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Roasted acorn squash blended with burrata makes a creamy, flavorful pasta sauce.Simple add-ins like chile paste, garlic and herbs balance the squash’s natural sweetness.The recipe is flexible—swap squash, spice or cheese based on what you have on hand. With the arrival of fall comes a bounty of winter squash (think butternut squash, acorn squash, spaghetti squash and more). These sturdy gourds are not just gorgeous, they’re also delicious and packed with health benefits. We love them roasted, but also blended into soups or turned into a casserole. It turns out they can also be used to make a delicious sauce…

To keep lettuce fresh, inspect the leaves closely while grocery shopping and skip any with signs of wilting or damage.Wait to wash your lettuce until just before using it, since excess moisture can encourage bacterial growth.Always handle lettuce with clean hands, utensils and cutting boards to avoid cross-contamination. Lettuce adds crunch and fresh flavor to salads, sandwiches and more. But without proper storage, these delicate greens can wilt, lose their crispness or turn into a mushy mess—wasting both food and money. Here are five expert tips to help your lettuce last longer. 1. Look for Signs of Damage While Shopping …

Liposomes contain nanodrugs as a drug delivery system. [Love Employee/Getty Images] Targeted drug delivery has long been a cornerstone goal of modern medicine—sending therapies exactly where they’re needed while sparing healthy tissues. Yet creating treatments that can decide when and where to act has remained a major challenge. Now, a new study from the University of Washington (UW) offers a powerful step forward in programmable proteins that use Boolean logic to make molecular decisions inside the body. In a proof-of-principles study published this week in Nature Chemical Biology, Cole DeForest, PhD, professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering at UW, and…

The season of pumpkin pie this and pumpkin spice that is upon us. And as a dietitian, I’m all for adding more pumpkin to your day—it is a vegetable after all! This veggie naturally has a mildly sweet taste, but so many pumpkin recipes are geared for breakfast. While these foods may satisfy your sweet tooth, they will surely spike your blood sugar and leave you feeling hungry (yet again) within the hour.

Dominic McKenna radiology registrar, Richard Mayne general practitioner, Carrie Carson consultant oncologist, Sarah Collins patient coauthor, Ekambar Reddy consultant ENT surgeon McKenna D, Mayne R, Carson C, Collins S, Reddy E. HPV positive oropharyngeal cancer BMJ 2025; 391 :e086142 doi:10.1136/bmj-2025-086142

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) signed off this week on an advisory committee’s recommendations for updated COVID-19 vaccines for the 2025–2026 season. Under the new guidelines, each person should make their own individual decision about whether to get a COVID-19 vaccine, in consultation with a healthcare provider.[1]“Informed consent is back,” CDC deputy secretary Jim O’Neill said in a statement. “CDC’s 2022 blanket recommendation for perpetual COVID-19 boosters deterred health care providers from talking about the risks and benefits of vaccination for the individual patient or parent. That changes today.”Read on for more information on what these changes…

Last month, the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Jayanta Bhattacharya, gave the keynote address at the National Health Research Forum. He expressed concern about various problems facing early career researchers and pledged that the NIH would support them. Notably, however, he neglected to mention the biggest issue currently affecting early career researchers: recent actions by NIH leadership that—on his watch—have thrown biomedical research in the United States into chaos.I am a postdoctoral fellow at the NIH and a steward of the NIH Fellows Union–UAW 2750, which represents more than 5,000 early career researchers across the NIH. Over…

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Credit: Andrew Brookes / Getty Images Blood protein profiles for dozens of diseases have been released in an open-access, online resource that could progress the development of precision medicines. The distinct protein patterns, outlined in a study in the journal Science, may help detect diseases early on, stratify patients, and monitor the effect of therapeutic interventions. The resource covers 59 diseases and comes from in-depth proteomics research that examined differences according to age, sex, and body mass index. It demonstrates the power of a unified proteomics approach to reveal biological insights, revealing both shared and distinct protein patterns across a…