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The BioDigital Human: Exploring Health in 3D

May 12, 2024 8:39 am | by Bevin Fletcher, Associate Editor | Comments

It has been hailed as the equivalent of Google Maps for the human body by The New York Times, and now the award-winning mobile-friendly platform BioDigital Human is looking to change the way healthcare information is shared, consumed and understood.

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Humans Beat Supercomputer at Poker – but Barely

May 11, 2024 10:00 am | by Seth Augenstein, Digital Reporter | Comments

Four of the world’s best Texas Hold ‘Em poker players squared off against a computer called Claudico during a two-week tournament at a Pittsburgh casino. Some $170 million was “bet” during the “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence” exhibition over 80,000 hands.

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Bioscience Bulletin

May 11, 2024 9:38 am | by Bevin Fletcher, Associate Editor | Comments

In case you missed any exciting news on Bioscience Technology last week, here is a round-up of the top five most popular stories.

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IBM Starts New Precision Medicine Program

May 11, 2024 9:14 am | by Ryan Bushey, Associate Editor | Comments

Watson, the supercomputer seen on Jeopardy, will play an important role in this partnership.

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Origin of Complex Life

May 8, 2024 10:33 am | by Cynthia Fox, Science Writer | Comments

Complex life – from humans to hamsters--may have evolved suddenly from a rare event. After two billion years of simple bacterial and archaeal life reigning on earth, an archaea may have swallowed a bacterium, and become a new creature with enough energy to grow and diversity like never before: the eukaryote.

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Enhanced Analysis of Extracellular Vesicles with Imaging Flow Cytometry

May 8, 2024 10:11 am | by Sherree Friend, Ph.D. Product Manager, Amnis, and Robin Clark, Content Development Scientist, EMD Millipore | Comments

The translation of extracellular vesicle research to the clinic to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of many disease types will require the development of standard assays for their characterization and quantification. The challenge of such analysis lies in the submicron size (generally 50-1000 nm in diameter) of each vesicle, as well as the complexity of the biofluids in which they are typically suspended.

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New Bird-like Dinosaur is Clue to Evolutionary Experimentation

May 7, 2024 11:16 am | by Cynthia Fox, Science Writer | Comments

A strange new bat/bird dinosaur fossil has been found, according to a new Nature study. Its skeleton indicates the creature was a pioneering flyer whose bones were unlike prehistory’s most primitive birds.

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Study Reveals Link Between Protein, Sleep Cycle

May 7, 2024 9:06 am | by Joe Shust, Editor, Continuity Insights | Comments

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at McGill and Concordia Universities in Montreal, discovered what could become a way for humans to re-set their ‘biological clock’ without light. This could lead to breakthroughs in treating a wide range of issues, from sleeping disorders to jetlag.

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Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment Market Value Will Exceed $13 Billion

May 7, 2024 8:54 am | by Kyle S. Nicholson, PharmD, GlobalData Neurology Analyst | Comments

Disease-modifying treatments and novel symptomatic therapies with innovative mechanisms of action will enter the arena during the forecast period and become routinely used in care.

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Electric Brain Stimulation Has Mixed Effect on IQ

May 7, 2024 8:54 am | by Ryan Bushey, Associate Editor | Comments

The goal of the study was to see how transcranial direct current stimulation affected IQ scores.

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Neuroscientist Stops Primate Experiments After Protests

May 6, 2024 8:40 am | by Seth Augenstein, Digital Reporter | Comments

A prominent neuroscientist who became the target of animal-right activists over the last several months will stop using primates in his research, according to multiple reports.

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Diabetes Sugars and Alzheimer’s Brain Plaques Potentially Linked

May 5, 2024 11:12 am | by Seth Augenstein, Digital Reporter | Comments

Diabetes and Alzheimer’s could have a cause-and-effect connection, according to a study published this week.

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Potentially Reversible Driver of Aging Found

May 5, 2024 11:01 am | by Cynthia Fox, Science Writer | Comments

Using stem cells and gene editing, researchers have unearthed a major driver of aging, from cancer to diabetes. That driver: loss of heterochromatin, which is potentially reversible as it is an epigenetic process that does not initially forge permanent gene mutations.

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Space madness: Long-term Space Trips Could Impair Astronaut Brains

May 1, 2024 2:59 pm | by Seth Augenstein, Digital Reporter | Comments

When NASA first began sending astronauts out into space, they worried about “space madness” – a malady they thought weightlessness and claustrophobia would trigger out beyond the atmosphere of the earth. It never materialized. But they may have been on to something.

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Warp Speed? NASA May Have Made a Breakthrough for Galactic Travel

May 1, 2024 11:43 am | by Seth Augenstein, Digital Reporter | Comments

A group of NASA scientists developing technology to make interstellar spaceflight possible by the end of the century may have reached a watershed moment.

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