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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Late-preterm birth and being small for gestational age may double risk
A newborn who arrives only a few weeks early may appear close to full term, but a new report in ...
Natural TaSCE1-A1 allele boosts drought resistance in wheat
Wheat researchers have identified a naturally occurring genetic variant that could help the crop withstand drought, one of the most ...
Reusable Magnetic Sensor Uses SERS and AI to Detect Trace Uranium
Uranium contamination in water may soon become easier to detect, thanks to a reusable magnetic sensor that combines gold-enhanced Raman ...
Inflammatory Enzyme-Targeting Drug May Help Prevent Lung Cancer
Lung cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers in the United States, claiming more than 100,000 lives each year. Cigarette ...
Controlled sulfidation enhances supercapacitor electrode performance
A carefully controlled chemical transformation has produced a supercapacitor electrode that combines the advantages of metal oxides and metal sulfides, ...
Study finds low consumer health risks despite PCB contamination in Chinese tea
Tea is one of the world’s most widely consumed beverages, associated with relaxation, cultural tradition and, increasingly, perceived health benefits. ...