The first Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (VCID) Workshop, held on May12-16, 2025 at The Jackson Laboratory, provided scientific content and career development training in the latest developments in VCID and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and related dementia (ADRD). The Workshop aimed to foster interdisciplinary collaborations and empower the next generation of diverse scientists to advance ADRD research...

Maintaining biodiversity is crucial for maximising ecosystem resilience. Despite this, anthropogenic disturbances are driving global biodiversity declines that are heightened in vulnerable ecosystems like coral reefs. Coral reefs are impacted by sedimentation, overfishing and habitat degradation, which impacts biodiversity and therefore the range of functional roles of the reef fish that they support. To evaluate how anthropog...

Humans are exposed to chemicals that leach from plastics, yet many remain data-poor and lack toxicological evaluation. High-throughput transcriptomics (HTTr) provides a scalable way to screen chemicals and generate mechanistic insights relevant to human health risk assessment. We applied HTTr in MCF-7 breast cancer cells to assess chemicals across several concentrations (0.001–50 µM) used in plastics and dyes. Transcriptomic p...