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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 2-Sep-2025 06:11 ET (2-Sep-2025 10:11 GMT/UTC)

4-Mar-2025

Prenatal maternal stressors linked to higher blood pressure during first year after birth, study shows

Keck School of Medicine of USC
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Psychosocial stress during pregnancy could lead to higher blood pressure during the first year postpartum according to research from Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Journal

Hypertension

Funder

NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Environmental Protection Agency, Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center, National Institutes of Health Office of the Director ECHO Program

4-Mar-2025

Enhancing mosquito repellent effectiveness

University of California - Riverside
Grant and Award Announcement

Researcher Anandasankar Ray at the University of California, Riverside, and his team are employing machine learning techniques combined with cheminformatics to identify novel spatial mosquito repellents and their mechanisms.

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health

4-Mar-2025

New University of Minnesota research shows impact of anxiety and apathy on decision-making

University of Minnesota Medical School
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School has uncovered that anxiety and apathy — two common but distinct emotional states — lead to fundamentally different patterns in how people learn and make decisions. 

Journal

Biological Psychiatry

Funder

NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse, University of Minnesota’s MnDRIVE initiative

4-Mar-2025

White blood cells use brute force to dislodge bacteria

University of Cincinnati
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Xuefeng Wang, an associate professor at the University of Cincinnati’s Hoxworth Blood Center, is the recipient of a grant from the National Institutes of Health, as well as corresponding author of recently published research in Nature Communications.

Journal

Nature Communications

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health

4-Mar-2025

Study reveals hope for immunotherapy as prostate cancer treatment

University of Arizona Health Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at University of Arizona Cancer Center used a double-pronged approach to reduce tumor growth in tissue samples of prostate cancer.

Journal

Cancer Immunology Research

Funder

U.S. Department of Defense, NIH/National Cancer Institute, NIH/National Institutes of Health