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Catheter ablation and oral anticoagulation for secondary stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: In patients with atrial fibrillation and a recent stroke history, standard therapy plus catheter ablation did not significantly reduce the risk of the primary composite end point. The observed event rate was lower than anticipated, suggesting that the study was underpowered to detect clinically meaningful differences.

Journal: JAMA Neurology

Pilot clinical trial suggests low dose lithium may slow verbal memory decline

University of Pittsburgh
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An exploratory clinical trial from the University of Pittsburgh suggests that low‑dose oral lithium may help slow the decline of verbal memory, or ability to remember and recall words and sentences, in older adults with mild cognitive impairment, particularly among those with evidence of amyloid beta—one of the hallmark biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease.

Journal: JAMA Neurology

GLP‑1 drugs combined with healthy lifestyle habits linked with reduced cardiovascular risk among diabetes patients

Veterans Affairs Research Communications
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new analysis using data from the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Million Veteran Program (MVP) found individuals living with type 2 diabetes had a substantially lower risk of major adverse cardiovascular events when they used a GLP‑1 receptor agonist in combination with several healthy lifestyle habits. The study represents the first large‑scale effort to evaluate how medication and lifestyle factors jointly influence heart health in this population.

Journal: The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
Funder: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

There is more than one way for triple-negative breast cancer to become resistant to therapy

Baylor College of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About 50% of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients develop resistance to therapy. When resistance arises, tumors are more likely to come back after the original treatment, significantly reducing the chances of survival. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered that there is more than one way TNBC can become immune to therapy.

The findings have implications for treatment. Knowing ahead of time which resistance mechanism a patient’s tumor is likely to implement can guide treatment decisions to prevent or reduce resistance.

Journal: Journal of Clinical Investigation

Bioprinting muscle that knows how to align its cells just as in the human body

International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Building functional human muscle in the laboratory has long been a goal of regenerative medicine, but one stubborn obstacle remains: real muscle is not just a mass of cells. Its strength and function depend on exquisitely ordered myofibers, all aligned in precise directions that vary from one muscle to another. Reproducing that internal order has proved far harder than shaping muscle tissue into the right external form.

In the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, a research team from Xi'an Jiaotong University has now found a way to solve both problems at once. By using electric forces during the electrohydrodynamic bioprinting process, they have created living muscle tissues whose cells naturally line up just as they do in the human body, showing how electric forces can be used not just to precisely bioprint tissue, but to quietly instruct cells how to organize themselves.

Journal: International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing

Some pesticides can slip under natural protection into streams, researchers find

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Pesticides can harm aquatic ecosystems and human health, so scientists need to understand how they move from farm fields into streams. A management tool commonly implemented is riparian buffers — strips of vegetation, like shrubs or grasses, bordering streams — that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) advises can reduce the amount of nutrients, sediment and pesticides getting into waterways. But it’s unclear how effective buffers actually are at stopping pesticides from entering streams, according to a multidisciplinary team led by Penn State researchers. To find out, the researchers conducted a study on a small agricultural stream, finding that adding buffers likely reduces the amount of specific pesticides from reaching the stream, but not others.

Journal: Journal of Environmental Quality
Funder: U.S. Department of Agriculture

Insilico pilots the automated AI-driven partnering system for biotechnology assets and AI platforms

InSilico Medicine
Business Announcement

Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage biotechnology company driven by generative artificial intelligence (AI), today announced the pilot launch of its Automated AI-Driven Partnering System. This first of its kind business development automation platform is designed to help biotechnology companies partner more efficiently, allowing them to increase engagement, manage due diligence and operate their pipelines on a greater scale. The new system expands Insilico’s applied AI capabilities and introduces an infrastructure that can utilize partnering decks and publications, respond to scientific or diligence questions, support data room management, and streamline standard business development activities end to end.

Mount Sinai, Uniformed Services University join forces to predict and prevent diseases before they start

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Business Announcement

What if doctors could tell you a disease was coming years before you felt a single symptom—and stop it in its tracks? That is the goal of a sweeping new research initiative launched by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in collaboration with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF).

How military deployment affects children: New study identifies parental burnout as critical

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As the recent war with Iran erupts into one of the most consequential military conflicts in the Middle East military families are facing unprecedented stress and uncertainty. A new longitudinal study, initiated in the aftermath of the outbreak of the war that began on October 7, 2023, tracked parents during the first seven months of the conflict and found that children’s behavior problems are significantly linked to parental burnout experienced by the at-home caregiver, regardless of whether a partner is deployed or still at home. While mothers with deployed partners initially reported higher exhaustion, their burnout levels stabilized over time, likely due to targeted support systems, whereas mothers whose partners remained at home experienced a rise in burnout as the conflict persisted. The findings suggest that protecting children’s resilience during a large-scale conflict like the war with Iran requires bolstering the emotional resources and external support available to primary caregivers, so they can avoid the depletion that negatively impacts family well-being.

Journal: Psychiatry Research