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Early sweet foods don’t shape toddlers’ diets — family meals matter more

Early sweet taste exposure during complementary feeding does not shape children's dietary taste patterns later in life. Instead, broader environmental factors, such as family eating habits, play a more significant role.

19 Mar 2025

Study highlights disparities in osteoporosis diagnosis across demographics

While increased average life expectancy is a testament to modern medicine and public health efforts, an aging population comes with an increased presence of chronic diseases such as osteoporosis.

19 Mar 2025

AI predicts biological aging using steroid pathways

Researchers discuss a novel method to predict biological aging using a deep neural network based on pathways of steroidogenesis.

19 Mar 2025

$1 million CPRIT grant focuses on AI to improve prostate cancer outcomes

Erzsébet Merényi, a statistics research professor at Rice University, and co-investigators at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Pratip Bhattacharya, professor of cancer systems imaging, and Dr. Patrick Pilié, assistant professor of genitourinary medical oncology, were awarded $1 million by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to develop artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can identify lethal forms of prostate cancer earlier and improve treatment selection.

18 Mar 2025

Harnessing AI to combat rheumatoid arthritis

Fan Zhang, PhD, sees artificial intelligence as a pathway to finding an effective way to combat an intractable enemy: rheumatoid arthritis.

18 Mar 2025

Predicting HIV treatment nonadherence in adolescents with machine learning

Nearly 85% of the 1.7 million adolescents with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa, along with half of the nearly 40 million people in the world living with HIV.

17 Mar 2025

IL-12 targeting could open pathways for new Alzheimer's treatments

Researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Delbrück Center have detailed the precise mechanism through which the inflammatory signaling molecule IL-12 contributes to Alzheimer's disease.

17 Mar 2025

New AI tool revolutionizes sleep analysis with comprehensive sleep data

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine have developed a powerful AI tool, built on the same transformer architecture used by large language models like ChatGPT, to process an entire night's sleep.

17 Mar 2025

Wildland-urban interface fires are far more dangerous to health than remote wildfires

The smoke from fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) has far greater health impacts than smoke from wildfires in remote areas, new research finds.

14 Mar 2025

Computational framework protects privacy in voice-based cognitive health assessments

Digital voice recordings contain valuable information that can indicate an individual's cognitive health, offering a non-invasive and efficient method for assessment.

14 Mar 2025

Study shows impact of statins and aspirin on muscle health in smokers

For current and former smokers, statins may reduce the amount of chest muscle loss, while aspirin may contribute to increased chest muscle loss, according to a new study.

13 Mar 2025

Portable system detects mild cognitive impairment in older adults

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can be an early indicator of Alzheimer's disease or dementia, so identifying those with cognitive issues early could lead to interventions and better outcomes.

13 Mar 2025

Nature exposure found to alleviate pain through brain changes

A new neuroimaging study has revealed that viewing nature can help ease how people experience pain, by reducing the brain activity linked to pain perception.

13 Mar 2025

Making Complex Cell Culture Easy and Efficient with AI

Molecular Devices' CellXpress AI streamlines cell culture processes, reducing human error and improving efficiency in drug discovery with advanced automation.

From Molecular Devices UK Ltd 12 Mar 2025

Machine learning models fall short in predicting in-hospital mortality

It would be greatly beneficial to physicians trying to save lives in intensive care units if they could be alerted when a patient's condition rapidly deteriorates or shows vitals in highly abnormal ranges.

11 Mar 2025

UF researchers develop AI tool to tackle ancestral bias in precision medicine

University of Florida researchers are addressing a critical gap in medical genetic research - ensuring it better represents and benefits people of all backgrounds.

10 Mar 2025

Can microbiome discoveries finally become treatments? Scientists show the way

Researchers propose a novel iterative strategy combining big data and experimental models to move microbiome research from theory to clinical applications. The study highlights the need to bridge the gap between correlation and causation to develop effective microbiome-based therapies.

9 Mar 2025

Insilico Medicine's AI-driven drug Rentosertib receives official generic name

Insilico Medicine("Insilico"), a clinical stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven biotechnology company, recently announced that its breakthrough drug candidate for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) – Rentosertib (formerly known as ISM001-055) – has been granted an official generic name by the United States Adopted Names (USAN) Council.

7 Mar 2025

New algorithm enhances prediction of disordered protein structures

The intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) do not attain a stable secondary or tertiary structure and rapidly change their conformation, making structure prediction particularly challenging.

7 Mar 2025

KAIST team develops framework for AI-based wearable blood pressure sensors

A KAIST research team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee has proposed an innovative theoretical framework and research strategies for AI-based wearable blood pressure sensors, paving the way for continuous and non-invasive cardiovascular monitoring.

5 Mar 2025