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Mashup Score: 1State of the Arts | NIH Intramural Research Program - 2 month(s) ago
BY MICHAEL TABASKO, THE NIH CATALYST When Bob Marley belted out that iconic opening line to Trenchtown Rock, “One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain,” he was likely relating to the power of music to uplift the human spirit. But he may have been onto something more than the metaphorical. Although it’s no secret that engaging in music and the arts enhances the wellbeing of individuals and communities, science is only beginning to explain why. The NIH has long been a welcoming canvas for
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Mashup Score: 15
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Albert Pike Jaydira del Rivero is one of the world’s few specialists in rare cancers that originate in the body’s neuroendocrine system, which is made up of specialized cells that make hormones in response to neurological signals. Her goal is to treat these tumors holistically—using a biological approach as well as taking the whole patient into consideration. Such neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) make up
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November 10 is #NET Day. Read about Jaydira Del Rivero, M.D., a world-renowned expert at the NCI who works with neuroendocrine tumors, which make up less than one percent of cancer cases in the United States. https://t.co/rsI25XbnJp #RareCancer https://t.co/wLAy104Lp7
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Mashup Score: 1NCCIH’s New Clinical Director: Miroslav “Misha” Bačkonja | NIH Intramural Research Program - 4 month(s) ago
Miroslav “Misha” Bačkonja has been named the new clinical director of the NCCIH Division of Intramural Research, where he helps to oversee the NIH Pain Research Center. Bačkonja, an international leader in clinical and translational pain research and an expert on pain’s underlying biological and neurobiological mechanisms, came to NIH in 2022 after serving as a professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington (Seattle). He also held leadership positions as
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Dr. Misha Backonja, @NIH_NCCIH’s new clinical director, is featured in this profile in the NIH Catalyst, which highlights his academic background, clinical and translational pain research interests, and contributions. https://t.co/lUE0Iy8Z0y
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Mashup Score: 4Comparing Two Ways to Blast Tumors | NIH Intramural Research Program - 5 month(s) ago
Not long after German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen identified X-rays in 1895, doctors began using them to treat cancer. They soon realized, however, that this new ‘radium’ therapy — the forebearer of modern-day radiation therapy — could also cause cancer. Today, we know that radiation therapy poses much greater risks to children than adults because their cells are dividing more rapidly than those of adults, making the cells more sensitive to radiation. Children also have more years of life ahead of them
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NIH researchers are exploring the benefits and drawbacks of different types of radiation treatment for children and adolescents with cancer in a new study. https://t.co/tkFv0wDSEB #CCAM #AYACSM @IRPatNIH https://t.co/p1Xpsz9hnW
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Mashup Score: 5A Summer of Science | NIH Intramural Research Program - 6 month(s) ago
Every summer, NIH welcomes hundreds of enthusiastic young men and women to its campuses to work as summer interns, providing them with scientific training and mentorship from some of the world’s preeminent researchers. As always, the Summer Internship Program culminated this year with Summer Poster Days, held on August 1 and 2, a bustling event where summer interns showcase the results of their immersion into IRP research. Nearly 800 IRP summer interns participated in this year’s event, presenting
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.@IRPatNIH summer intern Amarachukwu Uzondu presented her #NursingResearch on using characteristics of a person’s voice to assess frailty in older adults @NIH’s Summer Poster Day. Her work under NINR’s Dr. Saligan aims to improve frailty diagnosis & care. https://t.co/Aw463o2g82 https://t.co/mvj43CZuNK
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Mashup Score: 68
The National Institutes of Health, the U.S. government’s premier biomedical and behavioral research enterprise and a component of the Department of Health and Human Services, is pleased to announce its sixteenth annual call for researchers who aspire to be “NIH Stadtman Investigators.” These are prestigious tenure-track positions (assistant professor equivalent) within the NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP). As a member of the IRP, you join a team whose hallmarks are intellectual freedom to explore
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RT @MikePazin: Faculty positions at NIH: Instructions for preparing 2024 Stadtman applications are posted at: https://t.co/hb59lHLhp5 Th…
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Mashup Score: 19Food, Flora, and Function | NIH Intramural Research Program - 11 month(s) ago
BY MICHAEL TABASKO, THE NIH CATALYST If the saying “you are what you eat” holds true, the same might be said for our immune system, according to new research. Scientists from NIAID and NIDDK and their collaborators found that vegan and ketogenic diets remodeled the human microbiome and immune system, and each diet was found to have its own unique implications (PMID: 38291301). The results could open the door to a new era of research aimed at using dietary interventions as a way to modulate the body’s
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New research suggests that choices of diet may affect a person's health by modulating the immune system. The study, led by #NIH researchers, focused on vegan and ketogenic diets. Learn more: https://t.co/UuPLGnHkqX #ImmuneSystem @NIAIDNews @NIDDKgov https://t.co/FGUP5imhs8
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Mashup Score: 14
Getting hurt or sick is bad enough, but millions of patients around the world continue to experience pain or hypersensitivity even after their ailment resolves itself. Despite the prevalence of chronic pain, few effective treatments are available, especially ones without the potential for addiction that opioid medications carry. However, new IRP research has shown that suppressing the electrical firing of neurons in a certain brain area can alleviate injury-induced hypersensitivity in mice, providing a
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Dr. Yarimar Carrasquillo (@YarCarLab) of the @NIH_NCCIH Division of Intramural Research is leading this research, which is providing new insights into the role of the amygdala and in her new work, the parabrachial nucleus (PBN), in the experience of pain. https://t.co/1p8IhCx2J9 https://t.co/BbI44Pq6qQ
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Mashup Score: 33Research Briefs | NIH Intramural Research Program - 1 year(s) ago
Read about scientific advances and discoveries by NIH intramural scientists: augmented T cells treat solid tumors; a new reference panel captures genomic diversity; brain network uniquely activated through intravenous drug use; heart PET scans may predict Parkinson’s disease and dementia; overdose mortality increased in pregnant and postpartum women. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has been effective in treating blood cancer but hasn’t worked as well on solid tumors. In a new frontier of
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In a new frontier of immunotherapy, NCI scientists showed how augmented T cells might successfully treat cervical cancers and pediatric neuroblastoma. https://t.co/j57KPtjYCT @IRPatNIH #IntramuralResearch @NIH https://t.co/3oaMEhoNM6
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Mashup Score: 0This Is Your Heart on Stress | NIH Intramural Research Program - 1 year(s) ago
BY MICHAEL TABASKO, THE NIH CATALYST Sage advice from doctor to patient warns of unmanaged stress. The famed INTERHEART study published in 2004 linked increased incidence of heart attacks to psychosocial stress factors in thousands of study participants (Lancet 364: 953-962, 2004). More recently, researchers have found the attributable risk of stress on the heart to be particularly potent, on par with smoking, hypertension, and diabetes (Circ Cardiovasc Imaging 13:e010931, 2020). Tawakol is director of
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This article by Michael Tabasko in the current issue of The @NIH Catalyst takes a detailed look at the research discussed by Dr. Ahmed Tawakol in his recent #NCCIHtalk on stress and heart disease: https://t.co/Uym4fWvqeT
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In this article, @NCCIH_EM, former @NIH director Dr. Francis Collins & others discuss the growing interest in research on the health effects of music and other art forms, working toward developing their therapeutic potential for a variety of conditions. https://t.co/2aOLORxvu6