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The newly built facility, located at 8124 Sawyer Brown Road, provides a comprehensive suite of diagnostic imaging options. The post Vanderbilt Imaging Services Bellevue opens, expands capabilities in West Nashville appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

The fashion show and luncheon included grateful patient families and health care heroes from Monroe Carell walking the runway. The post Photo Gallery: Friends & Fashion event raises funds in style appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

Feeding and swallowing problems, known as dysphagia, occur in an estimated 25% to 45% of normally developing children. The post New clinic focuses on pediatric feeding and swallowing issues appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

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The portrait was unveiled during a celebration event at the Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center. The post Churchwell honored with portrait unveiling appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

The research could lead to better ways to treat psoriatic arthritis, a debilitating yet poorly understood joint disease that affects approximately 1 million people in the U.S. The post VUMC-Michigan team awarded NIH grant to determine the cause of psoriatic arthritis appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

The Charles Strobel Legacy of Service Award recognizes individuals or groups who have made a lasting impact on the community through their volunteerism. The post VUMC volunteer Nicholas Joy wins Charles Strobel Legacy of Service Award appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

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Hundreds of Vanderbilt medical, nursing and graduate students took part in last week’s Commencement ceremonies. The post Commencement 2025 appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

Santisteban’s research project will investigate whether the renin angiotensin system plays an important role in the progression of pathology in Alzheimer’s disease. The post Monica Santisteban awarded grant from BrightFocus Foundation’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program appeared first on VUMC News.... Read more »

A bill to repeal the ban on supersonic flights over the U.S. could increase the demand for the gas-guzzling jets from around a dozen to as many as 240... Read more »

Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed earlier than expected... Read more »

Your orange cat may host a never-before-seen genetic pathway for color pigmentation, according to new studies... Read more »

A Google DeepMind system improves chip designs and addresses unsolved math problems but has not been rolled out to researchers outside the company... Read more »

NASA’s astrobiology ambitions are at risk of collapsing under the White House’s proposed budget. But your voice can make a difference... Read more »

Technology has made it easier than ever to quickly find, identify and record birds. But to truly appreciate feathered friends, consider unplugging... Read more »

Newborn pilot whales have been spotted mysteriously swimming among pods of orcas. Scientists are trying to puzzle out how the pilot whale calves got there and what happened to them... Read more »

New research helps the “ocean’s veins” thrive under heat stress... Read more »

NASA’s nearly complete yet canceled lunar rover VIPER isn’t going to get carried to the moon by a private space exploration company—but it’s also not quite dead yet... Read more »

A reappraisal of decades-old data suggests that strange circular formations on Venus could be volcanic “rings of fire” created by ongoing geological activity... Read more »

Facing a lawsuit, the Department of Agriculture says it will restore climate-related websites that the agency erased after President Donald Trump took office... Read more »

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use in modeling gravitational waves... Read more »

Results from a phase 3 clinical trial suggest that taking ubrogepant at the first sign of an oncoming migraine can prevent preheadache fatigue and light sensitivity... Read more »

