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  • Exposure to wildfire smoke linked with worsening mental health conditions

    Exposure to wildfire smoke linked with worsening mental health conditions

    Exposure to fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) from wildfire smoke was associated with increased visits to emergency departments (ED) for mental health conditions, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

    “Wildfire smoke isn’t just a respiratory issue — it affects mental health, too,” said corresponding author Kari Nadeau, John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies and chair of the Department of Environmental Health. “Our study…

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  • Discovery of bacteria’s defense against viruses becomes a piece of the puzzle against resistance

    Discovery of bacteria’s defense against viruses becomes a piece of the puzzle against resistance

    Antibiotic resistance is a global health challenge that could overtake cancer mortality within a few decades. In a new study, researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, show that the emergence of resistance can be understood in the mechanism of how bacteria build up defences against being infected by viruses. It is about genes in the bacterium that interfere with the attacking virus’s ability to multiply.

    “A key to antibiotic resistance might be the use of viruses to kill bacteria, however,…

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  • How can science benefit from AI? Risks?

    How can science benefit from AI? Risks?

    Researchers from chemistry, biology, and medicine are increasingly turning to AI models to develop new hypotheses. However, it is often unclear on which basis the algorithms come to their conclusions and to what extent they can be generalized. A publication by the University of Bonn now warns of misunderstandings in handling artificial intelligence. At the same time, it highlights the conditions under which researchers can most likely have confidence in the models. The study has now been…

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  • Outdoor time and multisport activities develop children’s motor competence

    Outdoor time and multisport activities develop children’s motor competence

    A study conducted by the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, followed the development of children’s motor skills over a three-year period, from early childhood education to school age. The study showed that independent outdoor time and multisport activities support the development of motor competence. Even 30 minutes of outdoor time after a day at childcare makes a difference.

    The study found that time spent outdoors is associated with better motor…

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  • Artificial intelligence has potential to aid physician decisions during virtual urgent care

    Artificial intelligence has potential to aid physician decisions during virtual urgent care

    Do physicians or artificial intelligence (AI) offer better treatment recommendations for patients examined through a virtual urgent care setting? A new Cedars-Sinai study shows physicians and AI models have distinct strengths.

    The late-breaking study presented at the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting and published simultaneously in the Annals of Internal Medicine compared initial AI treatment recommendations to final recommendations of physicians who had access to the…

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  • How a small number of mutations can fuel outbreaks of western equine encephalitis virus

    How a small number of mutations can fuel outbreaks of western equine encephalitis virus

    New research shows how small shifts in the molecular makeup of a virus can profoundly alter its fate. These shifts could turn a deadly pathogen into a harmless bug or supercharge a relatively benign virus, influencing its ability to infect humans and cause dangerous outbreaks.

    This is the latest finding in a series of studies led by Jonathan Abraham, associate professor of microbiology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, and his team that aim to understand the risk of…

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  • Research uncovers hidden spread of one of the most common hospital-associated infections

    Research uncovers hidden spread of one of the most common hospital-associated infections

    The results could spur more rigorous preventive measures that stop hidden spread of the disease.

    One of the most common health care-associated infections spreads within intensive care units (ICUs) more than three times more than previously thought, new research has found.

    Clostridium difficile infection — commonly called C. diff — causes diarrhea, abdominal pain, and fever and is lethal in about 6% of cases in the U.S. The disease is highly contagious, but in previous research, direct…

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  • Pancreatic cells ‘remember’ epigenetic precancerous marks without genetic sequence mutations

    Pancreatic cells ‘remember’ epigenetic precancerous marks without genetic sequence mutations

    Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic “marks” in a transition state between normal and pancreatic cancer cells in mice, and that the normal cells may keep at least a temporary “memory” of those cancer-linked marks.

    Epigenetic marks are chemical modifications that help regulate genetic expression without directly altering DNA sequence in the makeup of genes. While the genetic code is like a computer’s hardware, epigenetics involves chemical…

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  • Pro-Israel Group Targeting Penn University’s Palestine Activists, Funded from ‘Inside’

    Pro-Israel Group Targeting Penn University’s Palestine Activists, Funded from ‘Inside’

    A pro-Palestine protest at the University of Pennsylvania. (Photo: Sawerchessread – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=148532161)

    By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

    The several highly-produced online dossiers by Canary Mission alleging antisemitism essentially outed those participating in the pro-Palestinian protests into the public domain.

    The pro-Israel group, Canary Mission, which seeks to identify pro-Palestinian activists on the University of…

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  • The Prototype: Chatbots Struggle With Analogies

    The Prototype: Chatbots Struggle With Analogies

    In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the ways chatbots struggle to think like humans, how nanoparticles might connect brains and computers, a better way to vaccinate for food poisoning and more. You can sign up to get The Prototype in your inbox here.

    One thing that humans are very good at is the ability to reason by analogy–the ability to look at a bunch of different situations or sets of facts and generalize from them. This kind of thinking is vital in a number of…

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