About 800,000 people have a heart attack every year in the US alone.

Can Better Diagnostics Lead to Improved Treatment for Cardiovascular Diseases?

Simon Williams, MBBS

From biomarkers to imaging, new lab-based diagnostics are transforming how cardiovascular risk is detected and managed

If even 1 percent of adults in the US became kidney or partial liver living donors, the waitlists for kidney and liver transplants would significantly decrease.

Enhancing Transplant Success with Living Organ Donation and Advanced Diagnostics

Tina Liedtky

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10 People Who Shaped Science in 2025

Springer Nature

STIs remain a largely silent epidemic, with 80 percent of chlamydia and gonorrhea infections going undiagnosed each year.

Collaboration Tackles Critical Gaps in US STI Diagnostics

Testmate Health, Intermountain Health

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This first-of-its-kind report highlights how research is transforming outcomes for children and adolescents with cancer.

AACR Releases Inaugural Pediatric Cancer Progress Report

American Association for Cancer Research

More than 30 new drugs have been approved for pediatric cancer in the past 10 years, but progress has not benefited all patients

The use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists—or GLP-1RAs—has increased dramatically.

Weight Gain and Pregnancy Complications Rise After GLP-1 Discontinuation

Mass General Brigham

Discontinuing GLP-1 drugs early in pregnancy may raise risks of weight gain, diabetes, hypertension, and preterm delivery

The funded initiative will combine advanced AI, natural language processing, and secure AWS cloud infrastructure to provide access to contributions from institutions across Europe and Asia in their native languages.

AACR Project GENIE Receives 2025 AWS Imagine Grant to Advance Cancer Genomics Data for Clinical Research

American Association for Cancer Research

AI-powered, multilingual cancer research pipeline will accelerate the pace of global data curation and expand access to real-world clinical data

The number of people living with HIV globally in 2024 exceeded 40 million, with 1.3 million new infections and 660,000 deaths in that year alone.

HIV/AIDS Isn’t Over—And the US Is Running Out of Excuses

Georgetown University Medical Center

Leading HIV experts Fauci and Folkers warn stalled US funding could unravel decades of progress

The Octave MSDA Test is the first and only clinically and analytically validated multi-analyte blood test that reports an MS disease activity score.

Nationwide Access to New Multi-Analyte Laboratory Test for Multiple Sclerosis

Quest Diagnostics, Octave Bioscience

Collaboration brings new hope for patients with multiple sclerosis through expanded access to a clinically validated multi-analyte blood test

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One of the body’s self-defense mechanisms is fever, which can cause our body temperature to reach as high as 41°C, though until now it has not been clear how fever stops viruses—and why some viruses can survive.

Bird Flu Viruses Are Resistant to Fever, Making Them a Major Threat to Humans

University of Cambridge

Study reveals why bird flu resists fever, emphasizing the importance of laboratory testing to track high-risk viruses

To get the mRNA safely into the patient’s body, the researchers packaged it inside lipid nanoparticles—tiny fat-based bubbles commonly used in mRNA vaccines.

Experimental mRNA Therapy Shows Potential to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Infections

Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital

Preclinical studies show mRNA therapy slows antibiotic-resistant bacteria and enhances immune response

APPC researchers found that using a mental model approach to inform people about relevant facets of science undercuts the effect of exposure to misconceptions, regardless of whether the models were presented before or after the misinformation.

Seeing Is Believing: Visual Models Help Scientists Combat mRNA Vaccine Myths

Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania

Randomized trials show mental models help scientists preempt and correct misconceptions about mRNA vaccines

Researchers are now targeting clonal hematopoiesis and building new solutions to help make liquid biopsy a frontline defense in the fight against cancer.

Beyond the Blood Draw: Making Liquid Biopsy More Accurate, One Mutation at a Time

Matthew Oberley, MD, PhD

As liquid biopsy becomes a standard tool in oncology, distinguishing tumor signals from clonal hematopoiesis is essential for accurate results