Mercury Pharmaceuticals

Fish-inspired device enables scalable monitoring of beating heart organoids

An international team, including the University of Tokyo, has created a sensor inspired by the lateral line in fish - their "sixth sense" organ - which measures the pulse of lab-grown 3D heart tissue (cardiac organoids).

Blood metabolism maps how lifestyle tracks function in cognitive aging

A new study used pathway-level blood metabolomics to identify lifestyle-associated metabolic patterns linked to physical, cognitive, and daily functional performance across CN, MCI, and AD. The findings suggest that diet- and activity-linked pathway signals span energy, amino acid, lipid, inflammatory, oxidative stress, and microbiome-related metabolism, but require independent and longitudinal validation.

Fatal rabies case underscores need for immediate preventive treatment

Ontario's first case of fatal rabies since 1967 provides critical guidance to help prevent death from rabies in future instances.

New brain implant could restore communication for people with speech loss

Many Australians living with neurological disorders, such as motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis, experience speech difficulties and may lose their ability to speak.

Experts introduce updated framework for heart failure care worldwide

A new international expert consensus document refines and updates how heart failure is identified and classified, aiming to improve prevention, diagnosis and management of heart failure worldwide.

Study finds two effective therapies for common childhood eating disorder

The first randomized, controlled trial for a common childhood eating disorder has shown how therapists and parents can help those struggling with the condition, known as avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, or ARFID.

Eye-tracking technology reveals design flaws in intravenous smart pumps

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are using eye-tracking technology to help understand how nurses interact with intravenous smart pumps, providing a new way to identify design flaws in systems associated with more medication errors than any other route of administration.

New strategy restores vancomycin effectiveness against resistant bacteria

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most urgent threats to global health, linked to an estimated 4.7 million deaths worldwide in 2019 alone.

Researchers develop new framework for dissecting the mechanics of artificial cells

What if the mechanical properties of a cell could be programmed like the components of a machine?

Okra supplements may lower cholesterol and inflammation markers in diabetes