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Sep 2026
Study links protein interaction to senescent cell survival
Senescent cells - cells that have stopped dividing but remain metabolically active - can accumulate with age and contribute to chronic inflammation and tissue dysfunction
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Sep 2026
New brain atlas reveals insights into Huntington's, addiction, and other disorders
A region of the brain called the striatum is critical for many cognitive and motor functions, including decision-making, control of movement, habit formation, and processing of reward.
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Sep 2026
New nondestructive imaging technique tracks immune cell health
When a patient is facing certain cancers or an immune condition, clinicians turn to their white blood cells for clues about the progression of both diseases and their treatments.
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Sep 2026
Protein buildup mechanism shapes response to PROTAC drugs
The way cancer-causing proteins accumulate in tumours may influence how effectively a promising new generation of medicines can remove them, a study suggests.
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Sep 2026
New tool amplifies and visualizes tiny protein changes
Imagine a brain teaser where the challenge is to spot the difference between two nearly identical sandcastles.
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Sep 2026
Blocking a key protein protects against metabolic liver damage
Obesity-related metabolic liver disease affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, but only some fraction of those livers develop scarring, become inflamed, and eventually fail. University of Utah researchers have identified a protein, EFHD1, that appears to drive that transition by triggering an out-of-place antiviral immune response.
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Sep 2026
DARPA funds project to build wireless yeast DNA printer
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has tasked scientists with developing a system that can receive instructions and synthesize a sequence of DNA or RNA without any chemical input. Think wireless DNA printer.
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Sep 2026
UNC researcher wins major grant to study the role of endoplasmic reticulum in T-cell metabolism
Jessica Thaxton, PhD, MsCR, associate professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology at the UNC School of Medicine and co-leader of the Cancer Cell Biology Research Program at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been awarded a prestigious $700,000 grant from the Mathers Foundation to support research into the role of the endoplasmic reticulum in T-cell metabolism and cancer development.
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Sep 2026
PCORI funding awarded to study symptom management for rare cholestatic liver diseases
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has announced a $13 million funding award to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill over five years to study innovative symptom management interventions for patients with rare cholestatic liver diseases.
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Sep 2026
Antifungal medication may reduce inflammatory bowel disease symptoms
A commonly used systemic antifungal medication may help reduce symptoms in a subset of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by restoring a healthier gut microbiome, according to a preliminary study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.
