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Preschool gaming habits may shape problematic gaming symptoms later in life

The study identifies preschool gaming as a strong predictor of adult internet gaming disorder, highlighting the role of early exposure in addiction risk.

29 May 2026

UCLA researchers identify brain circuit controlling memory organization

When a person has a new experience, their brain faces a subtle but critical decision: should this experience be categorized with other stored memories, or should it be filed away as its own new memory? Getting it right allows the brain to help people navigate the world.

28 May 2026

Mount Sinai study links long COVID symptoms to autoimmunity

A Mount Sinai-led research team has demonstrated that autoimmunity, where the body's immune system attacks its own tissues, is responsible for the often-debilitating and confounding symptoms of long COVID in a subset of people.

28 May 2026

Drug-filled nanofibers offer potential breakthrough treatment for brain cancer

Researchers with the University of Cincinnati and Johns Hopkins Medicine developed a potential treatment for brain cancer that uses nanofibers embedded with a combination of drugs that work in concert to target tumors.

28 May 2026

Grant funds research on unique challenges facing young cancer survivors

Weill Cornell Medicine received a five-year, $5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to develop innovative support strategies for an understudied group of cancer patients: adolescents and young adults (AYAs).

28 May 2026

Virtual AI mouse tests nanomedicine without using living animals

When a tumor manages to nestle itself in the brain of a living being, it has - from the tumor's perspective - done something particularly clever.

28 May 2026

Common anemia drugs may help slow cancer growth and progression

Common medications used to treat anemia may also slow down cancer cell growth, according to new research from Finland.

28 May 2026

Scientists rethink GLP-1 delivery to improve dosing, tolerability, and adherence

The review highlights nanocarriers, microspheres, hydrogels, microneedles, long-acting formulations, and co-formulations as promising but mostly early-stage strategies that still require stronger long-term clinical evidence.

27 May 2026

Vaginal bromocriptine may ease pain and heavy bleeding in adenomyosis

A pilot randomized controlled trial found that vaginal bromocriptine reduced menstrual bleeding, pelvic pain, menstrual duration, and cycle irregularity in women with adenomyosis compared with routine treatment.

27 May 2026

Study suggests new potentially druggable ways to target GPCR signaling

A study published in Nature by researchers at Duke University School of Medicine identifies a new way that G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) - targets of roughly one-third of FDA-approved drugs - control signaling in cells.

27 May 2026

Degrading mutant KRAS protein induces greater lung cancer regression

KRAS is one of the oncogenes most frequently altered in cancer, mutated in approximately one-third of lung adenocarcinomas.

27 May 2026

NCCN launches a free service for updates on clinical cancer guidelines

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)-the nonprofit alliance of leading cancer centers responsible for essential NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) that providers rely on worldwide-has launched a new, free service.

27 May 2026

Surface acids found crucial for bacterial shape and growth

Researchers have discovered how acids on the surface of bacteria give these microscopic organisms their characteristic "rod" shape-by keeping an enzyme at bay that would otherwise turn the cylindrical cells into shape-shifting blobs.

26 May 2026

New study tests vitamin D analog against pancreatic cancer

A small clinical trial led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers put a Salk Institute idea to the test in patients: that activating the vitamin D receptor can help reshape the protective environment surrounding pancreatic tumors in ways that could make the notoriously difficult-to-treat cancer more vulnerable to therapeutic treatments.

26 May 2026

New AI tools identify potential drugs for rare Ebola virus

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have enabled Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to identify nearly two dozen antiviral compounds that could potentially treat a rare species of Ebola virus (Bundibugyo virus) currently affecting the Democratic Republic of Congo.

26 May 2026

Hydroxychloroquine lowers heart risks in skin lupus patients

A study led by investigators from Johns Hopkins Medicine found that some patients with discoid lupus erythematosus - a form of skin lupus commonly diagnosed in young to middle-aged Black women that causes disc-shaped plaques to form on the body - were less likely to experience complications, such as diabetes, hypertension and coronary artery disease if they were prescribed hydroxychloroquine.

26 May 2026

Study unravels mystery about why physical forces slow cancer growth

Researchers have solved a long-standing mystery about why physical forces slow cancer growth – and the answer could reshape how the disease is treated.

26 May 2026

New analysis shows obesity rates plateauing in many countries

An international large-scale study involving the University of Granada (UGR) examines obesity trends since the 1980s and reveals that the increase has slowed, stabilized, and even reversed in many countries, though it is still rising in developing nations.

26 May 2026

Study explains how environmental acidity destabilizes internal cellular traffic

A new scientific study led by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) describes the mechano-chemical mechanism by which the acidity of the cellular environment destabilizes microtubules, the "avenues" that organize internal cellular traffic.

26 May 2026

NTU Singapore scientists develop seed-sized robot for precision surgical procedures

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a tiny seed-sized robot that can navigate across soft and uneven surfaces to perform five surgical functions wirelessly, paving the way for developing robots to make surgeries and medical treatments more precise.

26 May 2026