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242 Mind & Body Books – Self-Help, Physical health, Natural Healing, Fitness

Long before modern wellness apps, podcasts and self-help bestsellers, people were writing about the same questions we still ask today:

Researchers at Penn State Design Child-Friendly Heart Monitor Resembling a Cartoon Fox

A paint-on ink from Penn State disguises medical sensors as body art, while solving a problem wearables have struggled with for years.

An interview with neuroscientist and Nobel laureate Thomas Südhof

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TRIM3 and the Ubiquitin Checkpoint: Reframing PD-L1 Stability in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

This study identifies TRIM3 as a critical E3 ubiquitin ligase that regulates PD-L1 protein stability in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), directly linking ubiquitin-mediated degradation to immune c…

Digital Cognitive Phenotyping for Differential Diagnosis and Monitoring in Neurological Conditions

A new study demonstrates that a brief, demographically-adjusted online cognitive battery can effectively differentiate between Alzheimer’s disease, idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH), an…

This week's five most influential scientific discoveries, selected for their novelty, rigor, and significance to human knowledge.

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Converging Evidence Reframes Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Risk Stratification

Three recent studies advance our understanding of cardiovascular risk in metabolic disease, each addressing distinct yet complementary mechanisms.

On the Referential Capacity of Language Models: An Internalist Rejoinder to Mandelkern & Linzen

The paper qualifies Mandelkern and Linzen’s claim that words generated by language models refer to entities in the world, arguing it holds only for a narrow class of expressions rather than as a gene…

Nurse-delivered intravenous opioids in UK emergency departments: implications for pain standards and practice

A cross-sectional survey using Freedom of Information requests found that nurse-led administration of intravenous opioids for severe pain varies substantially across UK emergency departments, with di…

SMPD4 deficiency disrupts indirect neurogenesis and neuronal migration in gyrencephalic cortex

This study demonstrates that loss of SMPD4 in the developing gyrencephalic ferret cortex recapitulates key human neurodevelopmental phenotypes, including microcephaly and disrupted cortical laminatio…