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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 13-Jul-2025 19:10 ET (13-Jul-2025 23:10 GMT/UTC)

30-Jan-2025

Harnessing generative AI to treat undruggable diseases

Duke University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed an AI-based platform that designs short proteins, termed peptides, capable of binding and destroying previously undruggable disease-causing proteins. Inspired by OpenAI’s image generation model, their new algorithm can rapidly prioritize peptides for experimental testing.

Journal

Science Advances

Funder

NIH/National Cancer Institute, Hartwell Foundation, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health

30-Jan-2025

Why you shouldn’t scratch an itchy rash: New study explains

University of Pittsburgh
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Your parents were right: Scratching an itchy rash really does make it worse. Now we know why, thanks to new research published today in the journal Science that uncovers how scratching aggravates inflammation and swelling in a mouse model of a type of eczema called allergic contact dermatitis.

Journal

Science

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health

30-Jan-2025

Antibody treatment prevents severe bird flu in monkeys

University of Pittsburgh
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The antibody targets a stable part of the bird flu virus, ensuring that the immune protection can resist new variants and offer long-term protection against the globally spreading airborne infection.

Journal

Science

Funder

NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

30-Jan-2025

Study reveals high rate of underage tobacco sales 

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A recent study from researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Rutgers University shows a high rate of underage tobacco sales despite federal legislation that prohibits the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21.  

Journal

JAMA Network Open

Funder

NIH/National Cancer Institute

30-Jan-2025

Scientists shocked by durability of surgery-sparing technique

University of Virginia Health System
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A nanotechnology-based drug delivery system developed to save patients from repeated surgeries has proved to have unexpectedly long-lasting benefits in lab tests – a promising sign for its potential to help human patients.

Journal

Bioactive Materials

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health