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TRAILS AI Institute announces first round of Seed Funding
The Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS) has unveiled an inaugural round of seed grants designed to...
Walking fitness can predict fracture risk in older adults
The ability to walk one kilometre comfortably can help predict fracture risk, according to researchers at the Garvan Institute of...
Learning for life: The higher the level of education, the lower the risk of dying
Education saves lives regardless of age, sex, location, and social and demographic backgrounds. That’s according to the latest and largest...
Non-COVID-19 deaths among people with diabetes jumped during pandemic
Non-COVID-19-related deaths among people with diabetes increased during the pandemic, as did the diabetes complication of sight loss, according to...
Live animal transport regulations not ‘fit for purpose’, major international study finds
A ‘fitness check’ of regulations in five countries meant to protect animals during transportation, has deemed that they all fall...
Mind the (green) gap
Color mixing is the process of combining two or more colors: red and green make yellow, blue and red make...
Injectable water filtration system could improve access to clean drinking water around the world
More than 2 billion people, approximately a quarter of the world’s population, lack access to clean drinking water. A new, portable...
RCSI-Serosep partnership aims to predict progression of ulcerative colitis
RCSI-Serosep partnership aims to predict progression of ulcerative colitisCredit: MAXWELLS RCSI-Serosep partnership aims to predict progression of ulcerative colitis Tuesday,...
Marine heat waves trigger shift in hatch dates and early growth of Pacific cod
Marine heat waves appear to trigger earlier reproduction, high mortality in early life stages and fewer surviving juvenile Pacific cod...
Few patients successfully treat their type 2 diabetes through weight loss
A new study finds that very few patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are able to achieve normal blood glucose...
FAPESP School of Advanced Science on Biodiversity is now open for registration
Applications are now open for the São Paulo School of Advanced Science "Co-designing Biodiversity Assessments". The school will take place...
When conditions cool down, a bacterial prey species becomes the predator
In a new study, two species of bacteria grown in a lab reversed their predator-prey relationship after one species was...
New checklist to help researchers accurately and consistently report consensus methods used in biomedical research
Author Interview:Credit: Gattrell WT et al., 2024, PLOS Medicine, (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Author Interview: Why did you create this reporting...
A new 3D bioprinted model offers a novel tool to study common liver disease, and perhaps find an effective treatment
Metabolic dysfunction- associated steatohepatitis, or MASH, is an inflammatory, liver-scarring disease that has reached epidemic proportions, with an estimated 1.5%...
Ageism, mistaken beliefs complicate acceptance of older adults’ sexuality
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — More than 25% of the young adults surveyed in a recent study mistakenly believed that sexual activity...
Liquid lithium on the walls of a fusion device helps the plasma within maintain a hot edge
Emerging research suggests it may be easier to use fusion as a power source if liquid lithium is applied to the internal...
Dirk Görlich receives Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine 2024
The Louis-Jeantet Foundation honors the Director at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences for discovering a new kind...
Bloom-forming cyanobacteria and dinoflagellates in five Argentinian reservoirs: a multi-year sampling
Harmful algal blooms (HABs), characterized by the proliferation of detrimental algae and cyanobacteria, occur worldwide. HABs include any event causing...
Complex green organisms emerged a billion years ago
Of all the organisms that photosynthesize, land plants have the most complex bodies. How did this morphology emerge? A team...
Updated edition of the “Handbook of Obesity,” edited by former Pennington Biomedical Executive Directors Dr. George Bray and Dr. Claude Bouchard, now available
BATON ROUGE – The two-volume set of the “Handbook of Obesity,” edited by former Pennington Biomedical Research Center Executive Directors...
