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Bleached corals came back to full health in seven weeks.
A brief tissue bridge moved helpful algae within three days—and recovery continued after the corals were separated.
SOURCEStanford Doerr School of Sustainability / Science Advances
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A major Alzheimer's prevention trial has randomized its first participant.
The study will test whether clearing amyloid, then adding a second mechanism, can delay inherited Alzheimer's.
SOURCEBanner Health
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Nine funders just put more than $500 million behind species recovery.
A new alliance is coordinating five years of targeted recovery funding.
SOURCERe:wild
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Ghana cut malaria deaths 98%.
Reported malaria deaths fell from 3,259 in 2011 to 52 in 2025.
SOURCEGhana Health Service
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EU regulators backed a new pancreatic-cancer pill.
An EMA committee recommended a once-daily oral RAS inhibitor for eligible adults with metastatic pancreatic cancer.
SOURCEEuropean Medicines Agency
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A tiny sensor gave people with type 2 diabetes five more hours in range.
A randomized trial found continuous glucose monitoring added about five hours a day in the target range—even without insulin.
SOURCENew England Journal of Medicine
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Vaccines prevented 2.2 million future deaths in one year.
The future changed 2.2 million times.
SOURCEGavi, the Vaccine Alliance
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A Swedish CAR-T trial saw complete responses in 8 of 12 patients.
Eight complete responses. Twelve patients.
SOURCEElicera Therapeutics
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The world's rarest ape has grown to 44.
Forty-four, from the brink.
SOURCEHainan International Media Center
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Patient feedback cut an epilepsy monitor’s false alarms by about 80%.
A monitor improved when patients could explain what its sensors got wrong.
SOURCENational Institutes of Health / Nature Medicine
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An experimental drug shielded celiac patients during a gluten challenge.
A 32-person study found less injury and fewer symptoms—but it is still early.
SOURCEReuters / AnaptysBio
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River blindness transmission is gone from 11 of 13 Americas foci.
A new WHO review says transmission now remains only in the remote cross-border Yanomami Focus Area shared by Brazil and Venezuela.
SOURCEWorld Health Organization
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A rare-disease drug reported zero new bone lesions through 84 weeks.
In the OPTIMA extension, adults who stayed on Pasatru had no new lesions detected between weeks 56 and 84; the placebo group had nine.
SOURCERegeneron / The Lancet
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Taiwan reached a 92.7% Hepatitis C treatment rate.
More than 7.86 million people have been screened. Diagnosis reached 92.4%, treatment 92.7%, and treatment in key high-risk groups 95%.
SOURCECommercial Times (Taiwan)
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NATURE
Togo’s cotton yields rose from 570 kg to over a tonne per hectare.
The national average rose above one tonne per hectare in 2025–26; some farmer-field-school groups reached 1.4 to 2 tonnes while cutting pest treatments.
SOURCEBird Story Agency via AllAfrica
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A phase 3 lung-fibrosis drug preserved breathing better than placebo.
The lower dose met the trial’s main goal over 52 weeks. The higher dose did not, and the detailed results are not yet published.
SOURCEReuters / Bristol Myers Squibb
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An mRNA vaccine formulation kept working after two months at body-heat temperatures.
A preclinical formulation held onto its biological activity for more than two months at 37°C—and matched fresh material in mouse immune-response tests.
SOURCENature Biotechnology
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NATURE
$18 million will help ranchers keep great plains grassland intact.
The fund starts with $9 million from Walmart Foundation and $9 million in aligned investment from McDonald’s USA and suppliers.
SOURCENational Fish and Wildlife Foundation
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Latvia’s new alcohol rules were followed by a 27% drop in alcohol-specific deaths.
WHO/Europe calls the result an early signal: the evaluation covers five months and independent peer review is pending.
SOURCEWorld Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
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Of 285 large UK rewilding projects, one was hit by fire this year.
The advocacy-group analysis also found burned areas from 2016–2026 were concentrated in acid grassland, heather, bog and other simplified landscapes rather than restored habitat.
SOURCERewilding Britain
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Six people with advanced retinal disease became measurably more sensitive to light.
In a 10-person safety trial, an experimental optogenetic treatment produced clinically meaningful light-sensitivity gains in six participants. It did not restore normal sight.
SOURCENew England Journal of Medicine
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SCIENCE
A lab-grown lung model kept its own immune memory.
Human lung organoids retained resident T cells, recognized SARS-CoV-2 and responded more strongly after a simulated booster.
SOURCENational Institutes of Health / Nature
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NATURE
Healthy reef sounds drew more coral and fish larvae.
Underwater playback helped young corals and fish find experimental reef structures in field trials off Oʻahu.
SOURCEScripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego / Communications Biology / Scientific Reports
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40,000 native sedges started repairing a Yosemite meadow.
Three years in, the soil is improving. Full recovery may still take 25 to 50 years.
SOURCEColorado State University / JGR Biogeosciences
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