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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 17-Jun-2026 23:16 ET (18-Jun-2026 03:16 GMT/UTC)

Could environmental exposures be affecting your child’s health?

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

UT Health San Antonio has developed a tool to evaluate children's health symptoms from environmental exposures called the PediQEESI™ that can be used by parents and doctors to screen for chemical intolerance and help avoid future exposures.

Supercharged natural killer cells suppress solid tumors in mice

Stanford Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Stanford Medicine researchers and colleagues found a way to boost the cancer-fighting abilities of natural killer cells. In mice, the enhanced cells penetrated solid tumors and inhibited their growth.

Journal: Science Translational Medicine

Louse-borne relapsing fever: How the pathogen evades the immune system

Goethe University Frankfurt
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Louse-borne relapsing fever is caused by the bacterium Borrelia recurrentis and is among the most dangerous infectious diseases affecting humans. Outbreaks are currently being reported in countries around the Horn of Africa. Researchers from Universitätsmedizin Frankfurt and Justus Liebig University Giessen have now identified five proteins in Borrelia recurrentis, each capable of blocking components of the innate immune system and thereby enabling the bacterium to survive in the bloodstream. Elucidating the structure and function of these proteins has already contributed to the development of diagnostic tests and may provide a basis for future vaccines.

Journal: Nature Communications

As California warms, cases of dengue fever are expected to grow

University of California - Santa Barbara
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Breakbone fever. The nickname alone attests to the pain that dengue fever can cause. About half the people who get the virus are asymptomatic. But for the rest, an infection can be excruciating, even life-threatening, and there is no treatment.

Journal: The Lancet Regional Health - Americas

Fewer than 1 in 4 with stroke, 1 in 7 with brain injury receive inpatient rehab

American Academy of Neurology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Fewer than one in four people with stroke and fewer than one in seven people with traumatic brain injury receive inpatient rehabilitation care after being hospitalized, according to a study published on June 10, 2026, in Neurology^® Open Access, an official journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Researchers found disparities in access across sex, race, insurance coverage and income level.

Novel disorder causing severe respiratory dysfunction linked to loss-of-function TMEM63B variant

Texas Children's Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new report in the American Journal of Human Genetics describes a novel disorder caused by biallelic loss-of-function variants in the TMEM63B gene, which results in severe lung disease. Researchers at Texas Children’s, Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions in Asia and Europe explain how this disorder presented in five individuals from four unrelated families.

Journal: American Journal of Human Genetics

Understanding Rett syndrome before symptoms appear

Texas Children's Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

To better understand what drives the emergence of symptoms in Rett syndrome, researchers at the Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children's and Baylor College of Medicine took a closer look at brain cells in mice modeling Rett syndrome before symptoms appeared. They identified a set of dysfunctional genes and specific cell types that are vulnerable early on to genetic changes. The study appears in Science Advances.

Journal: Science Advances

Diet remodels chromatin structure and extends survival in models of glioma

Baylor College of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An unexpected lab observation led a team of scientists to discover how diet can influence survival in animal models of glioma, one of the most aggressive and deadly forms of brain cancer. Researchers reveal how limiting a single nutrient, the amino acid methionine, in the diet destabilized DNA organization and led to cancer cell death and increased animal survival. These findings open new possibilities for treating one of the most challenging forms of brain cancer.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Monash research suggests secret to healthy ageing could be hiding in skeletal muscle

Monash University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The powerful role of exercise in maintaining skeletal muscle could be the key to improving health and resilience in older age, according to new research from Monash University.

Physical activity is one of the most powerful ways to combat biological ageing, which is the way our organs and tissue decline as we get older.

Journal: Science Advances

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