Monitoring urban plant health traditionally requires extensive manual labor and botanical expertise, creating challenges for cities facing expanding green spaces, higher population densities, and increasing threats to plants. Now, researchers from Japan have developed ‘Plant Doctor,’ an artificial intelligence-based tool that could revolutionize plant health monitoring. The proposed system can track individual leaves in urban video footage and precisely quantify the damage from pests and diseases, enabling scalable, non-invasive urban plant management.

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) invites the public to a free webinar, “Developing a Potential New Treatment for Chronic PTSD: Ketamine Combined with Written Exposure Therapy” on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at 2:00 pm ET. Adriana Feder, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will be the guest speaker, and the session will be hosted by Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D., President & CEO of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation and host of the Emmy® nominated television series Healthy Minds. Register Now to hear Dr. Feder’s latest research advancements on PTSD treatments.

Danish researchers, in collaboration with the Danish Football Association, have released a White Paper that describes football as an effective recipe in the prevention and treatment of lifestyle-related diseases.

CNIO researchers discover that, in mice that eat a lot of fat, cancer cells travelling through the blood surround themselves with platelets, which act as an armor-like protection as they spread.

In addition, in animals with a fatty diet it is easier for tumor cells to 'nest' in other organs and give rise to metastasis of the primary tumor.

 “These results anticipate a future in which dietary changes, together with the control of platelet activity, will complement antitumor treatments,” says Héctor Peinado, of the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO).

The study is published in 'Nature Communications’.