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New evidence offers hope for ketogenic therapy in treatment of anorexia nervosa

Stellate Communications
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A pilot study from the UC San Diego School of Medicine, published in Communications Medicine, suggests that ketogenic therapy is a safe and feasible treatment option for patients with weight-normalized or mildly underweight anorexia nervosa.

Journal: Communications Medicine
Funder: Baszucki Group

Mathematical modeling of the human psychedelic experience

Trace Research Institute
Business Announcement

A new collaboration, publication, and conversation illuminate how a new theory of reality based on consciousness will enable scientific study of the human psychedelic experience.

Newfound ‘switchboard’ helps the brain form new memories without forgetting older ones

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The brain may reuse some cells to store many different memories without mixing them up with or erasing older memories, a new study in mice suggests. Led by NYU Langone Health researchers, the study revealed that about one in four memory cells in a brain area called the hippocampus acts as a shared “hub” that links incoming and outgoing signals

Journal: Nature

SNMMI 2026 Annual Meeting highlights transformative advances in clinical practice and research

Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Business Announcement

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) welcomed nearly 8,000 attendees to its 2026 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles this week, with overall participation expected to reach well over 8,000 as virtual access continues through September. With a robust scientific program and strong exhibitor participation, the meeting highlighted the continued advancement of the field while reinforcing its theme, Science is the Star.

Meeting: Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2026 Annual Meeting

Expert consensus on classification and annotation methods, processes, and quality control for dry eye imaging in artificial intelligence applications

Intelligent Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New consensus standards aim to improve consistency, annotation quality, and multicenter collaboration in AI-assisted dry eye imaging diagnosis

Journal: Intelligent Medicine

Five UJI researchers rank among the 300 most prominent women scientists in Spain

Universitat Jaume I
Grant and Award Announcement

Five researchers from the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló in the fields of psychology and chemistry have ranked among the top 300 Spanish and international women scientists working in Spain, according to a ranking based on public Google Scholar profiles and equivalent OpenAlex indicators.

The ranking, compiled by Isidro F. Aguillo at the Cybermetrics Lab of the Institute of Public Goods and Policies of the Spanish National Research Council (IPP-CSIC), aims to increase the visibility of women researchers through open-access platforms such as Google Scholar, ORCID and OpenAlex, which provide broader coverage than other bibliometric sources, including subscription-based databases. It also seeks to promote open infrastructures through the wider use of personal ORCID identifiers and institutional ROR identifiers.

The 2026 edition of the ranking includes a total of 12,110 researchers ranked according to the global impact of their research, 122 of whom belong to the public university of Castelló. The full ranking can be consulted in the author’s publication.

Funder: Spanish National Research Council

Genetically modified hookworms produce and deliver therapeutics

Washington University in St. Louis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

WashU Medicine researchers genetically modified hookworms to produce and deliver a therapeutic antibody inside a host, a proof-of-concept that could lead to long-lasting treatments for chronic disease or exposure to toxins in remote settings.

Journal: Nature Communications

It may not just be what’s in ultra-processed foods, but how they’re made

Tufts University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers found that people who ate more ultra-processed foods had worse health outcomes, even after accounting for the overall nutritional quality of the foods, suggesting that the processing of foods itself may play an independent role in driving those risks.

Journal: American Journal of Public Health

Deep Visual Multi-Omics: AI-powered 3D mapping reveals intra-tumor heterogeneity of colorectal cancer

Science China Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study in Science Bulletin presents DVSTP, a deep learning system that integrates pathology images with spatial transcriptomics and proteomics to map intra-tumor heterogeneity. DVSTP predicts molecular profiles from routine pathology slides, making spatial multi-omics more accessible. Whole–tumor 3D reconstruction reveals that SRSF6 drives immune exclusion and is associated with poor clinical outcomes.

Journal: Science Bulletin

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