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The study will analyze electronic health records, survey patients and clinicians, and use artificial intelligence to identify why many patients discontinue obesity treatment. The post Vanderbilt team launches AI-powered project to improve obesity care appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

Overall, there was a 14% reduction in skin cancer risk. When nicotinamide was taken after a first skin cancer, the risk reduction rose to 54%. The post Study reveals efficacy of nicotinamide for skin cancer prevention  appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

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Originally developed in the 1950s but never approved for clinical use, these substances are over 20 times more potent than fentanyl and hundreds to thousands of times more potent than morphine. The post Forgotten opioid has resurfaced as lethal street drug appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

Monroe Carell Surgeon-in-Chief Jeffrey Upperman judges films for the Nashville Film Festival, is on the Belcourt Theatre board, and says surgery and moviemaking are similar in many ways. The post Film, sports, surgery, science, art and life. For Jeffrey Upperman, it’s all connected. appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

The new chair celebrated the department’s achievements and growth for the past year and set a vision for the future. The post Juan Salazar delivers first State of the Department of Pediatrics address appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

MyVUMC News is the twice-weekly news digest from VUMC News and Communications. Click on the date to view that day's edition. The post View the latest MyVUMC News editions appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

The post Bal Harbour Shops pop-up on Sept. 24 to benefit Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

Older adults experiencing dual decline are at greater risk of developing dementia than those with changes in only one area.  The post Keith Cole receives grant to conduct integrated research on mobility, cognition and aging appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

The findings from the current study suggest that magnesium also increases the gut synthesis of vitamin D, which does not go to the blood and takes effect locally. The post Study shows magnesium inhibits colorectal cancer carcinogenesis by increasing vitamin D-synthesizing bacteria   appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

The internship program stands out among VUMC’s similar arrangements with other schools because it specifically offers undergraduate students semester-long clinical internships alongside Division I athletes. The post VUMC, TSU to expand hands-on athletic training experience at Division I level for undergrads appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

The Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Program is one of the largest in the country treating patients with heart problems from before birth through adulthood. The post Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt recognized for excellence in treating pediatric cardiomyopathy appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s graduate medical education program has grown from an inaugural dozen to include more than 1,200 individuals, with more than 170 highly competitive residency and fellowship programs. The post From interns to experts: A remarkable century of residencies at Vanderbilt appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

The first peer-reviewed study of the DeepSeek AI model shows how a Chinese start-up firm made the market-shaking LLM for $300,000... Read more »

With federal vaccine guidance under fire, states are forging their own immunization paths... Read more »

Wild chimps ingest the equivalent of multiple alcoholic beverages a day... Read more »

Former CDC chief Susan Monarez testified that Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., had demanded she rubber-stamp recommendations from his remade vaccine panel... Read more »

A newly discovered dinosaur species has been identified from a fossil unearthed in Mongolia that represents the most complete pachycephalosaur specimen yet found... Read more »

Scientists are uncovering how your gut might be shaping your thoughts, feelings and cravings.... Read more »

Climate-fueled heat has caused thousands of excess deaths over the past three summers, which were the three hottest on record... Read more »

After nearly 40 years of global efforts, the ozone hole over Antarctica is continuing to heal... Read more »

Time crystals, a state of matter once thought physically impossible, could soon be on a banknote... Read more »

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories... Read more »

Early studies suggest that lifestyle changes such as diet, exercise and social engagement may help slow or prevent Alzheimer’s symptoms—but the evidence is inconsistent, and many doctors remain cautious... Read more »

As warming temperatures bring more extreme rain to the mountains, debris flows are on the rise... Read more »

Which of these knots are secretly “unknots”? Try our math puzzle to find out... Read more »

