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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 24-Dec-2025 05:11 ET (24-Dec-2025 10:11 GMT/UTC)

15-Oct-2025

Where you live may affect your brain health, new study finds 

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study found that individuals living in neighborhoods with higher levels of social vulnerability, environmental injustice and socioeconomic disadvantage showed measurable differences in brain structure and function. 

Journal

Alzheimer s & Dementia Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association

14-Oct-2025

Why does losing the Y chromosome make some cancers worse? New $6.5 million NIH grant could provide clues

University of Arizona, Office of Research and Partnerships
Grant and Award Announcement

U of A Comprehensive Cancer Center Director Dr. Dan Theodorescu plans to study loss of Y chromosome biology and investigate potential therapies for bladder and other cancers.

Funder

NIH/National Cancer Institute

14-Oct-2025

New AI tool makes medical imaging process 90% more efficient

Rice University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rice researchers developed an AI tool that makes medical imaging process 90% more efficient.

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, U.S. National Science Foundation

14-Oct-2025

Cellular railroad switches: how brain cells route supplies to build memories

Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Discovery shows how two different Rab proteins direct the delivery of key components needed for memory formation

Journal

eLife

Funder

NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH/National Institute of Mental Health

14-Oct-2025

Neural activity helps circuit connections mature into optimal signal transmitters

Picower Institute at MIT
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By carefully tracking the formation and maturation of synaptic active zones in fruit flies, MIT scientists have discovered how neural activity helps circuit connections become tuned to the right size and degree of signal transmission capability over a period of days.

Journal

JNeurosci

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health, Freedom Together Foundation