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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 29-Apr-2025 04:08 ET (29-Apr-2025 08:08 GMT/UTC)

UTEP launches artificial intelligence think tank to address regional challenges

University of Texas at El Paso
Business Announcement

The University of Texas at El Paso has launched the AI Institute for Community-Engaged Research, an interdisciplinary think tank designed to leverage artificial intelligence technologies to address pressing regional and national challenges.

Herpes zoster vaccination and dementia occurrence

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: By taking advantage of a quasi-experiment and corroborating findings from Wales in a different population, this study provides evidence of the potential benefits of herpes zoster vaccination for dementia that is more likely to be causal than that of more commonly conducted associational studies.

Journal: JAMA

Illinois Tech’s Armour Research Foundation reactor designated a nuclear historic landmark

Illinois Institute of Technology
Business Announcement

The Armour Research Foundation Reactor at Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) has been officially recognized as a Nuclear Historic Landmark by the American Nuclear Society (ANS). Nicknamed “the atomic furnace,” the world’s first privately owned and operated nuclear reactor marked a significant transition in the history of nuclear research—from its secretive wartime origins to a publicly celebrated pursuit of knowledge and progress.

Metabolic syndrome linked to increased risk of young-onset dementia

American Academy of Neurology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Having a larger waistline, high blood pressure and other risk factors that make up metabolic syndrome is associated with an increased risk of young-onset dementia, according to a study published on April 23, 2025, online in Neurology^®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Young-onset dementia is diagnosed before the age of 65. The study does not prove that metabolic syndrome causes young-onset dementia, it only shows an association.

Journal: Neurology

New precision mental health care approach for depression addresses unique patient needs

University of Arizona
Peer-Reviewed Publication

U of A psychologists teamed up with Radboud University in the Netherlands to develop a precision treatment approach for depression that gives patients individualized recommendations based on multiple characteristics, such as age and gender.

Journal: PLOS One

Infectious disease surveillance platform BEACON launches as a new open-source global resource

Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases
Business Announcement

The Biothreats Emergence, Analysis and Communications Network (BEACON), an open-source infectious diseases monitoring tool powered by AI and human experts, launches. BEACON is housed at Boston University’s Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases and operated in partnership with the Hariri Institute for Computing and Data Sciences at Boston University and HealthMap at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Maternal childhood trauma may lead to early metabolic changes in male children

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This is the finding of a study that followed 352 pairs of newborns and their mothers in the cities of Guarulhos and São Paulo (Brazil). Changes observed in the first two months of life may increase future risk of obesity and diabetes.

Journal: Scientific Reports
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

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