July 2, 2025

Healthy lifestyle linked to lower diverticulitis risk, irrespective of genetic susceptibility

by British Medical Journal edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan Credit: CC0 Public Domain Maintaining a healthy lifestyle—specifically, a diet rich in fiber but light on red/processed meat, regular exercise, not smoking, and sticking to a normal weight—is linked to a significantly lower risk of diverticulitis, finds a large long-term study, published online in the journal Gut. […]

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Tens of thousands of heart attacks, strokes could be prevented with this prescription, study suggests

by Dennis Thompson edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Tens of thousands of people suffer needless heart attacks and strokes every year because they aren’t taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, a new study says. More than 39,000 deaths, nearly 100,000 non-fatal heart attacks and up to 65,000 strokes in the U.S. could be prevented if people eligible

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Scientists uncover immune cells that help prostate cancer resist treatment — and reveal a way to stop them

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists part of international team that discovers how prostate cancer turns immune cells into accomplices Peer-Reviewed Publication Virginia Tech FacebookXLinkedInWeChatBlueskyMessageWhatsAppEmail image: Shenglin Mei of Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute was part of a multi-institutional team including researchers from Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Chicago, and Sweden’s Karolinska

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Forging a novel therapeutic path for patients with Rett Syndrome using AI

AI-enabled drug discovery approach identified potentially game-changing treatment which has been advanced from the lab bench to an FDA Orphan Drug Designation in record time Peer-Reviewed Publication Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard FacebookXLinkedInWeChatBlueskyMessageWhatsAppEmail image: This image shows a tadpole preparation which was stained for acetylated a-tubulin protein view more  Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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Shock study: Mild electric stimulation boosts math ability

by Charlotte CAUSIT edited by Andrew Zinin   Findings from the study could help make society more intellectually equitable, its authors argue. Struggle with math? A gentle jolt to the brain might help. A new study published Tuesday in PLOS Biology suggests that mild electrical stimulation can boost arithmetic performance—and offers fresh insight into the brain mechanisms behind mathematical ability, along with

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Gene therapy restores hearing in deaf patients

by Karolinska Institutet edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan   Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Gene therapy can improve hearing in children and adults with congenital deafness or severe hearing impairment, a new study involving researchers at Karolinska Institutet reports. Hearing improved in all 10 patients, and the treatment was well-tolerated. The study, “AAV gene therapy for autosomal

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Scientists uncover immune cells that help prostate cancer resist treatment—and reveal a way to stop them

by Virginia Tech edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists have revealed how certain immune cells may be quietly helping prostate cancer grow—and how blocking them could help the body fight back. The study, published in Molecular Cancer Research, identifies a group of cells called macrophages that, instead of protecting the body, appear to shield

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Wearable X-ray-detecting fabric offers a flexible alternative to current imaging tech

by Charles Blue, Phys.org edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan Concept of all-inorganic metafabric scintillator–based wearable optoelectronic platform. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adv5537 Since their discovery by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895, X-rays have become a staple of modern medical care, from imaging teeth and broken bones to screening for the early signs of breast cancer. The most

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How a multiple sclerosis drug reshapes the immune system

by Yale School of Medicine edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan   Microglia-like CSF macrophages increase in frequency in patients with MS following B cell depletion therapy. Credit: Journal of Clinical Investigation (2025). DOI: 10.1172/JCI182790 When ocrelizumab became the first FDA-approved treatment for early forms of multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2017, it offered patients immense hope. The long-awaited

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Q&A: Are mitochondria the key to a healthy brain?

by Meg Dalton, Yale University edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan   Overview of study and control experiments. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads3051 Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she was trying to record

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