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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 20-Oct-2025 01:11 ET (20-Oct-2025 05:11 GMT/UTC)

Treating liver disease with microscopic nanoparticles

Texas A&M University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Texas A&M researcher Dr. Jyothi Menon and her collaborators have developed an innovative therapy that may halt inflammation and fibrosis in alcohol-related liver disease, offering hope for millions worldwide.

Journal: Biomaterials
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health

New EndoCompass Research Roadmap calls for coordinated investment to tackle Europe’s hormone health challenge

European Society of Endocrinology
Business Announcement

The European Society for Endocrinology (ESE) and the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) have released the EndoCompass Research Roadmap: Directions for the Future of Endocrine Science. The supplement is published today in the European Journal of Endocrinology and is a major new initiative to align research efforts, improve funding strategies and increase the visibility of hormone-related health challenges across Europe.

Hurricane outages: Analysis details the where, and who, of increased future power cuts

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Georgia and northern Florida are likely to be hardest hit by increasing hurricane-induced power outages along the Atlantic coast in the future, with Hispanic, non-white, low-income and elderly populations most affected, according to new research led by the University of Michigan.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Most users cannot identify AI bias, even in training data

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

When recognizing faces and emotions, artificial intelligence (AI) can be biased, like classifying white people as happier than people from other racial backgrounds. This happens because the data used to train the AI contained a disproportionate number of happy white faces, leading it to correlate race with emotional expression. In a recent study, published in Media Psychology, researchers asked users to assess such skewed training data, but most users didn’t notice the bias — unless they were in the negatively portrayed group.

Journal: Media Psychology

UC stroke experts discuss current and future use of AI tools in research and treatment

University of Cincinnati
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A group of stroke physicians, researchers and industry representatives discussed the current use and future of AI in stroke clinical trial design at the Stroke Treatment Academic Industry Roundtable meeting March 28. Led by the University of Cincinnati’s Joseph Broderick, MD, the researchers published an article in the journal Stroke Sept. 30 summarizing the group’s discussion and recommendations.

Journal: Stroke

Taking the shock out of predicting shock wave behavior with precise computational modeling

Yokohama National University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Shock waves should not be shocking — engineers across scientific fields need to be able to precisely predict how the instant and strong pressure changes initiate and dissipate to prevent damage. Now, thanks to a team from YOKOHAMA National University, those predictions are even better understood.

Journal: Physics of Fluids
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Device detects sodium nitrite in beverages

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Federal University of São Carlos used pieces of cork and lasers to create a mechanism that detects the presence of the substance, which has potential carcinogenic effects, in mineral water, orange juice, and wine.

Journal: Microchimica Acta
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

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