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Study finds sustainable farming program helps refugees, immigrants boost health while launching agribusinesses

University of Kansas
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, spent time with New Roots, a program in Kansas City that works with resettled refugees, immigrants and English language learners. They found that the program that teaches sustainable agriculture in an urban setting provides an alternative to "company jobs," while improving physical and mental health of participants while teaching lessons on farming and American business practices, including sales, taxes, insurance and more.

Journal: Journal of Community Practice

PolyU develops Hong Kong’s first screening tool to detect social frailty in seniors

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Loneliness and social isolation are widely recognised as harmful to elders’ health, yet frontline care workers have long lacked a simple, objective way to identify those most at risk. Researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have developed a set of community-based, preventive approaches to addressing social frailty among seniors, including a new screening tool and nature-based interventions in care facilities. This work responds directly to the Government’s policy shift from treatment towards prevention and community-based care.

Journal: Contemporary Nurse

Fight against allergy: New guidelines

Wroclaw Medical University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Climate change is extending pollen seasons and increasing exposure to allergens. New EAACI guidelines, co-authored by researchers from Wroclaw Medical University, highlight the growing role of pollen monitoring, environmental forecasts and preventive measures in managing allergic rhinitis and asthma. Combining these tools with treatment may help patients anticipate periods of increased risk, reduce exposure and improve disease control.

Journal: Allergy

Targeting POLG reduces breast cancer stemness through mitochondrial dysfunction

Impact Journals LLC
Peer-Reviewed Publication

BUFFALO, NY — August 24, 2026 — A new research paper was published in Volume 18 of Aging on August 8, 2026, titled “Investigating POLG-driven modulation of cancer stemness: a pilot study in breast cancer cells.”

Journal: Aging-US

UT Health San Antonio names NIH expert inaugural director of stem cell transplant and cellular therapy program

The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center
Business Announcement

UT Health San Antonio, the academic health center and health system of The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio), has named nationally recognized blood cancer and cellular therapy expert Georg Aue, MD, PhD, MBA, the director of the Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program at the Mays Cancer Center, the only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Cancer Center in South Texas. He will also serve as the inaugural director of the Mary and Bill Henrich Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy Unit at UT Health San Antonio Multispecialty and Research Hospital, chief of the Section of Cellular Therapies and co-director of the Cellular Therapy Research Center.

Autism research tool uncovers how nature, nurture shape children's risk

University of Virginia Health System
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The powerful new autism-research tool sorts out which health effects come from genes and which come from a child's environment.

Journal: Nature Genetics

Insilico Medicine convenes O3DC, an open consortium for benchmark quality in AI-driven drug discovery

InSilico Medicine
Business Announcement

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug 24 - Insilico Medicine (“Insilico”; HKEX: 3696), a clinical-stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, today announced the launch of the Open Drug Discovery and Development Consortium (O3DC) - www.o3dc.org, an open initiative addressing how computational drug discovery methods are evaluated, together with its first shared resource: a community-curated index of the benchmarks the field relies on.

Aging Partners with Aging Research and Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD) as Media Partner

Impact Journals LLC
Business Announcement

BUFFALO, NY — August 24, 2026 — Aging is pleased to announce its partnership as a media partner of the 13th Aging Research and Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD), taking place October 1–3, 2026, at the David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts.

UC San Diego study finds changes to California’s landscapes may influence Valley fever risk

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

UC San Diego study links higher Valley fever rates to some natural landscapes and agricultural land uses, raising concerns as drought and water regulations lead to more farmland being left uncultivated across the state.

Journal: Science Advances