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2-Jun-2026

AI helps accelerate breast cancer diagnosis for high-risk women

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Women with abnormal mammograms often have to wait for weeks to find out whether they have breast cancer.

Now, researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley have found a way to help reduce the wait and the worry by using AI to quickly identify those who are most likely to have the disease. By triaging these patients, the AI-guided workflow takes women with abnormal scans through the diagnostic process — from imaging to evaluation and sometimes even biopsy — in a single day.

2-Jun-2026

Study links cannabis and tobacco co-use to lower brain performance in at-risk adolescents

Elsevier
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research shows that among people at clinical high risk for psychosis, cannabis and tobacco co-use was associated with lower cognitive performance compared to healthy controls. The novel study appearing in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, published by Elsevier, fills a critical gap in research, providing clinicians and scientists with vital new insights into the risks associated with cannabis and tobacco co-use and the potential impact on vulnerable adolescents.

2-Jun-2026

T cells may be key to stopping measles virus—and its deadly relatives

La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have discovered how T cells target paramyxoviruses, a viral family that includes measles virus and Nipah virus.

Journal: Cell Reports Medicine
Funder: Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations

2-Jun-2026

Beyond GPX4 inhibition: Unraveling the lethal mechanism of class III ferroptosis inducers

Science Exploration Press

A new review article by Alby Joseph and Scott Dixon at Stanford University examines one of the most debated questions in ferroptosis research: how class III ferroptosis inducers trigger cell death and whether their lethal effects arise solely from GPX4 inhibition or involve broader mechanisms.

Meeting: Iron, Reactive Oxygen Species & Ferroptosis in Life, Death & Disease

2-Jun-2026

University of Cincinnati researcher secures $3.3M grant to study microplastics’ impact on heart

University of Cincinnati
Grant and Award Announcement

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has awarded a five-year, $3.3 million grant to a University of Cincinnati College of Medicine researcher to study the potential cardiovascular toxicity of microplastics and nanoplastics.