Science in meter and verse... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 September 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02950-8Weapon of choice.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 September 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02917-9The complexity of vocal communication in some primates, whales and birds might approach that of human language.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 September 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02533-7Modelling suggests that most Caribbean coral reefs will erode by the year 2100 as sea-level rise outpaces reef growth and limits potential reef restoration.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 September 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02704-6Soft devices made by rolling up rubber-like sheets patterned with 2D electronics can monitor, stimulate and navigate deep tissue in animal models.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 September 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02929-5More than 13.8 million Americans could have Alzheimer’s by 2060, and at the rate care facilities are closing, many of them will have nowhere to go. Regina Shih of the State Alzheimer’s Research Support Center (StARS) wants to help solve that problem.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 September 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02819-wArtificial intelligence is moving from being a mere tool to an active partner in decision-making, but when we offload misconduct to machines, who bears the blame?... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 September 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02925-9Early studies suggest that lifestyle changes such as diet, exercise and social engagement may help slow or prevent Alzheimer’s symptoms—but the evidence is inconsistent, and many doctors remain cautious.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09534-6Repetitive head impacts from contact sports are associated with brain inflammation, vascular damage and neuron loss that are independent of hyperphosphorylated tau pathology.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09537-3Engineered prime editor systems with reduced occurrences of unwanted insertions or deletions during genome editing are developed.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09522-wUsing SCN2A haploinsufficiency as a proof-of-concept, upregulation of the existing functional gene copy through CRISPR activation was able to rescue neurological-associated phenotypes in Scn2a haploinsufficient mice and human neurons.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09501-1A temporal-signal processor based on two in-materia computing hardware platforms—reconfigurable nonlinear-processing units (RNPUs) and analogue in-memory computing (AIMC)—is used for both feature extraction and classification, advancing compactness, efficiency, and performance of heterogeneous smart edge devices.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09487-wThe neuronal architecture that develops after spinal cord injury and causes autonomic dysreflexia is uncovered.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09503-zBasal cells, rather than neuroendocrine cells, have been identified as the probable origin of small cell lung cancer and other neuroendocrine–tuft cancers, explaining neuroendocrine–tuft heterogeneity and offering new perspectives for targeting lineage plasticity.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 September 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02924-wBreakthrough therapies, new diagnostics and preventive measures for fighting a devastating disease.... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 37, September 2025. <br/>... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 37, September 2025. <br/>SignificanceThis is a significant contribution to the field of sensory neurobiology by characterizing a mouse line for voltage imaging in primary sensory neurons following nociceptive and pruriceptive stimuli. We generated a sensory neuron-specific ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 37, September 2025. <br/>SignificanceThe spontaneous formation of patterns by multiprotein systems is essential for orchestrating fundamental biological processes like cell division and embryogenesis. Although various membrane proteins can generate patterns on continuous ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 37, September 2025. <br/>SignificanceThe microbiota is thought to confer resistance againstSalmonellacolonization by consuming resources that overlap with those used by the pathogen. Colonization resistance increases with community diversity, which rests critically upon the ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 37, September 2025. <br/>SignificanceWe analyze the nature and evolution of the economic coherence of cities. Little is known about how wide a range of activities a city can sustain. We propose a measure of coherence that allows us to study... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 37, September 2025. <br/>SignificanceThe P2X2 receptor (P2X2R) is an adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-gated ion channel with few small-molecule modulators that exhibit poor pharmacological properties. It is known to be involved in the auditory system and has been proposed as a drug... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 37, September 2025. <br/>SignificanceThe organization of microtubule (MT) polymers into parallel arrays along the two-dimensional cortex of plant cells is crucial for directional cell growth and plant development. Despite decades of experimentation and more recent computational ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 37, September 2025. <br/>SignificanceTIR (Toll/interleukin-1 receptors) domain proteins perform immune signaling across the Tree of Life. TIR domains are enzymes that can process NAD+to generate diverse small molecule signals. In order to better understand TIR-based signaling, ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 37, September 2025. <br/>... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 37, September 2025. <br/>SignificanceNonverbal messages in speech - emotion, emphasis, conversation action - are encoded by prosody, providing “operating instructions” for words and contextual information. Despite its importance, the principles that govern prosodic structure ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 37, September 2025. <br/>SignificanceB-1 cells have unique housekeeping and immunoregulatory properties to detect and remove self-antigens. However, deregulation of B-1 cells is behind different lymphoproliferative disorders and autoantibody-driven diseases like B-cell chronic ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 37, September 2025. <br/>The 2025 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award has been given to Michael Welsh, Jesús (Tito) González, and Paul Negulescu for their key roles in developing a novel treatment for cystic fibrosis (CF)—a three-drug combination that saves the... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 37, September 2025. <br/>Simple reductionist systems can serve as powerful catalysts for unlocking complex innovations in science and art. The evolution from simplicity to complexity is illustrated by the career journeys of the scientist Earl W. Sutherland, who discovered cyclic... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 37, September 2025. <br/>Up to 10 to 20% of the proteome contains regions with much lower amino acid diversity than would be expected by chance. This year’s Lasker Basic Science Award is given to Steven McKnight and Dirk Görlich for... Read more »

The University of Michigan Marching Band, in collaboration with the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance Department of Musical Theatre and Percussion Studio, performed songs from the Broadway musical and feature film franchise "Wicked" during the halftime show of the U-M vs. Central Michigan University football game.... Read more »

New findings from a University of Michigan survey of Detroiters showing the top challenges households face in their daily lives and how they would like city leadership to respond have implications for Detroit's mayoral election in November.... Read more »

The University of Michigan School of Nursing recently welcomed nursing leaders from across the Caribbean and Latin America for immersive, hands-on training and exchanges focused on improving health care education across the regions.... Read more »

