2018 Science News Archives

2018

• Medical Detectives: The Last Hope For Families Coping With Rare Diseases
  NPR 
  December 17, 2018
  Common Fund Program: Undiagnosed Diseases Network
   
• Incredible Shrinking Method Collapses Structures to the Nanoscale
  ABC News 
  December 14, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's Pioneer Award
   
• MIT Develops Incredible System to 'Shrink' Objects
  Fox News 
  December 14, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's Pioneer Award
   
• Youngest Children In A Class Are Most Likely To Get ADHD Diagnosis
  NPR 
  November 28, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's Early Independence Award
   
• Can Childhood Stress Affect the Immune System?
  NIH Director's Blog 
  November 27, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's New Innovator Award
   
• Genomic analysis offers insight into 2018 Nigeria Lassa fever outbreak
  NIAID News 
  October 18, 2018
  Common Fund Program: Global Health: Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa)
   
• Doctor Detectives Help Diagnosis Mysterious Illnesses
  CBS News
  October 11, 2018
  Common Fund Program: Undiagnosed Diseases Network
   
• Building a 3D Map of the Genome
  NIH Director's Blog
  October 4, 2018
  Common Fund Program: 4DNucleome
   
• Gut communicates directly with brain
  NIH Research Matters
  October 2, 2018
  Common Fund Program: Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions
   
• New Research Reveals Two Simple Mindset Hacks For Making Smarter, Healthier Choices
  Forbes
  September 25, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's New Innovator Award
   
• Penn Researchers: Class of Neurological Disorders Share 3D Genome Folding Pattern
  Science Magazine
  September 18, 2018
  Common Fund Program: 4DNucleome
   
• NIH CIO on the STRIDES Cloud initiative and the NIH Google Partnership
  Fed Health IT
  September 12, 2018
  Common Fund Program: New Models of Data Stewardship
   
• Researchers develop 'cytological ruler' to build 3D map of human genome
  Science Daily
  August 28, 2018
  Common Fund Program: 4D Nucleome Program
   
• Research reveals gene regulation can be digital and stochastic
  Science Daily
  August 23, 2018
  Common Fund Program: Epigenomics
   
• Bioengineers Receive $12M Grant from NIH to Further Research on Building Blocks of Human Metabolism
  UC San Diego News Center
  August 20, 2018
  Common Fund Program: Metabolomics
   
• It may take a village (of proteins) to turn on genes
  Science News
  June 21, 2018
  Common Fund Program: 4D Nucleome Program
   
• DNA Enhancer Video Rules Out Hit-and-Run Activity
  Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
  July 25, 2018
  Common Fund Program: 4D Nucleome Program
   
• Synthesizing mother's milk
  Chemical & Engineering News
  July 1, 2018
  Common Fund Program: Glycoscience Program
   
• Measuring Brain Chemistry
  NIH Director's Blog
  June 14, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's Transformative Research Award
   
• Ten thousand bursting genes
  Science Daily
  June 8, 2018
  Common Fund Program: 4D Nucleome Program
   
• Biologists Create 3D Maps of DNA Within the Innermost Parts of a Cell
  SciTech Daily
  June 9, 2018
  Common Fund Program: 4D Nucleome Program
   
• An Ultralight Way to Manipulate Brain Signals
  Nature
  May 23, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's New Innovator Award
   
• 76% of Sports Sponsorships Tied to Junk Food, Study Says
  CNN
  March 26, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's Early Independence Award
   
• Hi-C Maps Used to Inexpensively Generate Chromosome-Length Genome Assemblies
  Note: full article may require registration
  genomeweb
  May 11, 2018
  Common Fund Program: 4D Nucleome Program
   
• Valerie Arboleda Uses Big Data to Unravel the Biology of a Rare Disease
  The Scientist
  May 1, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's Early Independence Award
   
• Exome Sequencing Helps Crack Rare Disease Diagnosis
  The Scientist
  May 1, 2018
  Common Fund Program: Undiagnosed Diseases Network
   
• How much exercise your kid needs, based on the latest research
  CNN
  April 24, 2018
  Common Fund Program: Molecular Tranducers of Physical Activity in Humans
   
• Going Deep to Study Exercise's Molecular Nitty-Gritty
  ABC News
  April 18, 2018
  Common Fund Program: Molecular Tranducers of Physical Activity in Humans
   
• Optimizing Radio-Immunotherapy for Cancer
  NIH Director's Blog
  April 5, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's Early Independence Award
   
• Doctors Are Becoming DNA Detectives to Diagnose Super-Rare Diseases
  Los Angeles Magazine
  April 4, 2018
  Common Fund Program: Undiagnosed Diseases Network
   
• Are Sports Organizations Playing a Role in America’s Obesity Problem?
  NIH Director's Blog
  April 3, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's Early Independence Award
   
• Detecting the Sweet Biomarker on Cancer Cells
  American Chemical Society
  March 29, 2018
  Common Fund Program: Glycoscience Program
   
• Creative Minds: Looking for Common Threads in Rare Diseases
  NIH Director's Blog
  March 1, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's Early Independence Award
   
• Researchers receive $10 million grant to create computational and informatics tools for glycoscience
  UGA Today
  February 28, 2018
  Common Fund Program: Glycoscience
   
• Seeing the Brain's Electrical Activity
  EurekAlert!
  February 26, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's Transformative Research Award
   
• The Time Is Ripe for Somatic Genome Editing: NIH Program to Strengthen Translation
  Molecular Therapy
  February 20, 2018
  Common Fund Program: Somatic Cell Genome Editing
   
• Researchers Invent Tiny, Light-Powered Wires to Modulate Brain's Electrical Signals
  University of Chicago News
  February 19, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's Transformative Research Award
   
• No Llamas Required
  EurekAlert!
  February 12, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's Early Independence Award
   
• Camels and Alpacas Have Special Antibodies. Now Researchers Can Make Them With Yeast
  STAT
  February 12, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's Early Independence Award
   
• Excess Fructose Spills Over To The Liver And Colonic Microbiota
  Reliawire
  February 7, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's Pioneer Award 
   
• Mouse Study Reveals What Happens in the Gut After Too Much Fructose
  Science Daily
  February 6, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's Pioneer Award 
   
• To better explore how genomes fold takes disparate fields and a love of math
  Nature Methods
  January 30, 2018
  Common Fund Program: 4D Nucleome Program
   
• What Good is CRISPR if it Can't Get to Where it Needs to Go?
  Wired
  January 26, 2018
  Common Fund Program: Somatic Cell Genome Editing
   
• Some Types Of Songs Are Universally Identifiable, Study Suggests
  NPR
  January 25, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's Early Independence Award
   
• Your Brain Knows What Songs Are For, No Matter Where They Came From
  Smithsonian Magazine
  January 25, 2018
  Common Fund Program: NIH Director's Early Independence Award
   
• This Super-Sensitive HIV Test Could Use Spit to Diagnose People
  Newsweek
  January 23, 2018
  Common Fund Program: Glycoscience Program
   
• An Exciting New Year for Pragmatic Clinical Trials
  Healthcare Informatics
  January 8, 2018
  Common Fund Program: HCS Research Collaboratory