Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Heightened exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is the leading cause of preventable skin cancer and other skin problems. To prevent sun-induced damage, protecting the skin is crucial. If no protection measures are taken, new research by The University of Manchester scientists in collaboration with the No7 Beauty Company, has shown that the skin microbiota composition can change in as little as seven days.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 9, 2023

By analyzing the revenue streams of a particular business, you can gain deep insights about the processes that the company uses to make money. In some cases, this can tell you where funds and time are being wasted, while others might learn that they’re missing out on opportunities to increase efficiency, or even uncover some segment of the market they should be emphasizing further with their sales efforts.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 11, 2023

Using scaffolds of folded DNA, engineers assembled arrays of quantum rods with desirable photonic properties that could enable them to be used as highly efficient micro-LEDs for televisions or virtual reality devices.

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Gideon

AUGUST 8, 2023

Rinderpest, also known as the “ cattle plague ,” is related to countless deaths since the Roman era. The infection led to widespread agricultural losses, famine, and disease. The good news is that Rinderpest is the first animal disease to be eradicated. However, during its time, it was highly contagious and caused severe economic disruptions.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

By Prof Martin Siegert, University of Exeter (Cornwall) Image: Shutterstock.com 42 governments around the world have agreed to protect Antarctica’s environment. While the main focus has been on operational activities in Antarctica, global warming caused by fossil-fuel burning by these (and other) countries has left Antarctica on the brink of irreversible change.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 9, 2023

Artificial intelligence ( AI) has emerged as a powerful tool in the field of education, transforming traditional pedagogical methods and paving the way for more personalized and adaptive learning experiences. The use of AI voice over generators, in particular, has proven to be a game changer, providing numerous benefits to learners all over the world.

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The NACCHO Podcast Series

AUGUST 11, 2023

On this week’s podcast, Adriane Casalotti, Chief of Government and Public Affairs, and Lauren Mastroberardino, Government Affairs Senior Specialist, provide an update on the appropriations process, as Congress has adjourned for August recess before making a lot of progress on crucial public health legislation. Casalotti covers House and Senate Labor-HHS appropriations, discussing major differences between both bills and the outlook for fall.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 9, 2023

By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Malaria is an infectious disease claiming more than half a million lives each year. Because traditional diagnosis takes expertise and the workload is high, an international team of researchers investigated if diagnosis using a new system combining an automatic scanning microscope and AI is feasible in clinical settings.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 9, 2023

AI technology has changed the trajectory of the evolution of technology. A growing number of organizations are using tools like ChatGPT to streamline their research and development processes. There are currently around 100 million ChatGPT users and that figure is likely to grow as more startups discover the benefits it offers. Software developers are among the professionals that rely most heavily on ChatGPT.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 10, 2023

The best heart rate for burning fat differs for each individual and often does not align with the 'fat burning zone' on commercial exercise machines, researchers report. Instead, the researchers said, clinical exercise testing -- a diagnostic procedure to measure a person's physiological response to exercise -- may be a more useful tool to help individuals achieve intended fat loss goals.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 11, 2023

More people than ever are concerned about data privacy these days. One poll by IPSOS found that 63% of Americans state that data privacy is a major concern. We usually think about our Internet use when it comes to data privacy. However, our data can just as easily be compromised when we are using our phones as well. We have to take a number of factors into consideration to protect our data privacy through our phone use.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Scientists working on Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment released the world's most precise measurement yet of the magnetic moment of the muon, bringing particle physics closer to the ultimate showdown between theory and experiment that may uncover new particles or forces.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Microscopic plastic particles have been found in the fats and lungs of two-thirds of the marine mammals in a graduate student's study of ocean microplastics. The presence of polymer particles and fibers in these animals suggests that microplastics can travel out of the digestive tract and lodge in the tissues.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 10, 2023

A new study finds that around 1.12 million years ago a massive cooling event in the North Atlantic and corresponding shifts in climate, vegetation and food resources disrupted early human occupation of Europe.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Creating new technologically advanced sensors, scientists have engineered bacteria that detect the presence of tumor DNA in live organisms. Their innovation could pave the way to new biosensors capable of identifying various infections, cancers and other diseases.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 10, 2023

