Embargoed until Monday, September 16, noon EDT          Contact: development@sfn.org   CHICAGO – The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present six neuroscientists with this year’s Science Education and Outreach Awards, comprising the Award for Education in Neuroscience, the Science Educator Award, and the Next Generation Awards. The awards will be presented during SfN’s annual meeting. “The Society is honored to recognize these passionate neuroscientists ...

Embargoed until Monday, September 16, noon EDT               Contact: development@sfn.org   CHICAGO — The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will honor seven researchers who have made significant contributions to the advancement of women in neuroscience. The awards will be presented during Neuroscience 2024, SfN's annual meeting. “Neuroscience is both a field of research and a community of researchers,” said SfN President Marina Picciotto. “These awardees not only advance our field’s understanding of the brain through their own research, they strengthen and support ...

Baek Conducting Air Quality Monitoring & Simulation Analysis B.H. Baek, Research Associate Professor, Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, College of Science, received funding for: “EPA Air Quality Modeling and Simulation Analysis (AQM- Office of Air Quality, Planning Standards (OAQPS) Program.” Baek will perform work in support of the U.S. EPA Office of Air Quality Policy and Standards (OAQPS) Air Quality Modeling and Simulation Analysis. Baek received $27,316 from General ...

Massimiliano Albanese, Associate Professor, Information Sciences and Technology; Associate Chair for Research, School of Computing; College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), received funding for: “DoD Cyber Scholarship Grant Program.” George Mason will continue administering its Cybersecurity Scholarship Program during the 2024-2025 academic year, under the Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Service Academy (CSA) program, formerly known as the DoD Cybersecurity Scholarship Program (CySP). The objective ...

A new study from Mass General Brigham researchers provides evidence that large language models (LLMs), used for generative artificial intelligence (AI), ChatGPT-4 and Google’s Gemini, demonstrated no differences in suggested opioid treatment regimens for different races or sexes. Results are published in PAIN.  “I see AI algorithms in the short term as augmenting tools that can essentially serve as a second set of eyes, running in parallel with medical professionals,” said corresponding author Marc Succi, ...

Key Takeaways: A new study led by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute examined whether neighborhood food access in early life is associated with trajectories of child body mass index and obesity risk. Study results show that neighborhood food access matters. Residing in low-income, low-food-access neighborhoods during pregnancy or early childhood is linked to a higher body mass index (BMI) z-score and a more than 50% increased risk of obesity and severe obesity from childhood to adolescence. Investing in neighborhood resources to improve food access ...

About The Study: In this study, monthly, 140 mg erenumab injections safely and effectively achieved medication overuse headaches remission in patients with nonopioid chronic migraine and medication overuse headaches within 6 months. Quote from corresponding author Stewart J. Tepper, MD: “Those patients with medication overuse headache (MOH) have higher disability and a significant unmet clinical need. Erenumab proved effective versus placebo in significantly higher rates of MOH remission and marked reduction in days in which acute migraine treatment was taken in a randomized controlled trial, with these benefits sustained through ...

About The Study: The findings of this study suggest that a reduction in air pollution may help reduce Parkinson disease risk, modifying the Parkinson disease phenotype and the risk of dyskinesia in patients with Parkinson disease.  Corresponding Authors: To contact the corresponding authors, email Brittany Krzyzanowski, PhD, (brittany.krzyzanowski@barrowneuro.org) and Rodolfo Savica, MD, PhD, (savica.rodolfo@mayo.edu). To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.33602) Editor’s ...

About The Study: Residence in low-income, low–food access neighborhoods in early life was associated with higher subsequent child body mass index and higher risk of obesity and severe obesity. Future studies should examine the effectiveness of investments in neighborhood resources to improve food access in preventing child obesity. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Izzuddin M. Aris, PhD, email izzuddin_aris@hphci.harvard.edu. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.3459) Editor’s ...

About The Study: This intensive longitudinal cohort study found that suicidal ideation intensity modestly increased in the hours immediately following exposure to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) negative news or media among LGBTQ+ young adults. These findings have timely implications for research and intervention, particularly within sociopolitical and geographic contexts where news or media coverage about LGBTQ+ topics is intensified. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Kirsty A. Clark, MPH, PhD, email kirsty.clark@vanderbilt.edu. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Sept. 16, 2024 – Food insecurity, which is the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, is associated with poor health outcomes and the increased need to use health care services. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, food insecurity impacts 10.2% of U.S. households. In families with children in the home, food insecurity is even higher, at 12.5%.  A new study from researchers at Wake Forest ...

Children who faced food insecurity during early childhood—or whose mothers experienced it during pregnancy—had a higher body mass index (BMI) and more than 50% increased chance of developing obesity or severe obesity in childhood and adolescence, according to a new study funded by the NIH Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program. While previous research has linked food insecurity to obesity in adults, its impact on children is less clear. ECHO Cohort researchers explored how food insecurity during early life and pregnancy may ...

