BUFFALO, NY — June 4, 2026 — A new case report was published in Volume 13 of Oncoscience on April 2, 2026, titled “Sebaceous adenoma of the eyelid: A clinical, histopathological, and immunohistochemical perspective.”

UC San Diego engineers have created a tiny optical device that pairs with AI to spot and correct distorted light from a single image, a breakthrough that could sharpen imaging in fields from biology to manufacturing.

Breast cancer can remain dormant in the bone marrow for decades before reactivating, resulting in cancer relapse. A study published in Bone Research unveils the critical role of Notch2 signaling pathway in promoting this dormant state. The study explains how dormant cancer cells mimic healthy stem cells and activate stress pathways to survive in the bone marrow—paving the way for innovative targeted therapies against dormant cancer cells.

CardioNVT is an end-to-end deep learning platform for rapid, immunostaining-free assessment of cardiomyocyte nuclear ploidy in situ. Using only DAPI-stained heart sections, it segments cardiomyocyte nuclei, tracks them across z-stack planes, reconstructs 3D nuclear volumes, and infers ploidy from volume measurements, enabling scalable studies of cardiac development, remodeling, and repair.

In a Nature Medicine paper, Pitt researchers report that a novel spinal cord stimulation approach can accelerate stroke recovery, improving arm strength and movement with minimal physical therapy.

Antipredator training can make animals born in captivity regain their fear of enemies, necessary to prepare them for release into the wild. But now, researchers in the US have found that an alternative method may be more efficient: training pregnant females instead, relying on maternal effects to transmit the learned fear to their offspring. They showed that daughters of the endangered Pacific pocket mouse showed more vigilance behaviors around live snakes if their mothers had undergone antipredator conditioning that taught them to associate these with an aversive but harmless stimulus. However, no such effect was found for male offspring. The mechanisms by which this maternal effect is passed on are still unclear, but could involve prenatal programming through stress hormones, or maternal postnatal care.

Minute warty birch caterpillars ardently defend their leaf tip homes from invading caterpillars, but how do they defend against lethal ladybeetle attacks? Jayne Yack reports in Journal of Experimental Biology that the tiny day-old caterpillars are able to distinguish between the footsteps of approaching adult ladybeetles and shuffling caterpillar attackers, allowing the defending caterpillar to evade deadly ladybeetle attacks by first falling silent and then by hurling themselves from the leaf on a silken safety thread.