NIH Research Matters

People with consistent sleep deprivation gained weight and experienced a loss of insulin sensitivity. Weekend "recovery" sleep only seemed to make things worse.

Researchers developed a resistance-sensitive injection device that could help reduce errors when targeting tissues that are difficult to reach using traditional syringes.

Feeding mice cycles of a certain low-calorie diet improved signs of inflammatory bowel disease. Feeding people a similar diet seemed to reduce overall inflammation.

Scientists created novel DNA structures from four synthetic and four natural building blocks.

Researchers found that sleep disruption activates a molecule that triggers inflammation and leads to fatty buildup in mouse arteries.

Women in lower-income countries who received nutritional supplements before or early in pregnancy were more likely to give birth to healthy-sized babies.

In children with recurrent tonsillitis, the bacteria that cause the disease trick immune cells into destroying each other instead of remembering the bacteria.