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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 16-Nov-2025 01:11 ET (16-Nov-2025 06:11 GMT/UTC)

16-Jun-2025

New York Valves™ 2025 late-breaking clinical trials announced

Cardiovascular Research Foundation
Meeting Announcement

CRF announced the lineup of Late-Breaking Clinical Trials to be presented at New York Valves: The Structural Heart Summit taking place June 25-27, 2025, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, North in New York, NY.

Meeting: New York Valves 2025

16-Jun-2025

Glial replacement therapy slows Huntington’s disease in adult mice

University of Rochester Medical Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research shows that transplanting healthy human glial progenitor cells into adult mouse models of Huntington’s disease can slow motor and cognitive decline and extend lifespan, underscoring the adult brain’s capacity for repair.

Journal: Cell Reports
Funder: Lundbeck Foundation, NoVo Foundation, NIH/National Institute on Aging, CDHI Foundation

16-Jun-2025

Machine learning method helps bring diagnostic testing out of the lab

Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peer-Reviewed Publication

What if people could detect cancer and other diseases with the same speed and ease of a pregnancy test or blood glucose meter? Researchers at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology are a step closer to realizing this goal by integrating machine learning-based analysis into point-of-care biosensing technologies.

The new method, dubbed LOCA-PRAM, was reported in the journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics and improves the accessibility of biomarker detection by eliminating the need for technical experts to perform the image analysis.

Journal: Biosensors and Bioelectronics

16-Jun-2025

New NIH grant to explore impacts of PFAS on male reproductive health

Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research
Grant and Award Announcement

A new grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will help Wayne State University researchers explore potential connections between per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure and adverse effects on male reproductive health.

Funder: NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

16-Jun-2025

More family doctors near retirement, raising concern about future of primary care

Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study has found that 1.74 million patients in Ontario are attached to family physicians aged 65 or older, and that many of those patients are elderly and have complex medical needs.

Journal: Canadian Family Physician

16-Jun-2025

New strategy for the treatment of severe childhood cancer

Karolinska Institutet
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Lund University in Sweden have identified a new treatment strategy for neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of childhood cancer. By combining two antioxidant enzyme inhibitors, they have converted cancer cells in mice into healthy nerve cells. The study is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

16-Jun-2025

Emory University and Micron Biomedical launch first-in-human clinical trial of next-generation rotavirus vaccine delivered via dissolvable microarray technology

Emory Health Sciences
Business Announcement

Research builds on Emory’s research on influenza vaccines self-administered via Micron’s microarray technology. This trial represents first-ever CDC-sponsored clinical trial of vaccine delivered via “patch” technology and utilizes Micron’s first-in-class dissolvable microarray technology.