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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 15-Aug-2025 01:11 ET (15-Aug-2025 05:11 GMT/UTC)

Dr. Arjan Gower receives grant to study targeted therapy for early-stage lung cancer

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Grant and Award Announcement

Dr. Arjan Gower, a hematologist/oncologist at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has received a research grant from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network to study a promising new targeted therapy for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with rare EGFR mutations.

Funder: National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Forum with alcohol industry ties shows significant bias in reviews of health research

University of Victoria
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study, published in Addiction, shines a light on how industries associated with health harms—such as tobacco, fossil fuels, and in this case, alcohol—can distort the evaluation of scientific research through industry-friendly commentary.

Vanderbilt Health at forefront of improving head and neck surgery with fluorescence imaging to ‘light up’ nerves

Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For the first time, a fluorescent-guided nerve imaging agent shows promise for use in humans, according to a paper published in Nature Communications. The study sought to evaluate the safety of bevonescein, a synthetic peptide-dye conjugate thought to be applicable for intraoperative nerve-specific fluorescence imaging.

Journal: Nature Communications

Who’s feeding babies peanuts early? Too often, not low-income or minority parents

Northwestern University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Introducing peanut-containing foods to infants can dramatically reduce the risk of peanut allergies later in childhood. But many parents — particularly those who are Black, Hispanic, lower-income or have less formal education — aren’t receiving this potentially lifesaving guidance from their pediatrician and are introducing peanuts at much lower rates, reports a large new Northwestern Medicine study.

Journal: Academic Pediatrics

Packing DNA on time for cell division

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell’s nucleus, explaining why it must be constantly folded and packaged. When it is time for cell division, and the genetic information needs to be passed on to the next generation, DNA must be packed particularly tightly, else serious consequences for a cell’s viability might ensue. In a trans-European team effort, researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund (MPI), the Netherlands Cancer Institute, and the Human Technopole in Milan have now discovered a molecular switch that regulates DNA packing into the typical sausage-shaped chromosomes observed during cell division. The discovery of this central mechanism for cell division has many potential applications in medicine and biotechnology.

Journal: Molecular Cell

Live well temperature variations stress out largemouth bass, study finds

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at U. of I. studied the effect of live well temperature variation on largemouth bass health and recovery time during tournaments, and shared their results in the North American Journal of Fisheries Management.

Journal: North American Journal of Fisheries Management
Funder: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Tirzepatide reduces food intake and appetite, and affects brain functioning, more than a placebo and liraglutide

Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers found that tirzepatide, a medication primarily used for treating type 2 diabetes and weight loss, reduced body weight, food intake and many measures of appetite more than placebo and liraglutide. These results were recently published in Nature Medicine in the study titled “Tirzepatide on ingestive behavior in adults with overweight or obesity: a randomized 6-week phase 1 trial.”

Journal: Nature Medicine