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25-Jul-2025

How to keep kids with eating disorders home after hospital stay? Therapy

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Eating disorders affect more than 5% of young people, and they have one of the highest mortality rates of any mental illness. 

Journal

PEDIATRICS

Funder

Deb Family, NIH/National Institute of Mental Health

25-Jul-2025

These immune cells eat molecular trash to keep Alzheimer's at bay

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In Alzheimer’s disease, proteins like amyloid beta form clumps, known as plaques, that damage the brain.

Journal

Neuron

Funder

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, Consortium for Frontotemporal Dementia Research, Tau Consortium, Alzheimer's Association, Cure Alzheimer's Fund, BrightFocus Foundation

25-Jul-2025

BATMAN brings TCR therapy out of the shadows

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory quantitative biologists have developed an AI model to better predict interactions between immune cells and the peptides they target in T cell receptor therapy. Their work could lead to improved cancer treatments and help answer important questions about the immune system.

Journal

Cell Systems

Funder

Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Simons Foundation

25-Jul-2025

New research simulates cancer cell behavior

University of Maryland School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In the same vein as weather forecast models that predict developing storms, researchers now have developed a method to predict the cell activity in tissues over time.  The new software combines genomics technologies with computational modeling to predict cell changes in behavior, such as communication between cells that could cause cancer cells to flourish.

Journal

Cell

Funder

NIH/National Cancer Institute, National Foundation for Cancer Research, Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis Foundation for Health and Policy, Lustgarten Foundation, State of Maryland

25-Jul-2025

New AI tool accelerates mRNA-based treatments for viruses, cancers, genetic disorders

University of Texas at Austin
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new AI model, called RiboNN, stands to guide the design of new mRNA-based therapeutics by illuminating which sequence will yield the highest amount of a protein or better target specific parts of the body such as the heart or liver.

Journal

Nature Biotechnology

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health, Welch Foundation