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Expression of Concern for: Nicotine breaks down preformed Alzheimer’s β-amyloid fibrils in vitro
Expression of Concern for: “Nicotine breaks down preformed Alzheimer’s β-amyloid fibrils in vitro,” by Ono et al. (Biol Psychiatry 2002; 52:880–886); https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3223(02)01417-8.
Opinion: The podcast bringing together MAHA and public health for hard conversations
“These sides aren't talking to each other. And there's a lot riding on it”: The hosts of “Why Should I Trust You?” on bringing together MAHA and public health.
Optimism for Trump’s CDC pick is tempered by questions about RFK Jr.’s role
As one CDC employee, who asked not to be named, put it on Friday, among staff “the general vibe is guarded but hopeful.”
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Recording Stress Biomarkers in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder With Intellectual Deficiency Sponsors: Universite Cote d'Azur Recruiting
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…
Stem cell control in the lung by an autocrine injury-activated Igf complex
Science, Volume 392, Issue 6795, April 2026.
The life and legacy of George Schaller
Science, Volume 392, Issue 6795, Page 262-262, April 2026.
Calcium-triggered apoplastic ROS bursts balance gravity and mechanical signals for soil navigation
Science, Volume 392, Issue 6795, Page 296-300, April 2026.
Determination of the Solar System contribution to the soft x-ray sky
Science, Volume 392, Issue 6795, Page 285-288, April 2026.
STAT+: HaloMD’s legal win highlights the difficulty of challenging arbitration decisions
The ruling delivers clarity on the path forward for addressing problems with the No Surprises Act.
Trump taps former public health leader Erica Schwartz to run CDC
Schwartz's background as a physician with plenty of government service experience will likely be popular among lawmakers.
A pancreatic cancer breakthrough, and new hope for an off-the-shelf CAR-T treatment
This week on "The Readout LOUD," a pancreatic cancer breakthrough and new hope for an off-the-shelf CAR-T treatment in lymphoma.
Brain Gene Variations Help Explain Neurological and Psychiatric Sex Differences
More than 3000 genes are expressed differently in the brains of men and women, which could help explain striking differences in psychiatric and neurological disorders between the sexes. The post Brain Gene Variations Help Explain Neurological and Psychiatric Sex Differences…
STAT+: Kennedy focuses on affordability, combating fraud in Capitol Hill hearings
RFK Jr. focused on President Trump's health care agenda and largely avoided vaccines.
STAT+: Researchers behind GLP-1 obesity drugs advance new approach: Drop GLP-1 as a target
Scientists are raising a provocative hypothesis about GLP-1 drugs for obesity: Perhaps targeting the GLP-1 hormone isn't actually necessary to achieve effective weight loss.
Treating enterprise AI as an operating layer
There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks foundation models and benchmarks—GPT versus Gemini, reasoning scores, and marginal capability gains. But in practice, the more durable…
Making AI operational in constrained public sector environments
The AI boom has hit across industries, and public sector organizations are facing pressure to accelerate adoption. At the same time, government institutions face distinct constraints around security, governance, and operations that set them apart from their business counterparts. For…
The Download: cyberscammers’ banking bypasses, and carbon removal troubles
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. Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram Inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee…
Spatial evolution in temporal dynamics of hemodynamic response function in human superior colliculi with ultra-high-resolution MRI at 9.4T
The superior colliculus (SC) plays a crucial role in multisensory integration, visual information processing, saccadic target selection, visual selective attention, and decision making. In particular, the SC has a key role in oculomotor coordination, following a rostro-caudal organization. The rostral…
MambaSSM: efficient segmentation of brain structures in anisotropic 3D EM images via state-space models
Accurate segmentation of brain structures from anisotropic 3D electron microscopy (EM) images remains challenging due to the trade-off between global context modeling and computational efficiency. While state-space models (SSMs) like Mamba have shown promise in capturing long-range dependencies, their direct…