A new PET imaging technique can accurately detect and monitor Mycobacteroides abscessus lung infections—one of the most difficult-to-diagnose conditions in patients with lung diseases. This innovation, presented at the 2025 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting, offers a promising new diagnostic tool that could significantly improve diagnosis and treatment decisions for patients with chronic lung infections.

University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers are harnessing artificial intelligence and wearable tech to forecast labor, detect stress and transform how we monitor our health – before symptoms appear.

Neuroblastoma is a cancer that shows a strange behavior: sometimes it regresses spontaneously, whereas other times it becomes malignant. A team from Nagoya University in Japan identified a previously unknown “uncommitted" neuroblastoma cell state and found that mice presumed to have undergone spontaneous regression exhibited a higher frequency of these uncommitted cells. Gene signatures of the uncommitted cell state were strongly associated with favorable prognosis in human neuroblastoma patients suggesting that understanding these cells could help treat this devastating disease.

Health research inspired by the remarkable regeneration of animals like axolotls or starfish asks how future therapeutics could promote the regrowth of hard-to-heal tissues, limbs, or even entire organs. A new study in Science Advances is a step toward clarifying a less visible, yet vital, corollary—how regeneration comes to a successful close when a tissue has healed.