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3-Sep-2025

One dose of antibiotic treats early syphilis as well as three doses

NIH/Office of the Director
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that a single injection of the antibiotic benzathine penicillin G (BPG) successfully treated early syphilis just as well as the three-injection regimen used by many clinicians in the United States and elsewhere. These findings from a late-stage clinical trial suggest the second and third doses of conventional BPG therapy do not provide a health benefit. The results were published today in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

3-Sep-2025

High-volume antibody testing platform could accelerate disease research and treatment development

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Antibodies are the critical targeting agents of the immune system and the crux of immune therapy and vaccine development, but studying them is slow, expensive and labor-intensive. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new high-volume method that can rapidly build and test large numbers of antibodies at once. With it, they have already uncovered common aspects of how antibodies bind across variants of a key influenza target protein.

Journal: Science Translational Medicine
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

3-Sep-2025

The cling of doom: How staph bacteria latch onto human skin

Auburn University Department of Physics
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from Auburn University and international collaborators have uncovered the strongest protein-protein bond ever recorded in nature. Their discovery explains why Staphylococcus aureus, a leading cause of skin infections, clings so stubbornly to human skin — and points to new ways of fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Medical Research Council, Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship

3-Sep-2025

CRISPR study reveals surprising role of Cas9 as a guardian of bacterial defense

Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research overturns a common assumption about CRISPR Cas9—that unbound from its usual RNA partners, the “empty” or apo form of Cas9 is functionless.

Journal: Nature
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health

3-Sep-2025

Mount Sinai study discovers potential link between stress and type 2 diabetes

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research offers new approach to targeting the pervasive disorder

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: American Diabetes Association, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Defense