Injectable hydrogel made from silk and kudzu plant compound achieves complete wound closure in laboratory tests
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Strange “chimeric” RNA once thought to be the product of cancer is actually an important controller of women’s health, including influencing their susceptibility to infectious disease and autoimmune disorders, new research suggests.
The United States still leads China in the quality and commercial reach of its biomedical science but is losing the race to translate scientific discoveries into cures. New analyses from the Cure Innovation Index, released today ahead of Cure's session on U.S.-China biomedical competitiveness at the BIO International Convention in San Diego, find that without immediate renewed investment and policy changes, the U.S. scientific edge will not hold. “America’s challenge is no longer discovery alone. The emerging battleground is translation, the speed and efficiency with which scientific breakthroughs move from the laboratory into development, commercialization, and patient impact," said Seema Kumar, CEO of Cure, the premier healthcare innovation ecosystem headquartered in New York City. If the United States wants to stay ahead, the answer isn't to out-publish China. It's to fix the translational bottlenecks with renewed funding, especially for early translational work, modernized clinical trial infrastructure, and stronger bridges between academic research and industry.
Insilico Medicine ("Insilico", 3696.HK), a clinical-stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, and SK Biopharmaceuticals, a Korean-based company leads the way in biotech innovation with groundbreaking drug research, development, and commercialization worldwide, announced a research and development collaboration at the BIO 2026 International Convention to discover AI-enabled innovative drug candidates in the neuroimmune area of the central nervous system (CNS).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — SfN member Amy Arnsten, PhD, Albert E. Kent professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at Yale University School of Medicine, is the recipient of the Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize 2026. Arnsten is recognized for her foundational work in understanding the distinctive molecular, cellular, and circuit mechanisms that underlie executive brain functions. Her work has transformed understanding of how recently evolved prefrontal cortical circuits support working memory, abstract thought, and goal-directed behavior, and how these circuits are dynamically regulated by neuromodulatory systems and vulnerable to disruption by stress, aging, and disease.