MDPI, the Open Access publisher, today announced it has successfully acquired and relaunched the Journal of Interdisciplinary Research Applied to Medicine (JDReAM). Dormant since 2021, MDPI published its first issue of JDReAM in March, with Volume 6, Issue 3 anticipated this month. The new collaboration between JDReAM and MDPI reflects ongoing demand for quality OA publishing services in Italy, bolstered by active support from the region’s academic community. In 2025, more than 68% of research outputs in Italy were published in OA, accounting for more than 124,300 papers.

A research team comprising Associate Professor FUNAKOSHI Yohei, Associate Professor YAKUSHIJIN Kimikazu, Professor MINAMI Hironobu, and Associate Professor OHJI Goh of Kobe University, together with graduate student MASUDA Genki, then-graduate student IIZUMI Shunsuke, Associate Professor OHUE Masahito, and colleagues at the Institute of Science Tokyo, has developed a new analysis method, LM-QASAS. This method combines antibody language models with B-cell receptor (BCR) repertoires(*1) collected before and after vaccination to identify and track candidate BCR sequences that are likely to have responded to an immune stimulus, without using a database of known antigen-specific antibodies. LM-QASAS extends QASAS(*2; Quantification of Antigen-Specific Antibody Sequence), a method for quantitatively evaluating immune responses to a specific antigen through antigen-receptor repertoire analysis

A team led by the University of Osaka researchers discovered that cells producing IgG1 antibodies multiply more, are less prone to cell death in the spleen, and migrate more efficiently to the bone marrow, where long-lived antibody-producing cells can become established. Understanding how these cells gain these advantages could help researchers design vaccines that provide longer-lasting protection against infection.

Researchers in Denmark have found that girls whose mothers took paracetamol during pregnancy had smaller ovaries, fewer ovarian follicles (the structures that contain immature eggs), smaller uteruses and lower levels of reproductive hormones at three months old. In a study published on Wednesday in Human Reproduction Open, the researchers said their results were consistent with findings from several previous studies in animals. However, they noted that, as this was an observational study, the findings do not establish a direct cause-and-effect relationship.