Wed.Sep 11, 2024

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Microscale robot folds into 3D shapes and crawls

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal 'metasheet' but, with a jolt of electricity, morph into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawl.

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AIDSVu Launches 2022 Data and Interactive Maps, Places Emphasis on Health Equity’s Role in the HIV Epidemic

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The post AIDSVu Launches 2022 Data and Interactive Maps, Places Emphasis on Health Equity’s Role in the HIV Epidemic appeared first on AIDSVu.

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Ancient DNA from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) refutes best-selling population collapse theory

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Rapa Nui (Easter Island) with its gigantic statues and treeless landscape has fascinated researchers for centuries. A new genetic study disproves the popular theory that the Rapanui population collapsed as a result of an 'ecocide' and shows that the Rapanui admixed with Indigenous Americans centuries before Europeans arrived on the island.

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Physicians more likely to give Black women unnecessary C-sections: Study

Becker's Hospital Review - Health Equity

To fill operating rooms and financial incentives, obstetricians are often performing unneeded cesarean sections on Black women, according to researchers who analyzed about 1 million births across 68 New Jersey hospitals.

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Brain-wide decision-making dynamics discovered

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Neuroscientists have revealed how sensory input is transformed into motor action across multiple brain regions in mice. The research shows that decision-making is a global process across the brain that is coordinated by learning. The findings could aid artificial intelligence research by providing insights into how to design more distributed neural networks.

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Expanding Crisis Support Services: Insights from Bamboo Health at Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference

Bamboo News

Access to timely behavioral health services remains a pressing public health concern. In the last reporting year, there have been over 100,000 overdose deaths, including those related to fentanyl and other opioids and 50,000 suicides. Additionally, emergency departments have seen over 200,000 non-fatal overdose-related visits. These figures underscore the critical need for interventions that can make a difference for individuals at risk.

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PLOS announces new Essay article type

The Official PLOS Blog

We are delighted to announce that a new ‘Essay’ article type is now available at PLOS Climate, PLOS Global Public Health , PLOS Mental Health and PLOS Water. Essays, which are predominantly solicited by our Editors, are compelling, opinion-based pieces, focused on the most urgent and impactful topics facing our journals’ fields. They fulfill a community need for an article type that can, in particular, address concerns related to policy implications of regional or intersectiona

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Researchers combine the power of AI and the connectome to predict brain cell activity

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

With maps of the connections between neurons and artificial intelligence methods, researchers can now do what they never thought possible: predict the activity of individual neurons without making a single measurement in a living brain.

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How cutting-edge AI technology could hold the key to forecasting the pollen count

UK Health Security

Pinaceae (pine) pollen On the roof of a UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) lab, at Chilton’s Harwell Science Campus in Oxfordshire, a new chapter in artificial intelligence (AI) and pollen monitoring is unfolding. By leveraging real-time data and AI-powered analysis, our team of toxicologists are developing a deeper understanding of the air we breathe and its impact on our well-being.

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Risky play exercises an ancestral need to push limits

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Since their invention in the 1920s, jungle gyms and monkey bars have become both fixtures of playgrounds and symbols of childhood injury that anxious caretakers want removed. Anthropologists mark 100 years of the iconic playground equipment by arguing that risky play exercises a biological need passed on from apes and early humans for children to independently test and expand their physical and cognitive abilities in a context in which injury is possible but avoidable.

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Frankie Beverly, R&B Soul Singer and Maze’s Main Man Has Died

Black Health Matters

Today, we learned that Frankie Beverly (whose given name was Howard Stanley Beverly), the lead singer of the iconic funk and soul group Frankie Beverly & Maze, died at 77. His family announced the news on the singer’s Instagram account. He made us happy. According to The Philadephia Tribune , the crooner was born on December 6, 1946, and was influenced early by gospel music and singing in the church.

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Scientists expand the genetic alphabet to create new proteins

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It's a dogma taught in every introductory biology class: Proteins are composed of combinations of 20 different amino acids, arranged into diverse sequences like words. But researchers trying to engineer biologic molecules with new functions have long felt limited by those 20 basic building blocks and strived to develop ways of putting new building blocks -- called non-canonical amino acids -- into their proteins.

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19th Annual Prescription Drug Management Survey

Managed Care Matters

HSA recently wrapped up its 19 th annual Prescription Drug Management in Workers’ Compensation Survey. The survey will be dropping later this week on our website. One of the most significant findings from this year’s survey is the continued dominance of MyMatrixx in the PBM world. For the 4 th survey in a row, MyMatrixx took the top spot – scoring about 15% higher than the survey average for all PBMs.

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The Neanderthals may have become extinct because of their isolated lifestyle

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Neanderthal remains recently discovered in a cave in France support well-known theory of why the Neanderthals became extinct, researchers behind a new study say.

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What’s happening in Ukraine’s Pokrovsk region and how you can help

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An in-depth look at the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine's Pokrovsk region due to ongoing war and how you can help. Read more.

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Genes with strong impact on menopause timing also link to cancer risk

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The team first looked at variation in data from genetic sequencing of 106,973 post-menopausal female participants in the UK Biobank study. Researchers focused on rare types of genetic changes which cause a loss of the protein, and investigated their effect on the timing of menopause. The genetic changes studied are all rare in the population, however their influence on menopause is five times greater than the impact of any previously identified common genetic variant.

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Turning seawater into fresh water through solar power

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Researchers designed an energy-efficient device that produces drinking water from seawater using an evaporation process driven largely by the sun.

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Mirror, mirror, in my tank, who's the biggest fish of all?

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have demonstrated that bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) checked their body size in a mirror before choosing whether to attack fish that were slightly larger or smaller than themselves, saying it was the first time for a non-human animal to be demonstrated to possess some mental states that are elements of private self-awareness.

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Discovery of a new phase of matter in 2D which defies normal statistical mechanics

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Physicists have created the first two-dimensional version of the Bose glass, a novel phase of matter that challenges statistical mechanics.

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Atypical metabolite levels at birth may increase SIDS risk

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Newborns who had an atypical pattern of metabolites were more than 14 times as likely to die of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), compared to infants who had more typical metabolic patterns, according to a new study. Metabolites are molecules produced by the body's various chemical reactions. Researchers found that infants who died of SIDS had a specific pattern of metabolites compared to infants who lived to their first year.

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Astronomers track bubbles on star's surface in most detailed video yet

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Astronomers have captured images of a star other than the Sun in enough detail to track the motion of bubbling gas on its surface. The images of the star, R Doradus, were obtained in July and August 2023. They show giant, hot bubbles of gas, 75 times the size of the Sun, appearing on the surface and sinking back into the star's interior faster than expected.

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Clovis people used Great Lakes camp annually 13,000 years ago

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The earliest humans to settle the Great Lakes region likely returned to a campsite in southwest Michigan for several years in a row, according to a new study.

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One of world's fastest ocean currents is remarkably stable, study finds

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Scientists found that the strength of the Florida Current, the beginning of the Gulf Stream system and a key component of the global Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, has remained stable for the past four decades.

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Century-old experiment secures beer and whiskey's future

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Thanks to an experiment started before the Great Depression, researchers have pinpointed the genes behind the remarkable adaptability of barley, a key ingredient in beer and whiskey. These insights could ensure the crop's continued survival amidst rapid climate change.

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