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Saliva-Based Proteomics Reveals Immune Changes Linked to Oral Cancer Progression
A new single-cell proteomics approach has revealed distinct immune-cell protein signatures associated with oral cancer progression and lymph node involvement. The findings could pave the way for noninvasive saliva tests to help assess disease…
Digitally Assisted Training System for Home-Based Scoliosis Therapy: Proof-of-Concept and Technical Verification Study
Background: Schroth therapy is one of the conservative methods used to treat scoliosis. It includes not only therapeutic exercises in physiotherapy facilities but also concepts for independent training at home. Consistent and correct performance…
Cocreating a Climate and Health Dashboard With Multisector Stakeholders: Qualitative Pilot Study
Background: Climate-related disasters increasingly affect community health, health care access, and disaster preparedness, particularly in disaster-prone Gulf Coast communities. Although climate dashboards have expanded access to environmental data, many function primarily as static repositories…
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Pie Day 2026
Ellie’s Pi Day post: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/pi-day-2026-food-institute/ How Ellie orchestrated the baking of 30 pies: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/behind-the-scenes-of-thirty-pies/
STAT+: FDA eyes expanding testosterone therapy for libido
New research questions GLP-1's purpose, a pancreatic cancer breakthrough, and more biotech news from The Readout
The deadly consequences of ICE detention
New research challenges what we know about GLP-1s, vaccine skepticism, and more health news from Morning Rounds
The Download: bad news for inner Neanderthals, and AI warfare’s human illusion
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal There’s a theory that many of us have an…
EEG-based stroke severity classification using higher-order topological features and graph convolutional networks
IntroductionElectroencephalography (EEG)-based stroke analysis has mainly relied on conventional signal and network descriptors, while higher-order brain network structures remain insufficiently characterized.MethodsWe used persistent homology to extract cycle-based topological features from EEG functional networks, capturing higher-order organization with reduced sensitivity to…
Synthetic microbial co-cultures for modular bioelectronic sensing in diverse environments
Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 17 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03075-7Modular integration of bacterial strains expands the application range of whole-cell bioelectric sensors.
New gene-editing approaches for β-hemoglobinopathies
Nature Medicine, Published online: 17 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41591-026-00021-7Three phase 1/2 trials show that direct editing of HBG1 and HBG2 promoters is a promising disease‑agnostic strategy for treating β‑hemoglobinopathies such as sickle-cell disease and β-thalassemia.
A roadmap to competitive preclinical packages
Nature Medicine, Published online: 17 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04345-2Should researchers avoid translational research in animals in favor of human or AI models? We argue that this debate should focus not on comparing species but instead on how experimental systems can be…
How robots learn: A brief, contemporary history
Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they’d spend their career refining robotic arms for auto plants. Aim for C-3P0; end up with the…
The case for fixing everything
The handsome new book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, by the tech industry legend Stewart Brand, promises to be the first in a series offering “a comprehensive overview of the civilizational importance of maintenance.” One of Brand’s several biographers described…
STAT+: Cell therapy primed liver transplant patients to avoid organ rejection, small study shows
A few transplant patients in a small study were able to stop using immunosuppressive drugs, thanks to pre-transplant cell therapy.
Opinion: Don’t believe headlines saying that vaccine skepticism is widespread
Despite some headlines, a new poll does not show that most Americans no longer trust vaccines.
Opinion: Health care is not ready for the new era of AI-enabled cyberattacks
“When health care infrastructure is attacked and held for ransom by hackers, patients become real casualties,” writes Andrea Downing.
