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The Brain's Power to Heal Takes Center Stage in World Cup Opener

Houston Methodist — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:05:17 EST

Protective headgear scored a moment in the international spotlight as Mexico's Raul Jimenez netted his first World Cup goal during Thursday's opener in Guadalajara, Mexico. The striker has worn a custom headband on the pitch since recovering from a life-threatening skull fracture and brain bleed, the result of a head collision with an opposing player, during an English Premier League match in 2020.

PreludeDx(tm) Achieves New Milestones for DCIS Patients and DCISionRT(r) Testing

PreludeDx — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:55:34 EST

Prelude Corporation (PreludeDx(tm)), a leader in precision diagnostics for breast cancer, today highlighted a new milestone for DCISionRT(r), its validated genomic test that provides individualized recurrence risk assessment and predicts radiation therapy benefit for women diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).

Researchers Identify Target with Potential to Improve CAR T-Cell Therapy Response in Patients with Blood Cancers

University of Maryland School of Medicine — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:55:32 EST

University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Researchers have identified a target that may improve the response of CAR T-cell therapy, a treatment for patients with recurrent or difficult to treat blood cancers....

Expert Available to Discuss the Benefits of Outdoor Recreation for Human & Community Health

Cal Poly Humboldt — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:55:26 EST

Jefferson Lab Breaks Ground on New Building to Power Next Generation of Scientific Discovery

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:55:25 EST

Jefferson Lab has broken ground on the new Jefferson Lab Data Center (JLDC), which will serve as the future Hub site for the Department of Energy's High Performance Data Facility (HPDF). The news release highlights participation by Under Secretary for Science Dario Gil, federal and state leaders, and details how the JLDC will support DOE's advanced computing, AI and data‑intensive science priorities. The ceremony underscores strong federal-state-local partnerships and the facility's role within DOE's Genesis Mission.

Malcolm Brenner to lead newly-formed Houston Methodist Center for Cell and Gene Therapy

Houston Methodist — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:50:57 EST

New Data Find Strong Reliability in Gait Analysis Interpretation

Children's Hospital Los Angeles — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:45:46 EST

Preliminary findings from a multicenter study are helping to answer a longstanding question in pediatric orthopedics: How reliable is computerized gait analysis interpretation across institutions?

What Makes Sacrifice So Compelling--Even When It Changes Nothing

Indiana University — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:40:56 EST

New research from a Kelley Indianapolis professor revealing why people admire self-sacrifice--even when it doesn't change outcomes. Discover what this instinct says about human judgment and how it shapes the way we evaluate effort, purpose, and impact.

NIH Grant to Fund Innovative Bladder Repair Option for Children

UC Davis Health — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:40:43 EST

A $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will help a UC Davis research team develop a lab-engineered graft to improve bladder reconstruction for children.

$50M McCall MacBain Foundation gift propels McMaster's leadership in helping people live longer in good health

McMaster University — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:40:00 EST

McMaster University is poised to become a global leader in kinesiology and healthspan optimization, thanks to a transformative $50‑million gift from alumna Dr. Marcy McCall MacBain, BSc '00, LLD '24 and John McCall MacBain, with the McCall MacBain Foundation. It is the largest philanthropic investment in kinesiology in Canadian university history.

Finding Cell Subgroups Could Spur Retinal Cell Transplant Success

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:30:17 EST

By discovering retinal cell subgroups in mice, researchers hope to pinpoint an optimal cell type for transplantation to restore vision in blinding conditions

Mount Sinai Researchers Identify Brain "Entrapment" Patterns Associated With Depression

Mount Sinai Health System — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:25:58 EST

New multimodal imaging study uncovers mechanisms that may help explain persistent depressive symptoms and inform personalized treatments

Research Tip Sheet: Knee Arthritis, In-Hospital Addiction Help

Cedars-Sinai — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:25:09 EST

The latest advances from Cedars-Sinai investigators are included in this month's tip sheet.

Our Brains May Be Automatically Filtering Out Negative Words

Association for Psychological Science — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:20:38 EST

A new study offers insight into how the brain determines which information enters conscious awareness and which remains outside it.

