The Medical News

1. Bruker announces strategic collaboration with Atinary Technologies to advance Self-Driving Laboratories

   Bruker Corporation today announced an expanded strategic collaboration with Atinary Technologies Inc., the pioneer of Self-Driving Labs® technologies and AI-driven R&D with applications in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, energy, and materials.

2. Machine learning uses gene neighborhoods to identify harmful poultry bacteria

   When it comes to identifying harmful bacteria, it helps to look at the company their genes keep.

3. CN Bio awarded Innovate UK grant to reduce animal use in pharmacokinetic studies

   CN Bio, a leading provider of Organ-on-a-chip (OOC) Systems and solutions that accelerate drug discovery and development workflows, today announced it has been awarded £180 k grant funding from Innovate UK.

4. Bedfont® brings respiratory monitoring solutions to ERS with a focus on clinical research

   Bedfont® Scientific Limited, a world leader in breath analysis, is excited to be attending this year's European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress in Barcelona.

5. The coffee advice given to atrial fibrillation patients may deserve a rethink

   The DECAF randomized trial found that adults with persistent atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter assigned to drink at least one cup of caffeinated coffee daily had a 39% lower hazard of recurrent clinically detected AF or flutter than those assigned to avoid coffee and caffeine. The findings challenge longstanding advice to routinely restrict caffeinated coffee in people with AF, while further research is needed to determine whether coffee itself provides a protective effect.

6. Wiley releases database combining two of the world’s most trusted chemical identification resources

   Wiley, a global leader in authoritative content and research intelligence, today released the new edition of the Wiley Registry/NIST Mass Spectral Library, a reference database that combines two essential mass spectrometry references in a single, integrated collection, giving scientists the full depth of both to identify unknown chemical compounds.

7. How much do nuts matter for blood pressure? This study points to about a handful a day

   A meta-analysis of eight prospective studies involving 143,380 participants found that higher nut consumption was associated with a lower risk of developing hypertension. Each 28 g/day increment was associated with a 20% lower relative risk in the linear analysis, while the modeled association appeared to level off at around one handful per day.

8. Cannabis compounds may weaken glioblastoma response to chemotherapy and radiation

   Several cannabinoids reduced chemotherapy- and radiation-induced apoptosis in glioblastoma cell models, with effects linked to reduced apoptotic priming, increased pro-survival signaling, and G1 cell-cycle arrest. The findings raise concern that cannabinoid exposure could interfere with some cancer treatments, although the results are limited to laboratory models and require in vivo and clinical validation.