Scientists offer new insight into how common parasite T. gondii causes disease
A University of California, Riverside team of scientists has found that Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite affecting up to…
Why humans can’t make vitamin C in our bodies
Millions of years ago, our ancestors lost the ability to make vitamin C. It’s long been unclear why,…
Study traces deep origins of syphilis to prehistoric Americas
A newly sequenced genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, highlights the deep antiquity of treponemal diseases in…
Weill Cornell Medicine receives ARPA-H award to advance lymphatic disease diagnosis
Weill Cornell Medicine has received a $5.2 million, initial two-year award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for…
An LLM chatbot to facilitate primary-to-specialist care transitions: a randomized controlled trial
Ethics approval The Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College and the local medical ethics…
Holistic evaluation of large language models for medical tasks with MedHELM
Papers with Code. Question answering on MedQA (USMLE). https://paperswithcode.com/sota/question-answering-on-medqa-usmle (2024). Khosravi, M., Zare, Z., Mojtabaeian, S. M. &…
PRoRota-project aims to fight diarrhea in children using probiotics, hygiene, and models
The PRoRota-project will use probiotics, improved education in hygiene and advanced mathematical models to prevent children from dying…
Structural insights into the assembly and evolution of a complex bacterial flagellar motor
Chen, S. et al. Structural diversity of bacterial flagellar motors. EMBO J. 30, 2972–2981 (2011). Article PubMed PubMed…
Fungal commensal promotes intestinal repair via its secreted peptide in mice
Barker, N. Adult intestinal stem cells: critical drivers of epithelial homeostasis and regeneration. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol.…
Large-scale testing of antimicrobial lethality at single-cell resolution predicts mycobacterial infection outcomes
Sample collection We used the Mycobacterium abscessus laboratory strain ATCC-19977, the avirulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37Ra and the…
UBC researchers crack code to grow helper t cells from stem cells
For the first time, researchers at the University of British Columbia have demonstrated how to reliably produce an important type…
When measles made a comeback in Mesa County | Western Colorado
It was a comeback year in 2025 in many ways, from the resurgence of ’90s fashion, such as…