WASHINGTON, June 10, 2025 – Human development is a beautiful, complex process. Beginning from just two germ cells, the cells divide and double until an entire organism is developed in just under a year. While studying embryos in vitro can have many ethical and technical complications, there is a model that serves as an excellent substitute. Named after the early-development stage of gastrulation, two-dimensional “gastruloids” are made from colonies of human pluripotent stem cells that can replicate the third week of gestation in which the three germ layers of the body are established. In APL Bioengineering, by AIP Publishing, ...

WASHINGTON, June 10, 2025 – Chemistry often conjures images of mixing fluids together in beakers, flasks, or test tubes. But often, chemistry happens on a much smaller scale. In many medical and industrial contexts, mixing fluids involves fractions of a milliliter, and for these applications, sometimes the best tool is a microscopic robot. In Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering, by AIP Publishing, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the China Electric Power Research Institute developed a microrobot capable of manipulating small droplets in the presence of magnetic fields. To make their robot, the researchers mixed neodymium magnetic ...

About The Study: This cross-sectional study revealed high attrition rates among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) medical students, with the highest observed among LGB Hispanic male and female students. Our findings highlight the importance of intersectionality in understanding attrition from medical school. Although future studies need to examine the cause of these disparities in attrition, LGB students experience discrimination within medical training environments, which may lead to risk of attrition. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Mytien Nguyen, MS, email mytien.nguyen@yale.edu. To ...

About The Study: This study found that parent-reported firearm storage may be a poor estimator of teen perceived firearm access, regardless of teen gender, parental education, and urbanicity. Strictly focusing safety efforts on locked and unloaded firearm storage may not fully negate teen’s perceptions that they can access and load household firearms. Storing additional firearms securely may not prevent teen access if at least 1 household firearm remains unlocked. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Katherine G. Hastings, MPH, email katiegh@student.ubc.ca. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this ...

Human metabolism is a complex web of chemical processes and interactions between our cells and the microbes living within us. The more scientists can identify and classify the molecules involved in our metabolism, called metabolites, the more we can learn about human health and disease. Now, researchers at University of California San Diego have made a major advance in our understanding of human metabolism by describing hundreds of new N-acyl lipids, a type of molecule involved in immune and stress responses. The main findings of the study, published in Cell, were: The researchers identified 851 distinct N-acyl lipids across various tissues and biofluids, ...

Astrophysicists have gained precious new insights into how distant “exoplanets” form and what their atmospheres can look like, after using the James Webb Telescope to image two young exoplanets in extraordinary detail. Among the headline findings were the presence of silicate clouds in one of the planet’s atmospheres, and a circumplanetary disk thought to feed material that can form moons around the other.  In broader terms, understanding how the “YSES-1” super-solar system formed offers further insight into the origins of our own solar system, and gives us the ...

As one of the most important industrially viable methods for carbon dioxide (CO2) utilization, methanol synthesis serves as a platform for the production of green fuels and commodity chemicals. For sustainable methanol synthesis, In₂O₃ is an ideal catalyst and has garnered significant attention. Recently, a research team led by Prof. Peng Gao and Prof. Shenggang Li (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences) conducted an integrated experimental and computational investigation into the structural evolution ...

Tokyo, Japan - There are many factors that contribute to infant language development, not least of which is baby talk—the modified speech mothers and other adults often use when speaking to infants.   Baby talk is more formally referred to as infant-directed speech (IDS) and often differs from adult-directed speech (ADS) in both pitch and vocabulary. One component of IDS that remains controversial, however, is the exaggeration or hyperarticulation of vowel sounds. Some experts contend that vowel exaggeration produces clearer speech sounds ...

The launch of China’s national carbon market has doubled the emissions covered by global carbon pricing mechanisms, making it the world’s largest carbon market. It is expected to be a crucial tool for China in achieving its climate goals of peaking CO2 emissions by 2030 and reaching carbon neutrality by 2060.   A research team composed of members from Tsinghua University and Carnegie Mellon University, recently published a review article in the journal Energy and Climate Management, outlining the development background and process of China’s national ...

“It is not easy to distinguish Type 1 from Type 2, but a clock based on a mixture of Type 1 and Type 2 methylation is likely to produce inconsistent and misleading results, when applied to anti-aging technologies.” BUFFALO, NY — June 10, 2025 — A new research perspective was published in Aging (Aging-US) Volume 17, Issue 5, on May 5, 2025, titled “Methylation clocks for evaluation of anti-aging interventions.” In this perspective article, Dr. Josh Mitteldorf explores how current epigenetic clocks—used ...

Increased activity in a specific biological pathway may explain why many patients with a deadly form of skin cancer do not respond to the latest cancer treatments, a new study shows.  Publishing in the journal Cancer Research online June 10, the study featured data generated from experiments with human tissues and cells from patients with advanced melanoma that were implanted into mice. Results uncovered therapeutic targets that could limit melanoma growth in patients whose cancer failed to respond to initial ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. – Compared to stool DNA testing, researchers found that CT colonography is a cost-saving and clinically effective method for colorectal cancer screening, according to a study was published today in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death globally. Routine screening of the colon and rectum can aid in the detection and removal of precancerous polyps, mitigating the need for advanced-stage cancer treatments and the added costs associated with said treatments. Due to the disturbing trend of colorectal cancer diagnoses ...