The red flags abound—political research tells us the U.S. is becoming an autocracy... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01514-0Why is recruitment often speedier in industry? Julie Gould investigates what the two sectors can learn from each other in the race to source top talent.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01518-w‘Directed’ evolution in the laboratory creates an editing tool that outperforms classic CRISPR systems.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01496-zTreatment seems to have been effective, but it is not clear whether such bespoke therapies can be widely applied.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01498-xThe sacs grew to roughly 2 centimeters wide and could be used to study early pregnancy.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01500-6When LLMs are grouped together, they exhibit similar characteristics to human societies.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01486-1Buried in lab work or drowning in data? Take a break and help shape the future of PhD education.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09104-wKu limits RNA-induced innate immunity to allow Alu-expansion in primates... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 14 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08956-6Proxy records and climate simulations show that in past warm intervals, the South Asian summer monsoon was characterized by an increase in monsoon rainfall, and weakening and strengthening of different parts of the monsoon circulation, consistent with future projections.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 14 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08984-2A new, highest-precision analytical result for solving the gravitational two-body problem of black hole or neutron star scattering reveals the emergence of Calabi–Yau manifolds in the solution to the radiated energy in these encounters.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 14 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08920-4The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water ice in the cold debris disk (analogous to the Kuiper belt) around the star HD 181327.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 14 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08981-5The molecular mechanisms of astroblastoma development are identified, whereby distinct gene fusions upregulate shared transcriptional networks to disrupt the normal development of ventral telencephalon neural progenitors, which leads to oncogenesis.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 14 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09043-6In vitro reconstitution and in vivo live-cell imaging of LHX2–EBF1–LDB1 enhancer hubs in olfactory sensory neurons reveals that these transcription factors form condensates with solid, rather than liquid, phase properties.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 14 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01523-zSystem improves chip designs and tackles unsolved maths problems, but has not been rolled out to researchers outside the company.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 14 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01340-4An analysis of warm periods in Earth’s history helps to clarify an apparent anomaly in projections of the future behaviour of the South Asian summer monsoon.... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 19, May 2025. <br/>... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 19, May 2025. <br/>SignificanceMany cellular processes such as wound healing, immune activation, and DNA damage repair require a temporally decompact and accessible chromatin structure. Whether such short-term remodeling of the chromatin impacts nucleus mechanics and ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 19, May 2025. <br/>SignificanceDysregulated Wnt signaling is a well-established driver of colorectal carcinogenesis. However, its pivotal role in normal intestinal stem cell homeostasis has posed significant challenges for its therapeutic inhibition, highlighting the need ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 19, May 2025. <br/>SignificanceThe development of small molecule KRAS inhibitors has proven to be a challenge. Recent clinical development of covalent KRAS G12C inhibitors demonstrates the potential of targeting KRAS oncogenic proteins directly. Compounds that target the ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 19, May 2025. <br/>SignificanceOGG1S326C, a variant widely recognized as a risk factor for various malignancies and other diseases, has drawn significant attention due to its high prevalence (~20% in Caucasians and ~40 to 60% in Asians) in human populations. Despite... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 19, May 2025. <br/>SignificanceAlthough stress has significant impact on brain and behavior, its effects vary between individuals. Relatively little is known about how social status contributes to individual differences in stress vulnerability. We report that stress affects ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 19, May 2025. <br/>SignificancePseudomonas aeruginosais a common cause of hospital-related infections and a formidable health threat due to its evolving antibiotic resistance.PaGluRS is homologous to other bacterial GluRSs in its domain architecture, but has evolved a ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 19, May 2025. <br/>SignificanceThe TWIK-2 potassium channel is a member of the two-pore domain potassium (K2P) channel superfamily and a potential therapeutic target to control severe inflammatory injury involving the NLRP3 inflammasome. We report the cryo-EM structure of ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 19, May 2025. <br/>SignificanceIn forests, nutrient uptake is assumed to occur almost exclusively in soils. As a key limiting nutrient to plant growth, nitrogen cycling by plant roots and their associated microbes in bedrock has significant implications for deeply rooted... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 19, May 2025. <br/>SignificancePolarons—electronic excitations and the deformations they cause in a host material—are the primary energy carriers in semiconductors. While advances in microscopy can now map their nonequilibrium transport, theoretical understanding lags due ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 19, May 2025. <br/>SignificanceLarge language models (LLMs) are a type of artificial intelligence technology that is currently being deployed in a rapidly growing range of applications. The sensitive nature of some of these applications makes it imperative that we have... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 19, May 2025. <br/>SignificanceCalcium carbonate biomineralization, crucial for many marine organisms, often proceeds via amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) as an intermediate. Using a stopped-flow in situ small-angle X-ray scattering setup with≈10 ms resolution, we reveal ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 19, May 2025. <br/>SignificanceAn elastostatic cloak conceals a defect from the material response to (quasi-)static mechanical stimuli under any elastic disturbance to the surrounding medium. Existing optimization-based design approaches severely bias their cloaks toward a ...... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 19, May 2025. <br/>Recent research has identified several effective strategies for reducing Americans’ animosity toward supporters of opposing political parties. However, whether these strategies can durably reduce partisan animosity in a scalable manner and in everyday ...... Read more »

Empowering everyday community members to lead suicide prevention efforts—by promoting wellness, strengthening relationships and implementing tailored actions—can significantly reduce the risk among youth.... Read more »

A large percentage of American children are growing up in households with at least one parent who uses alcohol or other drugs in problematic ways—raising the risk that those children will go on to do the same, a new study suggests.... Read more »

Archaeologist Brian Stewart, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, has conducted research in the small southern African country of Lesotho for 15 years.... Read more »

When it comes to Facebook, news matters—not the fake stuff but the real kind generated by working journalists.... Read more »

Older adults with vision problems face a heightened risk of falls and premature death, according to a new University of Michigan study.... Read more »

With Cardinal Robert Prevost having been selected as the first American pope in Catholic history, Silvia Pedraza, professor of sociology and American culture at the University of Michigan, offers her insights on what this groundbreaking appointment means for the global Church.... Read more »

The University of Michigan Board of Regents has named Domenico Grasso as the university's interim president, effective immediately.... Read more »

