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25-Jun-2025

Olympians' hearts in focus: groundbreaking study reveals elite rowers' surprising AFib risk

Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study involving 121 former elite rowers from Australia has revealed one in five develops atrial fibrillation (AFib).

This common heart rhythm condition can lead to stroke and heart failure in some individuals, but the researchers identified new genetic and clinical tools that enable early preventive strategies.

Journal: European Heart Journal
Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council, NIH/National Institute on Aging, NIH/National Cancer Institute, National Health and Medical Research Council, National Health and Medical Research Council, National Health and Medical Research Council, National Heart Foundation of Australia

25-Jun-2025

Liver organoid breakthrough: Generating organ-specific blood vessels

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Major step forward in liver organoid technology could lead to new ways to help people living with hemophilia and other coagulation disorders while also taking another step closer to producing transplantable repair tissues for people with damaged livers.

Journal: Nature Biomedical Engineering
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Mitsubishi Foundation, Japan Science and Technology Agency

25-Jun-2025

NAU researchers launch open-source robotic exoskeleton to help people walk

Northern Arizona University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Robotic exoskeletons are the future of helping people with certain disabilities perform daily tasks, but they can be prohibitively difficult and expensive to develop. Mechanical engineering associate professor Zach Lerner, whose research has focused on developing this technology, led a team that created OpenExo, an open-source exoskeleton framework, which will open doors for researchers globally to help speed up life-changing robotic discoveries.

Journal: Science Robotics
Funder: NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Science Foundation

25-Jun-2025

Scientists advance prospects for permanently putting aids virus into dormant state using gene therapy

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a study of human immune cells infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say a molecule within HIV itself can be manipulated and amplified to force the virus into long-term dormancy, a state in which HIV does not replicate.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health

25-Jun-2025

Even in athletes, obese BMI associated with worse concussion recovery

University of Pittsburgh
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Athletes and military cadets with a BMI equal to or above 30 had increased inflammatory biomarkers, worse cognition and more severe concussion symptoms than those with lower BMI.

Journal: Sports Medicine
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NCAA, U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs