The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) today announced that the ISSCR 2027 Annual Meeting is coming back to San Francisco, USA, 15-18 June 2027. Recognized as the premier international forum for stem cell science, the gathering will recognize 25 years of discovery, collaboration, and progress in stem cell science and gather the people, ideas, and work that will shape the next quarter century.

Indigenous and local communities are not secondary actors in biodiversity conservation, but decisive agents who are already protecting the natural environment worldwide. Their ancestral knowledge and environmental stewardship practices — often invisible and unknown to academia and policy — are essential for designing more effective and inclusive strategies that sustain biodiversity and foster a fairer, more sustainable future.

A new study of the largest dam removal project in United States history on the Klamath River in Oregon and California is offering new insight into a long-running water conflict by finding that farmers and conservation groups share priorities that may help guide decision-making on future river restoration projects.

A large new study presented at the 2026 ATS International Conference shows that patients treated for COPD or pneumonia experience worse outcomes across several important measures when they are treated at hospitals that have been acquired by private equity firms.

New policy brief outlines systems-based approach for managing cumulative pesticide impacts across European landscapes.

Mona Sloane’s debut book, “Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life,” examines how artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping society through what she calls the “prediction paradigm.” The University of Virginia sociologist argues that AI should be understood not as an inevitable technological force, but as social infrastructure that people can collectively govern and reshape. Published by University of California Press, the book explores AI’s influence on everyday social relations, policy, and public life.