Science

A new study has found microplastics in more than three-quarters of popular pet food products tested, with wet food posing a particularly high daily intake burden for dogs and cats. The research, led by Emily Thrift at the University of Sussex and published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, tested 38 products from 19 major UK […]

The year 2025 was catastrophic for HIV control programs worldwide, UNAIDS has reported, with global development assistance falling by 23%, the sharpest single-year drop on record, and the consequences already visible in collapsed testing, decimated prevention programs, and dismantled community services. A World Report published June 20 in The Lancet by John Zarocostas details the […]

Chronic pain and sleep disruption are frequent companions. People with neuropathic pain, pain caused by damage to the nervous system, commonly suffer from insomnia as well, and each condition worsens the other. Whether this comorbidity is a coincidence or the product of a shared neural mechanism has been unclear. A study published June 19 in […]

Dedicated treatment facilities are the backbone of any Ebola outbreak response. They isolate the infected, protect the community, and provide the only care available. But inside their walls, conditions are brutal, and the people working there are paying a heavy price. A World Report published June 20 in The Lancet by journalist Talha Burki takes […]

Beneath our feet, threading through the top six inches of soil on every continent, runs a network so vast that its total length, laid end to end, would stretch roughly one billion times the distance from Earth to the Sun. This is the hidden infrastructure of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, and for the first time, […]

The brain is a ceaseless storm of electrical activity. Understanding how that storm is organized, how neurons in far-flung regions fire in concert to produce coherent thought, sensation, and action, is one of neuroscience’s deepest puzzles. A new study published June 18 in Science reveals a mechanism that may be central to solving it: spiral […]

After nearly a decade of legal wrangling and a high-stakes patent compromise, the European Union has taken its final major step toward deregulating gene-edited crops. On June 17, the European Parliament voted 431-201 to adopt a new regulatory framework that creates a two-tier system for plants developed through New Genomic Techniques (NGTs), most notably CRISPR/Cas9 […]

In January 2025, the National Institutes of Health began enforcing a new data security policy that requires any institution accessing its 39 controlled-access genomic data repositories, including dbGaP, the ABCD Study, and the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine program, to comply with NIST SP 800-171, a federal cybersecurity framework with roughly 110 security requirements across 14 […]

The FDA has reversed its opposition to the regulatory pathway for what could become the first disease-modifying therapy for Huntington’s disease, agreeing that three-year data from a Phase I/II trial of UniQure’s gene therapy AMT-130 can serve as the primary basis for a Biologics License Application under the accelerated approval pathway. The decision, reached during […]

An FDA advisory panel voted unanimously on Thursday that Moderna’s mRNA seasonal influenza vaccine, mFLUSIVA, should be approved for adults aged 50 and older, a decisive endorsement that moves the world’s second mRNA vaccine platform (after COVID-19 shots) closer to market. The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) held two votes, each returning […]