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...

Purpose Residential segregation is recognized as an upstream driver of poor health, yet few studies have evaluated its impact on breast cancer incidence at a local level. We examined associations of neighborhood residential segregation with breast cancer (BC) incidence in the Multiethnic Cohort Study (MEC). Methods Measures of Index of Concentration at the Extremes were developed to assess residential segregation by income, ed...

Plants are known to affect their soils in ways that can have positive or negative effects on themselves and other plants, often described as plant-soil feedbacks. However, less is known about the potential for herbivores to change the soil in ways that affect plant growth. Many sap-feeding insect herbivores produce a sugary secretion called honeydew. Here, we ask if seasonal pulses of accumulated aphid ( Aphis nerii ) honeydew...

Due to fluctuations in sunlight intensity, balancing light-harvesting efficiency and photoprotection is critical for plant fitness. To achieve this balance, plants have evolved a highly regulated mechanism, non-photochemical quenching (NPQ), which is activated under excess light to dissipate absorbed energy and deactivated under low light to preserve photosynthetic efficiency. A key component that allows NPQ to respond rapidly...