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4-Jun-2025

NIH grant assists in research observing the effects of fentanyl during pregnancy

Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research
Grant and Award Announcement

A new National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant will aid Wayne State University researchers in measuring the effects of fentanyl during pregnancy on maternal behaviors and offspring at birth through early development.

Funder: NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse

4-Jun-2025

Airborne disease detection made easier with new, low-cost device

University of Notre Dame
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Airborne hazardous chemicals can be dilute, mobile, and hard to trap. Yet accurately measuring these chemicals is critical in protecting human health and the environment. Now, a new, small, low-cost device, nicknamed ABLE, could make the collection and detection of airborne hazards much easier and faster.

Journal: Nature Chemical Engineering
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

4-Jun-2025

Study shows loss of Y in blood cells hinders immune response to cancer

University of Arizona Health Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study initiated by a University of Arizona Comprehensive Cancer Center physician-scientist defined for the first time how loss of the Y chromosome in male immune cells negatively affects immune system function, which may explain why loss of Y is associated with lower cancer survival rates. The paper “Concurrent loss of the Y chromosome in cancer and T cells impacts outcome,” was published today in Nature.

Journal: Nature
Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute

4-Jun-2025

Bat viruses similar to MERS have potential to jump to humans

Washington State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A group of bat viruses closely related to the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) could be one small mutation away from being capable of spilling over into human populations and potentially causing the next pandemic.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

4-Jun-2025

A better understanding of how gene editing tools work

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Patients are being healed with a personalized treatment that repairs the patient’s specific genetic mutation. The treatment was created using a form of gene editing called base editing —a method created by UC San Diego’s Alexis Komor. Her latest research outlines the way certain DNA repair proteins can be manipulated to produce desired outcomes when using base editors.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Research Corporation for Science Advancement