NIH awards $285M for innovative biomedical research projects The National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, part of its Director’s Awards, has awarded approximately $285 million in new research grants to support visionary and broadly impactful behavioral and biomedical research projects.Read More
Researchers create “brainier” brain organoids Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have discovered that early-stage stem cells are key to creating high-quality brain organoids -- miniature brainlike structures used in the laboratory to model a variety of diseases.Read More
Next-gen natural killer cell enhances antitumor activity A next-generation natural killer (NK) cell improves tumor specificity and enhances antitumor activity by overcoming a process that contributes to NK cell dysfunction and tumor relapse, a new preclinical study finds.Read More
A monkey virus could transfer to humans, study finds University of Colorado Boulder researchers are urging vigilance around an obscure family of viruses known to cause fatal Ebola-like symptoms in some monkeys. They said the virus is “poised for spillover” to humans, although that hasn’t happened yet.Read More