of IndiaHow weight lifting can help you stay healthier as you age  BBCScientists found the strength training sweet spot for a longer life  ScienceDailyWeekly weightlifting sweet spot may be linked to longer life, study finds  Fox NewsHow Much You Should Exercise to Live Longer, According to a New Study  EatingWell

The traditional birthday cake, speckled with candles that mark the passing years, belies a deeper truth about aging—one that is far less visible yet profoundly more accurate. While everyone has a chronological age, the reality of how our bodies age is much more complex, involving what scientists now term “biological age.” This metric encapsulates the […]

In a groundbreaking advancement poised to transform the landscape of additive manufacturing, a team of researchers has unveiled an innovative method for creating biocemented porous structures. This approach leverages selective binding combined with an active print bed compaction technique, pushing the boundaries of how we fabricate complex, durable, and environmentally friendly materials. This pioneering work […]

Studies show that AI increasingly matches or exceeds physicians on select diagnostic tasks, yet experts stress that clinical judgment remains essential.

A Chinese man climbed out of his 27th-floor flat after eating self-cooked jianshouqing mushrooms at home and having hallucinations. The man, surnamed Xue, from southwestern China’s Yunnan province, said he believed his family was inviting him to “train himself to cross the tribulation and attain immortality”, a practice often seen in Chinese fantasy novels. Xue said he unconsciously clambered out of the window of his flat and climbed down a water pipe, scratching his belly as he did so. Luckily,...

Variants in the DHDDS gene cause a severe neurodegenerative condition, characterized by tremors, seizures, coordination and learning difficulties, usually manifesting in early childhood. This Parkinson's-like condition is extremely rare, and until recently, parents were told that there was nothing that could be done to slow down its progression.

Life sciences company bBHC is seeking to position itself at the forefront of regenerative medicine through two technologies developed over decades by its founder and Chairman Lee Kye-ho: Energy Water, a proprietary structured water platform, and KHCs, a novel pluripotent stem cell technology. Founded in 1989 as a life sciences research company, bBHC has spent more than four decades developing technologies that Lee believes could contribute to both environmental sustainability and next-generation human healthcare. “At the center of our work is the idea that life itself can be influenced by the structure and behavior of water,” Lee said during an interview with The Korea Times at the company’s headquarters in Seoul. According to the company, Energy Water is a next-generation water platform developed through proprietary molecular structure control technology designed to enhance stability and functionality. The company says studies in livestock and agricultural systems have demonstrated

A Breakthrough in Combating DHDDS-Related Neurodegenerative Disease: How Mini-Brains Illuminate Pathways to a Vitamin B3 Therapy In a groundbreaking advancement within neurogenetics, researchers have uncovered promising therapeutic avenues for a devastating congenital condition triggered by mutations in the DHDDS gene. This rare disorder, manifesting early in childhood, leads to progressive neurodegeneration characterized by movement tremors, […]

Variants in the DHDDS gene cause a severe neurodegenerative condition, characterized by tremors, seizures, coordination and learning difficulties, usually manifesting in early childhood. This Parkinson's-like condition is extremely rare, and until recently, parents were told there was nothing that could be done to slow its progression. But now, researchers from the Netherlands and the U.S. who created "mini brain" models from patients' own cells to test new therapies have found not only the mechanism of the disease, but also that a naturally occurring form of vitamin B3 (nicotinamide mononucleotide, or NMN) holds significant promise in slowing disease progression.

The natural diamond industry has a problem it cannot see with the naked eye. Lab-grown stones are now virtually identical to mined gems, they cost a fraction of the price, and the broader tech landscape of 2025 has only accelerated their rise. De Beers Group, the world’s largest diamond producer and distributor, is betting that blockchain can […] This story continues at The Next Web

Online sleuths have drawn uncanny parallels between Princess Lilibet's tightly controlled birthday photos and a San Francisco childrenswear campaign, fuelling 'clone' rumours around a mystery child model.

