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6-Oct-2025

Scientists blaze new path to fighting viral diseases

A method for making medicines against COVID-19 can be used to fight other RNA-based viruses, including Marburg, influenza, Ebola and more, said chemist Matthew Disney, Ph.D.

Journal: JACS
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Muscular Dystrophy Association

6-Oct-2025

New Alliance trial aims to improve outcomes in metastatic prostate cancer

Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
Business Announcement

The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology has launched the ASPIRE trial—a large-scale, Phase III clinical study investigating whether adding chemotherapy to current standard treatments can extend survival for men living with advanced prostate cancer.

Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute

3-Oct-2025

California partnership aided COVID-19 response and health equity, report finds

University of California - Riverside
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new report highlights how the Share, Trust, Organize, Partner COVID-19 California Alliance, known as STOP COVID-19 CA, helped address challenges some communities in California faced during the pandemic.

Journal: Health Expectations
Funder: NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

3-Oct-2025

Prenatal Zika virus exposure causes long-term, sex-specific immune changes in offspring, study finds

Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Wayne State University study published in the Oct. 3, 2025, issue of Nature Communications revealed that Zika virus exposure during pregnancy causes long-term, sex-specific changes to a baby’s immune system, particularly affecting the frontline immune cells that fight infection.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

3-Oct-2025

The essential role of the urban tree microbiome: A key to city health

Boston University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers from the Bhatnagar Lab at Boston University recently published a paper in Nature Cities that studied the difference in microbial communities of street trees and non-urban forest trees. By analyzing fungal and bacterial diversity, tree size, and soil properties, their research shows the impacts of urban environmental stressors upon city tree microbiomes.

Journal: Nature Cities
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, U.S. National Science Foundation