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A smart molecule beats the mutation behind most pancreatic cancer

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have designed a candidate drug that could help make pancreatic cancer, which is almost always fatal, a treatable, perhaps even curable, condition.

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The Importance of Analytics and Reporting in Healthcare

Smart Data Collective

Analytics and reporting have become indispensable in the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, driving transformation across patient care, operational efficiency, and strategic decision-making. These valuable tools enable providers to delve into vast amounts of health data for insights that enhance outcomes, personalize treatments plans, and deepen understanding of health trends.

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Self-Care A-Z: A Power-Full Message About Self-Care as Paramount for Empowerment

The New Social Worker

You might wonder what self-care has to do with empowerment. Actually, they’re inextricably related. Like empowerment, self-care is a process of increasing strengths and developing influence toward improving one’s circumstances.

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The Great Masquerader: What Is Whipple’s Disease?

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Whipple’s disease is also known as ‘The Great Masquerader.’ Symptoms of the rare bacterial infection are similar to many other conditions, making it very difficult to diagnose. While the small intestine is most infected, the disease can impact the entire body, including the Central Nervous System. Read more on the GIDEON blog. The post The Great Masquerader: What Is Whipple’s Disease?

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Researchers develop artificial building blocks of life

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For the first time, scientists have developed artificial nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA, with several additional properties in the laboratory.

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Ways Marketers Can Use Customer Data

Smart Data Collective

The advent of sophisticated data analytics tools has revolutionized how businesses approach marketing. With an abundance of customer data at their fingertips, marketers are now empowered to understand their audience like never before.

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ISID Career Center

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Welcome to ISID’s Career Center! Our new career center is the job board for infectious disease and public health professionals. Whether you are a job seeker or employer, you can gain insights on: Career descriptions Salary range Occupational outlook Typical activities performed in a role Education required Comparison of employment statistics using local, state, and nationwide averages Related occupations “Day in the life” videos and more!

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Using light to precisely control single-molecule devices

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Researchers flip the switch at the nanoscale by applying light to induce bonding for single-molecule device switching.

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The Importance of Maintaining Consistency in Your Small Business’s Cybersecurity Protocols

Smart Data Collective

When it comes to owning and operating a small business, cybersecurity can often feel like the last priority on the list. However, failing to install and frequently update robust cybersecurity measures can have dire consequences.

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The Network Appoints Quang (“Q”) Dang as Managing Director, Legal Programs & Strategy

The Network for Public Health Law

The Network for Public Health Law is thrilled to announce the appointment of Quang (“Q”) Dang as Managing Director, Legal Programs and Strategy. As part of the Network’s leadership team, Dang will oversee and coordinate the work of project and regional teams in advancing law and policy solutions through provision of direct legal technical assistance and capacity building to stakeholders working to create healthier, more equitable communities.

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APHA summit addresses climate change, environmental justice

Public Health Newswire

National, state leaders working to protect vulnerable populations

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Fossils of giant sea lizard with dagger-like teeth show how our oceans have fundamentally changed since the dinosaur era

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Fossils of a strange new species of marine lizard with dagger-like teeth that lived 66 million years ago, show a dramatically more biodiverse ocean ecosystem to what we see today.

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Stories chronicle success in improving child and adolescent mental health

Public Health Informatics Institute Newsletters

Lina Saintus highlights successful ways public health organizations have used data to measure and improve child and adolescent mental health (CAMH). The post Stories chronicle success in improving child and adolescent mental health appeared first on PHII.

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Lack of focus doesn't equal lack of intelligence -- it's proof of an intricate brain

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Imagine a busy restaurant: dishes clattering, music playing, people talking loudly over one another. It's a wonder that anyone in that kind of environment can focus enough to have a conversation. A new study provides some of the most detailed insights yet into the brain mechanisms that help people pay attention amid such distraction, as well as what's happening when they can't focus.

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Sinking land increases risk for thousands of coastal residents by 2050

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A new study provides a new comprehensive look at the potential for flooding in a combined 32 cities along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts. It predicts as many as 500,000 people will be affected by flooding alongside 1 in 35 privately owned properties within the next three decades, and it highlights the racial and socioeconomic demographics of those potentially affected.

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Orcas demonstrating they no longer need to hunt in packs to take down the great white shark

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An orca (killer whale) has been observed, for the first-ever time, individually consuming a great white shark -- and within just two minutes.

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Researchers invent new triple-junction tandem solar cells with world-record efficiency

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Scientists have developed a novel triple-junction perovskite/Si tandem solar cell that can achieve a certified world-record power conversion efficiency of 27.1 per cent across a solar energy absorption area of 1 sq cm, representing the best-performing triple-junction perovskite/Si tandem solar cell thus far. To achieve this, the team engineered a new cyanate-integrated perovskite solar cell that is stable and energy efficient.

