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23-Apr-2025

World Hormone Day 2025 – global endocrine community unites to raise public awareness of the small steps everyone can take towards good hormone health

European Society of Endocrinology
Business Announcement

Today, 24 April 2025, marks the first-ever World Hormone Day, a global campaign to raise awareness of the vital role of hormones in human health. Under the banner of #BecauseHormonesMatter, the endocrine community is sharing the small steps everyone can take to improve hormone health and calling on policymakers to prioritise endocrine health in health and research policies.

23-Apr-2025

EXPLORER total body PET scanner helps detect brain disease

University of California - Davis Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

EXPLORER total body PET scanner is creating a new way to visualize the protective barrier to the brain to reveal impacts from cancer and other diseases.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH/National Cancer Institute, NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health at UC Davis

23-Apr-2025

Age-related genetic changes in the blood associated with poor cancer prognosis

The Francis Crick Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute, UCL, Gustave Roussy and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), have discovered that expansion of mutant blood cells, a phenomenon linked to ageing, can be found in cancerous tumours, and this is associated with worse outcomes for patients.

Journal: New England Journal of Medicine

23-Apr-2025

Sun earns UTA's highest research honor

University of Texas at Arlington
Grant and Award Announcement

Yuze “Alice” Sun, an electrical engineering professor, has been elected to The University of Texas at Arlington’s Academy of Distinguished Researchers for her contributions to technologies critical to health care, environmental monitoring and national defense.

23-Apr-2025

Maternal childhood trauma may lead to early metabolic changes in male children

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This is the finding of a study that followed 352 pairs of newborns and their mothers in the cities of Guarulhos and São Paulo (Brazil). Changes observed in the first two months of life may increase future risk of obesity and diabetes.

Journal: Scientific Reports
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

23-Apr-2025

How an antimalarial drug could help fix genetic diseases

University of Groningen
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The antimalarial drug mefloquine could help treat genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and some cancers.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

23-Apr-2025

Researchers crack the code of cell movement

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin have discovered how chemokines and G protein-coupled receptors selectively bind each other to control how cells move.