A comprehensive new review article highlights the growing importance of the MYH9 gene as a central player in both cancer biology and inherited genetic conditions, offering fresh perspectives on its potential as a therapeutic target.

A comprehensive new review highlights the growing importance of FOXK2, a versatile transcription factor, in shaping cancer behavior and influencing clinical outcomes across a wide range of tumor types. The article brings together emerging knowledge to clarify how this gene functions in cancer and why it is attracting increasing attention as a potential diagnostic and prognostic marker.

ARDD 2026 has announced that Fiona Marshall, President of Biomedical Research at Novartis, will deliver a featured presentation, "Reimagining Drug Discovery Through the Lens of Aging Biology," at the 13th Aging Research & Drug Discovery (ARDD) Meeting, taking place October 1–3, 2026, at Harvard University's David Rubenstein Treehouse in Boston. As the world's leading conference dedicated to longevity biotechnology, ARDD 2026 will convene top researchers, pharmaceutical executives, entrepreneurs, and investors to accelerate the translation of aging science into next-generation medicines.

ARDD 2026 has announced that Fiona Marshall, President of Biomedical Research at Novartis, will deliver a featured presentation, "Reimagining Drug Discovery Through the Lens of Aging Biology," at the 13th Aging Research & Drug Discovery (ARDD) Meeting, taking place October 1–3, 2026, at the David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University. As the world's leading conference dedicated to longevity biotechnology, ARDD 2026 will convene top researchers, pharmaceutical executives, entrepreneurs, and investors to accelerate the translation of aging science into next-generation medicines.

Organized by Insilico Medicine and supported by industry leaders including Eli Lilly and the McKinsey Health Institute, the meeting reflects the growing momentum behind longevity as a major frontier in biomedical innovation. With speakers representing ten of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, ARDD 2026 aims to foster the collaborations needed to transform discoveries in aging biology into therapies that extend healthy lifespan and improve patient outcomes.

American black bears sleep twice as much during hibernation periods as during summer months, spending just 1/3 of this time awake, per machine-learning analysis of data from captive bears recorded over a period of 5 years

How and where did the first forms of life arise? These are the main questions driving research at the Institute of Molecular Evolution at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU). In a new publication in Science Advances, an international team led by Düsseldorf biologists uncovers pioneering insights into the network of chemical reactions that the very first cells used to make the building blocks of life and which sources of energy they used to drive those reactions. They retraced the origin of enzymes during life’s earliest divergence into bacteria and archaea, and found evidence for two independent origins of life for free-living cells.

Housed at the Natural History Museum Denmark, one of only two known complete dodo skulls has helped researchers uncover new clues about how the iconic extinct bird sensed and interacted with its environment.

Living amongst large predatory carnivores could actually make you safer. A study publishing in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on August 5 found that pumas—wild cats also known as mountain lions, cougars, or panthers—change deer behavior, leading to fewer collisions with cars on roadways. In areas where puma occupancy is high, the authors report a significant reduction in the total expected number of collisions over a 5-year period.