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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 17-May-2026 19:15 ET (17-May-2026 23:15 GMT/UTC)

City of Hope researchers to share new immunotherapy and precision medicine insights across cancer types at ASCO 2026

City of Hope
Reports and Proceedings

Researchers from City of Hope^®, one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, will present 49 abstracts at the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, including new findings on immunotherapy, precision medicine and emerging treatment strategies across blood cancers and solid tumors.

Meeting: ASCO Annual Meeting 2026

Generative artificial intelligence can significantly reduce the number of animal experiments

Goethe University Frankfurt
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Goethe University and Philipps University Marburg, in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, have developed a new artificial intelligence to reduce animal experiments. The AI, called genESOM, was trained to “learn” the structure of small datasets. It uses this learned information to generate new data points. These data points reproduce the properties of experimentally collected data as accurately as if they had been obtained in laboratory experiments. In the future, genESOM could reduce the number of laboratory animals needed for testing new active substances by between 30 and 50 percent.

Journal: Pharmacological Research

From ocean to gut: The bacteria that shape both human health and marine carbon cycling

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology discover that a group of beneficial gut bacteria and their marine relatives use the same feeding strategies. This sheds new light on the potential of these bacteria for gut health research, as well as their role in marine carbon cycling.

Journal: The ISME Journal

New research identifies how obesity alters brain lipids to accelerate Alzheimer’s progression

Houston Methodist
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study moves beyond the traditional view of obesity as a general health risk and investigates how obesity-related changes in body fat can send harmful signals to the brain, disrupting brain immune function, thereby worsening Alzheimer’s pathology.

Journal: Molecular Neurodegeneration

Korea University's College of Medicine and Armed Forces Capital Hospital signed an MOU for the development of public medical care and enhancement of medical training

Korea University College of Medicine
Business Announcement

At 11 AM on April 2, Korea University's College of Medicine (Dean Pyun Sung-bom) and Armed Forces Capital Hospital (Director Seok Woong) signed an MOU in the Korea University College of Medicine Main Building Conference Room for the development of public health and medical care, as well as the enhancement of medical training.

New clues to disease severity identified in alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency

WashU Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a previously unknown biological process that helps explain why only a subset of patients with alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency develop liver disease.

Journal: Nature Communications

Bitter tasting herbal extracts stimulate gastric cells

Leibniz-Institut für Lebensmittel-Systembiologie an der TU München
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Bitter-tasting herbal extracts have traditionally been used to support digestion, yet the molecular basis of their effects has remained largely unclear. The Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich has now gained new insights into this mechanism. Using a cellular model, its researchers demonstrated that herbal extracts can stimulate proton secretion in human gastric cells as key mechanism of gastric acid production, with combinations of extracts showing particularly strong effects. Extracts rich in polyphenols proved especially potent. The study further identified three human bitter taste receptor subtypes as key mediators of this response.

Journal: Molecular Nutrition & Food Research
Funder: Weleda AG

Heart failure care enters the precision era: New drugs, biomarkers, and AI are redefining “one-size-fits-all” treatment

Bentham Science Publishers
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new review in Current Cardiology Reviews maps how heart failure management is shifting toward precision medicine—pairing proven therapies (notably SGLT2 inhibitors across the ejection fraction spectrum) with biomarker panels, advanced imaging, genetics, and AI-enabled monitoring. The article highlights major breakthroughs (including disease-specific treatments such as transthyretin amyloidosis therapies), ongoing gaps in access and trial representation, and practical priorities to bring personalized, equitable heart failure care into routine practice.

Journal: Current Cardiology Reviews

A simple 30-second sit-to-stand test that can predict how well you age

Journal of Sport and Health Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Population aging challenges not only longevity but also maintenance of independence. Muscle power declines earlier and faster than strength and is crucial for daily movements. It can be easily assessed using the 30-second sit-to-stand test and a simple equation. In 1876, older adults, low muscle power was linked to a higher likelihood of previous falls and fractures, and higher risk of hospitalization and mortality. This simple test provides a powerful, accessible biomarker of healthy aging.

Journal: Journal of Sport and Health Science

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