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15-Dec-2025

Researchers see dramatic drop in HIV-infected immune cells in patient after cancer treatment received

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Advancements in HIV/AIDS research, drug development and clinical practice since the 1980s have made it possible for people living with HIV to lead long, productive lives and keep the virus in check at undetectable levels and nontransmissible as long as therapy is maintained. However, a cure ― completely ridding the body of the virus — has only been documented in a handful of patients who underwent complex and high-risk bone marrow transplants for life-threatening blood cancers such as leukemia or lymphoma.

Journal: Journal of Clinical Investigation

15-Dec-2025

Support for parents with infants at pediatric check-ups leads to better reading and math skills in elementary school

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

Guiding parents to have pretend play and read aloud with their babies increased parental support of their children’s cognitive development and academic skills by the time they turned six—especially for families facing poverty.

Journal: PEDIATRICS

15-Dec-2025

UTHealth Houston, in collaboration with UTMB Health, awarded $50 million by the state of Texas to lead ibogaine clinical trials

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Grant and Award Announcement

UTHealth Houston, in collaboration with The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB Health), has been awarded $50 million from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to lead a collaborative two-year, multicenter research trial that will evaluate the effect of ibogaine on patients suffering from addiction, traumatic brain injury, and other behavioral health conditions.

15-Dec-2025

The UC3M’s new supercomputer ranks among the world’s top 15% most powerful systems in the IO500

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Business Announcement

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) inaugurated today its Scientific Computing Center (C3), a new state-of-the-art supercomputing facility designed to support R&D&I projects with high demands in computation, storage and data processing. This supercomputer, ranked 81st worldwide according to the IO500 ranking, reinforces the University’s commitment to scientific and technological excellence and will be available to the UC3M research community, other research centers, and interested companies. The C3 will represent a major advance in socially impactful research in fields such as aeronautics, biology, and health sciences, among others.

Funder: Agencia Estatal de Investigación, European Regional Development Fund

15-Dec-2025

World's smallest programmable robot perform tasks

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The world's smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots have debuted at the University of Pennsylvania, sporting a brain developed at the University of Michigan.

Journal: Science Robotics
Funder: National Science Foundation

15-Dec-2025

UT Health Sciences researchers demonstrate breakthroughs in cancer treatment quality through AI-enhanced data analytics

University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Cancer researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center have published three groundbreaking studies demonstrating how advanced artificial intelligence and population health analytics can identify and address barriers to quality cancer care.

Funder: Tennessee Department of Health

15-Dec-2025

Tropical disease oroya fever: Elucidation of disease mechanism opens possibility for novel therapy

Goethe University Frankfurt
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The bacterial pathogen Bartonella bacilliformis causes in South America one of the most dangerous infectious diseases known: the so-called “Oroya fever.” Without antibiotic treatment, 90 percent of the infected patients will die, as the pathogen destroys red blood cells. Researchers at University Medicine Frankfurt have now clarified how the pathogen triggers this hemolytic disease. In laboratory experiments, they were even able to inhibit the destruction of red blood cells. The results open up a possible avenue for developing a novel therapy against this often fatal infectious disease.

Journal: Nature Communications

15-Dec-2025

Kids’ behavioral health is a growing share of family health costs

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mental health, substance use, and other behavioral health care made up 40% of all health expenditures for U.S. children in 2022, according to a new study by researchers at UC San Francisco. That is almost twice what it was in 2011.

Journal: JAMA Pediatrics

15-Dec-2025

COVID-19 vaccination significantly reduces risk to pregnant women and baby

University of British Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Pregnant people who received a COVID-19 vaccine were far less likely to experience severe illness or deliver their babies prematurely, according to a major new UBC-led study published in JAMA. Drawing on data from nearly 20,000 pregnancies across Canada, the research found that vaccination was strongly associated with lower risks of hospitalization, intensive care admission and preterm birth. These benefits persisted as the virus evolved from the Delta variant to Omicron, which has evolved into newer sublineages that still dominate today.

Journal: JAMA
Funder: COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, BC Women's Health Foundation