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They lined the surgery cavity with radioactive tiles. Surgical-site recurrence fell to 1.3%.

A Phase 3 trial turned the walls of a surgical cavity into the radiation treatment.

SOURCEUT MD Anderson Cancer Center / Journal of Clinical Oncology
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After brain-metastasis surgery, three to five radiation sessions beat one.

A small scheduling change produced a surprisingly large clinical difference.

SOURCEAmerican Society for Radiation Oncology
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A urine-and-swab test ruled out womb cancer 98.8% of the time.

A painless test using urine and a vaginal swab showed it could accurately rule out womb cancer for most women with postmenopausal bleeding.

SOURCEUniversity of Manchester
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New York City planted 18,261 trees. It started with the hottest blocks.

New York City planted its most trees in a decade and prioritized neighborhoods where extreme heat hits hardest.

SOURCENew York City Mayor’s Office
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A vitamin-derived molecule reached its target in mitochondrial disease patients.

A Cambridge-led study gave nicotinamide riboside to eight people with mitochondrial DNA disease. It was well tolerated and showed early signs of working.

SOURCEGenome Medicine / University of Cambridge
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THE MEADOW GREW BACK.

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They stopped dragging chains. The seagrass erased 94% of the scars.

Ten traditional chain moorings were replaced with eco-moorings that move with the tide instead of scraping circles through the seabed. Five years later, the damaged patches had shrunk by an average 93.6%.

SOURCENational Trust / Studland Bay Marine Partnership
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An experimental drug gave mice with MS-like disease their movement back.

In a mouse model of multiple sclerosis, the experimental drug K-9 restored function after paralysis and vision loss had already set in. It has not been tested in people with MS.

SOURCENational Institutes of Health / UVA Health
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Chagas treatment just got cut from 60 days to 30.

In the TESEO trial, 450 adults received different benznidazole regimens. The 30-day, once-daily option matched the standard 60-day course in the trial and caused fewer side effects.

SOURCEUTEP
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THE LINE HELD.

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A high school football team pulled a pontoon out of a flash flood.

When flash flooding hit New Richland, Minnesota, players from the New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva football team helped with a pontoon rescue instead of watching from the bank.

SOURCEKEYC News
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THE SCAN CAME BACK EMPTY.

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Two doses of a new immunotherapy cleared a child's liver cancer.

Researchers at Texas Children's, Baylor College of Medicine and Seattle Children's reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that a child with hepatoblastoma had complete regression of disease after a novel immunotherapy given as part of the CARE study.

SOURCETexas Children's Hospital
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THE HAND FELT BACK.

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He lost his arm at 16. Now he can feel his wife's hand.

Seventeen years after an amputation, Alexander “Avi” Davidson became the first participant to take Utah's thought-controlled bionic arm home — with a nerve interface that gives it a sense of touch.

SOURCEUniversity of Utah Health
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NOBODY REINTRODUCED IT.

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They stopped interfering. Forty years later, an anteater walked back in.

Mongabay reports a giant anteater turned up in an Argentine reserve on its own, decades after the species vanished locally — a case for letting recovering habitat do the work.

SOURCEMongabay
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TWO ORIGINS. ONE BRAIN.

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The human brain may have been built from two ancient systems.

Stanford researchers found the forebrain/midbrain and hindbrain arise from distinct progenitor cell populations — and used that insight to grow functional human hindbrain motor neurons in the lab.

SOURCEStanford Medicine
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THE GENOME GOT A BIGGER TOOLBOX.

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Gene editing just learned to move bigger pieces of DNA.

A new lab method can place gene-sized DNA at targeted sites in human cells. No patients yet.

SOURCENature
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THE SPACE UNDER THE PANELS GOT BUSY.

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The solar farm planted wildflowers. The bees noticed.

Panels up. Wildflowers in. Insects followed.

SOURCEEnvironmental Research Letters
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LAB BENCH HOPE.

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Scientists found antibodies that blocked the red-meat allergy in the lab.

42 antibodies made. Two blocked the reaction. In a dish, for now.

SOURCENIH
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DONE BY HAND.

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The diggers couldn't get there. So they fixed the bog by hand.

Ten days, wooden dams, no machinery. Pools are already forming.

SOURCENatureScot
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DAMS OUT. SALMON IN.

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The dams came down. More than 20,000 salmon came back.

Four dams gone. 21,052 adult Chinook counted upstream across two seasons. Eighty-eight percent of their documented historic range reoccupied — early, and encouraging.

SOURCEScientific Reports
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STAGE 1 AND 2, CAUGHT ABOUT 87% OF THE TIME

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A blood test just got better at finding pancreatic cancer early.

An investigational blood test flagged stage 1 and 2 pancreatic cancer about 87% of the time in a study of roughly 1,800 people. Not FDA-cleared. Still a big deal.

SOURCENature Medicine
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800 VILLAGERS. 350,000 OBSERVATIONS.

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They used to hunt the wildlife. Now the photos pay better.

About 800 villagers across nine Borneo villages get paid for verified photos, video and audio of wildlife. Two villages have since banned hunting themselves.

SOURCEBorneo Futures
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$650 AND JEOPARDY AT 7.

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The rent was too high. Then she met her 77-year-old roommate.

Affordable rent, useful help, and Jeopardy at 7.

SOURCEGood Good Good / HomeShare Vermont
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18.5 MONTHS INSTEAD OF 10.

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The experimental lung-cancer drug nearly doubled median survival.

18.5 months vs. 10.0. Promising, not approved.

SOURCEBioNTech / OncoC4
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208 TURTLES, HAND-DELIVERED.

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Seven “turtle women” sent 208 hatchlings back to the Amazon.

235 eggs in. 208 tiny turtles out.

SOURCEMongabay
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FOUR MILLION LAKES, WATCHED.

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The Arctic has a new early-warning map. It watches lakes disappear.

Four million Arctic lakes are now being watched in near real time for signs that frozen ground is giving way.

SOURCEAlfred Wegener Institute
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