A new review uses molecular docking to show resveratrol binds four key ovarian cancer-associated proteins with strong affinity. But no direct clinical trials in ovarian cancer exist yet, and the compound's poor bioavailability remains a major hurdle.

A new editorial in Aging-US argues that geroscience should adopt health-adjusted longevity as its primary metric, stop treating lifespan and healthspan as competing goals, and commit to moonshot-level investment in aging biology research.

Researchers studying Galapagos yellow warblers found that females sing frequently, mostly during non-breeding season and almost always as duets with their mates. But the singing showed no link to aggression or territorial defense, suggesting female birdsong serves a different, still-unknown purpose.

JMIR Publications and the University of Helsinki have signed a flat-fee agreement for 2026 that gives all affiliated researchers unlimited open-access publishing across JMIR journals, replacing individual article processing charges with a single institutional payment.

A Northwestern-led team measured the spin rates of six giant exoplanets and 25 brown dwarfs using Keck Observatory, finding a clear pattern: giant planets rotate at a larger fraction of their maximum possible speed than brown dwarfs, suggesting different formation histories.

A Jackson Laboratory study in Cell Reports finds that PD-L1 - normally blocked to fight cancer - actually helps immunocompromised mice survive influenza by enhancing natural killer cell function. The discovery suggests checkpoint pathways may work differently depending on which cells carry them.

A new review in Clinical Microbiology Reviews finds nursery-age children may catch 12-15 respiratory infections annually but develop stronger immunity that reduces illness in early school years. The five authors are all parents of young children.

The Endocrine Society has named five winners of its 2026 Early Investigator Awards. The recipients, spanning institutions from Harvard-affiliated hospitals to the University of Texas, study topics including pituitary tumors, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and continuous glucose monitoring.

A Dartmouth team has built a phone-based tool that measures tissue oxygen - not blood oxygen - using a topical cream, pulsed LED light, and a standard smartphone camera. The system could let patients monitor limb health and wound healing at home.

Researchers from China's South China Botanical Garden and Australia's Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria make the case that botanical gardens are not luxury green space but essential urban infrastructure for biodiversity conservation, mental health, and climate adaptation.

A Florida Atlantic University biologist developed a simple, low-cost device that generates a mild electric field on fishing hooks to deter sharks while leaving target species unaffected - and commercial fishermen are already testing it at sea.

A digital twin brain framework uses a person's resting-state brain connectivity to predict behavioral choices, reaction times, and brain activation patterns across cognitive and emotional tasks - then simulates how targeted interventions might alter specific functions.

New research reveals that amyloid beta and tau bind microtubules with roughly equal strength, meaning excess amyloid beta can displace tau from its stabilizing role - potentially triggering the transport breakdown that leads to neurodegeneration.

Researchers developed prototype breath tests using carbon-13-labeled sugars that bacteria consume but human cells ignore, detecting pneumonia, bloodstream, muscle, and bone infections in mice within 10 minutes of administration.

A compound derived from the snail Camaena cicatricosa blocked harmful clot formation in mouse models of deep vein thrombosis without increasing bleeding risk - a critical limitation of heparin, the century-old anticoagulant standard.

ESMT Berlin research shows that salespeople avoid pushing novel products because they dread being unable to answer customer questions - a fear of losing face that cuts sales performance regardless of how strong the product actually is.

By reverting five unnecessary mutations in an older base editor, researchers created ME-ABE - a tool that maintains a narrow editing window and high efficiency, solving a longstanding tradeoff that has complicated gene therapy safety.

The SuperCDMS experiment at SNOLAB in Ontario has reached its operating temperature - hundreds of times colder than outer space - marking the transition from construction to active science as researchers prepare to search for lightweight dark matter particles.

A UC San Diego-led team demonstrated that acoustic waves can controllably move mechanical kinks - boundaries between soft and stiff regions - through a specially designed material, creating what amounts to remote control over how a material feels and behaves.

A new data platform harmonizes nearly 10 million electronic health records across three U.S. health systems to study how multiple chronic diseases, behaviors, and social factors interact over time to shape Alzheimer's risk - moving beyond single-disease models of dementia.

Nearly half the world carries H. pylori, a bacterium linked to stomach cancer. TUM researchers found that metronidazole targets two key protective proteins, then created a chemical variant 60 times more potent that also cleared infection in mice at very low doses while preserving gut bacteria.

A quick nasal swab collected living nerve and immune cells whose gene activity patterns separated early and clinical Alzheimer's from healthy controls with 81% accuracy - potentially catching the disease before symptoms appear, when new treatments may work best.

University of Pennsylvania engineers created a lipid nanoparticle that simultaneously blocks the immune-suppressing enzyme IDO and delivers mRNA for the immune activator IL-12. In mice, the approach eliminated established colon tumors, prevented recurrence, and triggered body-wide anti-tumor immunity.

MIT neuroscientists found that mice with a mutation in grin2a - a gene linked to schizophrenia in large human studies - are significantly slower to adapt their decisions when reward conditions change, due to impaired signaling in a thalamus-to-cortex circuit.

Protein sequencing has lagged far behind DNA sequencing in speed and scale. Stanford bioengineers developed a chemistry that converts protein sequences into DNA barcodes, potentially seeing 1,000 times more molecules than mass spectrometry from the same sample.