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Sitting up straight may improve your mood and decision-making

5 hours 5 minutes ago
A simple change in posture may subtly affect how people feel and make decisions. Participants who sat upright reported greater feelings of pride and took more successful risks in a virtual balloon game than those who hunched over. Most did not realize researchers had influenced their posture, helping rule out the possibility that they were merely responding to expectations. The results suggest workplace ergonomics could influence more than physical comfort.

Scientists discover the brain cells that keep you motivated

5 hours 34 minutes ago
A group of brain cells called orexin neurons appears to help us keep working when reaching a reward becomes increasingly difficult. Blocking their activity weakened motivation in rats, pointing to a possible new target for understanding why people sometimes struggle to sustain goal-directed behavior.

A reproducible three-dimensional model of human brain tissue to investigate physiological and disease-associated microglia phenotypes

7 hours 44 minutes ago
Stem-cell-based in vitro models offer promising potential to elucidate human brain cell functions and interactions, but limitations in reproducibility, maturation and cell-type diversity persist. Especially, prolonged incorporation of mature microglia and studies of neuroinflammation have proven challenging. Here, we developed a human induced pluripotent stem cell-based three-dimensional cortical brain tissue model (3BTM) containing neurons, astrocytes and microglia with high reproducibility,...
Julien Klimmt

XunZi, an AI biologist, reveals disease-modifying targets

7 hours 44 minutes ago
Hypothesis generation in biomedicine is constrained by human cognitive limitations in synthesizing insights from fragmented biomedical knowledge and multimodal data sources. Here we introduce XunZi, an AI biologist that integrates logical reasoning and multimodal data fusion to autonomously generate de novo therapeutic target hypotheses with testable mechanisms. XunZi has been trained on 24.4 million publications and 613.6 TB of multisource data spanning 21,008 human genes and 5,850 diseases,...
Xinhe Huang

When lactate speaks: Rewiring astrocyte-neuron metabolism in Alzheimer's disease

1 day 7 hours ago
Metabolic dysfunction is a defining but poorly understood feature of Alzheimer's disease. Du et al. show that a brain-penetrant GLP-1 receptor agonist rewires astrocyte-neuron metabolic coupling through lactate-driven histone lactylation, linking astrocytic glycolysis to neuronal lipid homeostasis and positioning metabolite signaling as a therapeutic axis in neurodegeneration.
Jessica Furtado

How do energy metabolism disorders and neuroinflammation collectively contribute to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease?

1 day 7 hours ago
Alzheimer's disease (AD), as the leading cause of dementia, poses an increasingly severe socioeconomic burden in the context of global ageing. Traditionally defined by amyloid-β and tau pathology, it's increasingly recognized as a systems disorder in which impaired glucose metabolism, mitochondrial dysfunction, and neuroinflammation interact across neural cell types and disease stages. However, the interaction among these three mechanisms, their role in promoting the classical pathology of AD,...
Yinuo Lei

An updated patent review of mGlu5 negative allosteric modulators (2018 - present)

1 day 7 hours ago
Metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 (mGlu5) is an important regulator of excitatory neurotransmission and remains a therapeutic target for neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders, including substance use disorders, depression, Fragile X syndrome, Parkinson's disease-related dyskinesia, and other movement disorders. However, the clinical development of mGlu5 negative allosteric modulators (NAMs) has been limited by translational challenges, inconsistent efficacy, and safety concerns,...
Manka Marycleopha

Vestibular nucleus stimulation for ameliorating locomotor dynamics in a Parkinsonian mouse model

1 day 7 hours ago
Postural and locomotor dysfunction represent axial symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD), which remain poorly treated by medication and deep brain stimulation. Whilst non-invasive neuromodulation of the vestibular system via the vestibular nucleus complex (VNC) offers a novel therapeutic avenue, the underlying circuits are still poorly characterized. Here we show that the mouse VNC feeds extensive Vglut2-defined projections into striato-thalamo-subthalamic and caudal medulla motor hubs and...
Johannes Hartig

Community-Based ICOPE Screening Identifies Intrinsic Capacity Impairment and Supports Integrated Health and Social Care

1 day 7 hours ago
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: Community-based implementation of the WHO ICOPE pathway within routine systems is feasible and identified substantial multidomain IC impairment among otherwise independent older adults. Variation across sites highlights the need for context-specific service planning and targeted resource allocation. Embedding IC screening within community platforms, with coordinated referral pathways, supports earlier identification and management of functional decline and advances...
Reshma Aziz Merchant

Methionine tuning for health without frailty

1 day 7 hours ago
Dietary protein quality, not merely quantity, shapes metabolic health and aging trajectories. Fanti et al. show that moderate methionine supplementation to a low-protein, Mediterranean-inspired diet activates a GH-GLP-1-FGF21 axis that reduces adiposity and frailty without caloric restriction; their findings provide a mechanism for why traditional plant-rich diets may promote longevity while sometimes compromising physical robustness.
Amanda Garrido

CD163<sup>+</sup> red pulp macrophages interact with marginal metallophilic macrophages during blood-stage malaria to maintain splenic architecture

1 day 7 hours ago
The spleen harbors distinct macrophage subsets that support circulatory homeostasis and initiate immune responses, but the ontogeny and long-term dynamics of these populations remain incompletely understood. Here, we identified a transcriptionally and developmentally distinct CD163-expressing red pulp macrophage (CD163^(high) RPM) population that arose from yolk sac progenitors and occupied a vascular-associated niche. Using fate-mapping models, we showed that CD163^(-) RPMs were progressively...
Katharina Mauel

How do energy metabolism disorders and neuroinflammation collectively contribute to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease?

1 day 7 hours ago
Alzheimer's disease (AD), as the leading cause of dementia, poses an increasingly severe socioeconomic burden in the context of global ageing. Traditionally defined by amyloid-β and tau pathology, it's increasingly recognized as a systems disorder in which impaired glucose metabolism, mitochondrial dysfunction, and neuroinflammation interact across neural cell types and disease stages. However, the interaction among these three mechanisms, their role in promoting the classical pathology of AD,...
Yinuo Lei