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arXiv:2610.30470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most voice-cloning systems are built for audio alone: they copy the reference recording's delivery and acoustics, so a voice cloned on a phone sounds like a phone recording whether the speaker is pictured in a studio, on a street, or in a cathedral. Speech for a talking video should sound like the pictured person speaking in the pictured place. We present HeyGen Voice, a scene-aware voice-cloning model that separates who is speaking from how and where: it keeps the speaker's voice from an everyday recording while the target image sets the delivery and acoustics. Prior image-conditioned TTS does half of this job: it either adds scene acoustics without keeping a specific speaker or infers a voice from a face. HeyGen Voice is a multimodal autoregressive transformer conditioned on the image, speaker and scene captions, and the voice recording, trained in five stages that move from multilingual TTS pretraining through simulated and real

arXiv:2610.30229v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical artificial intelligence (AI) models are often shared without their training data, assuming this protects the patients who contributed them. However, a model can reveal whether a patient's records were used in training, a privacy breach known as a membership inference attack. This risk is usually reported as a cohort average, which can appear negligible while individual patients are almost certainly exposed. Identifying potentially vulnerable records before developing a production model could make privacy assessment more practical. We measured each patient's vulnerability to membership inference attack, across 7,789 models trained on six clinical datasets in four modalities, including two adapted pretrained medical models. Training choices changed how many patients had high attack scores, but the patients who ranked highest by risk largely stayed the same across the configurations we tested. Stronger weight decay reduced the

Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’  TechCrunchMicrosoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions  The VergeMicrosoft Says Its New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors  GizmodoMicrosoft Diagnostic AI Outperforms Generalist Physicians in Science Study  Unite.AICan AI help doctors avoid missed diagnoses? A new study suggests yes  TAPinto

Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’  TechCrunchMicrosoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions  The VergeMicrosoft Says Its New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors  GizmodoMicrosoft Diagnostic AI Outperforms Generalist Physicians in Science Study  Unite.AICan AI help doctors avoid missed diagnoses? A new study suggests yes  TAPinto

The presence of non-native trees is often seen as an obstacle to the recovery of tropical forests regrowing in previously deforested areas. To better understand the behavior of these plants over time in both humid and dry forests, researchers from approximately 60 institutions analyzed data from over 1,500 areas of forest regeneration across the Americas. The results, published in the journal Nature Plants, indicate that the initial dominance of exotic species is temporary. They multiply easily during the first 10 to 20 years, taking advantage of abundant sunlight in open areas. However, they decline as native trees grow and shade the forest.

Natural disasters. Hikes. Long, dark nights alone. For many people, dogs offer a sense of safety and comfort in challenging or uncertain times. Cancer researchers at a new lab at Purdue University are partnering with dogs to make cancer less frightening—and less deadly—to some of humanity's very best friends using a technique called tumor ablation.

Meet Turritopsis dohrnii, a tiny jellyfish that can revert to an earlier stage of its life cycle when times are tough, offering insights into how to reverse aging.

The pancreas is a complex organ comprising multiple cell types that regulate blood glucose levels through hormones, such as insulin, and support digestion by producing digestive enzymes.

UCLA investigators have developed a new artificial intelligence-based platform that could help scientists identify promising drug combinations to overcome treatment resistance in cancer.

Huntington's disease is caused by repetitive "stutters" in DNA—specifically repeated CAG sequences—that expand abnormally over time, leading to toxic protein accumulation that contributes to the progression of the disease. There is currently no cure for this rare and fatal genetic disease.

A groundbreaking immunotherapy treatment for rectal cancer, developed through pioneering research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) with critical early-stage funding from Swim Across America, has received accelerated approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a new class of light-activated compounds that could lead to safer and more versatile applications in 3D printing, cosmetics and medicine.

Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman. | Getty Images For years, AI leaders have touted healthcare as one of the clearest examples of where their technology will improve lives. Now "it is finally here," Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge. The company claims to have developed an AI-powered tool it says can diagnose conditions up to four times more accurately than human doctors. The findings, published Thursday in one of the world's most prestigious journals, Science, are based on tests pitting Microsoft's AI system against human physicians on a series of scenarios drawn from medical case reports and emergency department data. Microsoft compiled the cases into its own benchmark, S … Read the full story at The Verge.

Conventional wisdom suggests that the long hours and pressures of entrepreneurship can take a toll on health. But new research by Cristiano Bellavitis, associate professor in the School of Business at Stevens Institute of Technology, and his collaborators finds that entrepreneurs tend to live longer than people who spend their careers working for others.