Higher student attendance coincides with fewer illegal gun-related expulsions in Michigan public K-12 schools, according to research led by the University of Michigan.... Read more »

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT DATE: 1-5 p.m. Saturday, May 10 EVENT: The Flint Block Party will feature local and regional artists, including many U-M alums and faculty, creating large-scale relief prints using a steamroller as a printing press. Relief printmaking involves designing, carving and printing handmade stamps using ink and pressure, and... Read more »

The National Academy of Sciences recently announced the election of 120 members and 30 international members, including two from the University of Michigan, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.... Read more »

Medications proven to effectively treat opioid addiction are rarely given after emergency department visits for overdose, and who gets them varies, sometimes greatly, depending on race, ethnicity or geography, University of Michigan researchers say.... Read more »

Origami—the art of paper folding that originated in Japan centuries ago—could open a new frontier in innovative materials, thanks to research led at the University of Michigan.... Read more »

The University of Michigan's Symphony Band is hitting the road for the first time in decades.... Read more »

In the warm summertime waters of Lake Erie, cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, can proliferate out of control, creating algal blooms that produce toxins at a rate that can harm wildlife and human health.... Read more »

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A large-scale genome study shows that Indigenous peoples in the Americas split off several times, resulting in loss of important genetic diversity.... Read more »

The sun has released several powerful M- and X-class solar flares over the past few days, resulting in radio blackouts around the world.... Read more »

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum world. However, the new theory remains far from being proven observationally.... Read more »

Amber deposits in Japan show unique deformations that suggest trees were swept out to sea during a tsunami about 115 million years ago, giving paleontologists a new way to identify past tsunamis.... Read more »

Scientists say that hiding secret messages using AI chatbots could lead to a world of iron-clad encryption.... Read more »

These massive stargazing binoculars are hefty in both size and price, but is it worth splurging on the Extra Dispersion glass?... Read more »

A combination of X-ray from NASA's Chandra observatory and radio data indicates that a galactic "fracture" was likely caused by a special neutron star called a pulsar.... Read more »

The first Garmin watch with guided walking workouts.... Read more »

Quantum computers can one day be vastly more powerful than the most powerful supercomputers on the planet — but only if scientists find ways to fix the extremely high error rate in qubits.... Read more »

Prader-Willi syndrome is a rare genetic disease that causes poor feeding in infancy but later triggers insatiable hunger.... Read more »

Scientists looked at Jupiter's massive auroras using the James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes — and found a mystery they can't fully explain.... Read more »

Astrophysicists have proposed a new theoretical maximum lifespan for the universe, which suggests that dead stars are decaying much faster than previously thought. The estimate of stellar remnant decay is based on Stephen Hawking's famous black hole radiation theory.... Read more »

Researchers shed light on the "dark matter" of the gut, revealing a species of fungus that could potentially help counter fatty liver disease. The research is in its early days, though.... Read more »

A massive stone carving featuring an Assyrian ruler and several deities has been found in Iraq.... Read more »

The Khan Academy founder and CEO, who will speak at JHU's Commencement later this month, answered a variety of questions about his life and career... Read more »

Programs promising to save endangered species of sharks and other fish by incentivizing their release may be backfiring, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins and Oxford University... Read more »

Porterfield returns to Johns Hopkins in a new role designed to harmonize operations and enhance services across the institution's entire research enterprise... Read more »

Sixty years after earning her bachelor's degree, Myrna Blyth enrolled in the master of liberal arts program at Hopkins. Blyth, who will graduate Monday at age 86, said this degree pursuit was 'less purposeful but more meaningful.'... Read more »

Hopkins neuroscientist Richard Huganir is close to finding a potential life-changing treatment for kids with SYNGAP1-related disorders, but cuts to federal funding could delay or halt the progress... Read more »

Sean Lee, a member of the Class of 2025, and alum Toby Mao will receive up to three years of tuition at Stanford University, along with stipends for living costs, academic expenses, and travel... Read more »

The classical dance team emerged victorious in Chicago with a performance that critiqued India's caste discrimination... Read more »

Environmental and public health advocates, military veterans among students invited to transfer to Johns Hopkins... Read more »

Wright, who joined the university in 2023, has played a critical role in advising university leadership on a range of issues over the past two years... Read more »

Designed by Johns Hopkins bioengineers, Re-Kinesis was named a finalist in the National Institute on Aging's 2025 Start-Up Challenge, which recognizes researchers' innovative, science-driven interventions for age-related diseases... Read more »

With their groundbreaking research into HIV and cancer, this year's Student Employees of the Year represent the future of medicine and public health... Read more »

