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The first photographs many parents have of their children are sonograms, used to check on the health of developing fetuses. These sonograms use noninvasive ultrasound technology, but the grainy, gray images they produce can lack diagnostic clarity.

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Candid Health, which develops tech and AI agents to automate medical billing and claims processing workflows, raised a $120M Series D led by Sixth Street Growth  —  Candid Health cofounder Doug Proctor spun his laptop around to show me a herd of wild horses grazing behind him in upstate New York during our first Zoom call.

The main function of CRISPR-Cas systems, the revolutionary tool scientists now employ to edit genes, is to defend bacteria against threats such as viruses called bacteriophages.

EchoNext received FDA clearance June 23, 2026, as the first AI to detect six types of hidden heart disease from a routine ECG. Here is what patients and doctors need to know.

To make CRISPR better at its job, researchers are turning to algorithms like DeepMind's AlphaFold. The post Scientists Are Designing CRISPR Gene Editors With AI appeared first on SingularityHub.

The FDA approved Lytenava for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration, according to a press release from Outlook Therapeutics.The approval of Lytenava is marks the first and only FDA-approved ophthalmic formulation of bevacizumab for the treatment of wet AMD in the United States.Bevacizumab-vikg, a recombinant humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody specific for human VEGF, binds VEGF and inhibits interactions of VEGF with Flt-1 and KDR receptors on the surface of endothelial cells. The approved formulation of bevacizumab binds to VEGF-A and prevents interaction with VEGFR-1

Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.

The Xtra Muse 2 Pro. | Image; Xtra After selling a barely disguised version of the hit DJI Osmo Pocket 3 in the United States last year, Xtra Technology seemed ready to sneak in its version of the new dual-lens Osmo Pocket 4 Pro, too. But today, Xtra has abruptly removed the new Xtra Muse 2 Pro from its website landing page, is pausing preorders indefinitely, and says it'll refund all the $20 deposits that it's already collected. Just days after showing off the camera at a Los Angeles launch event, the company is no longer necessarily committing to launch at all: "XTRA has not made a final announcement regarding future product availability. We have not announced a new produc … Read the full story at The Verge.

A young girl in China died after being given an experimental gene therapy intended to treat a neurodevelopmental syndrome, an investigation by Science and Retraction Watch revealed.

OpenAI wants to be in the room for your next diagnosis. On Thursday it began rolling out ChatGPT Health to every logged-in US adult. The chatbot can now connect to your Apple Health data and medical records, the company said. It can then draw on them in any conversation. More than 300 million people already […] This story continues at The Next Web

A 6-year-old Chinese girl died last year after receiving an experimental gene therapy to correct a non-life-threatening condition, according to an investigation by Science and Retraction Watch.

A USC study found the Mediterranean diet raises blood levels of two mitochondrial proteins, humanin and SHMOOSE, linked to heart and brain protection. Here is what the research found and means.

Millions use AI chatbots for mental health support as wait times reach months. Psychiatrists and new research warn the tools are not safe for crises. Here is what patients need to know.

People with age-related macular degeneration maintain vision and cut their need for supplemental injections by 90% 5 years after receiving gene therapy.

Researchers aim to evaluate the effectiveness of ASCT as consolidation therapy for patients with advanced-stage natural killer/T-cell lymphoma who have attained their first complete remission.

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The 2026 Early Steps to Transplant Access Registry annual report highlighted trends in kidney transplant referrals, evaluations and wait-listing in 13 U.S. states.The data spanned between 2015 and 2024, including new patients on dialysis from 37 transplant centers in the four major End-Stage Renal Disease Network regions of New England, New York, Ohio River Valley and the Southeast.Researchers found transplant referral rates within 1 year of starting dialysis increased from 24.3% to 33.4% (2015-2023), evaluation rates within 3 months of referral decreased from 42% to 24.3% (2015-2024) and

