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Researchers have created a proof-of-concept, comfortable, wearable EEG headband with embroidered electrodes to monitor brain activity outside the lab

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have created a proof-of-concept, comfortable, wearable EEG headband with embroidered electrodes to monitor brain activity outside the lab

Journal: PLOS One

Body-related TikTok content linked to self-objectification and mood, study shows

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Viewing “thinspiration” content on TikTok increases self-objectification and worsens mood, while viewing body-positive content also increases self-objectification but is linked to more positive mood, according to a new study published September 9, 2026 in the open access journal PLOS One by Samantha Jones of Western University, Canada, and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS One

Legionnaire's disease incidence has risen significantly in the U.S. over the last two decades, with warming temperatures, precipitation, sunlight levels, and road traffic exposure to the soil-dwelling Legionella bacteria likely driving this increase

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Legionnaire's disease incidence has risen significantly in the U.S. over the last two decades, with warming temperatures, precipitation, sunlight levels, and road traffic exposure to the soil-dwelling Legionella bacteria likely driving this increase.

Journal: PLOS Global Public Health

Targeting NINJ1 protein could make donor livers more resilient

The Hospital for Sick Children
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Targeting NINJ1 protein could make donor livers more resilient

Journal: Science Advances

Reports of drug seizures by police rose during first year of decriminalization, SFU study finds

Simon Fraser University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

People in Vancouver experienced an increase in police drug seizures during the first year of British Columbia's drug decriminalization pilot project, according to a Simon Fraser University study.

During the pilot, police in B.C. were not meant to arrest or charge people for possessing drugs for personal consumption, a threshold defined as 2.5 grams. One of the goals of decriminalization was to reduce interaction between the police and people who use drugs, says Kanna Hayashi, co-author of the study.

Journal: BMC Public Health

GSA providing members access to certificate course on engaging with family caregivers

The Gerontological Society of America
Business Announcement

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) is partnering with Plans4Care, Inc., to offer clinicians, care managers, and health and human service professionals a certificate in engaging family caregivers through The Confident Caregiver online course. It is an innovative, brief, self-paced training experience that provides the skills and tools necessary for participants to confidently engage with family caregivers of individuals with complex conditions as part of their workflows.

New $2.4 million NIH study will explore exposures of e-cigarettes before birth and future health implications

Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers at the Wayne State University School of Medicine’s C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development st have been awarded a five-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health to study how exposure to e-cigarette components and flavors during pregnancy affect fetal respiratory immune development and the risk of respiratory viral infections in offspring.

A study in Nature sheds new light on DNA repair in early human embryos, with implications for future gene correction

Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Treating inherited diseases is one of the greatest challenges in modern medicine. In the future, targeted gene corrections at the earliest stages of embryonic development could help prevent certain inherited diseases from developing and being passed on to future generations. However, the safety of such approaches depends on how human embryos repair the DNA damage caused during gene editing and on the limitations of available technologies. These questions are addressed in a study published in the journal Nature, led by first author Štěpán Jeřábek, who is affiliated with both Columbia University and IOCB Prague. The research also involved two other IOCB Prague scientists, Iva Pichová and Michal Doležal.

Journal: Nature

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers receive $2.5M NIH grant to inform breast, pancreatic cancer care

Virginia Commonwealth University
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center were recently awarded a $2.5 million R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute. The five-year grant will allow Massey to evaluate the efficacy of TROP2 targeted antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) to further enhance therapeutic benefits in both breast and pancreatic cancer care.

Massey researchers, led by principal investigator Chuck Harrell, Ph.D., member of the Cancer Biology research program at Massey and professor in the Department of Pathology at the VCU School of Medicine, will look to define what enables responses and resistance to ADCs in order to identify predictive biomarkers and establish therapeutic strategies to optimize TROP2-targeted ADC efficacy in both triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).