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What happened in research today, from the outlets and labs that report it.
Edition No. 8
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Top stories
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
█████░░░░░4.82. 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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Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025)
No.04Verdict: RoutineScore█████░░░░░4.5 - OpenAI
Our approach to EU text provenance rules
How OpenAI is approaching text watermarking under EU rules.
No.05Verdict: RoutineScore█████░░░░░4.5 - Google Research
Open and Emergent Problems in Agentic Privacy and Security: A Contextual Angle
No.06Verdict: RoutineScore█████░░░░░4.5 - STATby Herman
STAT+: Prices, prices, prices
Why is health insurance so expensive?
No.07Verdict: RoutineScore████░░░░░░4.4 - 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████░░░░░░4.4
Briefs
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STAT+: Utah plows ahead with more health AI pilots for prescriptions, women's health
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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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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't
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Is AI the End of Math As We Know It?
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Could we one day vaccinate against every cancer?
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Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away
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STAT+: Divergent trial results on cancer vaccines have the field grappling with hard questions
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Inventors of optogenetics win Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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STAT+: Are stem cells the next peptides? These advocates think RFK Jr. could make it happen
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2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for brain research tool called optogenetics
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