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Study Finds Some Medical Spas Sell Compounded Weight-Loss Drugs Despite Regulatory Worries
GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide and tirzepatide may no longer face the same federal shortages that reshaped the market in recent...
Rethinking Cardiometabolic Treatment Thresholds for People Living With Obesity
The American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, and the European Society of Cardiology now recognize obesity as a...
Insilico Medicine Execs at CPIC Discuss AI Drug Discovery’s Tech and Clinical Breakthroughs
Insilico Medicine founders Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov and Dr. Feng Ren have been invited to the inaugural China Pioneer Innovative Drug...
Helical Flow Enables Opto-Thermoviscous Microrotation for Multiview 3D Microscopy
Micromanipulating tiny objects in 3D—especially in highly viscous environments—has long been a stubborn challenge. Force-based approaches often lose effectiveness as...
New Challenges and Trends Shape Automotive Battery Recycling Efforts
Electrification is rapidly expanding automotive battery production worldwide, but that boom creates a growing “back end” problem: huge volumes of...
Electromechanical docking systems enable thin-film robotic and electronic module transfers
A new study in npj Flexible Electronics reports an electromechanical way to “snap” thin-film robotic and electronic modules together—and to...
Sleeve Gastrectomy Triggers Adipose Browning by Modulating Asprosin and ATF3-Nrf2
Vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG) is known for producing swift metabolic improvements in people with obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus...
Predictable Microbial Shifts Build Community-Wide Resilience to Environmental Stress
Microbial communities rarely behave like chaotic crowds. Instead, new work in Nature Microbiology suggests they may shift in strikingly orderly...
Optical anisotropy enables more robust skyrmion-based information storage
A team of researchers reports a new route to making skyrmions—tiny, swirling magnetic textures that can behave like stable information...
T-box transcription factor misregulation disrupts BNP–NPR1 signaling, causing chronic itch
Chronic itch, a stubborn symptom that can persist for years, has long puzzled clinicians because it often resists conventional anti-histamine...
Lancet Definition of Clinical Obesity Applied to MASLD Patients
A new framework for defining clinical obesity, proposed by The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, is now being tested in...
Flexible thin-film electronics that reposition and connect themselves
Fukuoka, Japan—A team at Kyushu University has unveiled prototype thin-film electronic modules that can automatically dock and undock from one...
New DNA approach offers a strategy to fight gum disease
Periodontitis, a chronic inflammatory condition affecting millions worldwide, is driven by bacterial biofilms beneath the gums. The resulting immune activation...
New perception-based technology brings AR glasses closer to real life
A major snag in optical see-through augmented reality (AR) is the trade-off between realism and usability. When occlusion-capable head-mounted displays...
New Layered Crystal Enables High-Efficiency Thermoelectric Energy Conversion
Thermoelectric materials are prized for their ability to harvest waste heat and turn it into electricity, yet they face a...
Brain circuits could explain cognitive symptoms in progressive supranuclear palsy
Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is defined by the build-up of tau, yet patients often show cognitive and behavioral problems that...
ASB2 reduces liver fat accumulation, boosting ILC1 balance and anti-tumor immunity
Viral Science News — A new study reports that an immune-regulating factor called ASB2 can reshape liver metabolism in a...
Extracellular Matrix Stiffness Guides Region-Specific Lung Epithelial Differentiation in Organoids
Viral Science News — A new study from researchers including Z. Liao and H. Meng reports that mechanical cues from...
Repetitive Neuronal Stimulation Reprograms Mature Neurons Into Immature States
Decades after electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) became clinical workhorses for depression and schizophrenia, the cellular...
Subjective Well-Being Mediates Link Between Caregiver Ability and Postoperative Resilience
A new study in BMC Geriatrics spotlights how the emotional lives of older adults may help determine psychological recovery after...
