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Researchers at UC San Francisco have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm through a device that relays signals from his brain to a computer.

He was able to grasp, move and drop objects just by imagining himself performing the actions.

Journal: Cell
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences

6-Mar-2025

Injectable Therapy is 'magic' for those who can’t take HIV pills

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Patients who struggle to take daily HIV pills can benefit from long-acting injectable treatments, a new study by researchers at UCSF has found.

Journal: JAMA
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

6-Mar-2025

Rice University's McCary earns NSF CAREER Award to address invasive plants’ disruption to native ecosystems

Rice University
Grant and Award Announcement

Matt McCary, assistant professor of biosciences at Rice University, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF CAREER Award is one of the foundation’s most prestigious honors, recognizing early career faculty with the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education. The $1.26 million grant will support McCary’s research on the spread of invasive plants — aggressive non-native species that disrupt native ecosystems, threaten biodiversity and contribute to billions in economic damages each year.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

6-Mar-2025

JMIR aging invites submissions on the social and cultural drivers of health in aging adults

JMIR Publications
Business Announcement

JMIR Publications invites submissions to a new theme issue titled “Social and Cultural Drivers of Health in Aging Populations” in its premier open access journal JMIR Aging.