Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Trauma centers nationwide will begin to test a new approach for assessing traumatic brain injury (TBI) that is expected to lead to more accurate diagnoses and…
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The silent injuries that shape our skeletons and an overlooked rescue enzyme
Illustration showing the formation of plasma membrane disruption (PMD) in osteocyte following exposure to fluid shear with mechanical loading. Credit: Anik Tuladhar, with Biorender Bone is not the inert structure…
How neurons survive botulinum neurotoxin type A exposure
BoNT/Aintoxication of LAN5 cells induces massive tRF changes. (A) Experimental design: 2×106 LAN5 cells/well were intoxicated by 10,000 MsLD50/mL BoNT/A, and small RNA-seq profiles from these cells were compared to…
Genomic analysis shows widespread mpox transmission in West Africa prior to 2022 global outbreak
Participants from the Pan-African mpox consortium collaborated to produce and analyze mpox genomic data from West and Central Africa, resulting in a dataset that is around three times larger than…
How AI can improve dementia detection
Model development workflow. Credit: Alzheimer’s & Dementia (2025). DOI: 10.1002/alz.70132 Researchers from the National Center for Healthy Aging (NCHA), a partnership between Monash University and Peninsula Health, have developed a…
Poll reveals some parents say they waited too long to stop pacifier use or thumb-sucking in children
Parents report a variety of strategies to break the habits. Credit: Sara Schultz, University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health, Pacifiers and thumb-sucking can…
Noninvasive prenatal testing identifies twice as many Down syndrome cases as second-trimester serum screening
Credit: BGI Genomics A novel study has analyzed the cost-effectiveness of different Down syndrome (DS) screening strategies. The result confirms that noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) outperforms second-trimester serum screening (STSS)…
So your primary school child has a ‘boyfriend’ or ‘girlfriend’. Should you be worried?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain If you have a child in primary school, you may not be expecting to help them manage romantic relationships. Surely this is an issue for the…
Easily distracted? How to improve your attention span
A woman looks at her phone while watching the sun set in Kansas City, Mo., on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File Feel like you can’t focus?…
Could personality tests help make bipolar disorder treatment more precise?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People with cancer, heart disease and other conditions have come to expect treatments that their medical teams “personalize” just for them, based on tests. But care…
