Latest news releases from NIH-funded organizations

Funded Research News

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 21-Dec-2025 06:11 ET (21-Dec-2025 11:11 GMT/UTC)

20-Oct-2025

Like radar, a brain wave sweeps a cortical region to read out information held in working memory

Picower Institute at MIT
Peer-Reviewed Publication

When spotting what’s changed from one scene to the next, performance will depend on a low-frequency “theta” brain wave that scans the mental image, a new MIT study shows.

Journal

Neuron

Funder

Office of Naval Research, Freedom Together Foundation, NIH/National Eye Institute, National Research Foundation of Korea

20-Oct-2025

Digital self-service program boosts lung cancer screening rates 

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study led by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine has found that a direct-to-patient digital health program can significantly increase lung cancer screening rates among people at high risk. 

Journal

JAMA

Funder

NIH/National Cancer Institute

20-Oct-2025

New insights into malaria could reshape treatment

Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New discoveries about the malaria parasite made by researchers at Columbia and Drexel universities could change the way malaria is treated in the future. 

Journal

Nature Communications

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health

20-Oct-2025

When is the brain like a subway station? When it’s processing many words at once

New York University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Trains move through the world’s subway stations in a consistent pattern: arriving, stopping, and moving to the next stop—and repeated by other trains throughout the day. A new study by a team of NYU psychology and linguistics researchers finds that our brains work much the same way when processing several words at once—as we routinely do when listening to others speak.

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health

20-Oct-2025

How multiple sclerosis harms a brain long before symptoms appear

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By the time patients start seeking care for multiple sclerosis (MS), the disease has already been damaging their brains for years. But until recently, scientists didn’t understand which brain cells were being targeted or when the injury began.  

Journal

Nature Medicine

Funder

U.S. Department of Defense, 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, Valhalla Foundation, National MS Society, Westridge Foundation, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Water Cove Charitable Foundation, Tim and Laura O’Shaughnessy, Littera Family