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Sep 2026
New V-UNet model improves efficient medical image segmentation
Segmentation tools help doctors identify and delineate tumors, lesions, and other abnormalities in medical images.
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Sep 2026
Mitochondrial stress triggers long-term protection against heart damage
Mitochondria are popularly known as the "powerhouse of the cell," but these cellular structures do so much more-including acting as signaling hubs.
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Sep 2026
Younger and older brains respond differently to traumatic injury
Conventional wisdom holds that younger brains are better equipped to recover from injury. Their greater flexibility allows them to adapt, rebuild connections and compensate for damage in ways older brains often cannot.
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Sep 2026
Independent review reinforces value of vaccines across all ages
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) supports the 2026-27 respiratory season vaccine evidence review released on September 2, 2026, by the Vaccine Integrity Project (VIP) in collaboration with the American Medical Association.
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Sep 2026
High-energy tissues rely on macrophages to clear cellular waste
The body's heart muscle (for pumping blood), skeletal muscle (for movement and posture), and brown fat (for heat production), each require a lot of energy and make a lot of waste. And that waste needs to be managed.
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Sep 2026
Bird feeding offers emotional and meaningful well-being benefits
More than 56 million U.S. adults feed wild birds. For many, filling a feeder is a routine way to connect with birds and other wildlife. But researchers know less about what that interaction may mean for the people doing it.
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Sep 2026
Early medical training could strengthen the primary care pipeline
A primary-care physician is hard to find. The thousands needed nationwide are even tougher to discover. A new paper led by a faculty member at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine (HMSOM) points to why - and outlines strategies to boost recruitment, starting in undergraduate medical education.
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Sep 2026
Autoimmune diseases form distinct genetic clusters, study finds
Different autoimmune diseases often share genetic risk factors, but not through a single common genetic vulnerability.
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Sep 2026
Researchers uncover how Atg2 drives autophagosome formation
Autophagy is an intracellular degradation mechanism in eukaryotes. The autophagosome, which encloses damaged or excess cellular material for degradation, is constructed from lipids supplied by the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), via the lipid transfer protein Atg2.
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Sep 2026
Gut bacterial metabolite linked to inflammation in liver disease
Researchers have identified a link between specific activities in gut bacteria and the liver disease PSC.