Elon Musk threatens legal action over Alex Gibney's documentary, which uses an AI-generated likeness and faces disputes over Starlink and the 2024 US election.

Unresponsive ICU patients in a new Columbia study were able to raise and lower the frequency of a beeping tone with their minds, via noninvasive EEG electrodes that recorded and translated their brain waves.

AI adoption in medicine is accelerating: More than 12,000 primary care clinicians have enrolled in Canada Health Infoway's national AI scribe program, about 5,000 Ontario physicians use AI scribes and roughly one in five Canadian physicians now use AI tools. Almost 60% report a cut in administrative time.

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Warp Sciences, founded by ex-OpenAI product chief Kevin Weil to speed up AI drug development, emerges from stealth with $215M at an $865M post-money valuation  —  Kevin Weil, the former OpenAI executive who led the ChatGPT maker's AI-for-science efforts, is launching a new startup aimed …

As we get closer to autonomous, AI-driven medical care becoming a reality, regulators are racing to catch up. The FDA in August released a discussion paper with ideas about how ...

Human neural stem cells that help form the brain and spinal cord are highly susceptible to SARS-CoV-2, including omicron variants BA.1 and BA.2, according to new research from the University of California, Riverside. The findings raise concerns about the potential effects of maternal COVID-19 infection on early nervous system development and underscore the importance of monitoring children exposed to the virus before birth.

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins Children's Center report that bone marrow transplant using half-matched family donors achieved a 96% survival rate among children, adolescent, and young adult patients with severe aplastic anemia, a rare, life-threatening disorder in which the bone marrow fails to produce enough healthy blood cells.

An in-vitro study found that resveratrol glucoside reduced senescence-associated cellular changes by altering mitochondrial metabolism and chromatin regulation while showing less cytotoxicity than resveratrol.

Researchers analyzing nearly 150,000 Reddit posts uncovered unexpected symptom reports linked by users to unapproved versions of retatrutide, including increased appetite, sleep disturbances, and elevated heart rates. The findings differ from clinical trial results and highlight how AI could help identify potential drug safety signals that warrant further investigation.

How much evidence should the FDA require before it authorizes a generative AI-enabled medical device? The question was a point of contention among healthcare lobbying organizations and tech companies, who weighed in as the FDA ...

Potential and confirmed victims of human trafficking from Ukraine have been identified across Europe, Dmitry Polyansky stressed

A controlled study of 70 male rats found that stem cells led early wound contraction, while chitosan achieved the strongest contraction and marker results by day 14.

A review finds that electroactive tissue-regeneration scaffolds must be evaluated through linked electrical, mechanical, chemical and biological properties to address translational limitations.

A theory-based synthesis proposes five user and workforce functions, organizational controls and multilevel safeguards for safer decisions from conversational generative-AI health information.

A review identifies crosslinking as a multidimensional design variable influencing mechanics, transport, degradation and cell interactions in preclinical biopolymer biomaterials.

Researchers have outlined a plan for slowing aging by targeting one of the body's most important cellular communication systems. In a new paper published in Frontiers in Science, scientists describe how novel therapies that modulate GPCR signaling could one day help delay multiple age-related diseases at once—potentially extending healthy years of life.

A nationwide Danish twin study estimated that additive genetic effects explain about half of the variation in liability to clinically diagnosed rotator cuff tears.

arXiv:2610.30119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We prove a self-normalized Bernstein inequality for bounded functions of a regenerative process with independent, identically distributed marked cycles of finite mean length. The bound uses observed cycle lengths and retains explicit terms for truncation and the cycle ending after the observation horizon. Selecting a tuning parameter from a finite deterministic collection gives a version of Bernstein inequality where all terms are empirical but one, related to the tails of the regeneration times. We then study this term in many regimes: it turns out that it is of second-order in many cases of interest. This is important for applications in machine learning: we prove generalization error bounds for classification with non-i.i.d., regenerative data. These bounds can be used to define learning objectives: by minimizing the first-order term only in the bound, we define agnostic classifiers that still satisfy oracle inequalities. We also

