As Machines Learn, Are Humans Learning Enough?
Artificial intelligence has moved from the laboratory into the everyday decisions that shape children’s lives, and a new perspective in Pediatric Research asks a question...
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Brief firearm safety conversations may encourage storing guns outside the home
A brief, respectful conversation about firearm safety can substantially increase gun owners’ willingness to temporarily store their weapons outside the home during a personal or...
Study links body mass and prediagnosis weight loss to colorectal cancer survival
A new study of patients with colorectal cancer is challenging one of the most counterintuitive observations in cancer epidemiology: the so-called obesity paradox. In many...
Artesunate Targets GBA, Triggering Apoptosis in Liver Cancer Cells
Artesunate, a drug best known for its lifesaving role in malaria treatment, may have a second life as a targeted therapy against hepatocellular carcinoma, the...
Novo Nordisk’s Alejandro Aguayo-Orozco to Present at 13th ARDD Meeting in Boston
BOSTON, Massachusetts—August 14, 2026—Aging research is moving rapidly from a largely academic pursuit into one of the most consequential frontiers in drug development, and the...
Murali Venkatesan to Present at 13th Aging Research and Drug Discovery Meeting
BOSTON, Massachusetts—The global aging-research community is preparing for a major meeting in Boston this fall, where scientists, pharmaceutical executives, biotechnology founders, clinicians, and investors will...
Anti-NMDAR Antibody Testing Offers Hope, but Caution Remains in Pediatric Encephalitis
Encephalitis in children can begin with symptoms that seem psychiatric, behavioral, or nonspecific: sudden anxiety, insomnia, confusion, seizures, abnormal movements, speech loss, or a dramatic...
Boosting autophagy limits FUS aggregates and early synaptic dysfunction in ALS model
A cellular recycling system has emerged as a potential early intervention point in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), according to a study reporting that autophagy induction...
Toward General Auditory Intelligence in Machines That Listen and Speak
For decades, machines have been trained to recognize speech, classify environmental sounds and analyze music as separate technical problems. A new review argues that this...
How Mammalian Cells Regulate Mitophagy and Why It Matters
Mitochondria are often described as the cell’s power plants, but that familiar image captures only part of their importance. These organelles also regulate calcium, redox...
Grid Disturbance Detection Technology Earns R&D 100 Market Disruptor Award
A new artificial intelligence platform designed to detect the electrical faults that can ignite wildfires has received a 2026 R&D 100 Market Disruptor Award, placing...
Insured Black patients face lower endometrial cancer survival than White patients
A large cohort study of 13,585 insured Black and White patients with endometrial cancer has found that racial disparities in survival were substantially greater among...
Former Takeda CEO Christophe Weber to speak at 13th ARDD in Boston
BOSTON, MA — August 7, 2026 — Christophe Weber, the former chief executive officer of Takeda, will join an international lineup of pharmaceutical executives, biomedical...
New molecule may enable cleaner, more efficient metal recovery
Recovering gold and other valuable metals from discarded electronics, mine tailings and industrial waste could soon require far less chemical waste, thanks to a new...
Tally Health Chief Scientist Adiv Johnson to Present at Boston’s ARDD Meeting
BOSTON, MA — August 14, 2026 — The global effort to turn aging biology into medical intervention is entering a more consequential phase, as researchers,...