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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 1-May-2025 04:08 ET (1-May-2025 08:08 GMT/UTC)

Life satisfaction measurement tool provides robust information across nations, genders, ages, languages

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Data on almost 57,000 people from 65 countries suggests that the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS)—a widely used research tool—generally holds up well when applied across diverse groups of people, underscoring its potential value in research and policymaking. Viren Swami of Anglia Ruskin University, U.K., and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS One on January 22, 2025.

Journal: PLOS One

Discovery of the significance of birth in the maintenance of quiescent neural stem cells

Nagoya City University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research group led by Kazunobu Sawamoto, a professor at Nagoya City University and National Institute for Physiological Sciences, and Koya Kawase, a pediatric doctor at Nagoya City University Hospital, has elucidated the significance of birth in the maintenance of neural stem cells. These findings enhance our understanding of the pivotal role of birth in regulating tissue homeostasis and regenerative capacities.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, “Neurogenesis Research & Innovation Center” supported by core-to-core program, Mother and Child Health Foundation, Japan Foundation for Pediatric Research, Hori Sciences and Arts Foundation, Uehara Memorial Foundation, Takeda Science Foundation, Grant-in-Aid for Promotion on Co-Creative Urban Development in Nagoya City University, Novo Nordisk Hallas-Møller Investigator grants, Lundbeckfonden Ascending Investigator grant, Lundbeckfonden Sabbatical grant, European Union’s Horizon 2020 research, innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement, research grants from National Institute of Health

Severe weather and major power outages increasingly coincide across the U.S.

Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An understanding of the relationship between severe weather and power outages in our changing climate will be critical for hazard response plans, according to a study led by a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Journal: PLOS Climate

Severe weather and major power outages increasingly coincide across the US

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An understanding of the relationship between severe weather and power outages in our changing climate will be critical for hazard response plans, according to a study published January 22, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS Climate by Vivian Do of Columbia University, New York and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS Climate

Penn researchers create new guidelines to diagnose common memory disorder frequently mistaken for Alzheimer’s Disease

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New guidelines will help doctors identify patients with a common memory-loss syndrome that is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s disease in older adults. The diagnostic criteria for limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) are published this month in Alzheimer’s and Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association from an international team led by Penn Medicine researchers. These guidelines are an important first step in advancing clinical trials and treatments for this lesser-known, but common type of memory loss disorder.

Funder: National Institutes of Health

Investigating immune connections between obesity and parasitic worms

University of California - Riverside
Grant and Award Announcement

Biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside have received a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the role of sex-specific immune responses in obesity and parasitic worm infections — both significant global public health concerns.

Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

U of M Medical School research team receives $1.2M grant to study Tourette syndrome treatment

University of Minnesota Medical School
Grant and Award Announcement

A research team from the University of Minnesota Medical School recently received a three-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) as a treatment for youth with Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders.

Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health