arXiv:2610.30119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We prove a self-normalized Bernstein inequality for bounded functions of a regenerative process with independent, identically distributed marked cycles of finite mean length. The bound uses observed cycle lengths and retains explicit terms for truncation and the cycle ending after the observation horizon. Selecting a tuning parameter from a finite deterministic collection gives a version of Bernstein inequality where all terms are empirical but one, related to the tails of the regeneration times. We then study this term in many regimes: it turns out that it is of second-order in many cases of interest. This is important for applications in machine learning: we prove generalization error bounds for classification with non-i.i.d., regenerative data. These bounds can be used to define learning objectives: by minimizing the first-order term only in the bound, we define agnostic classifiers that still satisfy oracle inequalities. We also

arXiv:2610.30119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We prove a self-normalized Bernstein inequality for bounded functions of a regenerative process with independent, identically distributed marked cycles of finite mean length. The bound uses observed cycle lengths and retains explicit terms for truncation and the cycle ending after the observation horizon. Selecting a tuning parameter from a finite deterministic collection gives a version of Bernstein inequality where all terms are empirical but one, related to the tails of the regeneration times. We then study this term in many regimes: it turns out that it is of second-order in many cases of interest. This is important for applications in machine learning: we prove generalization error bounds for classification with non-i.i.d., regenerative data. These bounds can be used to define learning objectives: by minimizing the first-order term only in the bound, we define agnostic classifiers that still satisfy oracle inequalities. We also show

arXiv:2610.29351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zero-shot cross-lingual voice cloning often carries the reference speaker's accent into the target language. We propose closed-loop dual-reference guidance, which pairs the original reference with a reusable native anchor constructed by voice conversion (VC). The references initialize separate language-model (LM) states that guide a shared acoustic trajectory; each completed patch then updates both states, keeping their generated histories aligned with the emitted speech. Anchor construction runs once per speaker, and online synthesis uses a frozen TTS model without per-utterance VC. On 20 held-out French speakers, the fixed setting $\lambda^{\!*}=0.33$ reduces residual French LID mass by 73\% versus direct cloning, at an ECAPA similarity cost of only $0.042$; relative to anchor-only cloning, it recovers $0.155$. The method achieves the lowest mean WER ($0.009$) and highest mean GOP ($4.750$) among the held-out test arms. In blinded

arXiv:2610.29013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates large language models by verifying drafted tokens in parallel. New draft-training objectives are usually credited with the acceptance they add over cross-entropy on externally written responses, yet many pipelines let the target rewrite them. We ask how much of that gain survives. With a vision-language target and a block drafter, we train three objectives on four versions of one corpus: cross-entropy on corpus tokens, token-level distillation from the target, and distillation gated to positions that would survive verification. Distillation and the gate add large gains on external responses, but after greedy regeneration, distillation adds a smaller gain and the gate little or none. The shrinkage persists across data orders, position weights, verifiers, decoding temperatures and, for distillation, initializations and learning rates. Most of it remains at matched supervised length and at each objective's

A historical account traces how a five-surgeon collaboration in 1985 developed into a registry containing more than 200,000 liver transplants from 174 centres across 32 European countries.

An offline EEG study of 97 healthy adults linked motor imagery to brief limb execution and used a dual-branch neural network to improve movement-intention decoding.

China has taken a major step in spearheading the standardisation of brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies, as it now chairs the secretariat of a subcommittee jointly overseen by two key international organisations and lists the technology applications as a national development priority. The China-led subcommittee, known as ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 43, was set to formulate global standards regarding the communication and interaction between brains and computers that are applicable across...

A cross-sectional survey of 249 medical students at one Turkish university found near-universal AI use but no stable overall link between use frequency and psychological distress.

Current Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards for cell therapies assess identity, viability, sterility, and genetic stability. For extracellular vesicle (EV) products, Minimal Information for Studies of Extracellular Vesicles (MISEV2023) guidance adds particle size, concentration, markers, morphology, contaminants, endotoxin, and assays.

If spreadsheets are your thing, but Microsoft Office isn’t, you might want to give the open-source clone, GridCraft, a try.

Aarian Marshall / Wired: GM says it plans to debut OnStar AI, an in-car assistant that can execute vehicle functions and run diagnostics via voice commands, in the 2027 Cadillac Lyriq  —  The Detroit automaker wants your next vehicle to be a personal assistant, a best friend, and an autonomous errand-runner.

An opinion article argues that generative AI is increasing the burden on already underfunded public health institutions that distinguish evidence from plausible but unsourced claims.

A laboratory study found that removing heparan sulfate chains from perlecan in cell-derived extracellular matrix altered human stem-cell differentiation according to the matrix’s cellular origin.