Approach focuses on rebuilding soil health, increasing biodiversity and restoring natural ecosystems For the last few decades, the nutrient content of our crops has been declining. In the late 90s, the US Department of Agriculture found the vitamin C content of lemons had decreased by almost a third over the previous 22 years. Calcium in carrots, an important source especially for non-meat eaters, had reduced, on average, by more than a quarter. Vitamin A in bananas was down by 57%. The mineral content of wheat has declined by between 20-30% since the 1960s. A number of reasons have been suggested for this worrying decline, ranging from new varieties of crop that are bred to grow quicker and bigger to the higher carbon dioxide levels in the air causing plants to produce more sugars and starches (they grow faster but they produce fewer nutrients). A wide range of fixes have been suggested, from GM crops to synthetic soil amendments, or underground farms. Continue reading...

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

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement”  When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been removed from a donor’s…

EFFINGHAM, Ill. — The Illinois Grazing Lands Coalition hosted their first-of-its-kind contest for youth July 16 in Effingham as part of the Heart of America Grazing Conference. Ten participants, aged 14 to 22, were given a hypothetical 50-acre plot of land and asked to plan a regenerative grazing system that allowed for easy access to […] The post Young Aspiring Farmers Compete to Design Best Regenerative Grazing Operation appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

One of the hallmarks of dysfunctional lipid metabolism in the brain the context of age-related neurodegenerative disease is an increase in lipid droplets in brain cells. This is seen in a number of different neurodegenerative conditions. Evidence suggests lipid metabolism dysfunction to be involved in the inflammatory behavior of the innate immune cells known as microglia, thought to be an important contributing cause of neurodegeneration. Here, researchers provide evidence for lipid droplet formation to be associated with cellular senescence, a state in which cells cease to replicate and secrete inflammatory signals. Senescent cells are not cleared efficiently in aged tissues, and their numbers grow to disrupt tissue structure and function. It is already known that some fraction of overly inflammatory microglia in the aging brain […]

Life insurance sales in Hong Kong rose 51 per cent in the first quarter to another record high, driven by affluent customers from mainland China and overseas buying policies for wealth transfer, protection and medical needs. The industry wrote HK$141.1 billion (US$18 billion) in new life policies in the first quarter, compared with HK$93.4 billion a year earlier, according to data from the Insurance Authority released on Friday. It marked the third year that first-quarter sales hit a record high...

Hanmi Pharmaceutical announced the results of a study on deriving an obesity drug pipeline using its proprietary AI platform, ‘HARP-pSAR,’ at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2026) conference held in Washington, D.C., the United States, from July 12 to 16.This presentation drew in

Bryan Johnson reveals his stem cell clone, 'Baby Bryan', created from his blood cells to explore organ regeneration and longevity therapies, highlighting advancements in personalised regenerative medicine

arXiv:2607.20583v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The function of many genes is still unknown, and conventional driver-discovery methods, which rely on how frequently a gene is mutated, cannot assess genes that are only rarely affected. Here we pair Evo~2-based genome analysis with routine clinical imaging to identify gene--phenotype associations at genome-wide scale. For every somatic mutation across three TCGA cohorts (cRCC=clear cell renal cell carcinoma, HCC=hepatocellular carcinoma, and BC=breast cancer; $n = 340$ total), Evo~2 predicts a severity score, with no task-specific training. Per-gene severity summaries are then correlated with radiomic features extracted from paired tumor segmentations, controlling for total mutation burden. In TCGA-cRCC ($n = 162$), this sweep recovers established renal-cancer drivers and identifies 46 additional genes reaching false discovery rate (FDR) significance absent from curated cancer-gene panels, several of which are Mendelian ciliopathy and

