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It might be wrecking the climate, but CO₂ is actually good for your cells

University of Utah
Peer-Reviewed Publication

University of Utah chemists unraval how bicarbonate can protect cells from oxidative stress in a study that challenges how cell damage has been studied for decades.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Crnic Institute receives $2.7 million grant for an international study of Down syndrome

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Grant and Award Announcement

A landmark $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) INCLUDE Project will support the Human Trisome Project - Latin America Network, a network of research and medical care sites across the United States and in Latin America to investigate the clinical characteristics and to identify distinguishing health issues or treatments for Latinos with Down syndrome.

Funder: NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Researcher targets DNA repair vulnerabilities in female reproductive cancers

Tufts University

Unlike breast cancer, endometrial/uterine and ovarian cancers have few effective treatment options outside of surgery, and it’s not uncommon for these tumors to return after first-line chemotherapeutics.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

New era in amphibian biology

Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Amphibians hold a significant place in evolution, representing the transition from aquatic to terrestrial lifestyles. They are crucial for understanding the brain and spinal cord of tetrapods—animals with four limbs, including humans. A group of scientists led by a team at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) now shows how harmless viruses can be used to illuminate the development of the frog nervous system. The results have now been published in Developmental Cell.

Journal: Developmental Cell
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, FTI Strategy Lower Austria, HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council, Austrian Science Fund, NIH/National Institutes of Health

Brigham researchers find that intestinal infections change bile composition

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have identified a new axis of host defense by studying what happens during enteric infection—a term that encompasses all types of intestinal infections including so called “stomach flu.”

Journal: Nature Microbiology
Funder: Massachusetts Host-Microbiome Center, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute