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31-Jul-2025

New mRNA-based therapy that shows promise in heart regeneration after heart attack

Temple University Health System
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University have identified a new strategy that may help repair damaged heart tissue by reactivating an important developmental gene.

Journal: Theranostics
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, British Heart Foundation

31-Jul-2025

Hibernator “superpowers” may lie hidden in human DNA

University of Utah Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Animals that hibernate are incredibly resilient. New genetic research suggests that hibernating animals’ superpowers could lie hidden in our own DNA—and provides clues on how to unlock them, opening the door to someday developing treatments that could reverse neurodegeneration and diabetes.

Journal: Science
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institute on Aging, NIH/National Institute on Aging, NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, NIH/National Library of Medicine

31-Jul-2025

X-SCID gene therapy gives scientists rare glimpse into early immune system

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Explore a special subset of early immune cells discovered using the unique opportunity to observe the immune system’s development in children cured of X-SCID.

Journal: Immunity
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health

31-Jul-2025

Spinning up new flexible material for self-powered wearable sensors

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Could clothing monitor a person’s health in real time, because the clothing itself is a self-powered sensor? A new material created through electrospinning, which is a process that draws out fibers using electricity, brings this possibility one step closer.

Journal: Journal of Applied Physics
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Science Foundation

31-Jul-2025

Big data begins to crack the cold case of endometriosis

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at UCSF have found that endometriosis — a painful chronic disease affecting 10% of women that often goes undiagnosed — often occurs alongside conditions like cancer, Crohn's disease, and migraine.

The research could improve how endometriosis is diagnosed and, ultimately, how it is treated; and it paints the sharpest portrait yet of a condition that is as mysterious as it is prevalent.

Journal: Cell Reports Medicine
Funder: NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development