Nationwide implementation of multimodal prehabilitation and complications after colorectal cancer surgery
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A new AI tool called Empirical Research Assistance (ERA) can automatically write high-performance scientific software and could significantly accelerate scientific discovery across many domains.
The Universitat Jaume I of Castelló has secured nearly one million euros for five projects under the competitive call for grants aimed at strengthening research careers, within the Human Resources programme of the 2024–2027 State Plan for Scientific, Technical and Innovation Research. This achievement places the UJI fourth nationally and first in the Valencian Community in terms of funding obtained in this call, behind only the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the University of Barcelona and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and ahead of larger universities.
The 2025 call awarded a total of 130 grants worth almost 25 million euros. Its aim is to support the consolidation of the professional careers of national and international researchers within the Spanish System for Science, Technology and Innovation (SECTI), through the creation of permanent positions and by facilitating the launch or strengthening of research lines via funding for R&D&I projects and the improvement of laboratories, facilities and scientific equipment.
Promoters are key DNA regions that control gene transcription, but their activity varies greatly across different cell types. This heterogeneity makes it difficult for existing computational methods to identify promoters reliably. A team led by Professors Zhangyu Mei and Hao Wu from Shandong University, China, has developed MuSE‑Promoter, a deep ensemble learning framework that combines multi‑scale feature fusion, transformer attention, and a learnable weighted ensemble of neural network and random forest. The system outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods on human cell lines from different tissues and on Arabidopsis thaliana datasets, and shows excellent generalization in cross‑cell‑line and promoter–enhancer discrimination tasks.
A new University of Waterloo study suggests that dietary vitamin C may help reduce cancer risk linked to nitrates and nitrites commonly found in foods such as cured meats and some vegetables. Using mathematical modelling, researchers examined how these compounds behave during digestion and found that vitamin C can inhibit “nitrosation,” a chemical process in the stomach that produces substances suspected of increasing cancer risk. The model showed that foods naturally containing both nitrates and vitamin C, such as leafy greens, may be less harmful than previously thought, and that vitamin C supplements taken with meals could moderately reduce the formation of cancer‑associated compounds.
Harvard’s Visual Computing Group developed BRIDGE, a simulation system that converts standard standing-basketball footage into realistic wheelchair-basketball videos.
The new “MIGHTY” system rapidly generates travel routes for autonomous robots navigating in uncertain situations, allowing them to react to obstacles in milliseconds while staying on a smooth flight path that minimizes travel time.