Health
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...
Japan Study Explores Community Supporters’ Experiences with Team Orange Dementia Program
A new qualitative study from Japan spotlights “Team Orange,” a community-based dementia support program designed to help families and caregivers...
COVID-19 Booster Strategies Deliver Long-Lasting Immunity
Smaller “fractional” doses of COVID-19 booster vaccines may deliver long-lasting immunity while stretching limited supply—an approach that could lower costs...
Body Detects Temperature Shifts: How Warm and Cool Signals Are Sensed
A new study is upending a long-held idea about how the nervous system reads temperature. Researchers at the University of...
Aral Sea Drying Turns Carbon Sink Into Major Carbon Source
Drying of the Aral Sea has released more than 200 teragrams of carbon from exposed lake-bed sediments, turning a once-stable...
Timing Regenerative Signals Determines Healing Outcomes After Injury
Medicine has long aimed to deliver the right therapeutic signals to the right tissue at the right moment. New University...
Smart Ring Discretion Challenged by New Findings
Tufts engineers are building a new class of wearable electronics designed to disappear into everyday life. Instead of rigid, planar...
Scientists Discover New Pathway That Triggers Epilepsy
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital have identified a previously underappreciated genetic route to seizures, reframing...
Scientists engineer next-generation cancer treatments by disabling tumor DNA repair
DETROIT — Traditional cancer therapies such as radiation and chemotherapy attack tumor cells by damaging their DNA, but many cancers...
Perioperative D-dimer to albumin ratio predicts serious complications, mortality after hip fracture
A new retrospective study out of the hip-fracture literature suggests that a simple perioperative blood marker ratio could sharpen predictions...
LIG1 Loss Reveals Targetable Weakness Against Chemotherapy-Resistant Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
In triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) that carries TP53 mutations, loss of one copy of the DNA ligase I gene (LIG1)...
Immune Cell Interaction Breakdown Drives Aging, New Study Finds
Aging is inevitable, but the mechanisms that accelerate it may be more immune-driven than previously appreciated. A new study from...
Crown Bioscience Joins C-Path Coalition for New Approach Methodologies
TUCSON, Ariz., July 16, 2026 — Critical Path Institute’s® (C-Path) New Approach Methodologies Developer Coalition (NAMs-DC) has added Crown Bioscience...
Fractional High-Chern Insulator Realized in Twisted Rhombohedral Graphene
A new class of quantum matter is emerging from an unlikely playground: moiré superlattices made of layered graphene. In a...
Plasma Ceramide Ratios Link Metabolic and Inflammation Markers to Parkinson’s Cognitive Decline
A new viral-science headline from 2026 spotlights an emerging lipid signal in Parkinson’s disease: plasma ceramide ratios. Researchers report that...
AI Disagreements Could Undermine Patient Trust in Doctors
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Patients’ trust in physicians may rise or fall depending on what artificial intelligence (AI) says during...
Selectivity Achieved Despite Indiscriminate Photoreduction in New Study
Superselective bond formation in organic synthesis is often ruled by single-electron transfer (SET) chemistry: the substrate with the more favorable...