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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 26-Dec-2025 23:11 ET (27-Dec-2025 04:11 GMT/UTC)

With NIH grant, George Mason researcher refines AI storytelling tool for dementia care

George Mason University
Grant and Award Announcement

Nursing Professor Kyeung Mi Oh is testing how a “reminiscence therapy” app can strengthen emotional health and connection for people living with memory loss.

Funder: NIH/National Institute on Aging

USF study: AI and citizen science reveal potential first detection of invasive malaria mosquito in Madagascar

University of South Florida
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the University of South Florida have used artificial intelligence and citizen science to identify what may be the first specimen of Anopheles stephensi — an invasive and deadly malaria-carrying mosquito — ever detected in Madagascar.

Journal: Insects
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Science Foundation

Distinct brain features in football players may tell who is at risk of long-term traumatic disease

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Brain scans from American football players reveal subtle differences in the brain’s outer grooves when compared to scans from otherwise healthy men who never played contact or collision sports, a new study shows. Its authors say the findings could potentially predict which people are more at risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

Journal: Brain Communications
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

Outdoor air pollution linked to higher incidence of breast cancer

Oregon State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Women living in parts of the United States with lower air quality, especially neighborhoods with heavy emissions from motor vehicles, are more likely to develop breast cancer.

Journal: American Journal of Public Health
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Kresge Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency

Pitt engineer and surgeons unveil wireless metamaterial spinal implants that feel, heal, and communicate

University of Pittsburgh
Grant and Award Announcement

A collaboration between civil engineering and neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh could change how spinal fusion surgery is performed and monitored. Associate Professors Amir Alavi, Nitin Agarwal, and D. Kojo Hamilton have received a $352,213 National Institutes of Health (NIH) R21 grant to develop the first self-powered spinal implant capable of transmitting real-time data from inside the body.

Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

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