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29-Oct-2025

The future is decentralized: Expanding clinical trials from home

Medical University of South Carolina
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A set of three new tools out of the Medical University of South Carolina, introduced in recent articles in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, seeks to improve the rigor of decentralized clinical trials. CheatBlocker helps to address enrollment fraud; QuotaConfig aims to counter bias in clinical trials and MyTrials facilitates remote biomarker data collection throughout the trial.

Journal

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science

Funder

NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), HRSA Center of Excellence in Telehealth, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

29-Oct-2025

Emergency department pilot program serves rural families

University of Missouri-Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine showed that a pilot program in the MU Health Care emergency department successfully connected rural families to helpful resources.

Journal

Family & Community Health

29-Oct-2025

Capturing cancer cells from blood could help doctors choose the right breast cancer treatment

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Doctors may be able to spare patients unnecessarily aggressive breast cancer treatments by collecting and testing cancer cells in patients' blood, research from the University of Michigan and the University of Kansas suggests.

Journal

Science Advances

Funder

U-M Forbes Institute for Cancer Discovery, Kansas University Cancer Center, Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences's Clinical, Translational Science Awards Program.

29-Oct-2025

Dr. Chan Mi Park’s study recognized by anaesthesia as a top 10 paper from 2024

Hebrew SeniorLife Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research
Grant and Award Announcement

Anaesthesia, a publication of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland, has named a study authored by Chan Mi Park, MD, MPH, assistant scientist at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research and instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, one of its Top 10 Papers from 2024.  

29-Oct-2025

Biosensor identifies protein linked to depression and schizophrenia in saliva

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Low-cost device quickly detects BDNF concentrations. Scientist at the University of São Paulo says the next step is to obtain a patent.

Journal

ACS Polymers Au

Funder

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

29-Oct-2025

Researchers uncover key mechanism behind chemotherapy-induced nerve damage

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have made a breakthrough in understanding why many cancer patients develop nerve damage after chemotherapy.

Journal

Science Translational Medicine

Funder

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, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense

29-Oct-2025

Chemists design candidate drug against diabetes

University at Albany, SUNY
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the University at Albany and NYU Grossman School of Medicine have found a way to block a key cellular pathway known to drive chronic inflammation and impaired wound healing in people with diabetes. The breakthrough could offer a new therapeutic option for stopping the harmful effects of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes at the source. 

Journal

Cell Chemical Biology

Funder

U.S. Public Health Service, NYU Histology Core, NYU Cancer Institute, NYU Langone’s Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, Diabetes Research Program, NYU Grossman School of Medicine