An entrepreneur who left clinical medicine to start companies has published a reflection outlining seven lessons learned during that transition, published as an opinion piece on Entrepreneur. The author argues that building a company is less about executing a clean strategic playbook and more about continuously solving unanticipated problems, with the first lesson emphasizing that curiosity matters more than existing expertise.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-21
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine engineered a suite of transgenic mice and viral constructs, including a new CD51-FLP line generated through BAC transgenesis, to label and manipulate specific astrocyte populations. Using these tools, combined with chemogenetic activation (hM3Dq/CNO) and conditional gene deletion (Nfia-flox), they showed that astrocytes expressing the surface protein CD51 form a functionally and molecularly distinct subset within neural circuits.
nature.com
· 2026-10-21
Alissa Totman, a 2013 MIT graduate, now works as a physician specializing in brain injury medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, treating adults with head trauma, stroke, and brain tumors. She traces her path into the field to her undergraduate involvement with MIT BrainTrust, a student group pairing MIT students with people living with brain injuries.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-10-20
Researchers at Seoul National University, publishing in Nature Medicine, analyzed health data from over 4.5 million Korean adults divided into smokers and short- or long-term quitters. Former smokers who switched to daily vaping developed lung cancer at a rate 56 percent higher than those who quit all nicotine products, and had a 91 percent higher lung cancer death rate.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-16
TimeTeller, a German startup led by CEO Angela Relógio, is now selling a direct-to-consumer saliva test kit that measures a person's circadian rhythm. Relógio, a physicist and former oncology researcher, says the company began taking direct orders due to demand from longevity clinics seeking data to personalize sleep, nutrition and activity advice. She stresses the consumer kit does not yet determine optimal timing for cancer treatments, which requires separate clinical research.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-14
A meta-analysis published in Psychological Medicine by King's College London researchers found that cannabis users showed a statistically higher likelihood of committing violent acts. The same analysis found cannabis use, especially among women and mixed-gender groups, was significantly associated with a greater risk of being a victim of violence.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-12
Two 2026 studies — by Bilal et al. in Nature Communications and Thapa et al. in Nature Medicine — report that patterns within sleep data contain signals linked to future health outcomes, beyond what is currently used in clinical practice. Both papers build on earlier research showing sleep changes can precede diagnosis of various diseases.
nature.com
· 2026-10-12
A Nature editorial cites data showing the share of doctors who also conduct research has fallen sharply in the US, UK and Japan over recent decades, with the steepest drops among early-career physician-scientists. A medRxiv survey found more than half of early-career US physician-scientists are considering abandoning academic work for purely clinical careers, compared with 31% of physicians generally considering leaving their post within two years.
nature.com
· 2026-10-12
A Nobel Prize database listing references Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel in connection with the 2026 Physiology or Medicine category. The source material consists of a filterable prize-history index rather than an official announcement confirming any award decision.
nobelprize.org
· 2026-10-05
Neko Health, the Swedish preventative-health startup co-founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne, has opened in New York after raising nearly $1 billion and amassing a global waitlist of over 300,000 people. The company charges $500 for a one-hour scan covering dozens of biomarkers, blood, skin and metabolic screening, which is not covered by insurance but may qualify under Health Savings Accounts.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-03
Nature has released an interactive quiz asking readers to identify women who have won Nobel prizes in physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine. The feature accompanies the publication's broader look at the long-standing gender gap among science Nobel winners since the prizes began in 1901, and will be updated once this year's winners are announced.
nature.com
· 2026-10-02
The University of Vermont's Larner College of Medicine is leading a research project awarded as much as $38 million to study whether digital twins can simulate how critically ill patients respond to treatments. The initiative targets ICU decision-making, where clinicians must weigh variables such as unusual immune responses when choosing therapies.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-01
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