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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 24-Apr-2025 20:08 ET (25-Apr-2025 00:08 GMT/UTC)

25-Mar-2025

Scientists unlock frogs’ antibacterial secrets to combat superbugs

University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Penn Engineers have derived potent new antibiotics from a frog's secretions. The new molecules demonstrated capabilities on par with existing last-resort antibiotics, without harming human cells or beneficial gut bacteria.

Journal

Trends in Biotechnology

Funder

American Institute of Chemical Engineers, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Defense Threat Reduction Agency

24-Mar-2025

Correcting imbalance with the gut microbiota after stroke could reduce brain inflammation, open pathway to potential therapies

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An imbalance in ligands, which are molecules produced by the body and the gut microbiota, can affect a key receptor protein that plays a role in brain inflammation after stroke, according to researchers at UTHealth Houston, who recently published their preclinical findings in Nature Communications.

Journal

Nature Communications

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health

24-Mar-2025

New IVF method mimics fallopian tube environment, increasing sperm viability

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The success of in vitro fertilization depends on many factors, one of which is sperm viability. A recent study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign documents a new way to select viable sperm and prolong their viability in the laboratory, reducing one source of variability during the process.

Journal

Scientific Reports

Funder

NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

24-Mar-2025

Exploring why it is harder to hear in noisy environments

Society for Neuroscience
Peer-Reviewed Publication

When people try to hear in environments with competing speakers, subcortical brain responses are increasingly smaller and delayed as more speakers come into play.

Journal

eNeuro

Funder

U.S. National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institutes of Health

24-Mar-2025

Type 2 diabetes may suppress reward

Society for Neuroscience
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rat study suggests that Type 2 diabetes may weaken a projection in the brain that drives reward and spatial processing.

Journal

JNeurosci

Funder

NIH/National Institute on Aging, NIH/National Institute on Aging