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28-May-2025

Trees vs. disease: Tree cover reduces mosquito-borne health risk

Stanford University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Stanford-led study finds small-scale tree cover in Costa Rica boosts biodiversity while limiting dangerous mosquito species

Journal: Landscape Ecology
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Science Foundation, NIH/Fogarty International Center, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford King Center on Global Development, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Ward Wilson Woods Jr. Environmental Studies Fund, American Philosophical Society, Bing-Mooney Fellowship, ARCS Fellowship

28-May-2025

Diagnosing Parkinson’s using a blood-based genetic signature

University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a world first, CRCHUM researcher Martine Tétreault and her team identify a set of biomarkers that could someday make it easy to spot the disease in a patient’s blood sample.

Journal: Brain
Funder: Courtois Foundation, Weston Family Foundation

28-May-2025

Clinical trial and multi-omics analysis demonstrates the impact of therapeutic plasma exchange on biological age

Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A first-of-its-kind clinical trial clinical trial shows that therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) combined with intravenous immunoglobin reduced biological age on average by 2.6 years, as measured by multi-omic biomarkers. Results of the single-blind, placebo-controlled trial are published in the May 28, 2025, issue of Aging Cell, providing early data on the impact of TPE on biological age, supporting its potential for new disease and longevity applications. The research was led by scientists at Circulate Health, a company dedicated to harnessing the potential of TPE to advance human healthspan and lifespan, and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.

Journal: Aging Cell

28-May-2025

Own sense of athleticism linked to personality, family, prior experience, and feedback

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new study of college undergraduates in Japan, the students’ self-perception of their own athletic ability was linked with several internal and external factors, such as personality traits, family characteristics, leisure activities, and others’ perceptions. Sho Ito of Nanzan University, Japan, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS One on May 28, 2025.

Journal: PLOS One

28-May-2025

New method provides the key to accessing proteins in ancient human remains

University of Oxford
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new method developed by researchers at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, could soon unlock the vast repository of biological information held in the proteins of ancient soft tissues. The findings, which could open up a new era for palaeobiological discovery, have been published today (28 May) in PLOS ONE.

Journal: PLOS One

28-May-2025

How do we transform global health?

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In order to truly decolonize the field of global health, it may be necessary for institutions from the Global North to practice “ruinous solidarity,” according to a study published May 21, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS Global Public Health by Daniel Krugman from Brown University, United States, and Alice Bayingana from the University of Sydney, Australia.

Journal: PLOS Global Public Health

28-May-2025

Refugees in Sweden who lived in institutional housing during the asylum process are prescribed more anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medication and visit hospital more than those who lived in self-organized housing

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Refugees in Sweden who lived in institutional housing during the asylum process are prescribed more anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medication and visit hospital more than those who lived in self-organized housing, with the associations persisting for years.

Journal: PLOS Global Public Health