Latest News Releases 6 April

Columbus, OH; Cleveland, OH, April 7, 2025 – CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society specializing in scientific content and knowledge management, and Cleveland Clinic, an academic health system with a global footprint, announced plans for a strategic collaboration that will unite the organizations’ unique expertise, technology, and data capabilities to fuel clinical research.  

 

During the Cleveland Discovery & Innovation Forum, an event highlighting cutting-edge healthcare and life sciences research, the two global organizations announced that their collaboration’s first strategic focus area will be aiming to advance research on health, wellness, and healthy aging.

The International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) will hold its 2025 Annual Meeting – the organization’s 24^th – from Wednesday, April 30 through Saturday, May 3, 2025, bringing together a global, multidisciplinary group of more than 2,000 autism researchers, clinicians, advocates, self-advocates, and students from 53 countries to exchange the latest scientific learnings and discoveries that are advancing the expanding understanding of autism and its complexities. This year’s meeting will be held in Seattle, Washington at the Seattle Convention Center.

Invasive species cause environmental mayhem when they establish themselves in a new ecosystem. But these interlopers can also impact human health directly. Deadly diseases can jump from animals to humans, as the COVID-19 pandemic vividly illustrated.

Mass General Brigham investigators have linked difficult early life experiences with reduced quality and quantity of the white matter communication highways throughout the adolescent brain. This reduced connectivity is also associated with lower performance on cognitive tasks.

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth’s Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water quality. Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through where these microbes live, and they consume the remaining pollutants.

This zone is crucial for supporting life, as it regulates essential processes like soil formation, water cycling and nutrient cycling, which are vital for food production, water quality and ecosystem health.

Despite being the brain’s central relay hub, the thalamus has been underexplored. New work shows that the thalamus can update its own connections, independently of the cortex.

Neuro-immunologist Stephen Hauser, MD, whose maverick thinking transformed the treatment landscape for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), has received the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.

Tulane University scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence-based method to more accurately detect antibiotic resistance in deadly bacteria such as tuberculosis and staph. The breakthrough could lead to faster and more effective treatments and help mitigate the rise of drug-resistant infections, a growing global health crisis.