Press Releases

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Word cloud of symptoms related to post-exertional malaise
Monday, September 21, 2020

One of the major symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is post-exertional malaise (PEM), the worsening of symptoms after physical or mental activities.

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Picture of Richard Youle
Thursday, September 10, 2020

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation has announced that Richard J. Youle, Ph.D., a senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is one of four recipients of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.

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Neruons in the worm nervous system
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

When it comes to brain cells, one size does not fit all. Neurons come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and contain different types of brain chemicals. But how did they get that way?

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Brain scan of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma examined in this study.
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Every year, 150 to 300 children in the United States are diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPGs), aggressive and lethal tumors that grow deep inside the brain, for which there are no cures.

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Picture of stem cells used in study colored in red, blue, green, and yellow.
Monday, July 13, 2020

For every cell in the body there comes a time when it must decide what it wants to do for the rest of its life. In an article published in the journal PNAS, NIH researchers report for the first time that ancient viral genes that were once considered “junk DNA” may play a role in this process.

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Side view of the human brain in grey overlaid with a network diagram of the words used in this study.
Monday, June 29, 2020

Thousands of words, big and small, are crammed inside our memory banks just waiting to be swiftly withdrawn and strung into sentences.

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Image of neurons
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

The National Institutes of Health plans to invest $25 million over 5 years in a new program to spur innovative research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive and fatal neurological disease that weakens and eventually paralyzes voluntary muscles.

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Image showing HIV infection of CD4+ T cells in the mouse brain.  (red), Human T cells (magenta), human astrocytesHIV (green), nuclei (Blue). Arrows identify uptake of HIV from astrocytes into T cells.
Friday, June 12, 2020

Researchers have found that astrocytes, a type of brain cell can harbor HIV and then spread the virus to immune cells that traffic out of the brain and into other organs.

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Fluorescent image of mouse nasal passages infected with virus
Friday, June 5, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), a part of the National Institutes of Health, have identified a specific, front-line defense that limits the infection to the olfactory bulb and protects the neurons of the olfactory bulb from damage due to the infection.

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