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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 14-Nov-2025 16:11 ET (14-Nov-2025 21:11 GMT/UTC)

AI identifies key gene sets that cause complex diseases

Northwestern University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Complex illnesses are not caused by one gene but groups of genes. The number of gene combinations is too enormous to analyze comprehensively. New AI model focuses on gene expression changes to identify key genes and their collective influence on disease.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, Simons Foundation, NIH/National Cancer Institute

Igho Ofotokun, MD, MSc, FIDSA, joins University Hospitals as Chair of the Department of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Business Announcement

Igho Ofotokun, MD, MSc, FIDSA, will join University Hospitals as Chair of the Department of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief. Dr. Ofotokun will begin his role on Oct. 1, 2025. He will be nominated to serve as the STERIS Chair of Excellence in Medicine at UH.

Medical AI systems failing to disclose inaccurate race, ethnicity information

University of Minnesota
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new publication in PLOS Digital Health, experts in bioethics and law call for immediate standardization of methods for collection of race and ethnicity data, and for developers to warranty race and ethnicity data quality in medical AI systems. The research synthesizes concerns about why patient race data in EHRs may not be accurate, identifies best practices for healthcare systems and medical AI researchers to improve data accuracy, and provides a new template for medical AI developers to transparently warrant the quality of their race and ethnicity data

Journal: PLOS Digital Health
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health Bridge2AI Program

Investigating how stress may cause sleep and memory deficits

Society for Neuroscience
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Stress may target a specific neural pathway in mice to worsen sleep quality and impair memory.

Journal: JNeurosci
Funder: NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, Whitehall Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Effects of psilocybin on religious and spiritual attitudes and behaviors in clergy from major world religions

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study in the peer-reviewed journal Psychedelic Medicine showed that psilocybin administration in a sample of clergy from major world religions increased multiple domains of overall psychological well-being, including positive changes in religious attitudes and behavior as well as effectiveness in their vocation as a religious leader.

Journal: Psychedelic Medicine

Healthy sleep patterns in adolescence predict better cardiovascular health in the future

American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Reports and Proceedings

A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2025 annual meeting found that teens with earlier, more efficient, and less variable sleep patterns at age 15 had better cardiovascular health at age 22.

Journal: SLEEP
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health
Meeting: SLEEP 2025

IU School of Medicine research helps lead to FDA clearance of first blood test for Alzheimer’s disease

Indiana University
Business Announcement

A first-of-its-kind blood test to detect amyloid plaques in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease recently received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.