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins Children's Center report that bone marrow transplant using half-matched family donors achieved a 96% survival rate among child, adolescent and young adult patients with severe aplastic anemia, a rare, life-threatening disorder in which the bone marrow fails to produce enough healthy blood cells. The approach expands access to potentially curative treatment for patients who do not have a fully matched donor.

New active ingredients for drugs to treat infections, cancer or other serious diseases are often based on substances originally discovered in microorganisms, plants or other living organisms. Producing or improving such active ingredients in a targeted manner using microorganisms is often challenging because the underlying biological processes are extremely complex.

A structured review found that CRISPR diagnostics for maternal–infant HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis care remain clinically unready, with HIV early infant diagnosis offering the strongest near-term development opportunity.

OpenEvidence is booming despite questions about accuracy and ads.

A 2026 review finds that CPNE7-derived peptides can promote selected tissue-repair processes in preclinical models when engineered into collagen and chitosan biomaterials.

When transplant candidates become frail, doctors often worry that they are too weak to survive transplantation.

Artificial intelligence tools are being touted as a solution for so-called pajama time – the time doctors inevitably spend compiling patient notes after working hours.

While AI offers the ability to improve human experts' ability to diagnose and treat diseases like breast cancer, well-publicized errors across the broader AI field are cause for concern.

Scientists have turned blood cells from an 80-year-old into neural stem cells with a molecular age of less than 20, effectively reversing more than 60 years of cellular aging in the laboratory. The discovery offers a new way to investigate how cells become younger and could help researchers better understand age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's.

A narrative review identifies prostate cancer stem-like cells as plausible contributors to treatment persistence and relapse while concluding that most strategies for selectively targeting them remain experimental.

When transplant candidates become frail, doctors often worry that they are too weak to survive transplantation. But according to a new study from Northwestern Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh, frailty can be significantly improved with the right personalized, physician-led fitness program.

A rat implantation study found that human umbilical cord stromal cells and their small extracellular vesicles altered selected inflammatory, fibrous and matrix-remodeling responses around vaginal mesh but did not establish clinical benefit.

It’s not always patience and luck that get patients off the organ transplant waiting list and into the operating room. Unlike in many areas of medicine, experts say there’s a lot of variation in the US transplant system. Knowing there are differences and what to ask might help. “I had to ask a lot of […] The post How US organ transplant system works appeared first on Egyptian Gazette.

A 2026 Perspective proposes a five-part design and deployment roadmap for foundation models that jointly represent donor, recipient and graft data across the transplant care continuum.

A review finds that plant-rich diets and omega-3 fatty acids may help lower skin cancer risk in solid organ transplant recipients, but limited and inconsistent clinical evidence means diet remains an adjunct to established prevention.

arXiv:2610.28199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This note provides exact information-theoretic outer bounds that completely characterize the storage-repair-bandwidth tradeoff regions for the cases $(n,k,d)=(6,5,5)$ and $(7,6,6)$. The layered code proposed by Tian et al. achieves the tradeoff and is thus optimal. GPT-6 Astra assisted in the discovery of these bounds, based on a new conditioning argument and a structured search over the restricted subsets of entropy linear program constraints. The proofs are given as exact integer-valued certificates, which are difficult for direct human verification, and a Python verifier is included as part of the package, together with the certificates.

arXiv:2610.28199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This note provides exact information-theoretic outer bounds that completely characterize the storage-repair-bandwidth tradeoff regions for the cases $(n,k,d)=(6,5,5)$ and $(7,6,6)$. The layered code proposed by Tian et al. achieves the tradeoff and is thus optimal. GPT-6 Astra assisted in the discovery of these bounds, based on a new conditioning argument and a structured search over the restricted subsets of entropy linear program constraints. The proofs are given as exact integer-valued certificates, which are difficult for direct human verification, and a Python verifier is included as part of the package, together with the certificates.

It's not always patience and luck that get patients off the organ transplant waiting list and into the operating room.

The treatment delivers a light-sensitive algae protein to the retina. Paired with special goggles, it can restore limited vision and lasts for years. The post Blind Patients Recover Partial Vision in Gene Therapy Trial appeared first on SingularityHub.

A direct-shoot regeneration protocol achieved 91.67% regeneration in sugar beet leaf explants and produced molecularly verified transgenic plants, 70% of which acclimatized successfully.

