Science in 2025: the best of the rest

Jan. 2, 2026

A review of 2025's noteworthy advances in medical research, including GLP-1 receptor agonists as anti-aging drugs, tumor-agnostic therapies and xenotransplants.

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Today's news in brief

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BioWorld briefs for March 19, 2026.

Precision psychiatry beyond, or before, biomarkers

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There is broad agreement that psychiatric diagnoses in their current form are not reflective of any underlying biology, and that this is one of the things...

ADPD 2026: Can we prevent dementia? Scientists quantify it

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Neurodegenerative disease and cognitive decline cannot be explained by a single process. Beta-amyloid plaques, hyperphosphorylated tau, alpha-synuclein, activated...

Keros reports beneficial effects of RKER-065 in ALS model

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Keros Therapeutics Inc. has presented data regarding their activin receptor ligand trap, RKER-065, for the inhibition of the activin/myostatin signaling axis.

First-in-class POLG activator restores mtDNA across mutations

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Researchers from Pretzel Therapeutics Inc. presented preclinical data of PX-578, a first-in-class POLG activator aimed at restoring mtDNA replication and...