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Goda Lab reaches final phase of XPRIZE healthspan competition as milestone 2 awardee with breakthrough super exosomes

Tohoku University
Grant and Award Announcement

A research team led by Professor Keisuke Goda of the SiRIUS Institute of Medical Research and Graduate School of Medicine at Tohoku University, together with the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tokyo, has been named a Milestone 2 Awardee of the XPRIZE Healthspan competition - one of the world’s largest health research competitions. Chosen from among more than 600 teams worldwide, the team received the competition’s Milestone 2 award, US$1 million award, in recognition of its groundbreaking research and to be used toward further testing and research.

Opposition to local data centers rises sharply, Annenberg survey finds

Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Reports and Proceedings

A nationally representative survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that Americans’ opposition to data centers in their communities has risen sharply since the spring.

AI models make choices in part based on the order in which options are presented

PNAS Nexus
Peer-Reviewed Publication

While LLMs share many human biases, the models also have a few biases of their own. Haonan Yin, Shai Vardi, and Vidyanand Choudhary investigated LLM preference toward certain items depending on the order in which they are presented.

Journal: PNAS Nexus

When tree shade points the way

Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology
Business Announcement

In some city districts, more than a third of pedestrian streets sit under tree cover. In others, the figure is barely ten percent. To make such gaps visible and give cities a more differentiated view, HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology) has added a new indicator to its existing Climate Action Navigator. Local governments and civil society organizations receive a free, street-level overview of where shade is present and where it is missing, so they can take targeted action such as planting trees or directing tourists toward shaded routes to attractions.

Funder: Klaus Tschira Stiftung

Can mini organs help predict breast tumors’ response to therapy

University of California San Francisco Medical Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a study in Cell Reports Medicine, UCSF researchers found that organoids were able to mimic a tumor’s response to treatment. They demonstrated that organoid responses to a combination of therapies matched response predictions from biomarker and clinical trial data, and subtype drug screening identified candidate therapies to optimize treatment for individual patients.

Funder: DF/HCC Breast SPORE

Accelerating discovery of ceramic materials using cellulose nanofiber dispersions

Institute of Science Tokyo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A high-throughput ceramic processing method developed at Institute of Science Tokyo uses cellulose nanofiber dispersions for rapid preparation of ceramic samples. The simple, low-cost approach allows researchers to explore materials of varying compositions while eliminating several time-consuming steps. Using this method, the team successfully identified a dielectric ceramic with excellent temperature stability, demonstrating its potential in the discovery of advanced functional materials.

Journal: Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Chinese Medical Journal review highlights the role of artificial intelligence in inflammatory bowel disease management

Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co., Ltd.
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a promising domain for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) care across multiple clinical settings. In a review study, researchers highlight how AI may support disease monitoring, dysplasia detection, outcome prediction, treatment selection, and precision medicine, while emphasizing that clinical translation still requires multicenter validation, transparent models, ethical safeguards, and integration with clinician oversight before routine practice is widely adopted.

Journal: Chinese Medical Journal

Chinese Neurosurgical Journal reveals LVIS stent changes aneurysm blood flow

Chinese Neurosurgical Journal
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A retrospective study of 61 patients with wide-necked intracranial aneurysms found that LVIS stent-assisted coiling achieved complete initial occlusion in 80.0% of ruptured and 84.6% of unruptured aneurysms. In 14 patients analyzed with computational fluid dynamics, treatment substantially reduced aneurysm inflow and wall shear stress, with changes sustained at 6 months. Findings suggest potential hemodynamic benefits while highlighting thrombotic risks and the need for larger, prospective, comparative studies to confirm efficacy.

Journal: Chinese Neurosurgical Journal

Busseiron: Understanding the origin and evolution of a distinct branch of physics in Japan

Institute of Science Tokyo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new etymological study shows that the terms for scientific disciplines can take shape through naming and classification as much as through theories and institutional usage, as reported by a researcher from Japan. Focusing on Busseiron, a Japanese term for the study of matter, the study traced its use across textbooks, journals, and scientific meetings. Analysis revealed how the term gradually brought together diverse matter-related research and became a durable branch of physics in Japan.

Journal: Isis
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, American Institute of Physics