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Keep AMD Vision Loss In Check

NIHJune 2, 2025

A condition called age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, is the leading cause of vision loss in older adults in the U.S.

Medical Robots to the Rescue

NIHJune 2, 2025

New Technologies to Help Our Health

Memory Problems, Forgetfulness, and Aging

NIHMay 29, 2025

Older adults may worry about their memory and other thinking abilities, such as taking longer to learn something new. These changes are usually signs of mild forgetfulness — or age-related forgetfulness — and are often a normal part of aging.

Scientists design gene delivery systems for cells in the brain and spinal cord

NIHMay 21, 2025

Research teams funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have created a versatile set of gene delivery systems that can reach different neural cell types in the human brain and spinal cord with exceptional accuracy. These delivery systems are a significant step toward future precise gene therapy to the brain that could safely control […]

Gauging biological age to predict future health

NIHMay 20, 2025

Researchers developed a tool to quantify a person’s biological age and health status.

Researchers describe cancer trends in people under 50

NIHMay 20, 2025

The researchers found that the incidence of 14 of the 33 cancer types climbed in at least one of the younger age groups. Nine of these cancer types also increased in at least one of the older age groups. These included breast cancer in females and colorectal, kidney, testicular, uterine, pancreatic, and three types of […]

Infant with rare, incurable disease is first to successfully receive personalized gene therapy treatment

NIHMay 15, 2025

A research team supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed and safely delivered a personalized gene editing therapy to treat an infant with a life-threatening, incurable genetic disease. The infant, who was diagnosed with the rare condition carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS1) deficiency shortly after birth, has responded positively to the treatment. […]

NIH researchers discover tissue biomarker that may indicate higher risk of aggressive breast cancer development and death

NIHMay 14, 2025

Using artificial intelligence, scientists characterized tissue samples from more than 9,000 women.

FDA and NIH announce innovative joint Nutrition Regulatory Science Program

NIHMay 9, 2025

Initiative will provide a better understanding of the root causes to end the diet-related chronic disease crisis.

Understanding how visual information is processed in the brain

NIHApril 29, 2025

Scientists mapped the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in a small section of mouse brain and examined their firing patterns in response to visual stimuli.The findings shed new light on how the brain processes visual information to reconstruct the images we see.