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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 2-Sep-2025 02:11 ET (2-Sep-2025 06:11 GMT/UTC)

Japanese researchers argue ChatGPT is ready to teach medical ethics

Hiroshima University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The current capabilities of large language models already qualify them to advise students on medical ethics

Journal: BMC Medical Education
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education

New science-backed tool helps select safer, more sustainable foodware and food packaging

Food Packaging Forum Foundation
Reports and Proceedings

The free Understanding Packaging (UP) Scorecard tool allows anyone to compare the environmental and human health impacts of their foodware and food packaging choices

Soldiers can cope with killing

Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have investigated the mental health of all of Norway’s Lebanon and Afghanistan veterans. One factor determines whether they struggle after having killed another person.

Journal: Armed Forces & Society

‘It's a shot, not a vaccine like MMR’: New skepticism prompts call for action

Lancaster University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new type of ‘vaccine scepticism’ has been uncovered by researchers at Lancaster University, who examined a nine-million-word corpus of tweets looking at vaccine comparisons and evaluations.

Journal: Vaccine

New study reveals significant cost disparities and information gaps in UK fertility treatments

Queen Mary University of London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from Queen Mary University of London has unveiled significant cost disparities and information challenges faced by fertility patients in the UK. The research, led by Prof Manuela Perrotta, explores the financial burden of fertility treatment add-ons and highlights growing concerns over the reliability of information provided by clinics.

Journal: Human Fertility

Cell connects: breaking barriers in stem cell communication through mRNA transfer

Institute of Science Tokyo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Messenger RNA can travel between different types of stem cells through tunnel-like structures, as revealed by a new study. By studying interactions between mouse and human stem cells, they discovered that this RNA transfer can reprogram human cells to an earlier developmental state. This groundbreaking finding not only sheds light on an underexplored form of cellular communication but also suggests promising applications in regenerative medicine without using artificial genetic modifications or external chemicals.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Adulting is hard on the heart: Teen to young adulthood is a critical time to address risk

American Heart Association
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Many youth have heart disease risk factors by their late teens, and preventing or addressing these risks early may reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular disease in the future, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement

Journal: Journal of the American Heart Association