arXiv:2607.20583v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The function of many genes is still unknown, and conventional driver-discovery methods, which rely on how frequently a gene is mutated, cannot assess genes that are only rarely affected. Here we pair Evo~2-based genome analysis with routine clinical imaging to identify gene--phenotype associations at genome-wide scale. For every somatic mutation across three TCGA cohorts (cRCC=clear cell renal cell carcinoma, HCC=hepatocellular carcinoma, and BC=breast cancer; $n = 340$ total), Evo~2 predicts a severity score, with no task-specific training. Per-gene severity summaries are then correlated with radiomic features extracted from paired tumor segmentations, controlling for total mutation burden. In TCGA-cRCC ($n = 162$), this sweep recovers established renal-cancer drivers and identifies 46 additional genes reaching false discovery rate (FDR) significance absent from curated cancer-gene panels, several of which are Mendelian ciliopathy and

arXiv:2607.20582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning models for medical image analysis typically lack a reliable measure of confidence, limiting their use in ambiguous or atypical cases. Here we show that Monte Carlo dropout, applied to a multi-task chest-radiograph classifier (eight thoracic findings, 137,593 training images), provides an epistemic uncertainty signal that tracks generalisation across training-set scales and flags confident yet error-prone predictions. Adding this signal to the point prediction raised error-detection AUROC from 0.74 to 0.77 ($\Delta$AUROC +0.023, 95% CI [+0.014, +0.033]). In a controlled 2x2 factorial experiment, a clinical-decision-support agent exploited this uncertainty only when it was delivered as a binary error-risk flag rather than as raw scores, cutting confident misdiagnoses on unreliable findings from 8.5% to 2.7%. Epistemic uncertainty estimation thus carries decision-relevant information beyond point predictions, but its value

A new collaborative research project between Murdoch University and Walailak University (WU) aims to restore seagrass meadows in Thailand using 3D-printed pods made from bioplastics.

Our population is aging. The United Nations reports that by 2050, the number of people over the age of 85 on our planet is set to triple.

A 9-year-old biotech co-founded by CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna is kicking off a run of biotech IPOs set for this year's second half. Scribe Therapeutics priced its $128.7 million

The European Union adopted new legislation on plants obtained through certain new genomic techniques in June 2026. The new framework will apply after a two-year transition period. It distinguishes between two categories. Plants in Category 1 (NGT-1) have a limited number and type of genetic changes that could also occur naturally or through conventional breeding. Under the new legislation, they will largely be regulated like conventionally bred plants. Category 2 plants with more extensive or complex modifications will remain subject to the existing genetically modified organism (GMO) rules.

Drug development is among the slowest, most failure-prone processes in modern science, with about 90% of drug candidates never reaching the market. Today, artificial intelligence methods have accelerated the first step—plucking promising molecules out of endless possibilities—but countless challenges remain. A successful drug must be not only safe and effective but also able to bypass the body's defenses and reach the right target.

The FDA on July 1, 2026, expanded Casgevy CRISPR gene therapy to children as young as 2 with sickle cell disease. Here is what families need to know about eligibility and access.

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

Samsung’s AI Health Companion Samsung has begun deploying Health Assistant, a chatbot built into Samsung Health that tries

When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been carefully removed from a donor’s body, it starts to deteriorate. Surgeons have a matter of hours to get it into a recipient. Leave it too long and the organ will become unusable. In most cases, organs will be kept…

Sickle cell disease causes premature aging of blood stem cells, which scientists may be able to address with a special class of drugs, according to a new study from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Patients with sickle cell disease experience higher rates of blood stem cell dysfunction and blood cancers compared with their peers, though the reason has been unclear.

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have identified a new mechanism behind the chemotherapy resistance that makes ovarian cancer so lethal.

Limbal stem cell deficiency is an underrecognized but potentially devastating condition of the ocular surface.Although not the most common diagnosis, it is certainly not rare, and its ability to masquerade as more routine ocular surface disease can make it easy to miss. Determining the right treatment plan for a patient with limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD) hinges on accurate diagnosis and staging, so vigilance and flexibility are key to successfully managing this condition (Lent-Schochet et al.).At its core, LSCD is a failure of the limbal stem cells to maintain and regenerate the corneal

Updates suggest progress in the development of less-toxic regimens, and in gene editing to eliminate the need for immune suppression entirely.