People with an organ transplant who develop or have existing diabetes are more likely to die than those without diabetes, according to a comprehensive analysis of solid-organ transplant recipients, which is being presented Saturday at ENDO 2026, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Chicago, Ill.

Researchers from Amsterdam UMC, in collaboration with other hospitals, have successfully completed the first-ever Phase 3 study of an in vivo CRISPR therapy.

In the intricate realm of pediatric renal transplantation, achieving the perfect balance of immunosuppressive therapy remains a formidable challenge. A recent breakthrough study, published in BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology in 2026, delves into the population pharmacokinetics of tacrolimus—a cornerstone immunosuppressive agent—and elucidates the profound implications of CYP3A5 genetic variability on dose individualization. By leveraging advanced […]

People with an organ transplant who develop or have existing diabetes are more likely to die than those without diabetes, according to a comprehensive analysis of solid-organ transplant recipients presented at ENDO 2026, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Chicago.

This week's notable citations: Astronomers believe collapsing stars could spawn mini universes. Chimpanzees do not like unfairness. And a single dose of psilocybin temporarily restored function in an 80-year-old with Alzheimer's disease.

The name came up a few times during our conversations at Computex. Intel has declined to comment on it.

Researchers at Princeton University have harnessed AI to understand how drugs affect the dynamics of vital structures within the cell, introducing a tool that can map the shape of these structures to functional outcomes and shed light on important markers of health.

In a groundbreaking advancement that sets a new paradigm in genetic medicine, researchers at Amsterdam University Medical Center (Amsterdam UMC), collaborating with several international hospitals, have unveiled the results of the very first Phase 3 clinical trial involving an in vivo CRISPR-based therapy. This monumental study marks a significant turning point in the application of […]

The RUBY Trial (NEJM, April 2026): CRISPR-Cas12a gene editing therapy reni-cel (renizgamglogene autogedtemcel) achieved a functional cure in 27 of 28 (96%) severe sickle cell disease patients, with no painful crises for up to two years after treatment. Led by Dr. Rabi Hanna at Cleveland Clinic.

Before testing new therapies in animals, researchers now have a more efficient starting point—lab-grown canine muscle cells that can help identify what works and what doesn't.

Malcolm Brenner, an internationally recognized physician‑scientist renowned for his leadership in cell and gene therapy, has been tapped to lead the newly formed Houston Methodist Center for Cell and Gene Therapy.

A molecular geneticist at Montana State University has discovered a cellular process once believed impossible by scientists – the creation of the amino acid cysteine within a living cell when the cell's primary systems to do so fail. The discovery may one day lead to new cancer treatments.

Backed by Roberto Carlos and Lionel Messi’s viral bodyguard Yassine Cheuko, Yerba Madre is leveraging the 2026 FIFA World Cup to bring yerba mate into the American mainstream as an alternative to coffee and energy drinks.

In a groundbreaking advance that promises to reshape the landscape of retinal therapy, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, have unveiled new insights into the developmental stages of retinal photoreceptor cells. This novel understanding carries the potential to revolutionize cell transplantation strategies aimed at restoring vision in individuals afflicted by currently […]

CalCAN’s work is grounded in farmer experiences and expertise. As part of my job connecting with farmers across the state, I... The post Rising economic and climate pressures drive regenerative practices, innovation, and collaboration appeared first on CalCAN - California Climate & Agriculture Network.

Apple and Samsung may not need glucose-sensing smartwatches to compete in health AI. The next race is turning CGM data into useful advice. The post Apple, Samsung, and the Race to Turn Glucose Data Into AI Health Advice appeared first on TechRepublic.

Eli Lilly's $2.75B AI deal with Insilico Medicine targets age-related diseases. How AI is transforming longevity drug discovery and what it means for patients.

The 2026 Future Health Index found AI is transforming clinical care, but trust gaps among doctors and patients are slowing adoption and threatening patient safety.