NAIROBI, KENYA [June 10, 2025] — The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®)—an alliance of leading cancer centers in the United States—is joining the African Cancer Coalition (ACC) to update cancer treatment recommendations during the American Cancer Society (ACS) 2025 Global Academy Regional Workshop: Sub-Saharan Africa, in Nairobi, Kenya, June 9-11. The ACS Global Academy Regional Workshop brings together oncology specialists from around the world to improve treatment and support for people with cancer. The three-day workshop includes two days devoted to updating NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) ...

New research from RMIT University and End Food Waste Australia reveals confusing food labels are driving Australians to throw away perfectly edible food, costing households money and contributing to the nation’s food waste problem. The study reveals clearer, more consistent date labels and storage advice with related bigger print and simple icons, could drastically reduce the amount of edible food Aussies throw away. Each year, Australians waste 7.6 million tonnes of food, much of it still safe to eat. The study showed poor label design and inconsistent packaging ...

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) has published the first clinical practice guideline to put lifestyle interventions at the forefront of type 2 diabetes and prediabetes care. “Lifestyle Interventions for Treatment and Remission of Type 2 Diabetes and Prediabetes in Adults,” offers a comprehensive and evidence-based roadmap for clinicians to effectively incorporate therapeutic lifestyle behavior interventions as a mainstay of treatment, while also complementing existing guidelines for diabetes, many of which mention lifestyle as part of care but often do not provide specifics. The guideline was published in the American Journal ...

New research finds that people with COVID-like symptoms returned to optimal physical well-being an average of three months after infection, but took up to nine months to return to top mental well-being.  Even one year after infection about 20% of study participants continued to experience overall suboptimal health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The study, to be published June 10 in the peer-reviewed Open Forum Infectious Diseases, compared people who sought treatment for COVID-like symptoms, 75% of whom tested positive ...

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has been awarded a $3.8 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a division of the National Institutes of Health, to study drug overdose cases linked to novel synthetic opioids. This work will help Emergency Department physicians better identify what substances people have taken, the severity of the overdose, and the best treatments to use in cases involving previously unknown or emergent drugs. This grant will be disbursed over five years. “Front-line doctors urgently need better tools and information to manage overdose cases, especially involving synthetic drugs. Our study will give them real-time ...

Framing a cause as a “civil rights” issue may actually decrease public support—even among people who deeply value civil rights. That’s the key finding of a new study published in the American Sociological Review, which challenges long-held beliefs about how best to win public backing for social change. Researchers found that Americans generally feel very positively about the idea of civil rights, in the abstract. However, in describing contemporary issues—like workplace discrimination, food insecurity or ...

The textbook publisher will transfer to the MIT Press as of July 2025 in time for Fall 2025 course adoptions. The MIT Press is proud to announce the acquisition of textbook publisher University Science Books from AIP Publishing, a subsidiary of the American Institute of Physics. University Science Books was founded in 1978 to publish intermediate and advanced level science and reference books by respected authors, published with the highest design and production standards, and priced as affordably as possible. Over the years, USB’s ...

New technology that allows a University of Virginia-developed artificial pancreas system to adapt to users’ changing bodies – and lets users test changes to how the system operates – improved control of their type 1 diabetes, a study has found. The Adaptive Biobehavioral Control (ABC) technology optimizes the automated insulin delivery system in the artificial pancreas every two weeks while giving users access to a “digital twin” computer simulation to test different approaches to managing ...

A non-DNA based test could identify viral infections in patients in minutes. When a clinician suspects a patient has a viral illness, the presence of specific virus types can be confirmed through a DNA sequencing test. However, the test takes several hours, even if a testing facility is available on site, and the test cannot discern whether the virus is viable. Noriyasu Hashida and colleagues designed a test that confirms the presence of live virus by pushing particles through a nanopore, one at a time, and measuring their electrical conductivity, which varies with size and surface charge as well as the unique molecular structure of the ...

An international team of researchers led by King’s College London have identified genetic factors that may make some individuals more or less sensitive to the environments they experience. Published in Nature Human Behaviour, the study examined how individuals’ varying sensitivity to environmental factors can influence levels of ADHD symptoms, autistic traits, anxiety and depression symptoms, psychotic experiences and neuroticism. The researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology ...

Ethnic minority healthcare workers who are also born overseas face a double disadvantage due to the combined effects of ethnicity and migrant status, according to new research published in JRSM Open. Using data from the nationwide UK-REACH cohort study, this is the first analysis to explore how migration status - often overlooked in Human Resources records - intersects with ethnicity to affect NHS career progression. The cross-sectional study of over 5,700 healthcare workers employed under the NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) pay ...

UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 3 a.m. EDT, CLEVELAND: A Cleveland Clinic study shows that semaglutide and tirzepatide – injectable GLP-1 drugs for obesity – produce smaller weight loss in a real-world setting because patients discontinue treatment or use lower maintenance dosages. Treatment discontinuation also negatively impacted blood sugar control in patients with prediabetes. The study was published in the Obesity Journal. Hamlet Gasoyan, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a researcher with Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Value-Based ...

NEW YORK, New York, USA, 10 June 2025 – In a comprehensive Genomic Press Interview published today, Dr. Stephen Ross, a leading figure in psychedelic medicine at New York University (NYU), reveals how a serendipitous conversation in 2006 launched his journey into investigating psychedelic compounds as potential breakthrough treatments for some of psychiatry's most challenging conditions. Rediscovering a forgotten therapeutic approach "Hidden in plain sight," as Dr. Ross describes it, was an extensive body of research from the 1950s to 1970s involving ...