Nick Tobier, professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan, focuses on collaborative projects in the public realm and the potential of public spaces.... Read more »

Losing your sense of direction is one of the earliest and most distressing signs of advanced Alzheimer's disease. Now, a new study from the University of Michigan sheds light on a unique neuron that may hold the key to understanding why this happens.... Read more »

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide scale changes in landscapes—including the shape of rivers—and these changes are reflected in the geologic record, according to a University of Michigan study.... Read more »

Scientists can now reliably chill specimens near absolute zero for over 10 hours while taking images resolved to the level of individual atoms with an electron microscope.... Read more »

A new nanostructure acts like a wire and switch that can, for the first time, control and direct the flow of quantum quasiparticles called excitons at room temperature.... Read more »

Social Security is one of the most successful social programs in U.S. history, lifting millions of retirees out of poverty. But for lifelong single, divorced and prematurely widowed women, their benefits lag behind those of their married peers.... Read more »

The University of Michigan Marching Band will perform songs from the Broadway musical and smash feature film "Wicked" in celebration of the film's forthcoming sequel, "Wicked: For Good."... Read more »

University of Michigan researchers in an international team revealed that a rocky planet in a distant star's "habitable zone" may have an atmosphere. Potentially, this means it could have the requisite ingredients for supporting life as we know it.... Read more »

The number of Michigan children whose parents died from overdose, suicide, homicide or other substance-related causes has surged since 2000, accounting for 2 in 5 parental deaths, a new University of Michigan study found.... Read more »

In a step toward making ultrabright X-ray sources more widely available, an international collaboration led by the University of Michigan—with experiments at the U.K.'s Central Laser Facility—has mapped key aspects of electron pulses that can go on to generate laser-like X-ray pulses.... Read more »

Nation's largest collegiate mental health study now also surveys faculty, staff... Read more »

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Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may make all the difference.... Read more »

Discover interesting facts about how traits are passed down over generations through DNA.... Read more »

A study of human placentas suggests that urban air pollution may push the organ's resident immune cells into an inflammatory state.... Read more »

The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved.... Read more »

The juvenile pachycephalosaurs, which predates the previous oldest dome-headed dinosaur by 15 million years, reveals more about how and when this unusual feature developed.... Read more »

Traditional chemical sunscreens can damage coral reefs. Scientists say there's a fix using one derived from tea plant pollen.... Read more »

A new NASA study suggests that solar activity will remain high or rise further in the coming decades, contradicting previous assumptions that the sun was quieting down — and scientists "don't completely understand" why.... Read more »

A well-known Maya stone carving known as Altar Q, located at the site of Copán in Honduras, may use hand signs to represent key dates in the Maya Long Count Calendar, a new study claims.... Read more »

A man noticed pus oozing from his chest, and it ended up revealing a knife blade in his thoracic cavity.... Read more »

The pervasive spread of misinformation can be tracked to cognitive limitations, social influence and the global spread of online networks. Combatting it has become an "arms race" between truth and lies.... Read more »

Sept. 17, 1999: Jesse Gelsinger died after receiving a gene therapy treatment to treat a liver disease. The death sparked an investigation and caution around gene therapy, which ultimately stalled the field for years.... Read more »

In her new show, Ella Al-Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to global hegemony.... Read more »

A discovery in Romania shows the remains of an elite family's treasures from the Roman era that were scorched in a fire.... Read more »

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The space rock was previously predicted to have a slim chance of impacting our planet in 2089, temporarily earning it the top spot on a major risk list.... Read more »

Johns Hopkins researchers create an artificial intelligence model to mine rich, predictive data from routine ECG tests... Read more »

Morphew, who joined Hopkins in 2017, has led the School of Education through a period of tremendous growth and achievement during his tenure... Read more »

Johns Hopkins political scientist Nicolas Jabko explains how prevailing political forces threaten to disrupt the nation's money supply and the global economy... Read more »

Medical researchers at Johns Hopkins aim to accelerate therapies that improve and save lives as liver cancer becomes one of the most common cancers in the U.S.... Read more »

Shared by the schools of Medicine and Arts and Sciences, the Department of Neuroscience aims to unify neuroscience research and education across the university... Read more »

New materials and a novel process could aid efforts to develop smaller, faster, and affordable microchips to power a range of modern electronics... Read more »

This novel approach could significantly reduce the need for invasive, often painful biopsies... Read more »

Second debate in the Hopkins Forum series will be held on Sept. 17 with Tom Frieden, Jerome Adams, Dara Kass, and Mike Varshavski... Read more »

