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133 discoveries published so far

October 17, 2026 A brain enzyme that tracks with memory in old age Researchers led by Amar Sahay at Massachusetts General Hospital found that an enzyme called Pla2g2f, a fat-cutting phospholipase, appears to protect the aging brain.
October 17, 2026 How stress wakes up a sleeping arthritis People with rheumatoid arthritis have long said that stress can bring back swollen joints even after the disease has gone quiet, and a team from Chiba University has now traced the path.
October 17, 2026 Early diabetic eye damage often goes backward Researchers followed 2,348 patients with very mild and 705 with mild nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy in the Indian Health Service teleophthalmology program, rechecking within three years of a 2015 to 2017 baseline.
October 16, 2026 The melanoma vaccine that kept a teacher in his classroom After surgeons cut out his melanoma in 2019, public school teacher Gary Keblish was referred to a trial of Merck and Moderna's personalized mRNA vaccine, intismeran autogene, given alongside the immunotherapy Keytruda.
October 15, 2026 Reading a remorseful character makes people more forgiving, including of real people Ohio State researchers Angus Fletcher and Mark Matthews tested one narrative technique, internal focalization, where the storyteller shows a wrongdoer's private thoughts of regret.
October 15, 2026 A common blood-pressure pill may switch on brown fat Researchers at Rockefeller University, with Memorial Sloan Kettering, used AI tools on PET/CT scans and records from more than 100,000 cancer patients, double the earlier cohort, and looked at more than 500 diagnostic codes.

Progress like this happens every day.