Zhu, who received a master's from the Bloomberg School in 2023, was recognized along with two other Banner journalists for their 'compassionate investigative series' on the city's fentanyl epidemic... Read more »

A computational tool developed by Johns Hopkins civil engineer Thomas Gernay predicts how fire affects structures, leading to more resilient designs and enhanced public safety... Read more »

Six juniors have created a better way for Baltimore-based mobile food pantry Let's Eat, Inc., to collect and distribute resources... Read more »

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China has just launched the Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility, or CHIEF, a groundbreaking research tool that simulates extreme gravitational conditions. This state-of-the-art hypergravity…... Read more »

The daisy world model, a conceptual framework illustrating how life can regulate a planet’s environment, has inspired new methods to detect self-regulating “exo-daisy worlds” (eDWs)…... Read more »

Scientists have solved the long-standing mystery of Uranus’s cooling thermosphere, attributing the phenomenon to long-term changes in the solar wind—the flow of charged particles and…... Read more »

Astronomers have identified a unique multi-planet system, K2-360, featuring an ultra-dense “super-Earth” and an outer planetary companion. This discovery, published in Scientific Reports on November…... Read more »

Astronomers have discovered a unique astronomical system where two galaxies are perfectly aligned to form a compound gravitational lens, marking the first observation of such…... Read more »

A team of physicists has proposed a groundbreaking experiment aimed at determining whether gravity exhibits quantum properties when measured, potentially providing insights into one of…... Read more »

Cornell scientists are pioneering a library of spectral signatures based on basalt rock samples to help analyze the composition of rocky exoplanets and detect potential…... Read more »

A new study led by researchers from the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science explores the idea that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations might eventually reach a…... Read more »

Researchers have, for the first time, tracked how individual neurons lose and recover energy during spreading depolarizations — waves of electrical disturbance linked to brain disorders like stroke. Using genetically modified mice and real-time fluorescent microscopy, the team visualized adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels in neurons under both healthy and stroke-like... Read more »

A new study highlights the lasting impact of postpartum maternal depression and mother-to-infant bonding on children’s emotional and behavioral outcomes. Researchers found that early bonding can partially offset the negative effects of maternal depression, reducing future psychosocial difficulties.... Read more »

A large Finnish registry study reveals that many children, especially boys who begin ADHD medication between ages 6 and 8, remain on treatment for more than seven years. While the average duration of ADHD medication was over three years, a quarter of treated children remained on it for over seven,... Read more »

A new study reveals that a small cluster of cells near the brain's "blue spot"—the locus coeruleus—helps regulate arousal, attention, and stress responses. These peri-LC neurons modulate the locus coeruleus by releasing GABA, which reduces its activity and dampens the release of norepinephrine.... Read more »

Sleeping more than nine hours a night may be detrimental to brain health, particularly for individuals experiencing symptoms of depression, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed data from nearly 2,000 dementia-free adults and found that long sleep duration was associated with worse performance in memory, visuospatial ability, and executive... Read more »

The brain uses two separate dopamine-based learning systems: one for evaluating outcomes and another for reinforcing repeated actions. Known as reward prediction error (RPE) and action prediction error (APE), these systems help explain how habits form and why they can become difficult to break.... Read more »

Large language model (LLM) AI agents, when interacting in groups, can form shared social conventions without centralized coordination. Researchers adapted a classic “naming game” framework to test whether populations of AI agents could develop consensus through repeated, limited interactions.... Read more »

A new study tracking nearly half a million participants over 12 years has revealed a strong, independent link between loneliness and an increased risk of hearing loss. Even after adjusting for genetic risk, health conditions, and lifestyle factors, lonely individuals had a 24% higher chance of developing hearing loss, especially... Read more »

A new AI-driven tool developed by researchers could revolutionize how educators and clinicians screen for dyslexia and dysgraphia in children. By analyzing handwriting samples from K–5 students, the system detects behavioral cues, spelling errors, motor difficulties, and cognitive issues with remarkable precision.... Read more »

New research reveals how elevated eye pressure distorts blood vessels and disrupts oxygen delivery, potentially accelerating the progression of glaucoma, a leading cause of irreversible vision loss. Using advanced 3D modeling and fluorescent dyes, scientists found that even mild increases in eye pressure can restrict blood flow in the optic... Read more »

A new study reveals how rats can learn to fear through inference, offering insights into the neural basis of higher-order emotions. By pairing a neutral sound and image, then associating the image with an unpleasant experience, researchers showed that rats later feared the sound alone—demonstrating inferred emotional learning.... Read more »

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