A prospective four-child Hungarian case report found remission in two cases, clinical control of graft-versus-host disease and eventual clearance of resistant organisms after repeat transplantation, while leaving a fatal fungal infection's possible donor link unresolved.

A cross-sectional survey of 53 Spanish healthcare professionals found high willingness to adopt Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy, alongside concerns about safety, long-term efficacy, cost, hospital logistics and confidence in functional outcome measures.

Spirit Airlines data sale explained: see what Google's $10M purchase includes, why pilots fear for safety reporting, and when the bankruptcy court will rule.

A review finds that AI-enabled microfluidic wearables and implants could support continuous personalized monitoring, but clinical adoption requires stable materials, unbiased algorithms, interoperable systems and rigorous validation.

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Gene editing is moving from lab bench to approved therapies. But how should sponsors measure editing efficiency without unnecessary complexity? The post Great gene editing. Now prove it without overcomplicating the analysis appeared first on Labiotech.eu. © Labiotech UG and Labiotech.eu. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Labiotech UG and Labiotech.eu with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

Experiments in mouse-derived astrocytes and human embryonic stem cells identify GLIS3 as an upstream regulator of astrocyte differentiation and neural gene-expression pathways.

A secondary analysis of 64 participants found no detected early patient-reported outcome differences between experimental stem-cell craniofacial reconstruction and standard grafting.

A review of human, animal and laboratory evidence shows that Raman spectroscopy and SERS can detect molecular patterns associated with kidney-transplant monitoring, donor assessment and immune-cell activation.

Solar farms and regenerative farms are rarely mentioned in the same sentence. Yet in Australia, and increasingly around the world, both are becoming pillars of the same carbon strategy. One captures carbon in the soil. The other avoids carbon by replacing fossil power. Both only work when that carbon stays put. At Shoals, we spend […] The post Carbon, crops, and kilowatts: Building renewable energy projects through regenerative land practices appeared first on Renew Economy.

A two-phase Chinese study developed an eight-domain index for assessing kidney transplantation nurse competencies, but the framework has not yet been clinically validated.

Researchers found that a previously validated 67-metabolite blood signature of Mediterranean diet adherence was associated with lower long-term mortality across a Spanish trial population and three US cohorts. Participants with the highest signature scores had a 23% lower relative hazard of death than those with the lowest scores in both populations, although the findings do not establish a causal relationship.

“That’s what you get with old people: lots of stories,” said Francis DiMento, 99. The post Brookline celebrates its centenarians at ‘Party of a Century’ appeared first on Boston.com.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of 11 randomized controlled trials involving 559 patients with stroke found that brain-computer interface training outperformed conventional rehabilitation for cognition and activities of daily living, but the evidence was rated low to very low certainty.

Mass General Brigham researchers say an AI tool can estimate cancer survival risk from a face photograph, but independent experts say it is not ready for clinical use.

Gene therapy is no longer the future of medicine—it's reality. Treatments that replace, silence or edit genes are already changing clinical care.

A 2026 review summarizes advances in CRISPR-Cas9 precision, delivery and primary-cell engineering for genetic diseases and diabetes, while the available abstract does not provide quantitative results or detailed study methods.

A meta-analysis of 16 controlled animal studies found that stem cell-based interventions improved mechanical strength, bone volume fraction and histological integration after ACL reconstruction, with the clearest effects at four to six weeks.

In an era where patients and clinicians increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for medical advice, a critical question emerges: Does AI know when not to test or treat? A new joint study from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Clalit Health Services reveals that leading large language models (LLMs) successfully identify when medical interventions are redundant in the vast majority of cases, stumbling primarily in gray areas where medical consensus itself is divided.

Madison Mills / Axios: OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio, which builds AI agents for managing drug development, and plans to integrate its tech into OpenAI life sciences suite Rosalind  —  OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, a startup building AI agents to help pharmaceutical companies manage drug development, the ChatGPT maker shared exclusively with Axios.

An in vitro study combining human atrial cardiomyocytes, fibroblasts and intermittent tachypacing reproduced selected electrical, calcium-handling and fibrotic changes associated with atrial fibrillation.

Artificial intelligence tools are being touted as a solution for so-called pajama time—the time doctors inevitably spend compiling patient notes after working hours. As hospitals increasingly deploy AI scribes to listen and take notes during patient encounters, the data the scribes produce becomes the scaffold on which insights about health care, from billing to research to clinical decision-making, are built.

A study provides new details about how the brain’s motor cortex reacts when people watch actions by agents