The 2024 Global Young Academy Asian Event – Global π Roundtable took place in Wenzhou, China, from November 28^th to 30^th 2024, bringing together young scientists and international leaders around the world, to address current global sustainability challenges. The event focused on themes such as biodiversity, resilient cities, and sustainable development for an improved future.

MIT engineers developed AI frameworks to generate novel research hypotheses, starting in the field of biologically inspired materials.

SMART, a new software package developed by researchers at UC San Diego, can make studying signaling processes significantly easier. Results could accelerate research in fields across the life sciences, such as systems biology, pharmacology and biomedical engineering.

Antibodies can improve the rehabilitation of people with acute spinal cord injury. Researchers at 13 clinics in Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Spain have investigated this with promising results. For the first time, it was possible to identify patient groups that displayed a clinically relevant treatment effect. A follow-up study will start in December 2024.

The ancient vomeronasal receptor type-1 (ancV1R) is highly conserved across species and plays a key role in pheromone detection. Investigation of its role in the sexual and social behavior of mice by researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan, provides novel insights for future research on pheromone sensing and animal behaviors. The study found that the absence of ancV1R in female mice was linked to a poor mating response and increased stress levels.