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8-Jul-2025

New research shows AI chatbots should not replace your therapist

University of Minnesota
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Should AI chatbots replace your therapist? New research says “no.”

Funder: Toyata Research Institute, Microsoft

8-Jul-2025

Time to see lived experience in healthcare as expertise

BMJ Group
Reports and Proceedings

It’s time to see lived experience - knowledge gained by being a patient, caregiver, or relative - as essential expertise, to ensure that healthcare is relevant, responsive, effective, resilient, equitable, and fully inclusive, say experts in a special collection of articles published by The BMJ today.

8-Jul-2025

Physical performance is associated with cognition and functional capacity in patients with MS

University of Eastern Finland
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Good physical performance is associated with better cognition in people with relapsing-remitting MS, according to a recent study by the University of Eastern Finland. Good functional capacity was also clearly related to cognition and physical performance. The study was published in the prestigious Journal of Central Nervous System Disease.

Journal: Journal of Central Nervous System Disease

8-Jul-2025

Intercellular crosstalk within human preimplantation lineages regulates trophectoderm specification

Science China Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a study published in Science Bulletin, researchers from Tongji University led by Professors Yixuan Wang and Shaorong Gao constructed a novel in vitro model simulating the human preimplantation epiblast (EPI), primitive endoderm (PrE), and trophectoderm (TE) lineages. Through single-cell transcriptomic analysis and intercellular communication inference using CellChat toolkit, the team delineated the cell-cell communication landscape among tri-lineages. Notably, they highlighted the critical role of secreted NRG signaling from EPI to TE, mediated by NRG1-ERBB3 axis, in regulating trophectoderm specification through the intracellular effector TFAP2C—a signaling axis validated in both trophectoderm induction system and human blastocyst development.

Journal: Science Bulletin

8-Jul-2025

Skin-to-skin contact with babies increased significantly after training

Uppsala University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Targeted training interventions for both health professionals and parents significantly increase the amount of skin-to-skin contact between newborns and their parents in the first 48 hours after birth. The proportion of babies who received nearly 24 hours of skin contact over the first 24 hours increased from 33 per cent to 58 per cent. This is shown in a new study from Uppsala University.

Journal: Acta Paediatrica

8-Jul-2025

KAIST presents a breakthrough in overcoming drug resistance in cancer – hope for treating intractable diseases like diabetes

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

One of the biggest obstacles in cancer treatment is drug resistance in cancer cells. Conventional efforts have focused on identifying new drug targets to eliminate these resistant cells, but such approaches can often lead to even stronger resistance. Now, researchers at KAIST have developed a computational framework to predict key metabolic genes that can re-sensitize resistant cancer cells to treatment. This technique holds promise not only for a variety of cancer therapies but also for treating metabolic diseases such as diabetes.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: Ministry of Science and ICT, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

8-Jul-2025

Redefining imaging genomics: AI-driven precision medicine enters the cross-modal era

Science China Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Recently, Hangzhou Institute of Medicine (HIM), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Guangzhou National Laboratory and other research institutes published a perspective entitled Redefining imaging genomics for the next decade on Science Bulletin, in which the article systematically summarizes the existing advancements in imaging genomics, and proposes a framework for imaging genomics that provide a new path for precision medicine.

Journal: Science Bulletin