NIH Research Matters

Scientists found that, when deprived of amino acids, cancer cells cooperated to extract and share them from their environment.

Researchers developed a way to track what people ate by analyzing DNA from stool samples.

Researchers found how scratching can worsen allergic skin symptoms but also protect from infection.

Peanut-allergic children who could tolerate eating at least a half peanut greatly boosted their tolerance by eating gradually increased daily doses of peanut butter.

Tiny electrodes placed precisely in the brain let people with spinal cord injuries feel sensations of shape, motion, and the orientation of objects on the skin.

Researchers identified antibodies that bind to a previously untargeted portion of the malaria parasite.

Multifocal contact lenses slowed progression of nearsightedness in children, and the treatment benefit continued even after they stopped wearing the lenses.