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7-Nov-2025

More Americans are on dialysis. Could more safely wean off it?

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Weaning patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) from dialysis while they are still hospitalized may save them from remaining on the treatment for the rest of their lives, according to a new study led by UC San Francisco.

Journal: JAMA
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

7-Nov-2025

Keeping engineered cells on script with nature’s playbook

Arizona State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Arizona State University researcher Xiaojun Tian and colleagues demonstrate a technique to protect synthetic gene circuits against cell growith dilution.

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

7-Nov-2025

Alternate proteins from the same gene contribute differently to health and rare disease

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Iain Cheeseman and colleagues reveal the underappreciated role of single genes producing multiple proteins in atypical presentations of rare disease, and present case studies of affected patients through a collaboration with Boston Children’s Hospital. The findings help to identify genetic mutations that may contribute to rare diseases.

Journal: Molecular Cell
Funder: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, U.S. National Science Foundation

7-Nov-2025

NIH-funded exploratory study to seek possible targets for treating alcohol use disorder

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Grant and Award Announcement

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) affects approximately 14.1 million people in the U.S. Pharmacological treatment options for AUD have advanced only minimally since 2004, underscoring the urgent need for novel therapeutic targets. To uncover some of these potential targets, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism awarded a two-year grant to TTUHSC’s Dawei Li, Ph.D., who will seek to identify new neurobiological factors for potential intervention, including a possible link between endogenous retroviruses and neuroinflammation.

Funder: NIH/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

7-Nov-2025

MIT research finds particles that enhance mRNA delivery could reduce vaccine dosage and costs

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new lipid nanoparticle could make mRNA vaccines more effective and potentially lower the cost per dose. New research suggests an mRNA influenza vaccine delivered with the new particle could generate the same immune response as mRNA delivered by standard nanoparticles, but at around 1/100 the dose.

Journal: Nature Nanotechnology
Funder: Sanofi, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine, Koch Institute Support (core) Grant from the National Cancer Institute