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Celebrating New Clinical Center Exhibit for Nobel Laureate Dr. Harvey Alter
On Feb. 14, 2024, NIH hosted an event to open an exhibit on display in the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, titled, “Harvey Alter and the Discovery of Hepatitis C: Making Our Blood Supply...
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Aided by AI, Study Uncovers Hidden Sex Differences in Dynamic Brain Function
Credit: Adobe/Feodora We’re living in an especially promising time for biomedical discovery and advances in the delivery of data-driven health care for everyone. A key part of this is the tremendous...
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Healing Switch Links Acute Kidney Injury to Fibrosis, Suggesting Way to...
The protein Sox9 switches on after kidney injury, then back off after repair. When healing doesn’t proceed optimally, Sox9 stays on, leading to scarring and fibrosis. Credit: Donny Bliss/NIH Healthy...
View ArticleStudy Suggests During Sleep, Neural Process Helps Clear the Brain of Damaging...
Artist’s rendering of neural activity clearing waste products through tight spaces of the brain. Credit: Donny Bliss/NIH We’ve long known that sleep is a restorative process necessary for good health....
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Welcoming Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf for Rall Cultural Lecture on AI in...
NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli in a fireside chat with Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf at the Rall Cultural Lecture on March 19, 2024, at Masur Auditorium. Credit (all photos): Leslie...
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Immune Checkpoint Discovery Has Implications for Treating Cancer and...
When PD-1 receptors on T cells pair up, they are more likely to engage with PD-L1 proteins on other cells to prevent an immune attack. Credit: Donny Bliss/NIH Your immune system should ideally...
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Fear Switch in the Brain May Point to Target for Treating Anxiety Disorders...
Researchers found that acute stress switched chemical signals in the brain from producing excitatory glutamate to inhibitory GABA neurotransmitters, and this led to a generalized fear response....
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Visiting West Virginia University and Sharing Vision for Enhancing the...
NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli with Senator Shelley Moore Capito (left), and Dr. Ming Lei, Vice Dean of Research at the WVU School of Medicine (right), during a visit to West Virginia University...
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Microbe Normally Found in the Mouth May Drive Progression of Colorectal Cancer
Study findings suggest a subtype of Fusobacterium nucleatum, a microbe normally found in the mouth, may infect colorectal tumors and drive their growth. Credit: Donny Bliss/NIH, Appledesign/Adobe...
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Visiting West Virginia University and Sharing Vision for Enhancing the...
NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli with Senator Shelley Moore Capito (left), and Dr. Ming Lei, Vice Dean of Research at the WVU School of Medicine (right), during a visit to West Virginia University...
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Health Conditions During and After...
Credit: Marco/Adobe Stock Pregnancy and childbirth are often thought of as joyful times. Yet, we know that mental health conditions including perinatal depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress...
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Study Suggests Treatments that Unleash Immune Cells in the Brain Could Help...
In a study, an antibody treatment blocked interaction between APOE proteins and LILRB4 receptors in the brain, enabling microglia immune cells to clear amyloid plaques, a feature of Alzheimer’s....
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Machine Learning Study Offers Clues to Why Some People Have Rheumatoid...
Credit: Yakobchuk Olena/Adobe Stock About 1.5 million adults in the U.S. are living with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks joint tissue, causing...
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AI Tool Using Single-Cell Data Has Promise for Optimally Matching Cancer...
Credit: Donny Bliss/NIH, NicoElNino/Adobe Stock Precision oncology, in which doctors choose cancer treatment options based on the underlying molecular or genetic signature of individual tumors, has...
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Speeding the Diagnosis of Rare Genetic Disorders with the Help of Artificial...
Credit: Donny Bliss/NIH, Qpt/Shutterstock, taka/Adobe Stock Millions of children around the world are born each year with severe genetic disorders. Many of these are Mendelian disorders, which are...
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Researchers Map Neural Connections Key to Wakefulness in the Human Brain
Credit: Donny Bliss/NIH Human consciousness requires a person to be both awake and aware. While neuroscientists have learned a great deal from research about the underlying brain networks that sustain...
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Addressing Graduates Embarking on Careers in Medicine and Public Health
NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli giving a commencement address at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health on May 15, 2024. Credit: Leslye Smith Earlier this month, I had the honor of giving...
View ArticleMost Detailed 3D Reconstruction of Human Brain Tissue Ever Produced Yields...
Researchers have developed a detailed 3D reconstruction of a cubic millimeter of brain tissue. Credit: Images in video from Google Research & Lichtman Lab, Harvard University. Renderings by D....
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Study Suggests Computerized Brain Implant Could One Day Decode Internal...
Credit: Tom Merton/KOTO/Adobe Stock The ability to communicate using only your thoughts might sound like the stuff of science fiction. But for people who don’t have the ability to speak or move due to...
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Insights into Molecular Basis of PTSD and Major Depression Could One Day Aid...
Credit: S. Thomas Carmichael/UCLA, Yuliia/Adobe Stock We know stress can take a toll on our mental health. Yet, it’s unclear why some people develop stress-related mental health disorders and others...
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