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Interstellar signal linked to aliens was actually just a truck

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Sound waves thought to be from a 2014 meteor fireball north of Papua New Guinea were almost certainly vibrations from a truck rumbling along a nearby road, new research shows. The findings raise doubts that materials pulled last year from the ocean are alien materials from that meteor, as was widely reported.

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Children surpass a year of HIV remission after treatment pause

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Four children have remained free of detectable HIV for more than one year after their antiretroviral therapy (ART) was paused to see if they could achieve HIV remission, according to new research. The children, who acquired HIV before birth, were enrolled in a clinical trial in which an ART regimen was started within 48 hours of birth and then closely monitored for drug safety and HIV viral suppression.

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Astronomers spot oldest 'dead' galaxy yet observed

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A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted a 'dead' galaxy when the universe was just 700 million years old, the oldest such galaxy ever observed.

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Good news for coral reef restoration efforts: Study finds 'full recovery' of reef growth within four years

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While the majority of the world's reefs are now under threat or even damaged potentially beyond repair, a new study offers some encouraging news: efforts to restore coral reefs not only increase coral cover, but they can also bring back important ecosystem functions, and surprisingly fast.

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Groundbreaking survey reveals secrets of planet birth around dozens of stars

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A team of astronomers has shed new light on the fascinating and complex process of planet formation. The research brings together observations of more than 80 young stars that might have planets forming around them, providing astronomers with a wealth of data and unique insights into how planets arise in different regions of our galaxy.

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Healable cathode could unlock potential of solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries

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Engineers developed a cathode material for lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries that is healable and highly conductive, overcoming longstanding challenges of traditional sulfur cathodes. The advance holds promise for bringing more energy dense and low-cost Li-S batteries closer to market.

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Nanodevices can produce energy from evaporating tap or seawater

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Researchers have discovered that nanoscale devices harnessing the hydroelectric effect can harvest electricity from the evaporation of fluids with higher ion concentrations than purified water, revealing a vast untapped energy potential.

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New study reveals insight into which animals are most vulnerable to extinction due to climate change

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In a new study, researchers have used the fossil record to better understand what factors make animals more vulnerable to extinction from climate change. The results could help to identify species most at risk today from human-driven climate change.

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Shape-shifting ultrasound stickers detect post-surgical complications

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Gastrointestinal surgeries carry risk of fluid leaks, a potentially life-threatening complication. But no existing methods can reliably and non-invasively detect these leaks. To address this unmet need, researchers developed a tiny, soft, flexible sticker that changes in shape inside the body, enabling standard ultrasound tech to detect leaks for earlier detection and intervention.

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Rock weathering and climate: Low-relief mountain ranges are largest carbon sinks

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For many hundreds of millions of years, the average temperature at the surface of the Earth has varied by not much more than 20 degrees Celsius, facilitating life on our planet. To maintain such stable temperatures, Earth appears to have a 'thermostat' that regulates the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide over geological timescales, influencing global temperatures.

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An overgrowth of nerve cells appears to cause lingering symptoms after recurrent UTIs

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A perplexing problem for people with recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs) is persistent pain, even after antibiotics have successfully cleared the bacteria. Now researchers have identified the likely cause -- an overgrowth of nerve cells in the bladder.

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Making quantum bits fly

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Physicists are developing a method that could enable the stable exchange of information in quantum computers. In the leading role: photons that make quantum bits 'fly'.

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Earth's earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils

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The oldest fossilized forest known on Earth -- dating from 390 million years ago -- has been found in the high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and Somerset coast of South West England.

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Webb unlocks secrets of one of the most distant galaxies ever seen

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Looking deeply into space and time, astronomers have studied the exceptionally luminous galaxy GN-z11, which existed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only about 430 million years old.

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Bee-2-Bee influencing: Bees master complex tasks through social interaction

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Bumblebees successfully learned a two-step puzzle box task through social observation. This task was too complex for individual bees to learn on their own. Observing trained demonstrator bees performing the first unrewarded step was crucial for successful social learning. Individual bees failed to solve the puzzle without previous demonstration, despite extensive exposure.

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Fossil named 'Attenborough's strange bird' was the first in its kind without teeth

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A new fossil, named 'Attenborough's strange bird' after naturalist and documentarian Sir David Attenborough, is the first of its kind to evolve a toothless beak. It's from a branch of the bird family tree that went extinct in the mass extinction 66 million years ago, and this strange bird is another puzzle piece that helps explain why some birds -- and their fellow dinosaurs -- went extinct, and others survived to today.

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Genetic mutation in a quarter of all Labradors hard-wires them for obesity

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New research finds around a quarter of Labrador retriever dogs face a double-whammy of feeling hungry all the time and burning fewer calories due to a genetic mutation.

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