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New national action plan targets gaps at the intersection of mental health and criminal justice.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OTTAWA, ON – The Mental Health Commission of Canada (the Commission) today released “Finding New Pathways: An action plan for criminal justice and mental health in Canada”. The plan provides an evidence-based…
Kinase Droplets Activate Growth Signals, Path for Cancer Therapy
Cellular phase separation, a mechanism that organizes biomolecules into dense, liquid-like condensates, may play a previously underappreciated role in regulating kinase activity, offering therapeutic applications. The post Kinase Droplets Activate Growth Signals, Path for Cancer Therapy…
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STAT+: OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma set to dissolve after judge approves its criminal sentence
At the hearing, the judge heard from mothers who lost sons to overdose, a teenager born into withdrawal, and people who spent years dealing with addiction treatment.
Anticipating the future in an algorithmic age
Science, Volume 392, Issue 6797, Page 472-472, April 2026.
Disneyland’s factory-inspired future
Science, Volume 392, Issue 6797, Page 471-471, April 2026.
Disordered protein LAT encodes relative levels of signaling pathways in T cell activation
Science, Volume 392, Issue 6797, April 2026.
Lymphoid tissue chemokines limit priming duration to preserve CD8+ T cell functionality
Science, Volume 392, Issue 6797, April 2026.
Implications of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists (GLP-1 RAs) for Mood Disorders and Suicide Risk
A strategic imperative in mood disorders is to identify innovative mechanisms that translate into improved therapeutics when compared to the extant options. More specifically, there is a need for treatments with greater efficacy, shorter time-to-peak efficacy, greater durability of effect…
Facilitating Thought Progression: A Neurocognitive Framework Linking Thought Dynamics and Mood Disorders
Mood and thought are tightly coupled, but the mechanisms linking them are not understood. This link is particularly important when considering mood disorders such as depression. We propose the Facilitating Thought Progression (FTP) framework, which characterizes depression as a disorder…
Current Landscape of Mental Health Conversational Agents From a Trauma-Informed Care Lens: Scoping Review
Background: Conversational agents (CAs) are increasingly used in mental health care to enhance access and engagement. However, their safe, ethical, and user-sensitive design remains a challenge. Despite growing attention to trauma-informed approaches in human-computer interaction, there is limited work on…
Remembering J. Craig Venter: a relentless scientist who changed biotech — and was all too easily misunderstood
J. Craig Venter, the scientist whose relentless ambition helped turn genetics from an artisanal trade into an industrialized information machine, died at 79.
STAT+: Katherine Szarama named acting director of FDA’s vaccines and biologics center
Katherine Szarama, who joined the FDA last year to serve as Vinay Prasad’s deputy, will now fill his shoes at CBER.
STAT+: In her own words: Surgeon general nominee Nicole Saphier expresses enthusiasm and caution for MAHA
Examining the past statements and writings of Trump's third surgeon general nominee, Dr. Nicole Saphier, on vaccines, autism, peptides, diet and more.
STAT+: Hair-raising trial results, and Servier’s M&A wishlist
Why are investors excited about hair loss drugs? Will AI make clinical trials run more smoothly? And more in "The Readout LOUD," STAT's weekly biotech podcast.
Exclusive eBook: Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones
The ultimate plan to live forever is a brand new body. This subscriber-only eBook explores R3 Bio, a small startup that has pitched a startling and ethically charged vision for “brainless clones” to serve the role of backup human bodies.…
STAT+: As artificial intelligence shows off diagnostic chops, scientists reckon with the way forward
On Thursday, researchers published in Science the results of a study that tested an OpenAI model on diagnostic and clinical reasoning tasks.
This startup’s new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs
The San Francisco–based startup Goodfire just released a new tool, called Silico, that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI model and adjust its parameters—the settings that determine a model’s behavior—during training. This could give model makers more fine-grained…
Dissociation: Signs and Causes in Children
When people use the word dissociation, it can sound alarming. You may have seen it on social media, heard your child mention it, or noticed your child seeming “checked out” and wondered if that’s what’s happening. Dissociation can be confusing…
The Download: the North Pole’s future and humanoid data
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. Digging for clues about the North Pole’s past In the past, getting to the North Pole…
Clinical application of 1H MRS in the human brain at 7T
Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H MRS) enables non-invasive biochemical sampling of tissues, potentially aiding diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of various pathologies, while providing novel imaging biomarkers. Ultra-high-field (UHF) imaging at 7 tesla (7T) benefits from improved spectral dispersion due to…