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# NIH Research Highlights

## 2022

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#### 2022 Research Highlights — Human Health Advances

NIH accomplishments in disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment include insights into Covid-19 vaccines, advances for type 1 diabetes, and a robotic exoskeleton that helps people walk.

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#### 2022 Research Highlights — Promising Medical Findings

NIH findings with potential for enhancing human health include a potential cause of multiple sclerosis, understanding the effects of sleep, and progress towards an HIV vaccine.

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#### 2022 Research Highlights — Basic Research Insights

Noteworthy NIH advances in basic research include progress in understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease, discoveries about how the microbiome affects human health, and learning how mosquitos find us.

## 2021

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#### 2021 Research Highlights — Human Health Advances

NIH accomplishments in disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment include progress in COVID-19 control, a drug that delays type 1 diabetes onset, and devices in the brain that help paralyzed people communicate.

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#### 2021 Research Highlights — Promising Medical Findings

NIH findings with potential for enhancing human health include new drugs and vaccines in development for COVID-19, advances in Alzheimer’s disease research, and the design of a wireless, biodegradable pacemaker.

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#### 2021 Research Highlights — Basic Research Insights

Noteworthy NIH advances in basic research include progress in understanding SARS-CoV-2, new approaches to developing antibiotics, and the discovery of a brain receptor linked to puberty and growth.

## 2020

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#### 2020 Research Highlights — Human Health Advances

NIH accomplishments in disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment include COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, better diagnosis of prostate cancer, and methods for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease.

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#### 2020 Research Highlights — Promising Medical Findings

NIH findings with potential for enhancing human health include new approaches to COVID-19, a universal mosquito vaccine, and advances in restoring vision.

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#### 2020 Research Highlights — Basic Research Insights

Noteworthy NIH advances in basic research include progress in understanding SARS-CoV-2, discovery of an exercise-induced protein that generates new brain cells and improves memory, and a new pain-suppression center in the brain.

## 2019

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#### 2019 Research Highlights — Human Health Advances

NIH accomplishments in disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment include treatments for the Ebola virus, gene therapy that reverses a rare immune disorder, and a blood test to detect myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome

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#### 2019 Research Highlights — Promising Medical Findings

NIH findings with potential for enhancing human health include a way to predict which people at risk for psychosis may progress to full psychosis, insights into recurrent tonsillitis, and a patch to replace damaged retinal cells.

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#### 2019 Research Highlights — Basic Research Insights

Noteworthy NIH advances in basic research include evidence linking enterovirus infections with acute flaccid myelitis, insights into how disrupted sleep may lead to heart disease, and nanoparticle robots that sweep away biofilms.

## 2018

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#### 2018 Research Highlights — Clinical Advances

NIH accomplishments in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of human disease include progress on preventing opioid overdoses, an antibody combination that suppresses HIV, and fecal transplants that restore gut microbes after antibiotics.

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#### 2018 Research Highlights — Promising Medical Advances

NIH findings with potential for enhancing human health include vaccines against HIV, anthrax, and plague, a wearable ultrasound patch to track blood pressure, and a technique to regrow neurons across scarred spinal tissue.

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#### 2018 Research Highlights — Insights From the Lab

Noteworthy NIH advances in basic research include new insights into cancer, identification of a human skeletal stem cell, and an experimental male contraceptive that blocks sperm movement.

## 2017

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#### 2017 Research Highlights — Clinical Advances

NIH accomplishments in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of human disease. These include progress on two Ebola vaccines, a bionic pancreas to treat type 1 diabetes, and a genetic test that improves blood thinner dosing.

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#### 2017 Research Highlights — Promising Medical Advances

NIH findings with potential for enhancing human health include understanding how dietary factors influence disease risk, combatting the epigenetic effects of outdoor air pollution, and methods to detect prions in blood and skin.

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#### 2017 Research Highlights — Insights from the Lab

Noteworthy NIH advances in basic research include a 3-D model of human brain development and disease, a virus linked to food sensitivity, and a new role discovered for the thalamus.

## 2016

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#### 2016 Research Highlights — Clinical Breakthroughs

NIH accomplishments in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of human disease. These include a way to restore blood sugar control in type 1 diabetes, food allergy prevention, and an experimental malaria vaccine.

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#### 2016 Research Highlights — Promising Medical Advances

NIH findings with potential for enhancing human health include advances in ZIka research, gene editing techniques, and diagnosing prostate cancer.

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#### 2016 Research Highlights — Insights from the Lab

Noteworthy NIH advances in basic research include an expanded map of the human brain, nanoparticles that convert white fat to calorie-burning brown fat, and a 3-D cell culture model of the placenta.

## 2015

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#### 2015 Research Highlights — Clinical Advances

NIH accomplishments in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of human disease. These include a test to tailor breast cancer tumor treatments, a noninvasive treatment to help paralyzed men gain movement, and a tool that may predict suicide risk.

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#### 2015 Research Highlights — Promising Medical Advances

NIH findings with potential for enhancing human health include advances in Ebola research, progress in fighting HIV, and the development of custom 3-D printed nerve scaffolds to aid tissue regeneration.

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#### 2015 Research Highlights — Insights from the Lab

Noteworthy NIH advances in basic research include charting human genetic variation across the globe, the discovery of lymphatic vessels in the central nervous system, and insights into energy-burning fat cells.

## 2014

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#### 2014 Research Highlights — Clinical Advances

Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of human disease.

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#### 2014 Research Highlights — Promising Medical Advances

Findings with potential for enhancing human health.

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#### 2014 Research Highlights — Insights from the Lab

Noteworthy advances in basic research.

## 2013

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#### 2013 Research Highlights — Clinical Breakthroughs

Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Human Disease.

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#### 2013 Research Highlights — Promising Medical Advances

Findings with Potential for Enhancing Human Health.

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#### 2013 Research Highlights — Insights from the Lab

Noteworthy Advances in Basic Research.

## 2012

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#### 2012 Research Highlights — Clinical Breakthroughs

Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Disease.

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#### 2012 Research Highlights — Promising Medical Advances

Findings with Potential for Enhancing Human Health.

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#### 2012 Research Highlights — Insights from the Lab

Noteworthy Advances in Basic Research.

## 2011

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#### 2011 Research Highlights — Clinical Breakthroughs

Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Disease.

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#### 2011 Research Highlights — Promising Medical Advances

Findings with potential for enhancing human health.

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#### 2011 Research Highlights — Insights from the Lab

Noteworthy Advances in Basic Research.

## 2010

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#### 2010 Research Highlights — Clinical Breakthroughs

Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Disease.

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#### 2010 Research Highlights — Promising Medical Advances

Findings with potential for enhancing human health.

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#### 2010 Research Highlights — Insights from the Lab

Noteworthy Advances in Basic Research.

## 2009

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#### 2009 Research Highlights — Clinical Breakthroughs

Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Disease.

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#### 2009 Research Highlights — Promising Medical Advances

Findings with potential for enhancing human health.

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#### 2009 Research Highlights — Insights from the Lab

Noteworthy Advances in Basic Research.

## 2008

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#### 2008 Research Highlights — Clinical Breakthroughs

Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Disease.

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#### 2008 Research Highlights — Promising Medical Advances

Findings with potential for enhancing human health.

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#### 2008 Research Highlights — Insights from the Lab

Noteworthy Advances in Basic Research.

## 2007

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#### 2007 Research Highlights — Clinical Breakthroughs

Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Disease.

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#### 2007 Research Highlights — Promising Medical Advances

Findings with potential for enhancing human health.

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#### 2007 Research Highlights — Insights from the Lab

Noteworthy Advances in Basic Research.

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