Why having “humans in the loop” in an AI war is an illusion
The availability of artificial intelligence for use in warfare is at the center of a legal battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon. This debate has become urgent, with AI playing a bigger role than ever before in the current conflict…
Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation to alleviate metformin-associated gastrointestinal adverse events and optimize glycaemic control: a randomized, sham-controlled pilot trial protocol
BackgroundGastrointestinal adverse events (GI AEs) are the main dose-limiting side effects of metformin in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), reducing adherence and compromising long-term glycaemic control. Current strategies (dose adjustment or combination therapy) seldom address both tolerability and sustained metabolic…
Cerebral blood flow and functional connectivity immediate changes following intradermal acupuncture in major depressive disorder
BackgroundAcupuncture has been increasingly applied as an adjunctive treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD), yet its central neurobiological mechanisms remain insufficiently understood. Cerebral blood flow (CBF) and functional connectivity strength (FCS) provide complementary perspectives on regional metabolic activity and large-scale…
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Saliva-Based Proteomics Reveals Immune Changes Linked to Oral Cancer Progression
A new single-cell proteomics approach has revealed distinct immune-cell protein signatures associated with oral cancer progression and lymph node involvement. The findings could pave the way for noninvasive saliva tests to help assess disease…
Digitally Assisted Training System for Home-Based Scoliosis Therapy: Proof-of-Concept and Technical Verification Study
Background: Schroth therapy is one of the conservative methods used to treat scoliosis. It includes not only therapeutic exercises in physiotherapy facilities but also concepts for independent training at home. Consistent and correct performance…
Cocreating a Climate and Health Dashboard With Multisector Stakeholders: Qualitative Pilot Study
Background: Climate-related disasters increasingly affect community health, health care access, and disaster preparedness, particularly in disaster-prone Gulf Coast communities. Although climate dashboards have expanded access to environmental data, many function primarily as static repositories…
News
3068 results
Pie Day 2026
Ellie’s Pi Day post: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/pi-day-2026-food-institute/ How Ellie orchestrated the baking of 30 pies: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/behind-the-scenes-of-thirty-pies/
STAT+: FDA eyes expanding testosterone therapy for libido
New research questions GLP-1's purpose, a pancreatic cancer breakthrough, and more biotech news from The Readout
The deadly consequences of ICE detention
New research challenges what we know about GLP-1s, vaccine skepticism, and more health news from Morning Rounds
The Download: bad news for inner Neanderthals, and AI warfare’s human illusion
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal There’s a theory that many of us have an…
EEG-based stroke severity classification using higher-order topological features and graph convolutional networks
IntroductionElectroencephalography (EEG)-based stroke analysis has mainly relied on conventional signal and network descriptors, while higher-order brain network structures remain insufficiently characterized.MethodsWe used persistent homology to extract cycle-based topological features from EEG functional networks, capturing higher-order organization with reduced sensitivity to…
Synthetic microbial co-cultures for modular bioelectronic sensing in diverse environments
Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 17 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03075-7Modular integration of bacterial strains expands the application range of whole-cell bioelectric sensors.
New gene-editing approaches for β-hemoglobinopathies
Nature Medicine, Published online: 17 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41591-026-00021-7Three phase 1/2 trials show that direct editing of HBG1 and HBG2 promoters is a promising disease‑agnostic strategy for treating β‑hemoglobinopathies such as sickle-cell disease and β-thalassemia.
A roadmap to competitive preclinical packages
Nature Medicine, Published online: 17 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04345-2Should researchers avoid translational research in animals in favor of human or AI models? We argue that this debate should focus not on comparing species but instead on how experimental systems can be…
How robots learn: A brief, contemporary history
Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they’d spend their career refining robotic arms for auto plants. Aim for C-3P0; end up with the…
The case for fixing everything
The handsome new book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, by the tech industry legend Stewart Brand, promises to be the first in a series offering “a comprehensive overview of the civilizational importance of maintenance.” One of Brand’s several biographers described…
STAT+: Cell therapy primed liver transplant patients to avoid organ rejection, small study shows
A few transplant patients in a small study were able to stop using immunosuppressive drugs, thanks to pre-transplant cell therapy.
Opinion: Don’t believe headlines saying that vaccine skepticism is widespread
Despite some headlines, a new poll does not show that most Americans no longer trust vaccines.
Opinion: Health care is not ready for the new era of AI-enabled cyberattacks
“When health care infrastructure is attacked and held for ransom by hackers, patients become real casualties,” writes Andrea Downing.
Why having “humans in the loop” in an AI war is an illusion
The availability of artificial intelligence for use in warfare is at the center of a legal battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon. This debate has become urgent, with AI playing a bigger role than ever before in the current conflict…
Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation to alleviate metformin-associated gastrointestinal adverse events and optimize glycaemic control: a randomized, sham-controlled pilot trial protocol
BackgroundGastrointestinal adverse events (GI AEs) are the main dose-limiting side effects of metformin in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), reducing adherence and compromising long-term glycaemic control. Current strategies (dose adjustment or combination therapy) seldom address both tolerability and sustained metabolic…
Cerebral blood flow and functional connectivity immediate changes following intradermal acupuncture in major depressive disorder
BackgroundAcupuncture has been increasingly applied as an adjunctive treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD), yet its central neurobiological mechanisms remain insufficiently understood. Cerebral blood flow (CBF) and functional connectivity strength (FCS) provide complementary perspectives on regional metabolic activity and large-scale…