Mount Sinai scientists reversed aging in blood-forming stem cells in mice by restoring lysosomal function, opening doors to blood disorder and cancer prevention.

A new understanding of retinal cell development may help pave the way for future retina transplants, which could restore sight to people whose conditions currently have no effective treatments, according to researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Their findings were published today in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.

An international team of experts in embryology and bioethics has published the first white paper on the use of embryonic models based on stem cells in the field of reproductive biology. The document, coordinated by UPF researcher Alfonso Martínez-Arias, offers an integrated view of developmental biology, bioethics and legislation, and proposes guidelines for the correct implementation of these models in research and in the regulation and development of technologies related to human reproduction. This text should facilitate the use of models to study embryo development beyond the 14-day legal barrier, hopefully leading to an understanding of some of the conditions that cause infertility.

A groundbreaking white paper, orchestrated by an international collective of embryology and bioethics specialists, has shed new light on the emergent field of stem cell-based embryonic models. Spearheaded by Alfonso Martínez-Arias, a distinguished researcher at Pompeu Fabra University, the paper delves into the innovative intersection of developmental biology, legal frameworks, and ethical guidelines. It aims […]

As temperatures rise, New Zealand's dairy farmers face a growing challenge: keeping cows cool enough to remain productive. Heat stress can reduce milk production, harm animals and lower the environmental efficiency of dairy farming. For an economy so heavily reliant on dairy exports, the stakes are significant.

The NHS must be less risk averse in adopting digitalisation, technology, and artificial intelligence, the new health and social care secretary James Murray has said.In his first major speech since replacing Wes Streeting last month.12 Murray also said ministers “cannot go further” in boosting the pay of resident doctors, who are due to go on strike again from Monday 15 June.Speaking at the NHS ConfedExpo conference in Manchester on 11 June, Murray said the NHS “too often” let concern over potential risks overshadow thinking about benefits of new technology.Instead, the NHS needed to “innovate and take the right risks,” he told the conference. “Too often the question is, ’What if it goes wrong?’—and of course that is an entirely legitimate question to ask, especially in health and social care where we are talking about profound consequences,” he said.“We also need to balance that question by giving equal weight to another...

Desperate US parents pay up to $20,000 a session for a procedure scientists say could be bogus Autistic children as young as 18 months old are being injected with human stem cells derived from umbilical cords in unapproved, unproven and potentially harmful “treatments” that scientists warn are proliferating across the US under the active encouragement of the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr. Clinics in Florida, Texas and other states are selling what they bill as “regenerative medicine” to families with autistic children who have intensive care needs. Parents who have taken their children through the process talked to the Guardian about their hopes and fears for a therapy that appears to be gaining ground in the US. Continue reading...

arXiv:2606.13017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated sleep staging is a fundamental application of passive Brain-Computer Interfaces (pBCI), decoding spontaneous neural states to enable closed-loop interventions independent of user intent. This study evaluates criticality features derived from Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA) for the specific identification of deep sleep (N3). We analyzed $347,232$ EEG epochs from $290$ older women using UMAP manifold learning to visualize state transitions. Subsequently, six classifiers were benchmarked via 10-fold cross-validation, using balanced accuracy to determine the optimal "state-sensing" engine for neurofeedback.Naive Bayes achieved the highest mean balanced accuracy ($87.17\% \pm 0.24\%$), significantly outperforming a fully connected deep neural network (FNN: $81.58\%$) and Random Forest ($80.97\%$). Linear models (LDA: $57.21\%$; SVM: $51.01\%$) performed poorly, indicating that DFA-derived criticality features reside on a

