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14-May-2025

Dental flosser for at-home stress monitoring

American Chemical Society
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Over time, stress and anxiety can build to a point where life’s challenges become overwhelming and cause physical effects. Now, in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, researchers report a dental floss pick with a built-in sensor that could monitor stress as part of a daily routine. The device, which accurately senses levels of the stress hormone cortisol in minutes, could help users recognize when it’s time to get help.

Journal: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

14-May-2025

Korea University’s College of Medicine was selected by the Ministry of Science and ICT for 24 basic research projects, receiving research fund of 17.3 billion won

Korea University College of Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

The faculty of Korea University’s College of Medicine has been selected for the first new project of the 2025 Basic Research Project hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Research Foundation of Korea. The project supports excellent researchers, and it will grant a total of 17.3 billion won in research funds.

14-May-2025

Yellow fever vaccination: how strong immune responses are triggered

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers show how specific immune cells are activated by the vaccine – an important starting point for the development of new vaccines.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

14-May-2025

Air pollution may increase epilepsy risk, new study suggests

London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study reveals air pollution may contribute to the development of epilepsy, a brain condition that causes seizures. Researchers at London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute (LHSCRI) and Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry found an association between long-term exposure to air pollution with new cases of epilepsy in adults in Ontario.

Journal: Epilepsia

14-May-2025

McGill researchers lead project to reform youth mental health care in Canada

McGill University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New data from a national project led by McGill University researchers shows that redesigning youth mental health services can significantly cut wait times and connect more young people to care.

The ACCESS Open Minds project was launched in 2014 to address gaps in access to quality mental health care, especially for Indigenous, remote and underserved communities. Findings published in Jama Psychiatry provide the first assessment of the program’s outcomes across Canada.

Journal: JAMA Psychiatry
Funder: Canadian Institutes of Health Research

14-May-2025

Researchers develop a potential new drug for Alzheimer’s and pain treatment

University of Barcelona

A study published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry presents a new family of candidate compounds for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and pain, which have shown promising effects in animal models. Researchers of the University of Barcelona led a multidisciplinary team that designed, synthetized and pharmacologically validated these molecules that modulate a therapeutic target which has been little studied, the imidazoline I2 receptors, which are altered in many diseases without efficient pharmacological treatments. According to the researchers, the new compound has the “necessary characteristics to progress in pre-clinical phases and to be positioned as a potential anti-Alzheimer’s drug or analgesic with a novel mechanism of action”.

Journal: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

14-May-2025

Sugar-coated nanotherapy dramatically improves neuron survival in Alzheimer’s model

Northwestern University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In many neurodegenerative diseases, proteins misfold and clump together in brain tissue. Scientists developed a new therapy made of peptides and a sugar that naturally occurs in plants. The therapeutic molecules self-assemble into nanofibers, which bond to the neuron-killing proteins. Now trapped, the toxic proteins can no longer enter neurons and instead harmlessly degrade.

Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
Funder: Spanish Ministry of Science, NextGenerationEU