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9-Sep-2025

Predicting where deadly brain cancer may spread next

Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have developed a method that uses MRI and fluid dynamics to predict where glioblastoma may return. By tracking how fluid moves through and around the tumor, their algorithm identifies hidden cancer cells and highlights invasion pathways so surgeons can target them more precisely.

Journal: npj Biomedical Innovations
Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute, NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Red Gates Foundation, American Cancer Society

9-Sep-2025

“Bottlebrush” particles deliver big chemotherapy payloads directly to cancer cells

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using nanoparticles shaped like bottlebrushes, MIT chemists can deliver a large range of chemotherapy drugs directly to tumor cells, which could reduce the side effects of treatment.

Journal: Nature Biotechnology
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Ludwig Center at MIT, Koch Institute Frontier Research Program

9-Sep-2025

How evolution explains autism rates in humans

Oxford University Press USA
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past.

Journal: Molecular Biology and Evolution
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate

8-Sep-2025

Compact genetic light switches transform disease control

Texas A&M University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have created new light-controlled tools that respond to blue light with pinpoint accuracy, offering safer, more precise treatments in the future.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Welch Foundation, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, Alkek Early Career Fellowship, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

8-Sep-2025

Keith Cole receives grant to conduct integrated research on mobility, cognition and aging

Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Grant and Award Announcement

Keith Cole, DPT, PhD, assistant professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, has received a Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging for research into the pathophysiological changes associated with changes in gait and cognition in older adults, known as dual decline.

Funder: NIH/National Institute on Aging