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14-Aug-2025

New CRISPR technique could rewrite future of genetic disease treatment

University of New South Wales
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study has revealed that chemical tags once regarded as genetic clutter are in fact powerful gene silencers — and removing them could unlock safer treatments for inherited blood disorders.

Journal

Nature Communications

Funder

National Health and Medical Research Council, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Australian GovernmentResearch Training Program, Government of India DBT Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship

14-Aug-2025

New method more accurately assesses movement disorder in children

Washington University in St. Louis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study led by Bhooma Aravamuthan, MD, DPhil, a pediatric movement disorders specialist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, identifies an objective way to measure leg dystonia, a common complication of cerebral palsy in children.

Journal

Annals of Neurology

Funder

NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Pediatric Epilepsy Research Foundation, Rita Allen Foundation, NIH/National Institute of Mental Health

14-Aug-2025

A new way to study omega fatty acids

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Omega fatty acids are important to human health. Deviations in their position can signal cell malfunction or disease. Researchers from UC San Diego have presented a new computational method to determine omega positions of lipids that could help with health diagnoses.

Journal

Nature Communications

Funder

NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences

14-Aug-2025

Double trouble: epigenetic duo shapes cell fate and disease

Case Western Reserve University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Shedding light on what determines how cells become what they are meant to be—nerves, bone, muscles, etc.—can also help researchers understand how diseases develop when these biological programs break down.

Now, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have discovered a key synergistic role for two epigenetic markers—molecules that help tell genes to turn on and off—involved in programming cell fate. Importantly, turning off these two markers causes genes to over-activate, disrupting normal cell development.

Journal

Science Advances

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health

14-Aug-2025

$3.8M NIH grant will fund research into potential early COPD biomarker

University of Arizona Health Sciences
Grant and Award Announcement

A new study will investigate whether levels of the lung protein CC16 in childhood can predict risk of early chronic obstructive pulmonary disease later in life.

Funder

NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases