A field-based study from the Yunkai Mountains reveals divergent elevational diversity responses between overstory tree and understory plant communities, highlighting the necessity of integrating vertical stratification and full elevational gradients for tropical mountain biodiversity conservation.

Insilico Medicine has announced the program for ARDD 2026, the 13th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting, taking place October 1–3 at the David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University in Boston.

The three-day program will convene global leaders from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academia, clinical medicine, investment, artificial intelligence, scientific publishing and policy. Sessions will span aging biology, therapeutic discovery, clinical development, regulatory strategy, partnering and investment, reflecting the growing maturity of longevity biotechnology.

Insilico Medicine has announced the program for ARDD 2026, the 13th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting, taking place October 1–3 at the David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University in Boston.

The three-day program will convene global leaders from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academia, clinical medicine, investment, artificial intelligence, scientific publishing and policy. Sessions will span aging biology, therapeutic discovery, clinical development, regulatory strategy, partnering and investment, reflecting the growing maturity of longevity biotechnology.

Inconsistent nomenclature, analytical constraints, and a limited understanding of metabolism and biological roles impede research on selenosugars, the principal urinary metabolites of selenium. To address the inconsistencies, a new study has proposed a standardized nomenclature, along with analytical criteria for reliable identification and an updated selenium metabolism framework. This is expected to improve consistency across selenium studies, strengthen analytical rigor, and accelerate future research into selenium biology and human health.

Over the last quarter of a century, the edge of the summer sea-ice in the Greenland Sea has shrunk steadily northwards. Now, researchers have shown from systematic surveys and field reports that this change has drawn exceptionally large congregations from three species of baleen whales to the coastal waters east of Greenland, adding up to approximately 16,000 animals per summer. The authors concluded that the whales have moved in to feed en masse on capelin, a fish that has recently shifted its geographic distribution northwards towards these exceptionally fast-warming waters.

Influenza spreads faster in a crowded barracks or prison. Ebola proliferates when hospital beds run short. For decades, researchers have documented how social inequality shapes disease spread. In parallel, mathematical models have emerged for forecasting epidemics and weighing different public health interventions. But rarely have the two subfields of epidemiology joined forces.

A new paper in Biology Letters, led by SFI Resident Professor Brandon Ogbunu with SFI External Professor Sam Scarpino (Northeastern University) and collaborators, introduces a metric called "structural causal influence" that quantifies how factors like crowded housing, limited vaccine access, and financial barriers shape the way disease spreads, and whether public health interventions will actually work.

A nearly $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow University of Houston researchers to investigate how mutation rates evolve across species — work that could offer critical insights into cancer progression and antibiotic resistance.

Scripps Research assistant professor Tiantian Liu has received a five-year NIAID DP2 award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to advance basic understanding of immune processes that could aid the design of next-generation immunotherapies. Scripps Research received $552,000 in first-year funding and is expected to receive up to $2.76 million over five years.