April 29, 2026 expert reaction to RCT which looks at semaglutide and motivation in depression . A randomised controlled trial published in JAMA Psychiatry looks at semaglutide use ...

April 30, 2026 expert reaction to the death of J. Craig Venter . Scientists comment on the death of American scientist Craig Venter. Prof Sir John Hardy, Professor of Neuroscience ...

April 30, 2026 expert reaction to an RCT for semaglutide in patients with alcohol use disorder and comorbid obesity . A randomised controlled trial published in The Lancet looks a ...

April 30, 2026 expert reaction to OBSCORE – a tool to identify individuals at highest risk of obesity-related complications . A study published in Nature Medicine looks at a new ...

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April 29, 2026 expert reaction to a paper showing associations between prenatal air pollution exposure and altered neurodevelopmental outcomes in early childhood . A study publish ...

‘Temporal trends in behavioural risk factors for cancers with rising incidence in younger adults: an analysis of population- based data in England’ by Montserrat Garcia- Closas et al. was published in ...

April 30, 2026 OBSCORE – a tool to identify individuals at highest risk of obesity-related complications . Obesity is a major global health challenge, with 60-70 per cent of adu ...

A study published in Science evaluates the performance of large language models (LLMs) on the reasoning tasks of a physician. Prof Gustavo Carneiro, Professor of AI and Machine Learning, University of ...

A randomised controlled trial published in The BMJ looks at accelerated continuous theta burst stimulation (a-cTBS) targeting left primary motor cortex for children with autism spectrum disorder. Prof ...

April 22, 2026 Study investigating whether bat alphacoronaviruses can enter human cells . As part of scientific research to monitor animal viruses and viral reservoirs globally, s ...

April 22, 2026 Launch of new human vaccine trial: mRNA vaccine candidate against H5N1 bird flu . A new vaccine trial is starting in the UK investigating an mRNA vaccine candidate ...