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10-Dec-2024

Identifying a proliferating repairman for tissue in damaged lungs

University of Pennsylvania
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Penn Vet and Penn Medicine researchers found that endothelial cells lining the veins in lungs contribute to repair of blood vessels after lung injury.

Journal: Nature Cardiovascular Research
Funder: NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Ayla Gunner Prushansky Fund

10-Dec-2024

Increased area income improves birthweight rates, researchers find

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Higher incomes are often correlated with healthier pregnancies and babies, but is it really the money that matters? Sedimentary rocks that formed 390 million years ago, surprisingly, help provide the answer, at least for those who live above the Marcellus Shale formation, according to a team led by researchers at Penn State.

Journal: Demography
Funder: Russell Sage Foundation, NIH/National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse

10-Dec-2024

Sculpting the brain (without chisel or scalpel)

University of Rochester
Peer-Reviewed Publication

“With our method, not only can we nudge complex patterns around in the brain toward known ones, but also—for the first time—write directly a new pattern into the brain and measure what effect that has on a person’s behavior,” says Rochester brain and cognitive scientist Coraline Iordan.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: John Templeton Foundation, Intel Corporation, NIH/National Institutes of Health

10-Dec-2024

Study offers insight into chloroplast evolution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists found molecular evidence supporting the idea that chloroplasts originated as energy-generating organelles and only later evolved to support carbon assimilation in plant cells.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences

10-Dec-2024

New gene therapy reverses heart failure in large animal model

University of Utah Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a single IV injection, a gene therapy targeting cBIN1 can reverse the effects of heart failure and restore heart function in a large animal model. The therapy increases the amount of blood the heart can pump and dramatically improves survival.

Journal: npj Regenerative Medicine
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation