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Farmers and outdoor workers in the Northeast are facing an escalating threat of tick-borne diseases, which could be devastating to their livelihoods, according to new research led by Mandy Roome, associate director of the Tick-borne Disease Center at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Cifani lab has developed a new mass spectrometry technique that pushes the performance of their instruments to deliver scans that are more sensitive than ever before. Their innovation may improve drug target discovery while helping scientists answer long-standing questions about human health and biology.

A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep’s core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in jellyfish and sea anemones, among the earliest creatures with nervous systems. By tracing this mechanism back to these ancient animals, the research demonstrates that protecting neurons from DNA damage and cellular stress is a basic, ancient function of sleep that began long before complex brains evolved.

A study led by Maria Carmo-Fonseca at the GIMM Foundation has helped clarify one of the main limitations of lab-grown heart cells, which are widely used around the world to study heart disease and test new drugs. Although these cells make it possible to investigate the human heart without invasive procedures or animal models, they still fail to fully reproduce the characteristics of real heart cells, which can compromise the accuracy of certain studies.

This study introduces the Multidimensional Antiviral Antibody Database (MAAD), a comprehensive and standardized platform integrating sequence, structure, and functional data for antibodies targeting three high-impact RNA virus families. MAAD serves not only as a curated data repository but also as an interactive analytical toolbox designed to support rational antibody engineering, structure-based vaccine design, and AI-driven antibody discovery.