Category: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH establishes nation’s first dedicated organoid development center to reduce reliance on animal modeling

The Standardized Organoid Modeling Center aims to produce standardized protocols for organoid research, addressing reproducibility challenges.

Funded projects will drive discoveries across biology, environment, and autism services.

NIH-funded study reveals brain changes long before chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) develops.

Approach involves looking at the whole person—not just separate organs or body systems—and considering multiple factors that promote health.

More than 60% of the nearly 24,000 stillbirth cases annually remain unexplained.

NIH-funded study supports acupuncture needling as a safe and effective pain treatment for this group.

NIH-funded study demonstrates life-saving potential of providing medications for opioid use disorder in carceral settings.

NIH-funded clinical trial shows potential to simplify treatment for early syphilis.

NIH scientists and collaborators reveal the brain preserves its representation of lost limb in clinical study.

Study of human cells and mice may have implications for other lysosomal storage disorders.