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1. STAT+: Nobel-winning optogenetics research has led to experimental treatments for blindness and Alzheimer's
Optogenetics is now the foundational way through which we are able to understand how the brain works
█████░░░░░5.23. STAT+: New Trump regulations would clean up health care pricing disclosures
The Trump administration is continuing its effort to bring more transparency to the cost of health care.
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Our approach to EU text provenance rules
How OpenAI is approaching text watermarking under EU rules.
No.04Verdict: RoutineScore█████░░░░░4.9 - STATby Herman
STAT+: Prices, prices, prices
Why is health insurance so expensive?
No.05Verdict: RoutineScore█████░░░░░4.8 - Hacker News
Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025)
No.06Verdict: RoutineScore█████░░░░░4.8 - STATby Aguilar
STAT+: Utah plows ahead with more health AI pilots for prescriptions, women's health
Utah plans to allow an AI product to evaluate patients and write new drug prescriptions without prior human review.
No.07Verdict: RoutineScore█████░░░░░4.7 - STATby Keshavan
STAT+: Lilly's Jaypirca approved as first-line CLL therapy
Eli Lilly's Jaypirca has won FDA approval for previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma.
No.08Verdict: NotableScore█████░░░░░4.7
Briefs
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Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening
█████░░░░░4.7 - Ars Technica
Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel
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STAT+: Vaxcyte claims success in bid to beat Pfizer and Merck in lucrative vaccine market
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We're reading about a Vaxcyte pneumococcal shot, increasing pharma M&A, and more
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Is AI the End of Math As We Know It?
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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't
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Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away
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Could we one day vaccinate against every cancer?
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Inventors of optogenetics win Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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STAT+: Divergent trial results on cancer vaccines have the field grappling with hard questions
████░░░░░░4.3 - Physics World
Hofstadter's butterfly turns 50: a fractal hiding in quantum matter
████░░░░░░4.3 - STAT
STAT+: Are stem cells the next peptides? These advocates think RFK Jr. could make it happen
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