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3-Jul-2025

T cells take aim at Chikungunya virus

La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The new study also offers important clues for understanding why many people experience chronic, severe joint pain for years after clearing the virus.

Journal

Nature Communications

Funder

LJI's Tullie and Rickey Families SPARK Awards for Innovations in Immunology, NIH/National Institutes of Health, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, Kyowa Kirin, Inc. (KKNA-Kyowa Kirin North America), ARPA-H

3-Jul-2025

Research teases apart competing transcription organization models

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

The extent to which phase separation is involved in transcription has been contentious, with confounding arguments for the roles of small, soluble protein complexes and larger, phase-separated droplets. 

Journal

Molecular Cell

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Science Foundation

3-Jul-2025

Study: Babies’ poor vision may help organize visual brain pathways

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study may explain how the brain’s parvocellular pathway, which is responsible for processing color and fine detail, and its magnocellular pathway, which is involved in depth perception and detecting contrast, could arise, in part, through experience during early visual development.

Journal

Communications Biology

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health, Simons Center for the Social Brain, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Yamada Science Foundation

3-Jul-2025

Connect or reject: Extensive rewiring builds binocular vision in the brain

Picower Institute at MIT
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A first-of-its-kind study in mice reveals that neurons add and shed synapses at a frenzied pace during development to integrate visual signals from the two eyes.

Journal

Nature Communications

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health, Freedom Together Foundation

3-Jul-2025

New molecular tool sheds light on how cancer cells repair telomeres

University of Pittsburgh
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using a novel tool they developed called BLOCK-ID, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Emory University have uncovered new details about how cancer cells repair their telomeres.

Journal

Molecular Cell

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas