GoKawiil
Tech News
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.
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.
Researchers analyzed nearly half a million brain cells from tissue of 30 deceased individuals, creating a detailed cellular map of the adult hippocampus. The study, published in Nature Medicine, found that people who had depression showed disrupted production of new neurons compared with those without the disorder.