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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 17-Dec-2025 06:12 ET (17-Dec-2025 11:12 GMT/UTC)

24-Oct-2025

Making yeast more efficient 'cell factories' for producing valuable plant compounds

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have discovered a way to make yeast cells more efficient “factories” for sustainably producing valuable plant compounds, which could be used to help plants defend against disease, repel pests, attract pollinators, and withstand environmental stresses such as drought and heat.

Journal

Science Advances

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health

24-Oct-2025

Child welfare system involvement may improve diagnosis of developmental delays

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Infants and toddlers in Pennsylvania who are involved with child welfare services are more likely to have developmental delays identified early, according to a new study from researchers in the Penn State Child Health Research Center.  

Journal

JAMA Health Forum

Funder

NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

24-Oct-2025

Boston Children’s Hospital receives $8.1M to expand research for hereditary spastic paraplegia

Boston Children's Hospital
Grant and Award Announcement

Boston Children’s Hospital has received $8.1M in NIH funding to support and expand the Spastic Paraplegia Centers of Excellence Research Network (SP-CERN). Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Movement Disorders Program at Boston Children’s, and his team will lead this multi-center effort.

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health

24-Oct-2025

New research uncovers how the brain’s activity, energy use, and blood flow change as people fall asleep

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham used next-generation imaging technology to discover that when the brain is falling asleep, it shows a coordinated shift in activity.

Journal

Nature Communications

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health, Harvard Mind Brain Behavior Faculty Research Award, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant, BrightFocus Foundation Research Grant, MGH/HST Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, NIH Shared Instrumentation Grants, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center

23-Oct-2025

Teenagers and young adults who use cannabis have a higher risk of progressing to regular tobacco use

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Teens and young adults who use cannabis are more likely to become regular tobacco users – even if they haven’t previously tried tobacco – compared to similar people who do not use cannabis, suggests a US study published online in the journal Tobacco Control.

Journal

Tobacco Control

Funder

Tobacco- Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), NIH/National Cancer Institute