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3-Mar-2025

It’s not just what you say – it’s also how you say it

Northwestern University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

First study to reveal the brain encodes pitch accents separately from the sounds that make up words. Heschl’s gyrus region of the brain, an earlier stage of auditory processing, plays a much larger role than previously thought 

Findings could transform speech therapy, AI-driven voice recognition and our understanding of what makes human communication unique 

Journal

Nature Communications

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health

2-Mar-2025

Omalizumab treats multi-food allergy better than oral immunotherapy

NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The high rate of allergic reactions and other intolerable side effects of oral immunotherapy in the NIH-funded trial explained the superiority of omalizumab.

Journal

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Funder

NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

28-Feb-2025

Rice researchers harness gravity to create low-cost device for rapid cell analysis

Rice University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers at Rice has developed an innovative AI-enabled, low-cost device that will make flow cytometry ⎯ a technique used to analyze cells or particles in a fluid using a laser beam ⎯ affordable and accessible.

Journal

Microsystems & Nanoengineering

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health, Rice University

28-Feb-2025

Omitting race from lung function equations increases detection of asthma in Black children

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Continued use of outdated race-specific equations while diagnosing children with asthma symptoms limits the identification of reduced lung function in Black children.

Journal

JAMA Network Open

Funder

NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

28-Feb-2025

The Wistar Institute discovers a promising target in brain cancer

The Wistar Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Wistar Institute's Filippo Veglia, Ph.D., and lab has discovered a previously unknown mechanism for how aggressive brain cancers reprogram immune system cells from fighting cancer to enabling further tumor growth.

Journal

Cancer Discovery

Funder

Ben & Catherine Ivy Foundation Emerging Adult Glioma Award, NIH/National Institutes of Health, PRIN 2022 grant, Sapienza University of Rome grant