Thursday, May 21, 2026
Study Sheds Light On How Early Pancreas Lesions Become Cancerous
In an unexpected finding, a new study flips on its head researchers’ understanding of how precancerous pancreas lesions evolve into pancreatic cancer. The paradigm-changing discovery has tremendous implications for identifying people at higher risk of cancer or even, potentially stopping malignant transformation.
Thursday, April 02, 2026
New Study Uncovers Genetic Ancestry Surprises in Urban Peruvians
Latin American people are represented in fewer than four percent of genetic epidemiological studies around the world. When they are included, they’re often lumped together as one group, despite the rich diversity among different Latin American populations. This lack of data has impeded genetic discoveries in Latin Americans and has stalled advances in the clinical use of precision medicine.
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
UMSOM Researchers Create Revolutionary Database to Map Neocortical Development Across Species
Researchers have described major advances in the understanding of the development of the neocortex —layer-by-layer and cell-by-cell—thanks to a pioneering database developed at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) that combines multiomic data from 188 different studies. The revolutionary and publicly accessible database—called the Neuroscience Multi-Omic Analytics (NeMO Analytics)—is helping scientists make groundbreaking discoveries about the brain and disease development by using vast amounts of human, non-human primate, mouse, and organoid data.
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Multi-Strain Probiotic Therapy Shows Promise in Preventing Bacterial Vaginosis Recurrence
A global team of experts has identified a promising new approach to prevent recurrence of bacterial vaginosis (BV), a condition that affects millions of women worldwide. In a Phase 1 randomized clinical trial of women in the United States and South Africa, researchers found that a short course of a multi-strain probiotic restored protective bacteria to the vagina, significantly reducing disease recurrence. Cell Host & Microbe published the results from the study—a collaboration between investigators from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), Mass General Brigham, the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), and collaborators from the Vaginal Microbiome Research Consortium.
Friday, January 30, 2026
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine Discover Genetic Ancestry is a Critical Component of Assessing Head and Neck Cancerous Tumors
Genetic ancestry plays a key role in determining the behavior of head and neck tumors and may help explain why African-American patients survive for half as long as their counterparts of European ancestry, according to a new review study led by researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s (UMSOM) Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS) and the University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC).
Wednesday, November 05, 2025
NIH Awards $14.5 million Grant to the University of Maryland School of Medicine to Develop a Data Center for the Human Virome Program
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced that it is launching a new research program to understand how the viruses that live within the human body or on the skin—known as the human virome—can impact a person’s health.
Friday, July 25, 2025
New Research Simulates Cancer Cell Behavior
In the same vein as weather forecast models that predict developing storms, researchers now have developed a method to predict the cell activity in tissues over time. The new software combines genomics technologies with computational modeling to predict cell changes in behavior, such as communication between cells that could cause cancer cells to flourish.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
While AI Could Be the Game Changer in Predicting Health Outcomes It Should Not Be the Only Method
With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), predictive medicine is becoming an important part of healthcare, especially in cancer treatment. Predictive medicine uses algorithms and data to help doctors understand how a cancer might continue to grow or react to specific drugs—making it easier to target precision treatment for individual patients.
Monday, December 16, 2024
Researchers Discover New Neurons that Suppress Food Intake
Obesity affects a staggering 40 percent of adults and 20 percent of children in the United States. While some new popular therapies are helping to tackle the epidemic of obesity, there is still so much that researchers do not understand about the brain-body connection that regulates appetite. Now, researchers have discovered a previously unknown population of neurons in the hypothalamus that regulate food intake and could be a promising new target for obesity drugs.
Wednesday, November 06, 2024
Genomic Databases Need More Diversity
It is commonly known that most genomic databases are biased toward people with European ancestry. Scientists have warned that leaving out other populations could skew results in areas such as drug development, diagnostic testing, and polygenic risk scores—which looks at many genetic variations in a person’s DNA to predict their disease risk.