When a cheeseburger costs less than a punnet of strawberries, it’s clear the odds are stacked against healthy choices – especially for teenagers. Now, new research from the University of South Australia shows that it’s not just unhealthy eating habits affecting teens, but an alarming clustering of poor lifestyle choices that’s putting the majority of teenagers at serious risk of preventable diseases later in life.

In a paper published in MedComm – Future Medicine, a Chinese research team presents ImmunoCheckDB, a comprehensive web platform integrating meta-analysis and multiomic data to discover cancer immunotherapy biomarkers. The platform curates 173 studies on immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapies, covering survival outcomes for 93,234 individuals across 18 cancer types and 30 ICI regimens, enabling pan-cancer exploration of molecular markers for ICI efficacy.

A group of 15 leading scientists from academia and industry published a paper that provides practical guidance on postbiotic quantification that can be implemented worldwide. Rather than presenting a rigid set of rules, the publication provides a decision tree to assist in the selection of the most appropriate quantification techniques—depending on the type of microorganisms, cell integrity, and number of strains present—to ensure that postbiotic products are accurately characterized and can be reproducibly manufactured.