National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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MD
United States
72 articles with National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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Depression reversed in male mice by activating a gene that helps excite, excitatory neurons
2/18/2019
Directly activating a gene important to exciting our excitatory neurons and associated with major depression may help turn around classic symptoms like social isolation and loss of interest, at least for males, scientists report.
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There’s no doubt that drug prices, particularly sky-high prices for new biologics and companies jacking up the prices of older drugs, is a problem. And it’s definitely a political issue, especially now that candidates are declaring their plans to run for president in 2020.
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Prominent Digestive Wellness Expert Featured On New Podcast
2/13/2019
Second Episode of New Switch4Good Podcast Series Now Available
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Effort to "nudge" doctor's adoption of evidence-based clinical practice receives NIH support
2/13/2019
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Assistant Professor and Junior Faculty Researcher Safiya Richardson, MD, has been awarded a five-year, $850,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to support her work in creating tools that help doctors make evidence-based clinical decisions.
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NAD Boosters: Promising in Mice for Anti-Aging and Alzheimer's, but Not Yet Ready for Prime-time
2/11/2019
There has been recent optimism—and possibly hype—over so-called NAD boosters. Kaiser Health News (KHN) recently reported on Harvard University researcher David Sinclair, who is taking his own research product, a supplement that boosts nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), a cofactor found in a... -
Akonni Biosystems Awarded Phase II NIH Contract to Advance its Device to Purify DNA from Sputum for Tuberculosis Testing
2/5/2019
Simple, Cost-Effective Device Shown Effective in Phase I
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The Other Shoe Dropped: Researchers Familiar With Chinese CRISPR Scandal Under Increased Scrutiny
1/31/2019
In November, Chinese researcher He Jiankui of the Southern University of Science and Technology of China announced he had used CRISPR to alter the embryos of seven couples to make them resistant to HIV. To date, a set of twins were born and there is another pregnancy. This was met by near-univers... -
NIH Scientists and Teens Join Forces for 2019 National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week®
1/22/2019
National Health Observance Week Helps SHATTER THE MYTHS® about Drug and Alcohol Misuse
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National Institutes of Health Launches Fitbit Project as First Digital Health Technology Initiative in Landmark All of Us Research Program
1/16/2019
Selected by Scripps Research, Fitbit is first wearable brand in historic precision medicine study
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Report: Massachusetts, Colorado, Maryland and California States With Best Tech Environments
12/21/2018
For the last couple decades, states have shown an interest in boosting the biotech industry. Massachusetts and California are dominant in biotech startups, and recently Texas expressed its hopes of being a great “third coast” for biotech clusters. -
In writing literally hundreds of stories this year, two BioSpace writers, Alex Keown and Mark Terry, found certain stories particularly intriguing or impactful. Some of those were such big topics that they were covered over a series of stories. Looking back at 2018, here are their Top 10.
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Public supports NIH grants for Alzheimer's microbes, reports Alzheimer's Germ Quest, Inc.
12/18/2018
The public wants to see more research grant money allocated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to clarifying whether or not germs play a role in triggering Alzheimer's disease, judging by early results of a national campaign launched three weeks ago, says Leslie Norins, M.D., Ph.D., CEO of Alzheimer's Germ Quest, Inc.
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December 14 Research Roundup: Lonesome George’s Genome, Alzheimer’s and Prostate Cancer Tests and...
12/14/2018
There are plenty of great scientific research stories out this week. Here’s a look at just a few of them. -
Adynxx Announces Notice Of Award For $5.7M In Federal Grant Funding
12/13/2018
Award intended to fund Phase 2 study of brivoligide in patients undergoing mastectomy
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Lawsuit Charges FDA, NIH With Failing to Follow Established Law for Reporting of Clinical Trial Data
12/12/2018
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NIH gives Feinstein Institute $1.68M to study sepsis therapy
12/11/2018
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Assistant Professor, Monowar Aziz, PhD, received a five-year, $1.68 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to examine a protein's role in increasing inflammation and injury in sepsis to develop new therapies.
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As the Trump administration has continued to show its lack of financial support of scientific research using fetal tissue, the National Institutes of Health is setting aside $20 million to fund research that could develop alternatives to the use of embryonic tissue.
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Political Battle Over Fetal Tissue Could Force Closure of Research Center Pivotal to HIV Therapies
12/6/2018
Researchers who focus on HIV vaccines are caught in the middle of a political battle over funding of fetal stem cell research. -
The FDA is often publishing draft guidelines and asking for expert feedback on that guidance. It’s been a busy week in this regard, with several areas of healthcare and drug development and manufacturing being covered by the agency. Here’s a look.
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Noting that from 1998 to 2017 there have been about 146 failed shots at developing drugs for Alzheimer’s disease, PhRMA released a report on the state of the industry. This would not lead most people to think there are many reasons to be optimistic about Alzheimer’s disease research, but the repo...