Roche’s rollout of thousands of Nvidia chips is the latest example of a pharmaceutical giant trying to use AI to discover and manufacture new therapies faster.
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Roche Bought Thousands Of Nvidia AI Chips To Speed Up Drug Development
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Common pesticide may more than double Parkinson’s disease risk
A new study from UCLA Health reports that long-term residential exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos is linked to a substantially higher risk of Parkinson’s disease. People living in areas with ongoing exposure had more than a 2.5 times greater…
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RNA barcodes fast-track brain connection mapping
By tagging neurons with molecular “barcodes,” researchers have mapped connections among thousands of neurons in the mouse brain with unprecedented speed and resolution. The approach could expand understanding not only of the layout of elaborate…
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Deaths of white women with no higher education largely driving rising maternal mortality
The racial gap in maternal mortality is narrowing, driven largely by climbing death rates of white women with no more than a high school education and declining rates for college-educated Black women, new research shows. For Black women with less…
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Digestive Issues Could Be a Red Flag for Your Heart Health, New Study Says – EatingWell
- Digestive Issues Could Be a Red Flag for Your Heart Health, New Study Says EatingWell
- Heart disease risk tied to certain molecules made by gut microbes Medical Xpress
- Specific Gut Microbes Linked to Cardiometabolic Disease Risk European Medical…
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Universal, ready-to-use immunotherapy detects and destroys endometrial cancer in preclinical tests
Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer in the United States and is one of the few cancers in which survival rates have steadily declined over the last few decades. The most aggressive subtypes are a significant driver of that…
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Insulin resistance prediction from wearables and routine blood biomarkers
Remote recruitment of participants through the GHS platform
The study protocol was approved by Advarra (IRB no. Pro00074093). Participants were recruited using the Google Health Services (GHS) and the Fitbit applications. GHS is a platform for…
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Concerning rise in US teen obesity over a decade
Nearly 1 in 5 teens in the United States is obese, putting their long-term health at serious risk. Obesity in adolescence leads to many deleterious medical conditions including diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, and mental health…
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Mapping mental health to deal with the messy reality of psychiatric diagnoses
Depression or ADHD? Neatly delineated diagnoses fail to do justice to the infinitely complex reality that they refer to, argues Eiko Fried in a new paper for JAMA Psychiatry. His proposal: to map the underlying mechanisms of mental health…
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Early adult drinking linked to middle-age cognitive decline—even after extended abstinence
It’s well known that alcohol consumption is an age-old method for coping with stress. But recent research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has found that when such self-medication begins in early adulthood, negative cognitive…
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