Diverse children play outdoors under a bright sun, depicting the impact of heat on brain health and the importance of hydration.

Heat’s Impact on Children’s Brain Connectivity Revealed

As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists are uncovering new ways in which heat affects not just our environment, but also our health—especially the developing brains of children. A groundbreaking study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) has found a concerning link between high ambient temperatures and reduced brain connectivity in preadolescents….

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Breakthrough Model Advances Strep A Vaccine Development

Strep A infections, which include common illnesses like strep throat, impact millions of people worldwide each year. While most cases result in mild symptoms such as a sore throat and fever, severe complications like toxic shock syndrome, rheumatic heart disease, and kidney damage can occur. Despite this, there has never been a widely available vaccine…

Illustration of DNA strands with nicks and gaps, contrasting healthy and BRCA-mutated cancer cells, emphasizing innovative cancer research.

New Insights on Targeting BRCA-Mutant Cancers

Scientists at UMass Chan Medical School have made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges conventional understanding of how anticancer drugs destroy BRCA1 and BRCA2-mutated cancer cells. Their research, published in Nature Cancer, reveals that rather than double-strand DNA breaks being the primary cause of cancer cell death, single-strand nicks that expand into large single-stranded DNA gaps…

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AI Revolutionizes Recovery Predictions for Anxiety

Imagine walking into a therapist’s office and, instead of relying solely on clinical intuition, the clinician has an AI-powered tool that predicts the likelihood of your long-term recovery from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). This scenario might sound futuristic, but researchers from Penn State have developed a machine learning model that could bring that future closer…