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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 14-Sep-2025 10:11 ET (14-Sep-2025 14:11 GMT/UTC)

UCLA receives $25 million from Shirley and Walter Wang to establish new integrative digestive health center

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Business Announcement

UCLA has received a $25 million commitment from UCLA alumna and former chair of The UCLA Foundation board Shirley Wang and her husband, Walter, for the new UCLA Walter and Shirley Wang Center for Integrative Digestive Health.

Brain decoder controls spinal cord stimulation

Washington University in St. Louis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Ismael Seáñez’s lab develops brain wave decoder that may help in spinal cord injury rehabilitation

Journal: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten

Picower Institute at MIT
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study in PNAS by scientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT shows how a dopamine circuit between two brain regions enables mice to extinguish fear after a peril has passed.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: Freedom Together Foundation, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Light-based data made clearer with new machine learning method

Rice University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rice researchers have developed a new machine learning algorithm that excels at interpreting optical spectra, potentially enabling faster and more precise medical diagnoses and sample analysis.

Journal: ACS Nano
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Welch Foundation

A candidate drug dismantles a metabolic barrier to anti-tumor immunity

Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Ludwig Cancer Research study has identified a specific mode of fat uptake by immune cells within tumors that serves as a metabolic checkpoint against anti-cancer immune responses.

Journal: Cancer Discovery
Funder: Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research

Study using simulations highlights power of pooled data in environmental health research

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

Conflicting findings in environmental epidemiology have long stalled consensus on the health effects of toxic chemicals. A new study by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health published in the American Journal of Epidemiology suggests that one major reason for these inconsistencies may be the limited exposure ranges in individual studies—leading to underpowered results and unclear conclusions.

Journal: American Journal of Epidemiology
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

How math helps to protect crops from invasive disease

University of Texas at Arlington
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research from The University of Texas at Arlington and the U.S. Department of Agriculture demonstrates how mathematical modeling can predict outbreaks of toxic fungi in Texas corn crops—offering a potential lifeline to farmers facing billions in harvest losses.

Journal: Frontiers in Microbiology
Funder: U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Corn Growers Association