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22-Sep-2025

How the brain splits up vision without you even noticing

Picower Institute at MIT
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As an object moves across your field of view, the brain seamlessly hands off visual processing from one hemisphere to the other like cell phone towers or relay racers do, a new MIT study in the Journal of Neuroscience shows.

Journal: JNeurosci
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Freedom Together Foundation, Office of Naval Research

21-Sep-2025

Scientists call for urgent action to reduce children’s plastic exposure

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Childhood exposure to chemicals used to make plastic household items presents growing health risks that can extend long into adulthood, experts from NYU Langone Health report. This is the main conclusion after a review of hundreds of the latest studies on the topic, publishing online Sept. 21 in the journal The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.

Journal: The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health

19-Sep-2025

U of A and UNM win joint $43.6M NIH award to help turn clinical research into practical medicine

University of Arizona, Office of Research and Partnerships
Grant and Award Announcement

The CTSA grant, the largest infrastructure and training award from the NIH, supports the translation of research discoveries into improved patient care.

Funder: NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

19-Sep-2025

$3.6M NIH grant to study brain patterns in children with ADHD, behavior problems

Penn State
Grant and Award Announcement

A team, led by researchers at Penn State, received a $3.6 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study brain patterns in children with ADHD and serious behavior problems in order to identify better and more precise ways to predict which children with ADHD will benefit from medication treatment.

Funder: NIH/National Institute of Mental Health

19-Sep-2025

Alpha cells moonlight as secret GLP-1 factories

Duke University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Current diabetes drugs often rely on GLP-1 receptor agonists, mimicking the hormone’s effect to stimulate insulin. The discovery by Duke University School of Medicine that pancreatic alpha cells produce bioactive GLP-1 suggests that harnessing or boosting this local hormone production might be a powerful and more natural approach to improving blood sugar control.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health