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World's oldest cheese reveals origins of kefir

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years. The research suggests a new origin for kefir cheese and sheds light on the evolution of probiotic bacteria.

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Air pollution exposure during early life can have lasting effects on the brain's white matter

Science Daily - Public Health

Exposure to certain pollutants, like fine particles (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), during pregnancy and childhood is associated with differences in the microstructure of the brain s white matter, and some of these effects persist throughout adolescence.

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Single-dose gene therapy is potentially life-changing for adults with hemophilia B

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Adults with hemophilia B saw their number of bleeding episodes drop by an average of 71 percent after a single infusion of gene therapy, according to the new results of an international Phase III clinical trial.

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A Baby Step Backwards

The Health Care Blog

Bringing the Tools of Accountable Care to Maternity Care is a Great Idea – But This Sure Ain’t It By VICTORIA ADEWALE & J.D. KLEINKE How desperate are we to find some kind of good news about the sorry state of maternity care in America? To find out, look no further than the current cover of no less venerable a health policy journal than Health Affairs.

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Encoding human experience: Study reveals how brain cells compute the flow of time

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A landmark study has begun to unravel one of the fundamental mysteries in neuroscience -- how the human brain encodes and makes sense of the flow of time and experiences.

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5 Ways AI-Driven Video Chats Are More Collaborative

Smart Data Collective

AI technology has led to major breakthroughs in video technology, which can make video chats great for team collaboration.

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The AI Boom Drives Demand for Software Engineers

Smart Data Collective

The growing demand for AI technology has led to new career opportunities for software engineers.

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Bacterial 'flipping' allows genes to assume different forms

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Imagine being one cartwheel away from changing your appearance. One flip, and your brunette locks are platinum blond. That's not too far from what happens in some prokaryotes, or single-cell organisms, such as bacteria, that undergo something called inversions. A study has now shown that inversions, which cause a physical flip of a segment of DNA and change an organism's genetic identity, can occur within a single gene, challenging a central dogma of biology -- that one gene can code for only on

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Growing divide: Rural men are living shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts

Science Daily - Public Health

With an aging population and fewer physicians available, the burden on rural communities is set to grow.

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Brazilian fossils reveal jaw-dropping discovery in mammal evolution

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The discovery of new cynodont fossils from southern Brazil by a team of palaeontologists has led to a significant breakthrough in understanding the evolution of mammals.

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Ethics Alive! Social Workers and the Ethics of Follow-Up and Termination With Clients Who Disappear

The New Social Worker

What are a social worker’s ethical obligations when clients do not show up for services? Consider a client who misses a scheduled meeting with you. You follow up, but the client does not respond. What now?

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Webb discovers 'weird' galaxy with gas outshining its stars

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The discovery of a 'weird' and unprecedented galaxy in the early Universe could 'help us understand how the cosmic story began', astronomers say. GS-NDG-9422 (9422) was found approximately one billion years after the Big Bang and stood out because it has an odd, never-before-seen light signature -- indicating that its gas is outshining its stars. The 'totally new phenomena' is significant, researchers say, because it could be the missing-link phase of galactic evolution between the Universe's fi

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USofCare Applauds Health Care Affordability Act, Urges Congress to Make Enhanced PTCs Permanent

United States of Care

The Health Care Affordability Act Would Make Critically Needed Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Permanent Washington, DC — Today, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced the U.S. Senate version of the Health Care Affordability Act, a bill that would make permanent the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits that have. The post USofCare Applauds Health Care Affordability Act, Urges Congress to Make Enhanced PTCs Permanent appeared first on United States of Care.

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How special is the Milky Way Galaxy?

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The SAGA Survey just published three new research articles that provide us with new insights into the uniqueness of our own Milky Way Galaxy after completing the census of 101 satellite systems similar to the Milky Way's.

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Gum Disease and Heart Health: What’s the hidden link? | Fusobacterium Nucleatum

Gideon

Your oral health might be more connected to your heart than you realize. People with gum disease are more likely to experience heart attacks, strokes, or other serious cardiovascular problems. Research suggests that the bacteria Fusobacterium nucleatum may play a key role. Learn more on the GIDEON infectious diseases blog. The post Gum Disease and Heart Health: What’s the hidden link?

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Deep-sea discovery shines light on life in the twilight zone

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A new study could change the way scientists view microbial processes in the deep ocean. The unexpected findings expand our understanding of the impacts of climate change, including how and where the ocean stores carbon.

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LISTEN: Mokshda Kaul on making the clean energy transition work for all

Environmental Health News

Mokshda Kaul joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss the clean energy transition and how policymakers and other leaders can avoid mistakes of the past. Kaul, a Ph.D. candidate in the sustainable energy program at the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, also talks about the crucial role of coalitions in a just energy transition.

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Protein behavior can be predicted with simple math

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have discovered that mutations affect protein stability following remarkably simple rules. The discovery has profound implications for accelerating the development of new treatments for diseases or the design of new proteins with industrial applications.

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Mars' missing atmosphere could be hiding in plain sight

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New research suggests Mars' missing atmosphere -- which dramatically diminished 3.5 billion years ago -- could be locked in the planet's clay-covered crust. Water on Mars could have set off a chain reaction that drew CO2 out of the atmosphere and converted it into methane within clay minerals.

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Mapping distant planets: 'Ridges', 'deserts' and 'savannahs'

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Researchers examined Neptunian exoplanets -- these planets share similar characteristics to our own Neptune, but orbit outside of our solar system. Scientists discovered a new area called the 'Neptunian Ridge' -- in between the 'Neptunian desert' and the 'Neptunian Savannah'. A new 'map' of distant planets shows a ridge of planets in deep space, separating a desert of planets from a more populated savannah.

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Drone footage provides new insight into gray whales' acrobatic feeding behavior

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Drone footage is offering new insight into the acrobatics undertaken by gray whales foraging in the waters off the coast of Oregon.

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Harvests, wildfires, epidemics: How the jet stream has shaped extreme weather in Europe for centuries

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Tree-ring data reveal that periodic shifts in strong winds high above the Earth's surface have driven opposite climates in different parts of Europe for the past 700 years and likely much longer, resulting in contrasting patterns in weather, agricultural and societal extremes.

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Ice cores show pollution's impact on Arctic atmosphere

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A new study on ice cores from Alaska and Greenland found that air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels reaches the remote Arctic in amounts large enough to alter its fundamental atmospheric chemistry. The researchers unexpectedly found pollution's footprint in levels of an airborne byproduct of marine phytoplankton activity, which plummeted as soon as widespread fossil fuel usage began in the industrial era.

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One in two El Niño events could be extreme by mid-century

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Climate change from greenhouse gas emissions could make extreme El Nino events more frequent, according to new research.

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Ice age clues point to more extreme weather patterns in our future

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A new study combines data from ancient shells with advanced climate modeling to shed light on how El Ni o weather patterns might change in a warming world.

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Reconstructing the evolutionary history of the grape family

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Until now, it was believed that plants of the grape family arrived at the European continent less than 23 million years ago. A study on fossil plants draws a new scenario on the dispersal of the ancestors of grape plants and reveals that these species were already on the territory of Europe some 41 million years ago. The paper describes a new fossil species of the same family, Nekemias mucronata, which allows us to better understand the evolutionary history of this plant group, which inhabited E

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Shrinking AR displays into eyeglasses to expand their use

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Augmented reality (AR) takes digital images and superimposes them onto real-world views. But AR is more than a new way to play video games; it could transform surgery and self-driving cars. To make the technology easier to integrate into common personal devices, researchers report how to combine two optical technologies into a single, high-resolution AR display.

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