June 20, 2025

NICHD Researchers Invent Placenta Monitoring Device
By Amber Snyder
"Makers" at NIH are constantly at work devising exciting new products. Drs. Amir Gandjbakhche and Roberto Romero at NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development collaborated on a placenta monitoring device that recently obtained several patents.

Zarate Advances New Options to Treat Severe Depression
By Dana Talesnik
Dr. Carlos Zarate developed a fast-acting esketamine nasal spray to treat patients with severe depression. He and colleagues also have developed a non-addictive ketamine derivative that is showing promise in clinical trials.
NIH Helps Launch First Global Initiative on the Exposome
By Caroline Stetler
NIH leaders joined global science advocates in launching an initiative to share, measure and address how our environments influence health.
NIH Researchers Develop Measure for Predicting Diets High in Ultra-Processed Foods
NIH researchers have identified patterns of metabolites in blood and urine that can be used as an objective measure of an individual’s consumption of energy from ultra-processed foods.

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NIH scientists have used RNA interference (RNAi) technology to identify dozens of genes which may represent new therapeutic targets for treating Parkinson’s disease. The scientists used RNAi to find genes that interact with parkin (green), a protein that tags damaged mitochondria (red).

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June 20, 2025

Vol. LXXVII, No. 13

June 20, 2025

Vol. LXXVII, No. 13

June 20, 2025

NICHD Researchers Invent Placenta Monitoring Device

Zarate Advances New Options to Treat Severe Depression

NIH Helps Launch First Global Initiative on the Exposome

NIH Researchers Develop Measure for Predicting Diets High in Ultra-Processed Foods

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