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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 30-Dec-2025 03:11 ET (30-Dec-2025 08:11 GMT/UTC)

1-Oct-2025

To study treatment resistance in high-grade serous ovarian cancer, MSK researchers develop new approach

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Memorial Sloan Kettering research team aims to find new ways to stop the most common and deadly form of ovarian cancer — high-grade serous ovarian cancer — from recurring with the help of a method they developed for tracking the evolution of treatment resistant cells in ovarian cancer using blood tests.

Journal

Nature

Funder

Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Cancer Institute, Cancer Research U.K. Cancer Grand Challenges Program

1-Oct-2025

Peptide study paves path toward new weapon against antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Oregon State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research into antimicrobial peptides, small chains of amino acids able to damage bacterial cells, shows why some peptides are more effective at doing that and also why some cells are more vulnerable.

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health

1-Oct-2025

Groundbreaking study finds variations in the donor human milk critical for many preterm infants worldwide

University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A landmark international study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has revealed significant variations in the nutritional composition of donor human milk across different countries. These findings could transform how hospitals support critically ill preterm infants worldwide.

Journal

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Funder

NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

1-Oct-2025

Body’s garbage-collecting cells protect insulin production in pancreas

WashU Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at WashU Medicine have discovered that certain immune cells in the pancreas, called macrophages, can protect insulin-producing cells and prevent Type 1 diabetes in mice. 

Journal

Nature

Funder

NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

1-Oct-2025

ALS appears to be an autoimmune disease

La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The researchers discovered that inflammatory immune cells, called CD4+ T cells, mistakenly target certain proteins that are part of the nervous system in people with ALS. This kind of "self-attack" is the defining feature of autoimmune disease.

Journal

Nature

Funder

LJI & Kyowa Kirin, Inc. (KKNA- Kyowa Kirin North America), Swedish Research Council, Freedom Together Foundation, NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke