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Released: 17-Apr-2025 8:55 PM EDT
Roswell Park Researchers to Discuss Recent Discoveries and Critical Issues in Oncology at AACR 2025
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Researchers from Roswell Park will report their latest findings to colleagues from around the world at the 2025 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Chicago, Illinois, April 25-30.

Released: 17-Apr-2025 8:55 PM EDT
Questions About Measles? Here Are 12 Answers
Corewell Health

Q: Why should we care about the measles outbreak? A: Measles is more than just a rash — it is caused by the most contagious virus known to man. Measles causes a respiratory illness with high......

Newswise: Comfortable in (bio)printed skin
Released: 17-Apr-2025 8:50 PM EDT
Comfortable in (bio)printed skin
University of Pretoria

Wound healing has been termed “an overlooked burden and a silent epidemic” due to the significant financial strain that it places on healthcare systems, let alone the unquantifiable human cost.

   
Newswise: Monell Center Study Identifies GLP-1 Therapies as a Possible Treatment for Rare Genetic Disorder Bardet-Biedl Syndrome
Released: 17-Apr-2025 8:45 PM EDT
Monell Center Study Identifies GLP-1 Therapies as a Possible Treatment for Rare Genetic Disorder Bardet-Biedl Syndrome
Monell Chemical Senses Center

Monell Center investigators identified that GLP-1R agonists, a class of drugs currently used to treat type-2 diabetes and obesity, as a promising therapeutic for managing the metabolic complications associated with Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (BBS), a rare genetic disorder characterized by early-onset obesity, compulsive eating, and cognitive impairments. They used a genetically engineered mouse model of BBS that displayed the hallmark features of the condition.

Newswise: Mercy Medical Center Named One of The Best Maternity Hospitals 2025 in U.S. by NEWSWEEK
Released: 17-Apr-2025 8:35 PM EDT
Mercy Medical Center Named One of The Best Maternity Hospitals 2025 in U.S. by NEWSWEEK
Mercy Medical Center

Newsweek has named Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, to its list of America’s Best Maternity Hospitals. According to a national ranking by Newsweek based on data from Statista, Mercy is among the leading maternity care hospitals in the U.S.

Newswise: Using ChatGPT, students might pass a course, but with a cost
Released: 17-Apr-2025 8:30 PM EDT
Using ChatGPT, students might pass a course, but with a cost
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

With the assumption that students are going to use artificial intelligence and large language models such as ChatGPT to do their homework, researchers in the Department of Aerospace Engineering in The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign set out to learn how well the free version of ChatGPT would compare with human students in a semester-long undergraduate control systems course.

Released: 17-Apr-2025 8:25 PM EDT
New CDC Report Shows Increase in Autism in 2022 with Notable Shifts in Race, Ethnicity, and Sex
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health contributed to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report examining autism among children who turned 4 and 8 years old in 2022. The CDC report, which includes data from 16 study sites across the U.S. including Maryland, found an overall prevalence of autism of 1 in 31 (3.2%) among 8-year-olds in 2022.

Released: 17-Apr-2025 8:20 PM EDT
A Wearable Smart Insole Can Track How You Walk, Run and Stand
Ohio State University

A new smart insole system that monitors how people walk in real time could help users improve posture and provide early warnings for conditions from plantar fasciitis to Parkinson’s disease.

Newswise: Disrupting â€Communication’ with Plants Could Limit Cyst Nematode Infections
Released: 17-Apr-2025 8:15 PM EDT
Disrupting â€Communication’ with Plants Could Limit Cyst Nematode Infections
Iowa State University

A new study co-authored by an Iowa State University professor opens new avenues for combatting soybean cyst nematodes, the most damaging pest for U.S. soybean crops.

Released: 17-Apr-2025 8:05 PM EDT
American Association of Neurological Surgeons Returns to Boston for its 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting
American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), the largest neurosurgical society in the world, proudly announces its return to the birthplace of neurosurgery — Boston — for the 2025 AANS Annual Scientific Meeting, taking place April 25–28 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

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Released: 17-Apr-2025 8:05 PM EDT
ADHA and IFDH Issue Joint Position Statement on Qualified Dental Hygiene Providers
American Dental Hygienists' Association

ADHA and IFDH Issue Joint Position Statement on Qualified Dental Hygiene Providers

Newswise: Key Enzyme in Lipid Metabolism Linked to Immune System Aging
Released: 17-Apr-2025 4:30 PM EDT
Key Enzyme in Lipid Metabolism Linked to Immune System Aging
University of California San Diego

New research suggests that decreased activity of ELOVL2 — a key enzyme in lipid metabolism — accelerates white blood cell aging and alters genes associated with the onset of blood cancers.

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Newswise: Groundbreaking Study Uncovers How Our Brain Learns
Released: 17-Apr-2025 2:00 PM EDT
Groundbreaking Study Uncovers How Our Brain Learns
University of California San Diego

How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is processed in our brain’s circuitry, offering insights for neurological disorders and brain-like AI systems.

Released: 17-Apr-2025 1:10 PM EDT
GemPharmatech Significantly Expands U.S. Capabilities with New San Diego Biotech Hub Facility
GemPharmatech LLC

GemPharmatech Significantly Expands U.S. Capabilities with New San Diego Biotech Hub Facility

Newswise: Wesley Sundquist Named to TIME’s Annual TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World
Released: 17-Apr-2025 1:05 PM EDT
Wesley Sundquist Named to TIME’s Annual TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World
University of Utah Health

Research in the Sundquist lab laid the foundations for the development of lenacapavir, a drug that prevents HIV infection with 99.9% to 100% efficacy and could dramatically lower infection rates worldwide.

   
Released: 17-Apr-2025 12:00 PM EDT
MD Anderson Research Highlights for April 17, 2025
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Research Highlights showcases the latest breakthroughs in cancer care, research and prevention. These advances are made possible through seamless collaboration between MD Anderson’s world-leading clinicians and scientists, bringing discoveries from the lab to the clinic and back.

   
Newswise: Innovation Is Motivation
Released: 17-Apr-2025 11:50 AM EDT
Innovation Is Motivation
Sandia National Laboratories

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — “As a boy, I remember my interest in science and learning new things, making new things. That has always been my motivation,” said Sandia scientist Hongyou Fan. Fan was recently named Outstanding Researcher by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, a group dedicated to accelerating federal technologies in the marketplace.

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Released: 17-Apr-2025 11:45 AM EDT
Seeing Double at Cedars-Sinai During National Volunteer Week
Cedars-Sinai

To mark National Volunteer Week, Cedars-Sinai is spotlighting two of the medical center’s youngest volunteers, who have a very special bond: They are identical twins.



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