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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 17-Jun-2026 22:15 ET (18-Jun-2026 02:15 GMT/UTC)

Pennington Biomedical contributes to global study on physical activity and well-being

Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research from LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center is part of a major international study published in Nature Human Behaviour that offers new insight into how physical activity and emotional well-being are connected in everyday life.

Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim analyzed data sets from more than 8,000 people to investigate how physical activity is related to good mood and positive emotions. For most people, the result was that mood improves with everyday movement. At the same time, people are more physically active when they are feeling better.

Journal: Nature Human Behaviour

The precise bioenergetic map of ocular tissues: Research on TCA cycle intermediate distribution and sexual dimorphism

Eye Discovery
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As a highly differentiated sensory organ, the maintenance of the eye's physiological functions relies on rigorous metabolic regulation. The Tricarboxylic Acid (TCA) cycle within mitochondria serves as the core pathway for ocular energy metabolism, providing essential metabolic substrates and reducing equivalents for corneal homeostasis and retinal phototransduction. However, a critical scientific question remains: is there significant heterogeneity in energy utilization across different anatomical tissues of the eye? Furthermore, how does biological sex regulate the ocular metabolic profile through distinct biological pathways? A study recently published in Eye Discovery (2026) utilized high-sensitivity Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) to achieve absolute quantification of TCA cycle intermediates in mouse ocular tissues. Conducted by a team from West Virginia University, the research aims to construct a standardized ocular metabolic reference model, revealing dual differences in metabolic characteristics based on spatial distribution and biological sex.

Journal: Eye Discovery

Positive emotion and reward disturbance in mood disorders

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Meeting Announcement

In a free webinar hosted by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, “Positive Emotion and Reward Disturbance in Mood Disorders” on Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 2pm ET, Dr. June Gruber, Ph.D., will discuss her lab's work to delineate the nature of positive emotion disturbance in people with and without a history of mood difficulties. By studying healthy people, people at risk for mood disorders, as well as adults and adolescents with mood disorders, she seeks to develop new ways of understanding positive mood disturbance as well as treatments to enhance emotional well-being and sustainable happiness. This webinar will be hosted by Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D., President & CEO of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation and host of the Emmy® nominated television series Healthy Minds.

$12 million grant will advance Henry Ford Health's suicide prevention model across the US

Henry Ford Health
Grant and Award Announcement

Henry Ford Health has received a $12 million grant from the Four Pines Fund to expand its Zero Suicide Model across the U.S. This proven approach has reduced suicide rates by up to 25% in health systems. The funding will enhance suicide prevention services at Henry Ford Health, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, and HealthPartners in Minnesota, and establish a new suicide prevention center at Henry Ford Health. With over 49,000 U.S. suicides in 2023, this initiative addresses a critical public health issue.

Funder: Four Pines Fund

City of Hope researchers to share new immunotherapy and precision medicine insights across cancer types at ASCO 2026

City of Hope
Reports and Proceedings

Researchers from City of Hope^®, one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, will present 49 abstracts at the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, including new findings on immunotherapy, precision medicine and emerging treatment strategies across blood cancers and solid tumors.

Meeting: ASCO Annual Meeting 2026

Generative artificial intelligence can significantly reduce the number of animal experiments

Goethe University Frankfurt
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Goethe University and Philipps University Marburg, in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, have developed a new artificial intelligence to reduce animal experiments. The AI, called genESOM, was trained to “learn” the structure of small datasets. It uses this learned information to generate new data points. These data points reproduce the properties of experimentally collected data as accurately as if they had been obtained in laboratory experiments. In the future, genESOM could reduce the number of laboratory animals needed for testing new active substances by between 30 and 50 percent.

Journal: Pharmacological Research

From ocean to gut: The bacteria that shape both human health and marine carbon cycling

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology discover that a group of beneficial gut bacteria and their marine relatives use the same feeding strategies. This sheds new light on the potential of these bacteria for gut health research, as well as their role in marine carbon cycling.

Journal: The ISME Journal

New research identifies how obesity alters brain lipids to accelerate Alzheimer’s progression

Houston Methodist
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study moves beyond the traditional view of obesity as a general health risk and investigates how obesity-related changes in body fat can send harmful signals to the brain, disrupting brain immune function, thereby worsening Alzheimer’s pathology.

Journal: Molecular Neurodegeneration

Korea University's College of Medicine and Armed Forces Capital Hospital signed an MOU for the development of public medical care and enhancement of medical training

Korea University College of Medicine
Business Announcement

At 11 AM on April 2, Korea University's College of Medicine (Dean Pyun Sung-bom) and Armed Forces Capital Hospital (Director Seok Woong) signed an MOU in the Korea University College of Medicine Main Building Conference Room for the development of public health and medical care, as well as the enhancement of medical training.