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1-Apr-2025

University of Minnesota Medical School study identifies key heart marker predicting ischemic stroke and dementia

University of Minnesota Medical School
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team from the University of Minnesota Medical School has identified a strong predictor of ischemic stroke and dementia, a discovery that could lead to improved patient outcomes. The findings were recently published in Stroke.

Journal: Stroke
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

1-Apr-2025

Putting the brakes on bacterial mobility: a new approach to fighting disease

Cornell University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have identified a new way to fight infections like Lyme disease and syphilis by disrupting the bacteria’s ‘motor,’ preventing it from spreading through the body.

Journal: ACS Chemical Biology
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Bay Area Lyme Foundation

1-Apr-2025

FAU secures $1.3 million NIH grant for breakthrough in HIV self-test technology

Florida Atlantic University
Grant and Award Announcement

FAU researchers have been awarded a five-year NIH grant to address the urgent need for a reliable, rapid and affordable self-test for early HIV detection. Expected to cost less than $5, the novel micro-chip technology will detect HIV during the acute infection phase or viral rebound, deliver rapid results in about 40 minutes and remain stable without refrigeration. The handheld device will be battery-powered and operate fully automated, providing true “sample-in-answer-out” functionality that requires minimal user manipulation.

Funder: NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

31-Mar-2025

Many TB cases may have gone undetected in prisons in Europe and the Americas during COVID-19

Boston University School of Public Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study published in The Lancet Public Health found that tuberculosis diagnoses plummeted as much as 100 percent in Central and North America in 2021, and nearly 87 percent in Western Europe in 2022 (compared to expected levels). This pattern was distinct from tuberculosis diagnoses among the general population, which experienced a decline in 2020, but generally began increasing again in subsequent years. Incarceration levels remained largely consistent from 2020-2022, suggesting that the reduction in reported TB cases was likely due to other factors, such as reduced capacity for prisons to test and diagnose TB during the unprecedented global crisis.

Journal: The Lancet Public Health
Funder: Canadian Institutes of Health Research, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

31-Mar-2025

A new clue to how multicellular life may have evolved

Emory University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The physics of how a quirky pond organism filters the water for food provides new insights into a possible driver of early evolution.

Journal: Nature Physics
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Marine Biological Laboratory, Emory University