Few studies have investigated coastal marine plankton and aggregate abundance and diversity with high frequency over a long time period. Here, a group of researchers deployed a cabled marine Oshima Coastal Environmental data Acquisition Network System (OCEANS) observatory in 20 m of water off the coast of Oshima Island in Japan to establish plankton diversity and plankton and aggregate abundance as a function of ocean turbulence during two 4-month periods spanning 2014 to 2016.

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is working with China’s Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and Swedish biotechnology company Lipigon Pharmaceuticals AB to develop a new inhaled treatment aimed at helping patients recover faster from severe lung infections. The treatment is designed to reduce excessive inflammation in the lungs, which can continue even after viruses or bacteria have been cleared from the body. To tackle this, the new therapy targets a protein called Angiopoietin-like protein 4 (ANGPTL4), which increases during inflammatory stress in the lungs. High levels of ANGPTL4 are associated with increased vascular permeability and fibrosis in injured lung tissue. Instead of being taken as a pill or injection, the treatment is delivered directly into the lungs by inhalation, similar to how asthma medications are administered. This allows it to act where it is needed most while limiting effects on the rest of the body.

Light-induced accumulation of p-coumaric acid enhances adhesion between the outer and inner tissues, which contributes to regulation of growth.

Most aquaculture species have long maturation periods that limit breeding efficiency. Here, researchers from the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, report in Science China Life Sciences with a cover story of an ultra-fast surrogate reproduction strategy: female germline stem cells from grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus), a species requiring ~5 years to mature and >20× longer and ~20,000× heavier than zebrafish, were transplanted into zebrafish (~3 cm, 3-month maturation), producing all-female grass carp within just three months, dramatically shortening the breeding cycle.

The 2026 season of the Pharma.AI webinar series will showcase the ongoing AI revolution in life sciences, including the increased interest in the use of foundation models why specialized models remain essential for biology, chemistry, and translational research; How Pharma.AI brings together foundation models and scientific AI agents within a unified AI-driven workflow for drug R&D and scientific research; and how Insilico’s leading “AI trains AI” approach may enable foundation models to be better adapted for scientific and drug discovery applications, accelerating the evolution of AI decision-making systems.

Cancer stem cells (CSCs), a critical subpopulation within tumors, drive cancer initiation, progression, metastasis, relapse, and resistance to therapy due to their innate capacity for self-renewal and differentiation. Although the molecular mechanisms controlling CSC biology are poorly understood, recent research highlights the pivotal regulatory role of non-coding RNAs—specifically long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs)—in governing these processes.