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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 14-Dec-2025 22:11 ET (15-Dec-2025 03:11 GMT/UTC)

10-Dec-2025

Home-delivered groceries improve blood sugar control for people with diabetes facing food insecurity

A new study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (JNEB), published by Elsevier, evaluated a 12-week home-delivered food and education program among adults in Northwest Arkansas. Participants received diabetes-appropriate grocery boxes along with diabetes self-management education materials in English, Spanish, or Marshallese. The intervention was designed and implemented by researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation (ICHI) using a community-engaged approach.

Journal: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

10-Dec-2025

Three-hit model describes the causes of autism

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new UC San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic predispositions and environmental exposures converge to cause autism spectrum disorder.

Journal: Mitochondrion

10-Dec-2025

Integrated piezoelectric vibration and in situ force sensing for low-trauma tissue penetration

Beijing Institute of Technology Press Co., Ltd
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research paper by scientists at Shanghai Jiao Tong University presented a novel integrated piezoelectric module (IPEM) based on a piezoelectric ceramic element designed specifically for bio-membrane puncture and insertion applications.

The research paper, published on Oct. 21, 2025 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems.

Journal: Cyborg and Bionic Systems

10-Dec-2025

Van Andel Institute, Cure Parkinson’s renew funding for Parkinson’s clinical trials program

Van Andel Research Institute
Business Announcement

Van Andel Institute and Cure Parkinson’s have renewed a funding agreement to support the International Linked Clinical Trials Program, the world’s largest drug repurposing clinical trial initiative for Parkinson’s disease.

10-Dec-2025

Stanford Medicine-led study identifies immune switch critical to autoimmunity, cancer

Stanford Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A molecule involved in red blood cell production determines whether the immune system attacks or ignores cells in the body via peripheral immune tolerance, Stanford Medicine-led research finds.

Journal: Nature

10-Dec-2025

In pneumonia’s tug-of-war, lung microbiome could tip the balance

Northwestern University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists collected and analyzed lung samples from pneumonia patients. Samples fell into one of four distinct microbial patterns. Lung microbiomes resembling oral microbiomes were associated with recovery. Dynamic, rather than static, microbiomes also were associated with recovery.

Journal: Cell Host & Microbe
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Science Foundation

10-Dec-2025

NIH-led study reveals role of mobile DNA elements in lung cancer progression

NIH/Office of the Director
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using lung cancer biospecimens from the Sherlock-Lung study, an international team led by National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers, identified key factors that drive tumor evolution and influence outcomes. Overall, the findings, published Dec. 10, 2025, in Nature, describe a previously unknown origin of some aggressive lung cancers.

Journal: Nature
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Cancer Institute, University of California-San Diego