
Lab-grown mini-brains shed light on childhood epilepsy
Researchers from the MOSAIC team at the Paris Brain Institute have developed mosaic human cortical organoids carrying mutations in the DEPDC5 gene in order to model focal cortical dysplasia.

Researchers from the MOSAIC team at the Paris Brain Institute have developed mosaic human cortical organoids carrying mutations in the DEPDC5 gene in order to model focal cortical dysplasia.

The research, published in Nature Methods, introduces a series of fluorescent dyes that make it much easier to take ultra‑detailed images of living cells.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have developed an improved method for creating insulin-producing cells from human stem cells.

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have developed patient-derived tumor organoids and tumor organoid xenografts that accurately reflect the biologic underpinnings of embryonal brain tumors.

McGill University researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can identify small groups of cells most responsible for driving aggressive cancers.

Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) developed a new RNA sequencing strategy that can reveal how genetic variants disrupt gene function and improve the diagnosis of rare diseases.

MILFORD, Mass., April 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today announced that the BD BACTEC™ FXI Culture System has received CE marking under the European Union’s In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (IVDR), enabling commercialization in Europe and representing a key milestone in the Company’s clinical microbiology portfolio expansion. The BD BACTEC FXI System is a next-generation, fully automated blood culture system designed to improve the speed, consistency, and accuracy of bloodstream infection diagnostics in modern microbiology laboratories.

A national study led by investigators from Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University found that transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement, or TTVR, delivered strong early results in real-world practice.

A study by investigators at Mass General Brigham has found that a blood test of plasma phosphorylated tau 217 (pTau217), an Alzheimer’s disease biomarker, can predict the progression of amyloid PET scan changes and cognitive decline in cognitively healthy older adults.

Scientists have taken an important step toward a gene therapy that could one day turn off the extra genetic material that causes Down syndrome (DS)