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Engineers use the human body to transmit wireless device signals

Using the human body to transmit signals, Georgia Tech engineers have created a wireless networking system that allows tiny implantable sensors and actuators to communicate with each other as well as wearable devices.

25 Sep 2026

Better storage buffers could pave way for safer mRNA therapies

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have teamed up with pharmaceutical leader Eli Lilly and Company to uncover new information about mRNA lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), the technology behind COVID-19 vaccines and other important treatments, and how to make it more effective.

25 Sep 2026

New project aims to make cellular therapies more accessible through room temperature storage

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, has executed an award of up to $36.5 million in support of a University of California, Davis-led project aiming to make cellular therapies cheaper and more accessible through room temperature storage.

25 Sep 2026

Mr.Goodfish app helps consumers make sustainable seafood choices in Europe

Standing in front of the fish counter, looking at a restaurant menu or deciding what to cook for dinner: choosing seafood is easy.

25 Sep 2026

Rush earns top national ranking for high-quality academic patient care

Rush University Medical Center is ranked as the fifth highest-performing academic medical center in the U.S. by Vizient, the country's largest health care performance improvement company.

25 Sep 2026

Researchers find how prostate tumors reshape the immune microenvironment

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a previously unknown pathway that prostate tumors leverage to suppress the immune system by reshaping the tumor microenvironment to resist treatment.

25 Sep 2026

Radiotherapy lowers recurrence of atypical meningiomas, study shows

Atypical meningiomas are tumors originating in the meninges and are associated with a high risk of recurrence.

25 Sep 2026

Hospital overcrowding drives increasing violence against emergency healthcare workers

Seventy-five percent of workers in emergency medical departments and services have witnessed violence in the past year, according to a survey of over 1,300 health professionals in 81 countries worldwide.

25 Sep 2026

Common anti-epileptic medication shows promise in reducing migraine aura

A new study by researchers at Lund University in Sweden found that 85 percent of patients with aura-dominant migraine experienced a reduction in monthly aura days by at least half following treatment with the anti-epileptic drug lamotrigine.

25 Sep 2026

New test identifies the genetic cause of inherited muscle disease

A world-first test developed by researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research has identified the genetic cause of inherited muscle disease in people who remained without answers after years, sometimes decades, of standard testing.

25 Sep 2026

Specialized immune cells bridge the nervous and immune systems

A collaborative team led by Professor Jie Zhou at Tianjin Medical University School of Basic Medicine and Professor Qiang Liu at Tianjin Medical University General Hospital published a comprehensive review in Volume 2 of the journal Immunity & Inflammation on September 8, 2026.

25 Sep 2026

In vivo CAR-T therapy transforms customized treatments into universal medicines

A collaborative team led by Professor Huji Xu from Naval Medical University, China, together with Professors Xuanming Yang and Yujia Cai at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, published a comprehensive review in Volume 2, article number 33 of the journal Immunity & Inflammation on August 31, 2026.

25 Sep 2026

New tool to mutate phages boosts the fight against superbugs

A new tool to mutate bacteriophages – viruses that infect bacteria – provides a "big leap" forward in both our understanding of how they function, and our ability to harness their full potential.

25 Sep 2026

Researchers find secret protein that drives cancer cell division

A previously unknown protein, hidden in RNA thought not to encode proteins, helps cells divide correctly. The RNA molecule that encodes the protein also has a function of its own in cell division.

25 Sep 2026

Study explains how stroke promotes aggressive glioma tumor growth

Researchers at Texas Children's Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI), Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions show in Nature Cancer that stroke promotes glioma growth and uncovered cellular and molecular mediators involved in the process, linking brain injury to malignant brain tumors.

25 Sep 2026

Astoriom acquires additional UK storage business to expand capacity and service offerings

Astoriom, a global leader in scientific research and consumer product sample stability and biorepository storage, has acquired Roylance Stability Storage Limited and Roylance Scientific Limited, the UK operations of life sciences stability storage provider Sampled, located in Glasgow.

From Astoriom 25 Sep 2026

Leica Biosystems brings Tempus pathology products to Aperio AI Store, accelerating AI-powered capabilities for oncology research

The Aperio AI Store integrates Tempus' AI applications, transforming complex pathology images into research insights and accelerating cancer diagnostics.

From Leica Biosystems 25 Sep 2026

Chronic postsurgical pain affects women long after cesarean delivery

A new synthesis of global evidence, published in Anaesthesia (the journal of the Association of Anaesthetists), finds that chronic postsurgical pain after cesarean delivery is associated with substantial impairment in women's quality of life and everyday functioning in the months and years after giving birth.

25 Sep 2026

Blood proteins may help monitor Alzheimer’s treatment response

Patients with early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease may be prescribed anti-amyloid therapy, which can help clear the sticky clumps of amyloid protein in the brain that characterize Alzheimer's.

25 Sep 2026

Intuitive eating may be linked to more than a healthier relationship with food

A cross-sectional study of 1,057 U.S. adults examined how intuitive eating relates to stress, sleep, physical activity, substance use, diet, self-rated health, and self-reported cardiometabolic conditions. Higher intuitive eating scores were associated with several favorable health indicators, although the study cannot establish causality or determine the direction of these relationships.

25 Sep 2026