All cellular life-from humans to bacteria-possesses two layers of immunity: innate and adaptive. Scientists have long understood how these two types of immunity work together in higher organisms but not in the microbial world.

Epilepsy affects over 50 million people worldwide, making it one of the most common neurological disorders.

Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made from engineered proteins rather than synthetic chemistry (which are often used to…

A gentler stem cell transplant rejuvenated aging blood and immune systems in mice. Imagine storing your own healthy blood stem cells while young, then receiving them decades later to refresh the systems that produce blood and support immunity. That possibility remains speculative for people, but researchers have shown that young stem cells can rejuvenate these [...]

SGLT2 inhibitor therapy is linked to significant reductions in BMI and systolic blood pressure in kidney transplant recipients with or without diabetes, an Italian study finds.

Discover how AI-powered analytics and experimental validation combine to improve target identification and accelerate drug discovery success.

The FDA's Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee weighs peptides for obesity, insulin resistance, opioid withdrawal and insomnia this week.

Roche has offered some insight into how it is using AI, from drug discovery to token use. AI has already contributed to “a significant increase in new molecules” in its pipeline, CEO Thomas Schinecker said ...

Stem cell-derived dopamine cell transplantation appears feasible and may reduce medication needs in PD, but longer follow-up is needed to establish its clinical benefit and long-term safety.

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‘Ottava’ has been given market authorisation for use in multiple general surgery procedures within the upper abdomen. Read more: J&J table-integrated surgical robot gets FDA approval

Researchers at the University of Leeds and collaborators from the University of California San Diego won the Best Paper Award at RoboSoft, the leading international conference focused on soft robotics research. Soft robotics is gaining attention in medical applications because compliant machines can interact more safely with delicate objects and complex anatomy. The award-winning paper […]

arXiv:2607.19417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brain-computer interface neurofeedback (BCI-NFT) has shown promise for neuromotor rehabilitation, but its clinical adoption -- particularly in pediatric populations -- remains limited in part by the lengthy calibration required before each therapy session. This study developed and evaluated a deep-learning framework to reduce calibration requirements for movement-related cortical potential (MRCP)-based movement-intention detection in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Electroencephalography (EEG) was collected during repeated ankle dorsiflexion tasks across 27 sessions in four children with CP. A bidirectional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) network was evaluated using seven training strategies, ranging from conventional within-session calibration to cumulative cross-subject learning and transfer learning. Cross-subject cumulative learning achieved 91\% accuracy without within-session calibration, while the addition of transfer learning

arXiv:2607.20377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum-kernel methods encode a dataset's geometry in a Gram matrix, so learning claims on hardware kernels assume the intended geometry survives execution. We measure that survival for one frozen four-qubit ZZ feature-map kernel on $N=24$ real indoor air-quality windows, reconstructed on ibm_fez (1024 shots per circuit) under baseline, dynamical decoupling alone, and gate twirling alone, each a single non-interleaved job. Every configuration returned a complete, finite, positive-semidefinite Gram matrix and preserved the centered statevector geometry to a substantial but incomplete descriptive degree (full-matrix centered kernel alignment, CKA, 0.933-0.989). Gate twirling was most faithful on every reported geometry axis, with the only jackknife-resolved improvement over baseline (persisted Spearman, mean absolute error, and full-matrix CKA diagnostics); dynamical decoupling alone was not separated from baseline at the frozen-window

arXiv:2607.20087v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aims: Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging enables non-invasive assessment of myocardial structure, function, and pathology, but requires substantial experience in interpretation of CMR images that could be supported by artificial intelligence (AI)-based models. However, use of AI models for enhanced CMR reading is limited by labor-intensive data curation, suboptimal model performance, and unclear implementation pathways. Methods and results: We developed an automated data curation pipeline for CMR-based cardiovascular disease (CVD) diagnosis, integrating open-source locally-run large language models (LLMs) to extract diagnostic labels from narrative CMR reports and preprocessing multimodal imaging data, including cine and late-gadolinium-enhancement (LGE) CMR sequences. Three vision foundation models (DINO, VST, UMedPT) were fine-tuned across these modalities in a two-stage approach. The dataset comprised hypertrophic