What: West African genetic ancestry was associated with increased prostate cancer among men living in disadvantaged neighborhoods but not among men living in more affluent neighborhoods, according to a new study led by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The findings suggest that neighborhood environment may play a role in determining how genetic ancestry influences prostate cancer risk. The study was published Sept. 16, 2024, in JAMA Network Open. In the United States, most Black Americans have West African genetic ancestry, the researchers noted. Previous studies have shown that West African genetic ancestry is linked to increased prostate cancer risk among Black men, ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif) — Pregnancy is a transformative time in a person’s life where the body undergoes rapid physiological adaptations to prepare for motherhood — that we all know. What has remained something of a mystery is what the sweeping hormonal shifts brought on by pregnancy are doing to the brain. Researchers in Professor Emily Jacobs’ lab at UC Santa Barbara have shed light on this understudied area with the first-ever map of a human brain over the course of pregnancy. “We wanted to look at the trajectory of brain changes specifically within the gestational window,” said Laura Pritschet, lead ...

[Vienna, September 13 2024] – The 15-minute city, a concept where essential services are accessible within a 15-minute walk or bike ride, has become increasingly popular in urban planning in recent years. This is because it offers solutions to several pressing challenges in urban areas, such as traffic, pollution, social isolation, and quality of life. With more than half of the world's population now living in cities—and this figure steadily increasing—these issues are becoming ever more critical. In a recent study, published ...

The CLINICAL24 campaign will see SelectScience partner with a variety of organisations, clinical laboratories and industry brands, to raise awareness of the role of clinical professionals, and those who support them. As part of the partnership, both organisations will share updates and content of interest to their audiences and AMI will supply speakers for SelectScience’s upcoming Clinical Summit in March 2025. Global interdisciplinary community AMI nurtures and engages a global interdisciplinary community, providing opportunities for collaboration, making advancements in, and through, applied microbiology. “We ...

September 16, 2024—(BRONX, NY)— The National Cancer Institute-designated Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center (MECCC) has announced the new Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Institute for Immunotherapy for Cancer and Inflammatory Disorders.  Xingxing Zang, Ph.D., an international leader in developing novel immunotherapies, has been named its inaugural director.   “Our goal is to be at the forefront of developing novel immunotherapy technologies and advancing them into ...

New research has answered the mystery of how the Crystal Palace in London, which at the time was the world’s largest building, was constructed in only 190 days. The study, led by Professor John Gardner of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge, England, has discovered that the Crystal Palace was the first building known to have made use of a standard screw thread – something that’s now taken for granted in modern construction and engineering. Completed just in time for the start ...

The importance of disorder in physics is only matched by the difficulty to study it. For example, the remarkable properties of high-temperature superconductors are greatly affected by variations in the chemical composition of the solid. Techniques that enable measurements of such disorder and its impact on the electronic properties, such as scanning tunnelling microscopy, work only at very low temperatures, and are blind to these physics near the transition temperature. Now, a team of researchers of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Germany and Brookhaven National ...

FRANKFURT. In January 2024, 16 Frankfurt-based research institutions joined forces to set up the “Frankfurt Alliance”, made up of Goethe University Frankfurt and several non-university research institutions. With the aim of visualizing at an event held in the heart of the Main metropolis both the strength and the diversity of research conducted in the science city of Frankfurt and the larger Rhine-Main region, including its importance for society, the alliance invites you to the first “Science Festival”, held on Saturday, September 28, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Roßmarkt in ...

The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology today announced final results will be presented at ESMO 2024 from CABINET (A021602), a phase III trial evaluating cabozantinib compared with placebo in two cohorts of patients with previously treated neuroendocrine tumors: one cohort of patients with advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET) and a second cohort of patients with advanced extra-pancreatic NET (epNET). The study met the primary objective for each cohort, demonstrating that cabozantinib provided dramatic improvements in median ...

To build upon a quarter-century of world-renowned research in zoonotic viral diseases, X.J. Meng has been rewarded with a prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award – the first awarded to Virginia Tech.  “This is a huge honor and privilege,” said Meng, University Distinguished Professor of Molecular Virology in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. “It is really gratifying to know ...

By Benjamin Boettner (BOSTON) — Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard Universityreceived a contract for up to $12M from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s new SHIELD program. The SHIELD (Synthetic Hemo-technologies to Locate and Disinfect) program aims to develop a prophylactic treatment that can be broadly administered to trauma victims in combat casualty care scenarios to rapidly clear multiple bloodborne bacterial and fungal pathogens, limit morbidity and mortality, and protect recipients for up to seven days. Blood ...

The deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus, which has killed millions of birds worldwide since 2021 – and in rare cases can be transmitted to humans – may be spread through the food-stealing behaviour of some seabirds. A study published today in the journal Conservation Letters highlights food theft – also known as ‘kleptoparasitism’, where some seabird species like frigatebirds and skuas force other birds to regurgitate their prey – as a possible transmission path for the spread of avian flu. Led by scientists from UNSW Sydney’s ...

SAN ANTONIO — September 16, 2024 —Researchers from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) are creating innovative military helmet pads designed to prevent traumatic brain injury (TBI). The project, led by SwRI’s Dr. Daniel Portillo and UTSA’s Dr. Morteza Seidi, is supported by a $125,000 grant from the Connecting through Research Partnerships (Connect) program. Traumatic brain injury can affect human performance and quality of life. It is ...