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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 15-Nov-2025 21:11 ET (16-Nov-2025 02:11 GMT/UTC)

Improving the well-being of health care workers

University of Georgia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The stress health care workers such as certified nursing assistants face can be overwhelming. New research from the University of Georgia suggests that helping CNAs with career advancement opportunities could stop them from quitting.

Journal: Gerontology & Geriatrics Education

PFAS-eating bacteria discovered in Veneto soil

Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Meeting Announcement

A study from Catholic University, Piacenza, on the forever chemicals that threaten the human and planet health

Insilico Medicine completes oversubscribed Series E, bringing total funding around $123 million

InSilico Medicine
Business Announcement

Cambridge, MA, June 16 — Insilico Medicine(“Insilico”), a clinical-stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, today announced the close of its Series E financing round at a total of around $123 million, surpassing its initial target amid strong investor interest. The oversubscribed series E round further recognizes Insilico’s unique dual-engine business model, which combines a generative AI platform with deep in-house drug discovery capabilities to continuously enhance reinforcement learning, strengthen Pharma.AI, and drive scientific innovation.

In stereo: neurons shift gears between thoughts using brain rhythms

Florida Atlantic University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

How individual neurons respond to brain rhythms is crucial to uncovering how the brain supports real-time navigation. New research shows that hippocampal neurons can process information from multiple brain rhythms simultaneously, revealing how the brain organizes thoughts, memory and behavior. This discovery offers a new understanding of how the brain organizes thoughts for navigation, memories and behaviors and may have important significance for neurological conditions implicated to spatial memory and learning like epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia.

Journal: PLOS Computational Biology

‘Trace’ memorial art installation honors essential workers lost to COVID-19

CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
Business Announcement

On May 28, CUNY SPH unveiled “Trace,” an interactive art installation memorializing essential workers who lost their lives to COVID-19 in the early months of the pandemic.

New continuing education tool from NCCN enables care providers to earn credits while supporting cancer patients

National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Business Announcement

The NCCN Guidelines in Practice™ helps busy health care professionals earn credits toward maintaining licensure and board certification while applying immediate, evidence-based updates to their practice.

Researchers identify a protein that may help improve the treatment of obesity and cardiovascular disease

University of Barcelona
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases are increasingly present in the population. Brown adipose tissue has a protective function against these prevalent diseases, as it burns calories and can produce body heat from fat. But as the body ages, the activity of brown adipose tissue decreases. This inactivation of brown adipose tissue — also typical of obese people — remains poorly studied in the scientific literature.

Journal: Molecular Metabolism