arXiv:2607.19688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-generated covers often fail through local musical errors that a global quality score cannot locate: the vocal contour may remain recognizable while the accompaniment uses the wrong harmonic function, or the output may stay in key while the arrangement remains incomplete. We present a five-dimensional diagnostic framework covering melodic pitch, harmonic progression, key consistency, style consistency, and arrangement/production quality. The benchmark contains 30 covers generated from 5 source songs by 6 systems, with expert severity ratings and 9 symbolic or acoustic features. Harmonic progression and arrangement had the highest severe-error rates (53% and 47%), whereas key consistency was better preserved. Six covers combined acceptable key consistency with severe harmonic errors. Large-leap ratio had a nominal association with melodic ratings (Spearman rho = -0.429, uncorrected p = 0.018), but no feature correlation survived the

arXiv:2607.19575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vector Quantization (VQ) underpins modern discrete visual tokenization. However, training quantization modules for state-of-the-art VQ-based models requires significant computational resources which, in practice, all but prevents the development of novel, cutting-edge VQ techniques under resource constraints. To address this limitation, we propose {\bf VQ-Transplant}, a simple framework that enables plug-and-play integration of new VQ modules into frozen, pre-trained tokenizers by replacing their native VQ modules. Crucially, the proposed transplantation process preserves all encoder-decoder parameters, obviating the need for costly end-to-end retraining when modifying the quantization method. To mitigate decoder-quantization mismatch, we introduce a lightweight decoder adaptation strategy (trained for only 5 epochs on ImageNet-1k) to align feature priors with the new quantization space. In our empirical evaluation, we find that

Koreans are living longer, healthier lives than almost anywhere else in the industrialized world, even as the nation operates with one of the most severe shortages of practicing physicians among developed economies. According to new data released Thursday by the Ministry of Health and Welfare based on the OECD Health Statistics 2026, life expectancy in Korea reached a record high of 83.7 years. The figure places the nation comfortably above the OECD average of 81.2 years and just behind Switzerland, which leads the 38-member bloc at 84.2 years. The statistics reveal a health care ecosystem defined by extraordinary access and world-class preventive care, alongside mounting structural strains. Korea’s rate of avoidable mortality — deaths preventable through timely medical intervention or public health measures — stood at 139.0 per 100,000 people, far below the OECD benchmark of 208.8. Yet this longevity is supported by a strikingly lean clinical workforce. Korea recorded just 2.6

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Sickle cell disease causes premature aging of blood stem cells, which scientists may be able to address with a special class of drugs, according to a new study from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

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Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa in Leganés, part of the public health network of the Comunidad de Madrid, have developed a methodology that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze brain electrical activity during sleep and facilitate the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's. The study, recently published in the journal GeroScience, demonstrates that analyzing nocturnal brain waves using machine learning techniques makes it possible to noninvasively identify early neural alterations and classify patients into three distinct biological subgroups.

All cellular life—from humans to bacteria—possesses two layers of immunity: innate and adaptive. Scientists have long understood how these two types of immunity work together in higher organisms but not in the microbial world.

Cell and gene therapy leaders discuss the industry’s biggest bioprocessing challenges, from manufacturing scalability and raw-material variability to infrastructure readiness, and explain the strategies they believe will accelerate commercialization and improve patient access. The post Scaling Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.

Researchers identified a form of transmissible cancer in a freshwater fish species, in which the cancer cells behave more like parasites than conventional tumors, moving from fish to fish. The post Transmissible Cancer Discovered in Freshwater Fish appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.

A new wave of artificial intelligence (AI) tools is emerging to help speed scientific discovery, especially in biomedical research. By analyzing massive datasets, these tools could flag genes that shed light on how disease progresses or drugs that may lead to a potential new treatment, but any errors AI makes can carry serious consequences, according to Dajiang Liu, a University Distinguished Professor and director of artificial intelligence and biomedical informatics at Penn State College of Medicine.

