New Late-Breaking Abstracts for the 2026 MASCC/ISOO Annual Meeting
A major collection of late-breaking research from the 2026 MASCC/ISOO Annual Meeting has been published in Supportive Care in Cancer, placing emerging developments in supportive...
NEWS INDEX
THINKERS: AI Combines Neural and Expert Reasoning for Lung Cancer Brain Metastases
A new artificial intelligence model is opening a potential path toward more personalized treatment for patients whose lung cancer has spread to the brain. Researchers...
Symptom Appraisal and Help-Seeking Behaviors Delay Cancer Diagnosis in Young Adults
Cancer is often described as an older person’s disease, but a qualitative study of young adults in the United States suggests that this assumption may...
Cancer Survivors’ Follow-Up Oncology Visits Shifted to Primary Care, Study Finds
Cancer survivors who leave specialist oncology clinics for follow-up in primary care are not disappearing from the cancer system, according to a new retrospective cohort...
Outcome Scale Alters Treatment Effect Estimates in Traumatic Brain Injury Trials
A new analysis of traumatic brain injury trials is challenging a common assumption in medical evidence: that results measured with the Glasgow Outcome Scale and...
Connectome-Constrained Fly Vision Model Reveals Stable Direction Representations Within Limited Scales
A new study of a connectome-constrained model of the fruit fly visual system has uncovered a striking limit to neural scale stability: a frozen visual...
Study Maps Tobacco MADS-Box Genes and Their Roles in Axillary Bud Development
A previously overlooked genetic network may help explain why tobacco plants rapidly produce side shoots after their main growing tip is removed. New research has...
Gypsy Retrotransposon Insertion Causes Stay-Green Chinese Cabbage by Blocking Chlorophyll b Breakdown
Chinese cabbage may have found a new way to remain green long after its leaves would normally begin to yellow. A study published in Theoretical...
Human long noncoding RNA localization is isoform-specific, obscured by gene-level analysis
Long non-coding RNAs have long been treated as if each gene produces a single molecular identity: one RNA, one cellular address, and—at least in broad...
Dual clocks reveal Turkevich gold nanoparticle kinetics through operando video analysis
Gold nanoparticles have long announced their birth with a dramatic change in colour, shifting from pale yellow to deep ruby red as a reaction unfolds....
Smart Wearable Hydrogel Devices Promise Precision Drug Delivery Through Skin
Wearable drug-delivery patches are moving beyond the familiar image of a passive adhesive strip. A new critical review in Biomedical Microdevices describes how flexible microfluidic...
HydroGym Trains and Evaluates AI for Active Fluid Dynamics Control
Fluid dynamics has a new training ground for artificial intelligence, and its name is HydroGym. An international research team has launched a platform designed to...
Stereotactic radiation shows favorable bowel-related quality of life in localized prostate cancer
Philadelphia—A large randomized clinical trial has found that stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), an increasingly used form of highly focused prostate cancer treatment, may reduce...
Scripps Research’s Jeffery Kelly Elected to European Academy of Engineering
LA JOLLA, California—Jeffery Kelly, the H. Lutcher Brown Professor of Chemistry at Scripps Research, has been elected to the European Academy of Engineering in recognition...
Buried Underwear Reveals Land Use Is Crucial for Soil Health
Soil may be hidden beneath our feet, but its biological activity could soon become one of the most visible indicators of ecosystem health—thanks to an...