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Adverse childhood experiences linked to highest risk for problematic adolescent cannabis use

Young people who are exposed to adverse childhood experiences between the ages of 0 – 12 years, including parental drug misuse, are at highest risk for developing problematic adolescent cannabis use as teenagers, according to a new study.

29 Jun 2023

Gene editing receives higher favorability ratings than GMOs in social and traditional media

Gene editing and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been topics of significant debate in recent years.

28 Jun 2023

Susan G. Komen awards $19.3 million to advance precision medicine and improve breast cancer outcomes

Susan G. Komen, the world's leading breast cancer organization, today announced the awarding of 49 new grants to researchers at 28 leading institutions in the U.S.

28 Jun 2023

Illuminating how children inherit parents’ stressful experiences

Most of us learned in high school that people get half their genes from their father and half from their mother. That's true, but it turns out the way parents contribute to their offspring's genetics is more complicated—and more intriguing.

27 Jun 2023

Race- and gender-specific interventions may be more effective at preventing overdose deaths

Interventions to address stimulant and opioid use that consider race and gender may prove more effective at preventing overdose deaths than current methods, according to a Penn State-led team of researchers who studied how drug treatment admissions and overdose deaths differed among race and gender.

26 Jun 2023

$9.8 million NCI grant aims to combat cancer disparities

Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University have been awarded a $9.8 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, to help combat cancer disparities fueled by persistent poverty.

26 Jun 2023

Adopting a 30th birthday genetic profile test could save lives and NHS costs

A new study published in the US medical journal ‘The Annals of Internal Medicine’ makes a very strong case for universal genetic testing at the age of 30.

24 Jun 2023

UA researcher develops new method to monitor frailty symptoms

A layperson might think of "frail" as simply a synonym for "weak" or "fragile." But in the medical field, frailty is a specific term, meaning – due to factors including inflammation and hormone shifts – a patient has a lack of physiological reserve, or a reduced ability to tolerate stress.

23 Jun 2023

Mario Romero-Ortega selected to head the University of Arizona Department of Biomedical Engineering

Mario Romero-Ortega was selected through a nationwide search to head the University of Arizona Department of Biomedical Engineering, beginning with the fall 2023 semester.

23 Jun 2023

AHA awards $20 million to address health challenges in rural communities

People who live in rural areas of the U.S. are 40% more likely to develop heart disease and have a 30% higher risk of stroke than people who live in urban areas, according to data reported in the 2020 Call to Action: Rural Health: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.

23 Jun 2023

Gestational diabetes influences diabetes risk and blood sugar control

People who develop diabetes following pregnancy were significantly less likely to be able to bring it under control if they had experienced gestational diabetes during their pregnancy, especially if they were Black or Hispanic, according to a Mount Sinai study published on June 21 in the journal Diabetes Care.

21 Jun 2023

Scientists uncover critical insights into why airborne viruses lose their infectivity

Critical insights into why airborne viruses lose their infectivity have been uncovered by scientists at the University of Bristol.

21 Jun 2023

Closed Loop Medicine appoints Kate Woolland as Chief Operating Officer

The key executive appointment supports the strategic, operational delivery of the Company’s product and partnership programs.

From Closed Loop Medicine 20 Jun 2023

$11.7M from Department of Defense to fund research on discovering a treatment for hydrocephalus

Researchers at the School of Science at IUPUI will lead two grants totaling $11.7 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to fund research on discovering a drug treatment for hydrocephalus, a condition commonly associated with complications from traumatic brain injury that causes cerebrospinal fluid to accumulate in the brain.

15 Jun 2023

New material could usher in the next generation of cancer treatments

A new material, created at the little-explored intersection of organic and inorganic chemistry, could not only enable more powerful solar panels, but it could also usher in the next generation of cancer treatments.

12 Jun 2023

Keynote speakers of ELRIG Drug Discovery 2023 announced

The European Laboratory Research & Innovation Group (ELRIG) UK today announced the keynote speakers for Drug Discovery 2023, taking place at the ACC in Liverpool from 18–19 October. Prof Janet Hemingway CBE, FRS, Founding Director of Infection Innovation Consortium (iiCON), and Dr Dave Powell, Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of LifeArc will lead this year’s event focussing on diverse thinking and new perspectives.

10 Jun 2023

Intuitive announces UK-first robotic-assisted surgery training program in partnership with Newcastle Surgical Training Centre

Intuitive has today announced that surgical trainees from across Northeast England are gaining hands-on experience of robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) with da Vinci surgical systems thanks to a UK first programme designed to train the next generation of surgeons.

10 Jun 2023

Common diabetes drug prevents the development of long COVID, study finds

In a new study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, University of Minnesota researchers found that metformin, a drug commonly used to treat diabetes, prevents the development of long COVID.

9 Jun 2023

The BABY1000 study: chasing lifetime risk factors in prenatal and early postnatal life

Preconceptional parental health, pregnancy health, and early infant environment and health.

9 Jun 2023

Study may help advance data on oncolytic adenovirus mediated double suicide-gene therapy for high-grade brain tumors

Researchers in the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center at Henry Ford Health are leading a Phase I clinical trial studying the maximum tolerated dose of an oncolytic adenovirus, a mutated virus engineered to selectively replicate in and destroy cancer tissue, in combination with fractionated stereotactic radiosurgery among patients who are undergoing resection of a recurrent high-grade astrocytoma brain tumor.

8 Jun 2023

Next Generation News and Research

Adverse childhood experiences linked to highest risk for problematic adolescent cannabis use

Gene editing receives higher favorability ratings than GMOs in social and traditional media

Susan G. Komen awards $19.3 million to advance precision medicine and improve breast cancer outcomes

Illuminating how children inherit parents’ stressful experiences

Race- and gender-specific interventions may be more effective at preventing overdose deaths

$9.8 million NCI grant aims to combat cancer disparities

Adopting a 30th birthday genetic profile test could save lives and NHS costs

UA researcher develops new method to monitor frailty symptoms

Mario Romero-Ortega selected to head the University of Arizona Department of Biomedical Engineering

AHA awards $20 million to address health challenges in rural communities

Gestational diabetes influences diabetes risk and blood sugar control

Scientists uncover critical insights into why airborne viruses lose their infectivity

Closed Loop Medicine appoints Kate Woolland as Chief Operating Officer

$11.7M from Department of Defense to fund research on discovering a treatment for hydrocephalus

New material could usher in the next generation of cancer treatments

Keynote speakers of ELRIG Drug Discovery 2023 announced

Intuitive announces UK-first robotic-assisted surgery training program in partnership with Newcastle Surgical Training Centre

Common diabetes drug prevents the development of long COVID, study finds

The BABY1000 study: chasing lifetime risk factors in prenatal and early postnatal life

Study may help advance data on oncolytic adenovirus mediated double suicide-gene therapy for high-grade brain tumors

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