under the microscope
‘Slime’ keeps the brain safe.
“Slippery proteins in the brain’s blood vessels form a protective barrier that breaks break down with age, studies in mice show.” ~ learn more
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under the microscope
Sleep to lose weight?
“A randomized trial found that overweight adults sleeping <6.5h/night cut 270 calories/day—just by sleeping 1.2 hours more. No diet or exercise changes.” ~ learn more
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Gene therapy surgery restores some vision to legally blind children.
“Scientists in the UK have successfully used gene therapy to restore some vision to legally blind children with an inherited retinal condition. All 11 children in the clinical trial saw improvements within weeks of a single surgical treatment.” ~ learn […]
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Migraine is more than a headache.
From this article I learned that the headaches associated with migraines are just one of a slew of symptoms that occur as part of a cycle. “Drugs that can prevent or relieve migraine attacks are only effective for some people. […]
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Scientists created the lightest and strongest nanomaterial ever.
“An AI algorithm was taught to produce the lightest and strongest possible geometric structure for a nanomaterial (depending on what it was made of). The result was a carbon nanolattice that is light enough to sit on a soap bubble […]
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How disorder toughens materials.
“In a new paper in PNAS Nexus, researchers … found that adding just the right amount of disorder to the structure of certain materials can make them more than twice as resistant to cracking.” ~ learn more
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A genome-wide atlas of cell morphology reveals gene functions.
“The new technique lets scientists study the effects of perturbing over 20,000 genes on hundreds of image-based cellular features. Generating data with the method is more than 10 times less expensive than comparable high-dimensional approaches such as high-throughput single-cell RNA […]
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First time hearing about 4D printing.
“Welcome to 4D printing, a frontier in material and manufacturing science that has been rapidly expanding over the past decade. While 3D printing has captured global attention for its ability to create objects layer by layer, 4D printing adds the […]
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Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads.
This is not ready for clinical use yet, but is an exciting new methodology. “To detect the presence of these proteases in the blood, the researchers developed nanosensors containing a magnetic nanoparticle attached to a small peptide that attracts matrix […]
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A large randomized controlled trial of AI breast cancer detection.
A study of over 105k women found the AI detected 29% more cancers with only minor increase in false positives. ~ learn more