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The buttery and delicate taste of cheese shines bright in these vegetable side dishes. From creamy casseroles to crispy Parmesan-crusted veggies, you’re sure to find a healthy, melty and cheesy recipe you’ll enjoy. Plus, with four- and five-star ratings from EatingWell members, recipes like our French Onion Smashed Potatoes and Cheesy Pull-Apart Cauliflower with Marinara are guaranteed to become regular favorites in your home. Love these recipes? Join MyRecipes to save them all with one click. It’s so easy—and free! French Onion–Stuffed Mushroom Bites Photographer: Brittney Cottrell, Food stylist: Isabelle Easter, Prop Stylist: Keoshia McGhee. Inspired by classic French onion…

How’s this for an academic dream team? Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr and Richard Feynman. The three physicists and I often get together over coffee to chat about career decisions, difficulties and dilemmas. Of course, not the real Einstein, Bohr and Feynman — the last of the trio to die was Feynman, in 1988 — but rather, simulations of the three that I have assembled, using artificial intelligence (AI), to serve as my personal advisory board.AI is seemingly everywhere these days. It’s in productivity apps, web browsers and technical support lines. AI users increasingly report developing friendships, and even romantic relationships,…

Credit: Christoph Bock/Wikimedia Commons High-performance enzyme engineering company Watchmaker Genomics recently launched TAPS+, a novel technology that allows for simultaneous detection of methylation and genetic variants using a single sample. The chemistry enables simultaneous detection of methylation (5mC), single-nucleotide variants (SNVs), insertions and deletions (indels), and copy number variations (CNVs) from the same DNA molecule. This multimodal approach has broad applications in oncology ranging from early disease detection to therapy response and minimal residual disease detection. Current methylation analysis typically leverage bisulfite, which converts unmethylated cytosines to thymines, reducing the four-base sequence (ATCG) to three bases. But this method is…

Exploring the crossroads of genetics and imaging, this postdoc investigates how cellular disarray leads to malignancy.Image credit:UW Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, ©iStock, DlumenQ | Write a brief introduction to yourself including the lab you work in and your research background. My name is Umar Sheikh and I am a cancer biologist in the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. My research spans cancer genomics, UVB photobiology, and the role of planar cell polarity loss in melanoma. I also investigate MmuPV1–estrogen interactions in cervical cancer using molecular and computational -omics approaches.Q | How did you first get…

Pharma giant Lilly strengthens ties with Insilico Medicine to accelerate AI-driven drug development and reshape discovery timelines. Insilico Medicine has announced a new research and licensing collaboration with Eli Lilly, expanding an existing relationship that dates back to 2023. The agreement will see Insilico’s Pharma.AI platform combined with Lilly’s disease expertise to discover and advance therapeutic candidates across a range of indications. Under the deal, Insilico will deploy its generative AI systems to generate, design and optimize compounds against targets defined by Lilly. Financial terms could exceed $100 million, including an upfront payment, milestones and tiered royalties on eventual commercial…

In October, the Kratom Consumer Advisory Council released a position statement citing the top 10 reasons that kratom should not be grouped with isolated concentrated synthetic products as a public health concern.“We are concerned that many members of the media, public, legislators and regulators are not distinguishing the historical natural kratom leaf product with these new products that bear little to no resemblance to the natural leaf,” the statement read. “We strongly believe that natural kratom leaf should be sensibly regulated and not banned.”Originating from a tropical evergreen tree in the coffee family, kratom has been consumed by rural and…

LifeBridge has introduced a natural dietary supplement for strengthening lung immunity during the illness-prone cold season. IQ Air, dubbed a “smart lung vitamin,” is a blend of vitamins like vitamin D3 and functional additions like cordyceps mushroom extract. The formula is crafted to “support strong, healthy lung tissue that can help naturally protect the body against common upper respiratory challenges,” states the company. It is also packed with antioxidants that claim to boost bodily defences from harmful free radicals on a daily basis.“The goal with IQ Air is to use natural ingredients to strengthen the body. In essence, we help…

Martin Whyte, a paediatric trainee who was suspended from the BMA’s Resident Doctors Committee in April 20231 over tweets that referred to “Jew banker goblins” and included “gas the jews,” has been given a formal warning by the General Medical Council (GMC).2The GMC’s investigation looked at three tweets from 2018 posted on social media by Whyte (box), formerly deputy co-chair of the BMA’s Resident (then Junior) Doctors Committee and deputy chair of its northern regional doctors committee.While the GMC’s representative, Colette Renton, argued that two of the posts were “objectively antisemitic,” Whyte’s representative, Iain Daniels, said that the doctor had…

These refreshing holiday drinks are sure to get the festivities started this winter. From effervescent spritzers to colorful punches, everyone can enjoy these delicious drinks that feature seasonal flavors like apple, cinnamon and cranberry. Recipes like our Apple-Ginger Moscow Mule Mocktail and Fizzy Rosemary Cider Mocktail are so tasty, they’re sure to become a regular part of your annual holiday get-together. Love these recipes? Join MyRecipes to save them all with one click. It’s so easy—and free! No-Added-Sugar Sangria Mocktail Heami Lee, Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall, Prop Stylist: Christine Keeley This sangria mocktail is a refreshing drink that highlights…

In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a grain of sand, can receive electrical signals and respond to them — much as computers do. Research teams from around the world can send the blobs tasks, in the hope that they will process the information and send a signal back.Welcome to the world of wetware, or biocomputers. In a handful of academic laboratories and companies, researchers are growing human neurons and trying to turn them into functional systems equivalent to biological transistors. These networks…