arXiv:2606.13017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated sleep staging is a fundamental application of passive Brain-Computer Interfaces (pBCI), decoding spontaneous neural states to enable closed-loop interventions independent of user intent. This study evaluates criticality features derived from Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA) for the specific identification of deep sleep (N3). We analyzed $347,232$ EEG epochs from $290$ older women using UMAP manifold learning to visualize state transitions. Subsequently, six classifiers were benchmarked via 10-fold cross-validation, using balanced accuracy to determine the optimal "state-sensing" engine for neurofeedback.Naive Bayes achieved the highest mean balanced accuracy ($87.17\% \pm 0.24\%$), significantly outperforming a fully connected deep neural network (FNN: $81.58\%$) and Random Forest ($80.97\%$). Linear models (LDA: $57.21\%$; SVM: $51.01\%$) performed poorly, indicating that DFA-derived criticality features reside on a

arXiv:2606.13488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Partial-to-full registration remains challenging due to varying overlap ratios, fluctuating point densities, and the presence of noise. While transformers have shown strong potential for point cloud processing, prior methods typically confine them to global context aggregation, overlooking fine-grained local geometry crucial for accurate correspondence. We propose \emph{GAPR-Net}, a learning-based point cloud registration framework with a coarse-to-fine architecture that combines convolution and transformer modules, in which local and global information is fused between the partial and full point clouds using a cross-attention mechanism. To achieve this, a transformation-invariant point-wise geometric feature representation is proposed, which can robustly capture relative geometric features for individual points with respect to their neighboring points. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, experiments are conducted on

arXiv:2606.13432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cloning camera motion from reference videos is an important task in video generation, as videos provide intuitive and precise control. Existing methods either directly use parametric representations that fail to handle multi-shot generation or synthesize cross-paired data, which suffer from data scarcity, resulting in poor performance in complicated camera motion cloning. To address these issues, we introduce a general camera motion representation that encodes cameras as grid motion videos. This camera grid represents the camera parameters visually and supports the integration of diverse trajectories for multi-shot video generation. Building upon this, we propose OmniDirector, a unified framework trained on a million-scale camera grid-video pairs that coordinates characters, actions, and cameras to provide director-level control for multimodal diffusion transformers. Furthermore, we design a novel hierarchical prompt expansion agent that

arXiv:2606.13211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems are being deployed across medical imaging faster than their failure modes are understood. At this point in time, the failure of greatest clinical concern is hallucination: clinically plausible but factually incorrect outputs, including fabricated anatomical structures, missed findings, incorrect laterality, and invented measurements in generated reports, with direct consequences, for example, for biopsy decisions, staging, and treatment planning. This structured narrative synthesizes peer-reviewed studies, benchmark datasets, and FDA regulatory guidance across five imaging modalities to produce a cross-modality analysis of hallucination taxonomy, etiology, detection, and mitigation. Specifically, we address three questions in this study: (1) how can existing taxonomies be unified across modalities?, (2) how do medical-specialized foundation models hallucinate less than general-purpose ones?, and (3) which mitigation strategies

arXiv:2606.12812v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The advent of sophisticated AI-driven voice cloning has brought to the fore critical legal and ethical challenges regarding the protection of vocal identity. Prompted by recent controversies - including the striking resemblance between OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o voice and that of Scarlett Johansson - this article examines how generative AI technologies undermine the unique value of the human voice and further complicate the legal questions surrounding personality right. Through a comparative analysis, the paper evaluates three principal legal frameworks: the right of publicity, personality rights, and the personal data protection right. Each framework - rooted in different legal traditions o offers distinct strengths and limitations in addressing the threats posed by AI-generated voice cloning. By analysing these doctrines' scope, remedies, and posthumous protections, the study offers a foundation for understanding how existing legal approaches

Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant at experienced centers in the current era can include indefinite disease control with low relative risk, a new update suggests.

Cambridge scientists have grown miniature circuits in the lab that mimic how the brain and spinal cord connect

A structured, AI-supported metacognitive framework substantially enhances the quality of metabolic and bariatric surgery consultations.