Experts at Johns Hopkins and across the country work together to better understand the behavior and characteristics of respiratory viruses, how our immune system responds to them, and how we can prevent serious illness... Read more »

Projects co-led by scholars from JHU, the American Enterprise Institute earn support via program designed to enhance collaboration, deepen insights, promote intellectual pluralism... Read more »

The students and recent graduates will travel abroad to conduct research, pursue graduate degrees, and teach English... Read more »

Faculty, staff, and students are invited to bring their families and friends to a free movie screening on Sept. 26... Read more »

A new study from Johns Hopkins finds that multilingual AI privileges dominant languages, deepening divides rather than democratizing access to information... Read more »

The blood test, with more than 98% accuracy, opens new avenues for early diagnosis, improved patient care, and potential treatment of the neurodegenerative disease... Read more »

Using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope, astronomers have discovered a giant ultra-steep spectrum radio halo in the galaxy cluster SPT-CLJ2337−5942, located nearly 8 billion light-years…... Read more »

Astronomers using the XRISM space telescope have discovered something unexpected: powerful winds blowing from the neutron star system GX13+1 are much slower and denser than…... Read more »

Astronomers from the University of Alabama have discovered the first dark matter subhalo right in our galactic neighborhood — only about 2,300 light-years from the…... Read more »

Astronomers are baffled.The James Webb Space Telescope has just revealed a black hole unlike anything we’ve seen before — QSO1, a monster weighing as much…... Read more »

The void is changing. Something invisible is shaping the fate of the universe — and we don’t know what it is. For decades, scientists believed…... Read more »

Astronomers have just discovered something extraordinary — a rare Einstein Cross with not four, but five points of light. Normally, an Einstein Cross occurs when…... Read more »

What if Earth’s story wasn’t written only beneath our feet, but also in the stars above? New research from Curtin University reveals that the Milky…... Read more »

“In April 2029, humanity will witness a once-in-a-lifetime event. The asteroid Apophis — known as the ‘God of Chaos’ — will pass so close to…... Read more »

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope stunned the world with the first-ever image of a black hole — the shadow of M87*, a monster six…... Read more »

A long-term study tracking 475 children found that autistic children are far more likely to experience persistent gastrointestinal issues than their peers. These symptoms often co-occur, persist across childhood, and strongly relate to challenges with sleep, communication, behavior, and sensory processing.... Read more »

Traumatic brain injuries, including concussions, affect nearly 69 million people worldwide each year, yet treatments remain scarce. A new review highlights the potential of psychedelics such as psilocybin and 5-MeO-DMT to reduce harmful inflammation and enhance neuroplasticity after brain injury.... Read more »

A new study shows that musically trained individuals have an easier time focusing on the right sounds in noisy environments. By measuring brain activity during tasks requiring attention to specific melodies, researchers found stronger signals linked to conscious attention and weaker signals tied to automatic distraction in musical participants.... Read more »

A large study across 13 experiments with over 8,000 participants shows that people are far more likely to act dishonestly when they can delegate tasks to AI rather than do them themselves. Dishonesty rose most when participants only had to set broad goals, rather than explicit instructions, allowing them to... Read more »

New research shows that repetitive head impacts from contact sports trigger early and lasting brain changes in athletes years before chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is detectable. The study found neuron loss, microglial activation, and blood vessel changes in athletes under 51, even in those without tau buildup, the usual CTE... Read more »

Researchers discovered how the brain flexibly switches communication pathways depending on context, balancing between memory recall and processing new information. The mechanism depends on the interaction of slow (theta) and fast (gamma) rhythms, regulated by distinct inhibitory circuits.... Read more »

A large-scale study analyzing over a million births in Sweden found no evidence that prescribed opioid pain medications during pregnancy cause autism or ADHD in children. While earlier data suggested a potential link, those associations largely disappeared after accounting for genetics, parental mental health, and shared family environment.... Read more »

Researchers developed a fully automated cooperation task showing that rats engage in true reciprocity, not just mutual benefit. Social interaction enhanced success, while dampened interaction reduced cooperative performance.... Read more »

Depression’s earliest signs can be hard to spot, but a new study shows AI can detect them in subtle facial movements. Japanese students with subthreshold depression were perceived as less friendly and expressive by peers, despite not seeming nervous or fake.... Read more »

A growing body of research underscores that Alzheimer’s and cognitive decline are not inevitable parts of aging. Lifestyle interventions targeting exercise, diet, social engagement, and cognitive stimulation have been shown in large clinical trials to improve brain function and slow decline.... Read more »

Humans excel at adapting to new situations, while machines often stumble. A new interdisciplinary study reveals that the root lies in how humans and AI approach “generalization,” the process of transferring knowledge to new problems.... Read more »

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