A new study finds that past changes in atmospheric CO2 and corresponding shifts in climate and vegetation played a key role in determining when and where early human species interbred.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Everywhere scientists look for microplastics, they've found them -- food, water, air and some parts of the human body. But examinations of our innermost organs that aren't directly exposed to the environment are still limited. Now, in a pilot study of people who underwent heart surgery, researchers report that they have found microplastics in many heart tissues.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Promising preclinical results show hematopoietic stem cell therapy was effective in rescuing memory loss, neuroinflammation and beta amyloid build-up in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 9, 2023

A new DNA study has nuanced the picture of how different groups intermingled during the European Stone Age, but also how certain groups of people were actually isolated. Researchers produced new genetic data from 56 Central and Eastern European individuals from the Stone Age.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 10, 2023

A new observation suggests that a life-threatening blood clotting disorder can be caused by an infection with adenovirus, one of the most common respiratory viruses in pediatric and adult patients.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 9, 2023

A scientific journey decades in the making has found a new antibiotic strategy to defeat gram-negative bacteria like Salmonella, Pseudomonas and E. coli, the culprits in many urinary tract infections. The synthetic molecule works fast and is durable. It interferes with synthesis of the bacterial outer membrane by jamming an enzyme. When tested against a clinical collection of 285 bacterial strains, including some that were highly resistant to commercial antibiotics, it killed them all.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 8, 2023

Approximately 65% of adults in the United States consume sugar sweetened beverages daily. Chronic liver disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and can result in liver cancer and liver disease-related mortality. Researchers looked at the association between intake of sugar-sweetened beverages, artificially sweetened beverages, and incidence of liver cancer and chronic liver disease mortality.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 8, 2023

The number of steps you should walk every day to start seeing benefits to your health is lower than previously thought, according to the largest analysis to investigate this. The study found that walking at least 3967 steps a day started to reduce the risk of dying from any cause, and 2337 steps a day reduced the risk of dying from diseases of the heart and blood vessels (cardiovascular disease).

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 8, 2023

A remarkable new fossil from China reveals for the first time that a group of reptiles were already using whale-like filter feeding 250 million years ago.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Breastfeeding has long been used as a method to help keep newborns healthy and protected against a variety of diseases. But certain sugars naturally found in breastmilk could also help prevent infections before a baby arrives. Researchers have found that these sugars can stop a common prenatal infection in human tissues and pregnant mice. This could someday help people avoid preterm births or complications without the need for additional antibiotics.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 10, 2023

For now, cyborgs exist only in fiction, but the concept is becoming more plausible as science progresses. And now, researchers are reporting that they have developed a proof-of-concept technique to 'tattoo' living cells and tissues with flexible arrays of gold nanodots and nanowires. With further refinement, this method could eventually be used to integrate smart devices with living tissue for biomedical applications, such as bionics and biosensing.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 9, 2023

A 390-million-year-old moss called Takakia lives in some of Earth's most remote places, including the icy cliffs of the Tibetan Plateau. In a decade-long project, a team of scientists climbed some of the tallest peaks in the world to find Takakia, sequence its DNA for the first time, and study how climate change is impacting the moss. Their results show that Takakia is one of the fastest evolving species ever studied -- but it likely isn't evolving fast enough to survive climate change.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 7, 2023

A new study suggests that Cytochromes P450 (CYP450s) enzymes can sense and respond to stimuli, acting like soft robots in living systems.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Whether it's work or play that prevents us from getting enough shut-eye during the week, assuming we can make up for it by sleeping in over the weekend is a mistake. New research led by Penn State reveals that cardiovascular health measures, including heart rate and blood pressure, worsen over the course of the week when sleep is restricted to five hours per night, and attempting to catch up on sleep over the weekend is insufficient to return these measures to normal.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 7, 2023

New research has found evidence that a Roman road network spanned Devon and Cornwall and connected significant settlements with military forts across the two counties as well as wider Britannia.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 9, 2023

New research links chemical changes in seawater to volcanic activity and changes.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 8, 2023

New research shows that electrical stimuli passed between neighboring electrodes can also affect non-neighboring electrodes. Known as non-locality, this discovery is a crucial milestone toward creating brain-like computers with minimal energy requirements.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 9, 2023

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has followed up on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of the farthest star ever detected in the very distant universe, within the first billion years after the big bang. Webb's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals the star to be a massive B-type star more than twice as hot as our Sun, and about a million times more luminous.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 11, 2023

The skin, hair and eye color of more than eight billion humans is determined by the light-absorbing pigment known as melanin. New research has identified 135 new genes associated with pigmentation.

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