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Bryan Johnson says reprogrammed stem cells could one day grow replacement organs and test treatments after his autoimmune diagnosis.

Google Health 5.04 is rolling out today with a focus on nutrition updates — a big complaint of the initial redesign — and other bug fixes.

Scientists Discover the First-Ever Contagious Cancer in Fish  GizmodoDeep in This Lake, a Contagious Cancer Is Spreading  The New York TimesTransmissible skin cancer discovered in freshwater fish in Canada and U.S.  CTV News'Rare' contagious cancer found in fish from Quebec and U.S. lakes | CBC News  CBCTransmissible cancer cells discovered in fish act more like parasites than traditional tumors  Phys.org

Scientists Discover the First-Ever Contagious Cancer in Fish  GizmodoDeep in This Lake, a Contagious Cancer Is Spreading  The New York TimesTransmissible skin cancer discovered in freshwater fish in Canada and U.S.  CTV News'Rare' contagious cancer found in fish from Quebec and U.S. lakes | CBC News  CBCTransmissible cancer cells discovered in fish act more like parasites than traditional tumors  Phys.org

AI may have negative implications for cognition — a warning that clinicians in particular may need to heed, according to an expert.Dementia prevalence in the United States is lower than anticipated, in part because of a “decades-long upward trend in educational attainment,” Alexander Chaitoff, MD, MPH, an assistant professor in the University of Michigan Medical School’s department of internal medicine, and colleagues wrote in JAMA Internal Medicine. But whether cognitive offloading from AI systems, which boast more than 100 million daily users, “counteracts these education gains or enhances

A team of Vermont researchers has discovered that mysterious black skin lesions afflicting catfish in Lake Memphremagog and other New England and Canadian lakes are caused by a transmissible cancer—the first identified in a freshwater fish species. The cancer cells behave more like parasites than conventional tumors, moving from fish to fish.

University of Virginia Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists have developed a promising new experimental approach to targeting glioblastoma, the most common and deadliest brain cancer.

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A study of 720,348 patients found 48% never began transplant evaluation and only 19% reached the waitlist. Rural patients, unmarried adults, and patients at smaller centers face the greatest barriers.

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Samsung says the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip 8 use new silicon-carbon batteries, citing their performance, longevity, and safety  —  It's happening.  Samsung has officially adopted silicon-carbon batteries on its latest foldables, though you wouldn't know that by looking …

Miniature brain models grown from patients’ cells revealed striking differences in how Alzheimer’s-related tissue responds to an antidepressant. The organoids and the particles they release could eventually guide more personalized treatments and provide new clues for diagnosing the disease.

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The use of generative AI has become so widespread that ChatGPT is gradually becoming a verb, much like Google and Photoshop. Hundreds of millions of people now use large language model (LLM)-based chatbots for advice on personal, emotional and mental health problems. The reasons are largely practical: they are available 24/7, easy to access and nonjudgmental. Scientists are worried that this behavior might delay people from reaching out to health care professionals.

Two errors occurred in the author names of this article by Bavli and colleagues (BMJ 2026;394:e100272; doi:10.1136/bmj-2026-100272). Nadav Davidovitch’s name was spelt incorrectly and an initial was missing for Nicholas King. Both have been corrected in the online version.

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CAPE CANAVERAL — A two-armed space robot blasted off on a private salvage operation Tuesday to slap life-extending jetpacks on old satellites running low on fuel thousands of miles up, AP reported. It’s the second satellite-saving mission to launch this month, all part of a growing, money-saving effort to keep spacecraft running as long as […] The post Private mission launches to extend life of out-of-gas communication satellites appeared first on Egyptian Gazette.

When a patient is admitted to a hospital emergency room with a life-threatening medical condition, the first order of business is to get that patient to a stable state. After that happens, it is standard medical practice for doctors to initiate what's known as a serious illness conversation, which gives both the physician and patient an opportunity to discuss goals of care, treatment and end-of-life wishes before a medical crisis makes those conversations impossible.