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  • China’s cleaner air cuts PM2.5, but dementia deaths still rise with aging
    on May 20, 2026 at 10:00 pm

    In a recent study from Peking University Health Science Center, doctoral student Kang Ning and colleagues found that air pollution reductions alone cannot offset the impact of rapid population aging on dementia deaths in China. The study has been published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity.

  • Rewiring early life: What extremely preterm birth teaches us about the brain
    on May 20, 2026 at 9:40 pm

    Extremely preterm birth (before 28 weeks of gestation) places infants into the world at one of the most extraordinary moments in human development. The brain at this stage is not simply growing; it is folding, organizing, and laying down the networks that will eventually support language, memory, attention, and learning. It is doing all of this in the dark, in the warmth, protected. When birth happens this early, all conditions change in an instant.

  • Why does ALS pathology spread differently among patients?
    on May 20, 2026 at 9:40 pm

    A research team at the Brain Research Institute, Niigata University has found that APOE ε4, a genetic factor best known for increasing the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, may also influence how pathological changes spread in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The findings were published in Acta Neuropathologica.

  • Cardiac organoids show potential for myocardial repair after infarction
    on May 20, 2026 at 9:20 pm

    Myocardial infarction remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Following an infarction, part of the heart muscle is irreversibly damaged and replaced by scar tissue, which, while structurally necessary, compromises cardiac function and may lead to chronic heart failure.

  • Early warning from low-risk cysts could help catch pancreatic cancer sooner
    on May 20, 2026 at 9:00 pm

    Catching pancreatic cancer early can increase the five-year survival rate from 15% to 80%. Patients with pancreatic cysts, frequently detected during unrelated abdominal CT or MRI imaging, can develop malignant pancreatic cancers. In a new study, Mass General Brigham investigators showed that patients with low-risk pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs) have approximately 14 times higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer than the general population.