Korea’s National Stem Cell Bank will begin distributing clinical-grade induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to researchers and biotech firms later this month, a move expected to significantly lower the financial and regulatory barriers gripping the country’s regenerative medicine sector. iPSCs are adult cells, like skin or blood cells, that have been genetically reprogrammed back into an embryonic-like state, allowing them to turn into any type of cell in the human body. The distribution program, scheduled to accept applications on June 30, follows the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) breakthrough assembly of the cells in March. By establishing a formalized regulatory contract system, the government can now provide raw materials directly to laboratories developing advanced biopharmaceuticals, including cell therapies and artificial blood. For the country’s nascent biotechnology sector, the logistical assistance is immense. Securing raw materials that meet strict Good

A groundbreaking therapeutic strategy has emerged from the Department of Medicine at the School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), promising to reshape the treatment landscape for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients harboring FLT3 gene mutations. This novel combination therapy, designated QUIZOM, pairs the potent FLT3 inhibitor Quizartinib with […]

A new AI model has become so good at predicting how molecules evolve over time that, in the future, it could speed up the costly and time-consuming process of testing new drugs.

A research consortium has established a new framework to identify and catalog senescent cells—cells that stop dividing but remain active in the body. Because senescent cells accumulate with age and are thought to contribute to many age-related conditions, researchers are working to better understand the roles they play in health and disease. In a compendium of papers published by Cell Press, the consortium presents the first comprehensive atlas of senescent cells across the human body, a foundational step toward developing new therapies for age-related diseases.

A teardown reveals the Trump T1 Phone is a clone of the HTC U24 Pro, sharing design and internal components, raising questions about manufacturing transparency.

What is Regenerative Agriculture? Regenerative agriculture is a farming and ranching approach focused on improving soil health, restoring ecosystem function, increasing biodiversity, and strengthening the natural cycles that support life. Rather than simply sustaining current conditions, regenerative agriculture seeks to improve the land over time, making farms and ranches more resilient, productive, and profitable for […] The post What is Regenerative Agriculture? appeared first on Understanding Ag.

A new treatment platform developed by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was able to deliver messenger RNA (mRNA) of the full-length DMD gene into preclinical models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, successfully restoring the production of an important muscle protein, dystrophin, and dramatically improving muscle strength, endurance and function in vivo.

Doctors and health unions have urged the government to halt the development of the highly anticipated NHS workforce plan, warning that it is overly reliant on assumptions that AI will be a “silver bullet.”The concerns have been raised in an open letter to the new health and social care secretary, James Murray, signed by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Royal College of Nursing, BMA, Society for Acute Medicine, Queen’s Institute of Community Nursing, and the union Unite.The NHS workforce plan is expected to be published this month. But the six organisations said there had been little engagement with doctors and nurses over what it includes and warned that it currently fails to recognise the realities on the NHS frontline.RCEM president Ian Higginson said that “from what little we have seen” the plan is “built on untested assumptions about productivity and efficiency.”He said, “The plan seems to be heavily...

AI ambient scribes are recording doctor-patient conversations at major U.S. health systems. A Sharp HealthCare lawsuit (Jan 2026) and Medscape investigation (June 10) reveal widespread patient consent failures. What you need to know.

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Nvidia and Abridge, maker of an AI note-taking app for doctors, are training an AI model for clinical conversations using de-identified data and Nemotron models  —  The chip giant is joining with the maker of AI note-taking technology to train a model tailored for clinical conversations

In the first episode of the new season of ‘The Joy of Why,’ Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna discusses how she discovered CRISPR’s genome-editing power, the breakthroughs and hurdles during its explosive growth, and what lies ahead for this groundbreaking technology. The post What’s the Future of Gene Editing? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Mayo Clinic's PACT protocol achieved 0% heavy alcohol relapse in post-liver transplant patients within one year — vs. a historical rate of ~25%. Published June 3, 2026 in Liver Transplantation journal.

An eight-month-old baby from Israel has become the first human ever to receive an experimental gene therapy designed to replace a missing gene responsible for a devastating neurological disease that until now offered no hope of survival.