Cilia discovered as link between autism and heart defects—offers hope for early autism diagnosis

For roughly 400 years, microscopes have allowed us to observe increasingly smaller details. Today's most advanced instruments can peer deep into living cells, helping researchers study diseases such as cancer and improve therapies. Several research groups at UZH are working toward this goal.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Dupixent (dupilumab) for the treatment of adult patients with bullous pemphigoid.

It's every top athlete's worst nightmare: an anterior cruciate ligament injury. TU/e researcher Janne Spierings developed a new protocol for cruciate ligament grafts that should reduce complications. On Monday June 23, she defended her dissertation at the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening women of reproductive age for intimate partner violence (IPV). These findings form the basis of a final recommendation statement published online June 24 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

A new University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center study has found that people who followed a dietary pattern known as the MIND diet were significantly less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease or related forms of dementia—even if they made brain-healthy food choices later in life.

Texas has become the first state to require warning labels on thousands of food and beverages containing 44 common dyes or additives.

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in Europe, but timely screening can be highly effective in preventing it. Colonoscopy is considered the gold standard for this purpose. It enables potentially dangerous colon polyps to be detected and removed at an early stage. However, accurately distinguishing between benign and potentially malignant polyps requires significant expertise.

A new PET/CT imaging technique that visualizes activated fibroblasts in the heart muscle enables early detection of multiple forms of cardiomyopathy, according to research presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2025 Annual Meeting. By targeting fibroblast activation—an early indicator of myocardial fibrosis—this method provides valuable insights into disease progression and helps improve risk stratification for patients with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy.

Vertical and horizontal relative peripheral refraction (RPR) are associated with faster axial length progression and higher risk of incident myopia, according to a study published online June 16 in the American Journal of Ophthalmology.

The official results of the BRACELET-01 (PrECOG 0113) trial have been published in Clinical Cancer Research, detailing the safety and efficacy of pelareorep, an investigational oncolytic virus immunotherapy, when added to paclitaxel chemotherapy, both with and without the checkpoint inhibitor avelumab.

Dozens of people in northeastern England have developed a rare and dangerous illness after receiving Botox injections, according to health officials in the U.K.

Investigators have unveiled for the first time that changes in certain genes affect an aggressive cancer, T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), differently depending on genetic ancestry.

New research has found that the endothelial cell-specific A disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain-containing protein 10 (ADAM10) regulates abnormal blood vessel growth in the damaged retina, which can cause vision loss or impairment.

Researchers at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center and the VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM) have discovered a new and potentially revolutionary way to treat glioblastoma (GBM), the most aggressive type of brain cancer, which currently has no curative treatment options.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cause of death from cancer in the US and the most prevalent malignant tumor worldwide. CRC refers to cancer in the colon or rectum, the two parts that make up the large intestine. In the US, deaths from CRC in people under 55 have been increasing since the mid-2000s, highlighting the need for effective treatments.

Burned-out primary care physicians are increasingly seeking safe haven in concierge care and other free-market models of practice. This has resulted in an exodus from traditional primary care practices and exacerbated an already acute shortage of primary care physicians. These alternative models also give patients more personalized care and attention. But for the rest of people who get their primary care from traditional practices, the already pressing shortage of primary care doctors often gets worse.

The Association for Molecular Pathology announced the publication of best practice recommendations for clinical laboratories developing and performing homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) testing. The manuscript, titled "Recommendations for Clinical Molecular Laboratories for Detection of Homologous Recombination Deficiency in Cancer: A Joint Consensus Recommendation of the Association of Molecular Pathology, Association of Cancer Care Centers and College of American Pathologists," was published in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.

Has your skin ever felt tight and dry after coming out of the ocean? You're not just imagining it. Scientists from Binghamton University, State University of New York have confirmed what beachgoers have felt for years—salt water dries out your skin—and why it happens.