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Medicine & Health

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 23-Dec-2025 19:11 ET (24-Dec-2025 00:11 GMT/UTC)

21-Dec-2025

Macrophage-driven U2AF1 promotes heart repair after heart attack via Yap1 splicing

Higher Education Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study in Engineering reveals how macrophage-released U2AF1 aids heart repair after heart attack by steering Yap1 splicing toward the pro-angiogenic Yap1-2γ isoform, offering a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for improving cardiac recovery.

Journal: Engineering

19-Dec-2025

Third symposium spotlights global challenge of new contaminants in China’s fight against pollution

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Third Symposium on New Contaminant Control held in Shanghai on September 13–14 2025 highlighted how newly recognized pollutants are reshaping China’s environmental agenda. These substances including persistent organic pollutants endocrine disruptors antibiotics and microplastics are often invisible yet can linger in the environment accumulate in living organisms and pose long term risks to ecosystems and human health.

19-Dec-2025

Global review warns of hidden health and ecological risks from widely used strobilurin fungicides

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University

Strobilurin farm fungicides are showing up from wheat fields to pregnant womens urine, and a new scientific review warns that these “modern” crop protectants may carry hidden risks for ecosystems and human health.

19-Dec-2025

UT Health San Antonio awarded $3 million in CPRIT grants to bolster cancer research and prevention efforts in South Texas

The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center
Grant and Award Announcement

UT Health San Antonio, the academic health center of The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio), received nearly $3 million in new academic and prevention awards as part of the latest funding round announced by the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT).

19-Dec-2025

Insilico Medicine’s Pharma.AI Q4 Winter Launch Recap: Revolutionizing drug discovery with cutting-edge AI innovations, accelerating the path to pharmaceutical superintelligence

InSilico Medicine
Meeting Announcement

Pharma.AI Q4 Winter Launch Recap: Revolutionizing drug discovery with cutting-edge AI innovations, Accelerating the Path to Pharmaceutical Superintelligence

19-Dec-2025

Manhattan E. Charurat, Ph.D., MHS invested as the Homer and Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor in Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine

University of Maryland School of Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) proudly announces the investiture of Manhattan E. Charurat, PhD, MHS as the Homer and Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor in Medicine, one of the institution’s most prestigious academic honors.

19-Dec-2025

Myeloma: How AI is redrawing the map of cancer care

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

C. Ola Landgren, M.D., Ph.D., received HealthTree Foundation’s prestigious 2025 Innovation Award for his work in developing CORAL, a new research tool that leverages AI to predict individual outcomes and guide treatment decisions in patients with multiple myeloma.