2+ hour, 46+ min ago   (943+ words) A surplus of insulating brain cells, low on one protective protein, tracked the steepest cognitive decline in adults followed since childhood. After 70, memory and quick thinking slow down for most people, and the usual explanation is that the brain’s wiring…...

48+ min ago   (658+ words) Obesity has become one of the most stubborn public health challenges of the modern era, and the search for drugs that can blunt the body’s absorption of dietary fat remains a major focus of pharmaceutical research. Now, a team of…...

4+ hour ago   (663+ words) Deep learning models can now spot malaria parasites in blood smears, grade diabetic retinopathy from retinal photographs, and detect the earliest structural signatures of Alzheimer’s disease on brain MRI scans, often matching the performance of experienced clinicians....

9+ hour, 16+ min ago   (55+ words) Researchers in Germany have unveiled a streamlined genome-editing tool that could make it considerably easier to engineer Bacillus bacteria, a group of microbes that sits at the heart of numerous industrial processes, from enzyme production to the manufacture of vitamins…...

17+ hour, 16+ min ago   (67+ words) Cancer has long been understood as a disease of the genome, driven by mutations that rewire the instructions encoded in DNA. Over the past three decades, however, a parallel truth has crystallized: cancer is equally a disease of the epigenome,…...

18+ hour, 13+ min ago   (1003+ words) Kyle Lao (left) and Immanuella Indradjaja co-founded MenSC Labs, which uses stem cells from menstrual blood for regenerative women’s health. Published Sep 12, 2026, 10:35 AM SINGAPORE – At 25, Kyle Lao is chief executive and co-founder of MenSC Labs, a femtech start-up with an…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (639+ words) The BioAssemblyBot, or BAB for short, is a robotic platform with a multi-access arm. An instrument tells BAB what to do to build specific tissue. Jay Hoying can’t remember a time he didn’t want to be a scientist. He started…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (641+ words) By Jonathan D. Grinstein, PhD Could an academic laboratory build genetic medicines for diseases the traditional drug-development model leaves behind? Sena-Esteves sees that mismatch repeatedly. “I wish it wasn’t that way—that we had plenty of money and could just work…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (429+ words) New findings raise questions about the role of microbes living in the lungs. More than 35 trillion bacteria live throughout the human body, forming microbiomes in the gut, mouth, lungs, skin, and urogenital tract. Researchers increasingly recognize that these microbial communities…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (141+ words) Woodruff School Research Explores Future of AI-Powered Exoskeletons Georgia Institute of Technology Woodruff School Research Explores Future of AI-Powered Exoskeletons Young, who leads the Exoskeleton and Prosthetic Intelligent Controls Lab, and his collaborators highlight the potential of using real-time estimates…...