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Dante Alighieri’s inferno It may contain more than religious symbolism or poetic imagination. According to new research, this famous work may also represent an early thought experiment in impact physics, explaining catastrophic planetary collisions centuries before modern meteor science existed. By comparing Dante’s account to modern theories about asteroid collisions and crater formation, researchers argue that the 14th-century poet was envisioning Earth-changing cosmic events long before scientists understood meteorites. For hundreds of years, readers have interpreted the coming of Satan. Divine Comedy as a spiritual fall from grace. But Timothy Barbary of Marshall University believes that Dante may have been…
Babies born to patients with endometriosis have a small but significant increased risk of congenital abnormalities (often called birth defects), a new US study has found. CMJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.250439. Endometriosis is a chronic, often painful inflammatory disease in which endometrial-like tissue grows outside the uterus. It affects one in 10 women of reproductive age and can affect fertility. The study included ICES data on more than 1.4 million births in Ontario, of which 33,619 were infants with endometriosis. A total of 2,120 (6.3%) infants with some congenital anomaly were born to patients with endometriosis, and 77,094 (5.4%)…
A Virginia Tech disease ecologist said the outbreak of Andean hantavirus on the international cruise ship MV Hondius highlights how little scientists still know about the virus quietly circulating in wild rodent populations before infecting humans. Most hantaviruses infect humans through animal-to-human transmission, but the Andean strain can spread from person to person, highlighting global vulnerabilities in interconnected travel networks. Viruses with the ability to infect multiple species and spread silently between people require serious attention before an outbreak spreads. Most of our research on zoonotic viruses remains reactive, studying viruses after they have spilled into humans rather than…
A paper presented at this year’s European Obesity Conference in Istanbul, Turkey (May 12-15) suggests that a new era of obesity drugs could shift responsibility for living with obesity from individuals to the food industry – just as the tobacco industry is responsible for smoking and, to a lesser extent, the alcohol industry is responsible for alcohol consumption. Authors Luc Louis Hagenaars, assistant professor at Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and professor Laura Ann Schmidt, from the University of California Health Policy Institute, said they believe that “these drugs have the potential to shift responsibility for obesity from individual failures…
New research presented at this year’s European Conference on Obesity (ECO 2026) in Istanbul, Turkey (12-15 May) shows that a 1% reduction in annual working hours is associated with a 0.16% reduction in obesity rates across OECD countries. The study was led by Dr. Pradeepa Korale-Gedara and colleagues at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Adult obesity remains a major public health challenge across OECD countries, with significant health, social and economic implications. Public health research has overwhelmingly focused on dietary patterns, activity levels, and individual behavior as causes of obesity. While this has led to significant advances in…
When a generative AI system gives an incorrect answer, people may describe the problem as the AI ”hallucinating us.” This means that the technology generates false information that users may mistakenly believe. But new research suggests a more worrying issue may be emerging: humans could begin to “hallucinate with AI.” Lucy Osler from the University of Exeter investigated how interactions with conversational AI can contribute to false beliefs, memory distortions, altered personal narratives, and even delusional thinking. In this study, we used ideas from distributed cognition theory to investigate cases in which an AI system reinforces and amplifies a user’s…
How many of the following seven considerations for handling ADCs are of interest to you?As the ADC pipeline matures, payloads become more powerful, and linker technology becomes more sophisticated, the operational demands surrounding ADC manufacturing are rapidly increasing. At the same time, development schedules are compressing and expectations for safety, reproducibility, and regulatory compliance continue to rise.What may work in monoclonal antibodies is increasingly inadequate in ADCs. Nowhere is this more evident than in fluid handling and cold chain management, where traditional methods are reaching their limits.Here are seven considerations that increasingly define how ADCs are handled today. Not in…
Enhancement of core CDO value for cell line developmentCell line development (CLD) is widely considered to be more than just the initial stage of biopharmaceutical production. Rather, it is considered to be the critical basis of the entire molecule’s life cycle. The efficiency of early-stage execution directly impacts downstream success, product quality, and ultimately speed to market. Given the high risks of life-saving medicines, customized solutions at every stage of biologics development are critical for contract development organizations (CDOs) and their customers. Workflow fragmentation occurs because different third-party providers manage individual steps, creating data silos. This fragmentation hinders the effectiveness…
What happens when cancer cells lose both their mitochondrial energy supply and their glycolytic backup system? This question is at the heart of a new study published in 2006 the study By researchers at Northwestern Technological University and partner institutions. This study addresses an important limitation of cuprupholosis-based cancer therapy: although copper-dependent mitochondrial stress can kill cancer cells, many tumors are metabolically malleable and rely heavily on aerobic glycolysis to survive mitochondrial damage. This study proposes a method to block both routes at once. The researchers designed a multifunctional copper-based nanoPROTAC, called CHND, that combines targeted protein degradation and copper-mediated…
A 20-minute cycling session increased heart rate and caffeine increased physiological arousal, but neither was apparent to protect young people from mental fatigue after a demanding cognitive task. Study: Differential effects of caffeine, acute aerobic exercise, and placebo on mental fatigue. Image credit: Drazen Zigic / Shutterstock.com In a recent study published in PLoS One, researchers compared the effects of caffeine and aerobic exercise on mental fatigue in adults. Can you restore your mental energy with a short workout without caffeine? Mental fatigue can disrupt cognitive processes such as decision-making, memory, attention, planning, and inhibitory control. Caffeine acts on the…