Friday, May 9, 2025

Health Technology

Rapidly evolving orphan immunity genes protect human gut bacteria from intoxication by the type VI secretion system

AbstractBacteria encode diverse mechanisms for mediating interbacterial antagonism through the exchange of toxic effector proteins. Although the structure, function, and regulation of these pathways...

Small language models learn enhanced reasoning skills from medical textbooks

The healthcare and medical fields are highly complex, requiring in-depth expertise and knowledge. Despite the growing demand for healthcare services, a significant gap persists...

Tracking Healthcare M&A Activity in 2025

  Sanford Health and Marshfield Clinic In January, Sanford Health, a large rural health system based in Sioux Falls, S.D., and Marshfield Clinic Health System, an integrated health...

Can smarter procurement drive innovation in smaller countries?

Healthcare procurement is an essential step for public systems looking to acquire new solutions – but it's often a lengthy and complex process, particularly...

Exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances elicits cell type-specific impacts on p53 and TGF-β signaling pathways

AbstractPer- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of synthetic chemicals extensively used as plastic additives. Their environmental persistence and potential for bioaccumulation have...

Disease-associated loci share properties with response eQTLs under common environmental exposures

AbstractMany of the genetic loci associated with disease are expected to have context-dependent regulatory effects that are underrepresented in the transcriptomes of healthy, steady-state...

A systematic review of quantum machine learning for digital health

Recent years have seen a proliferation of research proclaiming the utility of quantum machine learning (QML) algorithms for analyzing classical data in many sectors,...