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27-May-2026

More than two decades after 9/11, the children of World Trade Center responders are still experiencing mental health ill-effects

More than two decades after 9/11, the children of World Trade Center responders are still experiencing mental health ill-effects, per new study examining the intergenerational transmission of trauma.

Journal: PLOS Mental Health

27-May-2026

Innovation Crossroads celebrates 10 years of entrepreneurship at LEEP Demo Day

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Entrepreneurs, researchers and program participants gathered on Wednesday, May 13, 2026 for the Department of Energy’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) Demo Day, hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Innovation Crossroads at Covenant Health Park in Knoxville.

27-May-2026

Public health concern or misconduct? Study gauges views of hazing

University of Mississippi
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Adults are often left out of the conversation surrounding hazing, but the same adults are needed to put a stop to it. New research shows that most U.S. adults view hazing not only as harmful, but as a public health concern.

Journal: Public Health

27-May-2026

Salk Institute appoints Talmo Pereira as assistant professor and promotes Julie Law to professor

Salk Institute
Business Announcement

Salk Fellow Talmo Pereira, who designs AI-based tools to study movement in fields ranging from neuroscience to plant biology, joins the faculty as assistant professor. Julie Law, who studies how epigenetics influences human and plant health, has been promoted from associate professor to full professor.

27-May-2026

Alain Stintzi named President of the International Society of Microbiota

Mitochondria-Microbiota Task Force
Business Announcement

The International Society of Microbiota (ISM) has appointed Professor Alain Stintzi, University of Ottawa, Canada, as President of ISM, signaling a clear intention to reinforce scientific rigor and accelerate the transition of microbiota research toward mechanism-driven, clinically actionable, and industrially relevant applications.

27-May-2026

New analysis finds geographical differences in access to donor lungs, transplants

Cleveland Clinic
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University found that geographic location remains an important factor in access to donor lungs in the United States, even after recent updates to the national lung allocation system changed how donor lungs are distributed.

The study, published in CHEST, evaluated early experience under the lung Composite Allocation Score (CAS), a system designed to prioritize transplant candidates based on factors including medical urgency, projected post-transplant survival and biological compatibility.

Journal: CHEST Journal

27-May-2026

DNA methylation clocks may help explain how social inequality influences mortality

Impact Journals LLC
Peer-Reviewed Publication

BUFFALO, NY — May 27, 2026 — A new research paper was published in Volume 18 of Aging-US on May 8, 2026, titled “The mediating role of DNA methylation clocks in associations of race, ethnicity, education, income, and occupation with mortality: findings from NHANES 1999-2002.”

Journal: Aging-US

27-May-2026

ASCO: UT MD Anderson faculty honored as 2026 Special Award recipients

University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Grant and Award Announcement

CHICAGO, MAY 27, 2026 ― In honor of their outstanding contributions to oncology, Sharon Giordano, M.D., chair of Breast Medical Oncology, and Eduardo Vilar-Sanchez, M.D., Ph.D., chair ad interim of Clinical Cancer Prevention, from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center will receive Special Awards at the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.

Meeting: ASCO Annual Meeting 2026

27-May-2026

Colorectal cancer risk linked to gut microbiome alterations

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

More than a decade after removal of an adenoma—a precancerous mass—from the colon, alterations to the gut microbiome and metabolites remain and may drive heightened risk of colorectal cancer (CRC), according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study also found that diet and physical activity were more closely tied to the abundance of these CRC-associated gut microbes in people with a history of adenoma than in adenoma-free individuals, suggesting lifestyle may play a particularly important role in shaping these microbes in this high-risk group.

Journal: Cell Host & Microbe
Funder: team OPTIMISTICC, Prescient Metabiomics, Cancer Research UK, Cancer Research UK, American Cancer Society