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The World Health Organization (WHO) today called on people around the world to renew their commitment to working together and supporting science as a twin force for better health, building on the World Health Day 2026 theme: “Together for Health. Standing with Science.” The campaign commemorates the establishment of WHO on April 7, 1948, and the launch of a year-long public health campaign. Human health has changed significantly over the past century, primarily due to scientific advances and international cooperation. Global maternal mortality rates have fallen by more than 40% since 2000, and deaths among children under five have fallen…

Psychotherapy has always been a very human endeavor, where the patient speaks, the therapist listens and responds, and healing occurs through words. However, with the rapid rise of conversational artificial intelligence, especially large-scale language models (LLM), that paradigm is rapidly changing. A team of researchers at the University of Utah is working on this change, but the question isn’t: “Will robots replace therapists?” Rather, they consider more practical questions: what to automate and to what extent. “The history of new technologies like this is almost always about collaboration and how it supports doing the work that human experts can do,”…

Researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered a new blood-based biomarker that helps identify and characterize asymptomatic Lynch syndrome (LS) patients who are more likely to develop cancer based on early immune detection signatures. This allows clinicians to stratify patients based on their individual risk level. This study nature communicationsled by Eduardo Villar Sánchez, MD, Interim Chair of Clinical Cancer Prevention. These results advance our understanding of T cell responses in LS carriers and provide personalized insights for early cancer detection, monitoring, and therapeutic intervention in these populations. Providing a potential non-invasive blood test to…

Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a technique to simultaneously treat lung cancer and the severe muscle-wasting condition that often accompanies it. This study controlled release journalcontaining lipid nanoparticles that deliver therapeutic genetic material to lung tumors. Scientists led by Oleh Taraula and Yoon Tae Goo from the OSU College of Pharmacy showed in a mouse model that a type of nanocarrier loaded with follistatin messenger RNA can accumulate within tumors. Once there, the mRNA prompts the cell to make follistatin protein. Follistatin protein plays an important role in both tumor suppression and promoting muscle tissue growth. Lipid nanoparticles…

Is consciousness simply a product of the brain, or could it be a deeper feature of reality itself? This question is at the heart of a presentation by Christoph Koch, a leading figure in modern neuroscience, at the Vial Foundation’s 15th ‘Behind the Brain and Beyond’ Symposium, to be held in Porto from April 8th to 11th. Although materialism still dominates scientific thinking, Koch highlights important gaps in this perspective. Despite great advances in neuroscience, scientists still have not explained how subjective experience arises from physical processes in the brain. This unresolved problem is known as the “hard problem” of…

A new review suggests that the aftermath of a heart attack may rely in part on signals from the gut and reveals how microbial metabolites influence inflammation, scarring and recovery through epigenetic mechanisms. Research: Gut-heart dialogue: An epigenetic perspective on myocardial infarction. Image credit: Joyisjoyful / Shutterstock In a recent review published in a magazine npj biofilm and microbiomeOur group reviewed the evidence on how metabolites from the gut microbiota influence myocardial infarction (MI) through epigenetic mechanisms and identified potential therapeutic avenues. background Each year, millions of people experience myocardial infarction (commonly known as a heart attack), but recovery outcomes…

Scientists have long believed that the answer lies almost entirely in neurons, the brain’s main signaling cells. But new research challenges that idea and points to a more complex system involving other types of brain cells. Research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences April 6, 2026 Research shows that astrocytes, long considered supporting cells, may play a much more active role in regulating appetite than previously realized. Researchers from Universidad Concepción in Chile, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Maryland, have discovered a previously unknown signaling pathway in the hypothalamus, the brain region that controls…

From deep-sea vents to other harsh habitats, researchers have discovered vast microbial resources rich in novel genes and biosynthetic clusters, and used AI-guided screening to identify peptide candidates that could fuel the next wave of antibiotic discovery. Research: Extremophile Microbiome Catalog (EEMC): A global resource for microbial diversity and antimicrobial discovery. Image credit: Galwis / Shutterstock In a recent study published in the journal nature communicationsresearchers introduced the Extreme Environment Microbiome Catalog (EEMC), a large-scale resource designed to uncover the hidden microbial diversity of Earth’s most extreme habitats. By reconstructing more than 78,000 genomes from thousands of metagenomes and isolates,…

President Trump’s annual budget request to Congress continues the administration’s defunding of climate change programs, environmental protection, and renewable energy, and cuts the budgets of the Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Federal Emergency Management Agency. The fiscal year 2027 spending plan “builds on the president’s vision by keeping non-defense spending in check,” Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought said in a preface to the 92-page document, which includes a historic $1.5 trillion defense budget increase of 44%. Under President Trump’s proposal announced Friday, EPA spending would be cut in half and grants from the…

Gov. Tony Evers signed a pair of bills Monday that will commit $133 million in state funding to combat PFAS contamination across Wisconsin. The Republican-authored bill passed the Senate in March after years of back-and-forth between the governor and Republican lawmakers over how to spend PFAS funds, which were first included in the 2023-2025 state budget. This compromise protects farmers, some businesses, and other “innocent landowners” from being held responsible for PFAS contamination they did not cause. We’re also allocating $80 million in community grants for testing and remediation efforts. Let’s understand Wisconsin together. WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” newsletter helps you…