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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 21-Dec-2025 10:11 ET (21-Dec-2025 15:11 GMT/UTC)

24-Nov-2025

Scientists get detailed look at part of a cellular ‘stress’ warning protein

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In an effort to reveal the inner workings of a protein that serves as a cell’s damage detection system, scientists at Johns Hopkins and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU) have published what is believed to be the first 3D details of the ZAK protein’s structure. 

Journal

Nature

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, U.S. National Science Foundation, European Research Council, National Key R&D program of China, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, Johns Hopkins University Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, Dermatology Foundation’s Dermatologist Investigator Research Fellowship

24-Nov-2025

Most homemade dog diets lack nutrients, Texas A&M study finds

Texas A&M University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Over the last two decades, homemade diets have seen a rise in popularity among dog owners. However, new research from the Dog Aging Project (DAP) reveals that most homemade diets are missing important nutrients that dogs need to lead healthy lives.

Journal

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Funder

NIH/National Institute on Aging

24-Nov-2025

New clues to why some animals live longer

University of California - Riverside
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A collaborative study by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, and University of Southern California reports on how a process known as alternative splicing, often described as “editing” the genetic recipe, may help explain why some mammals live far longer than others.

Journal

Nature Communications

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health

24-Nov-2025

Shapeshifting cancers’ masters, unmasked

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research from the Vakoc lab, published in Nature Communications and Cell Reports, provides new insights into the master regulators of two severe forms of lung and pancreatic cancer, which can morph in response to treatment. The discoveries could someday lead to safer therapies with fewer and less harmful side effects.

Journal

Cell Reports

Funder

NIH/National Cancer Institute, Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Northwell Health, Treeline Biosciences, NIH/National Institutes of Health, DOD Prostate Cancer Research Program

24-Nov-2025

Novel liver cancer vaccine achieves responses in rare disease affecting children and young adults

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An experimental cancer vaccine developed at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy has shown early promise in a phase I clinical trial for a rare form of liver cancer that primarily affects children and young adults.

Journal

Nature Medicine

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health, Fibrolamellar Cancer Foundation, ASCO Career Development Award, BSM Rare Cancers, TIRTL Blue Sky Initiative, ALSAC at St. Jude