UAH Professor Emeritus Ramon Cerro inducted into Latin American Academy of Science

University of Alabama Huntsville — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:10:11 EST

The University of Alabama in Huntsville, a part of The University of Alabama System, is celebrating a major international honor awarded to Professor Emeritus Ramon Cerro who has been inducted into the Latin American Academy of Science (ACAL), one of the most distinguished scientific academies in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Juneteenth Day , National Immunization Awareness Month and More: Call for Experts June 8, 2026

Newswise — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:40:00 EST

Newswise editorial staff have compiled the following suggestions for Expert Pitches and story ideas to pitch reporters.

Ancient Millipedes Still Had Secrets to Tell

Virginia Tech — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:00:00 EST

A Virginia Tech-led team of international scientists has solved one of the last major mysteries in millipede evolution, revealing new clues about a group of animals that helped pave the way for life on land. The findings, published in Current Biology, complete the first evolutionary history of all living millipede orders. By combining genomic data from living species with morphological evidence from fossils, researchers traced the group's origins to nearly 460 million years ago -- suggesting millipedes may have been present long before the oldest known millipede fossils.

Teens Frequently Encounter Alcohol Industry- and Influencer-Generated Alcohol Content on Social Media Platforms

Research Society on Alcohol — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:00:00 EST

Social media platforms popular with teens regularly expose teens to alcohol-related content, and often, that content is created by influencers or sources in the alcohol industry.

Acceptance of Chronic Pain May Reduce the Link Between Pain Intensity and Alcohol Use Severity Among Veterans with Recurring Musculoskeletal Pain, Study Suggests

Research Society on Alcohol — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:00:00 EST

Accepting chronic pain--being willing to experience pain while maintaining valued activities--may be protective against higher alcohol use severity among veterans with chronic musculoskeletal pain, according to a preliminary study.

Studying the Studies: Shorter Clinical Trials of Medication for Alcohol Use Disorder Are as Useful or More Useful than Longer Trials

Research Society on Alcohol — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:00:00 EST

Randomized control trials that are shorter than 12 weeks show similar results to longer trials when assessing a new medication's effectiveness in helping someone with alcohol use disorder reduce or stop drinking. And in trials where the medication showed significant effects, trials lasting 12 weeks or shorter produced more reliable results than longer trials, according to a meta-analysis of clinical trials published in Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research. Currently, the US Food and Drug Administration recommends clinical trials of alcohol use disorder medications last at least six months. The authors of the analysis recommend that regulators and researchers consider shorter duration trials, which reduce burden and risk for trial participants and lower research costs.

JMIR Publications' JMIR Neurotechnology Invites Submissions on the Responsible and Ethical Use of Neurotechnology

JMIR Publications — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:30:00 EST

JMIR Publications invites submissions to a new section titled "Ethics and Policy in Neurotechnology" in its open access journal JMIR Neurotechnology

JMIR Publications Signs Three-Year Open Science Partnership with MetaROR

JMIR Publications — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:00:47 EST

JMIR Publications, a leading publisher of academic journals dedicated to digital health and open science, today announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a three-year partnership with MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review).

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Newswise Expert Queries — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 EST

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Cosmic Dawn Fuel Discovery Unlocks Early Galaxy Growth Secrets

National Radio Astronomy Observatory — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:35:50 EST

Astronomers have discovered a huge reservoir of cold molecular gas, the direct fuel for star formation, in REBELS-25, a massive, star-forming galaxy.The team, led from Leiden University, focused on REBELS-25, seen when the universe was only about 700 million years old, around 5% of its current age. Astronomers use "redshift" to describe this distance, which measures how much the universe's expansion has stretched a galaxy's light to redder wavelengths.

RHIC and EIC: Celebrating Success and Looking to the Future

Brookhaven National Laboratory — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:30:35 EST

Immediately following the annual meeting of scientists who conduct research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS), the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory hosted a science symposium to commemorate the end of RHIC operations. The two-day event, held May 14 and 15, celebrated more than 25 years of discovery science at RHIC and kicked off the transition to the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC).