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Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’ Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’

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The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

Trends in the incidence of lung cancer in never smokers in Eastern China

"There is a significant increasing trend in LCNS incidence from 2009 through 2020, especially in women and the young population."

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Targeting glucose-inhibited hippocampal CCK interneurons prevents cognitive impairment in diet-induced obesity Metabolic disorders are closely linked to increased risk of cognitive decline, with Western-style high-fat diets (HFDs) emerging as key contributors. …

Junk food can scramble memory in just 4 days

"Targeting glucose-inhibited hippocampal CCK interneurons prevents cognitive impairment in diet-induced obesity"

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Insight into Corporate Governance — What Motivates Hospitals and Delivery Systems | NEJM Health care delivery system leaders view asset aggregation as a vehicle for efficient deployment of human, physical, and financial capital to achieve a health care mission.

Insight into Corporate Governance — What Motivates Hospitals and Delivery Systems. @nejm.org

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Creative experiences and brain clocks - Nature Communications Creative experiences such as dance, music, drawing, and strategy video games might preserve brain health. The authors show that regular practice or short training in these activities is linked to brains that look younger and work more efficiently.

Creative experiences and brain clocks

"The higher the level of expertise and performance, the greater the delay in brain age."

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In cognitive science, human generalization commonly involves abstraction and concept learning. By contrast, AI generalization encompasses out-of-domain generalization in machine learning, rule-based reasoning in symbolic AI, and abstraction in neurosymbolic AI.

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PM2.5 exposure was associated with an increased risk of developing Lewy body dementia

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Castration delays epigenetic aging and feminizes DNA methylation at androgen-regulated loci

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New radioactive isotope therapies promise more targeted attacks on cancer Recent clinical successes, and profits, have prompted a rush among pharma companies to try new isotopes and targeting strategies

A new generation of radiotherapies promises a more targeted attack on cancer

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7. How to write consistently boring scientific literature.

“Hell – is sitting on a hot stone reading your own scientific publications”
Erik Ursin, fish biologist

Thanks @fattebertj.bsky.social

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Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky

2. How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy and safety of pharmacological treatments for obesity in adults - Nature Medicine A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials investigating the efficacy and safety of obesity management medications reported tirzepatide and semaglutide to be the most effective in reducing body weight and obesity-related complications.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy and safety of pharmacological treatments for obesity in adults

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Hybridization-driven genomic plasticity enhances the global invasion of fall armyworm

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Enhanced soil carbon sequestration capacity is facilitated by vegetation water use efficiency on Earth's Third Pole

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How to get the best night’s sleep: what the science says Chuck the gadgets, the fads and the alarm. Circadian research reveals how important your body’s internal clock is to blissful slumber.

How to get the best night’s sleep: what the science says

Chuck the gadgets, the fads and the alarm. Circadian research reveals how important your body’s internal clock is to blissful slumber.

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YouTube video by Cambridge University Meet Cambridge's first black female graduate | #WeAreCambridge

80 years ago, Gloria Carpenter arrived from Jamaica to begin her Law degree. Gloria would become Cambridge's first black female graduate in 1948.

Hear her story and how her legacy lives on, this #BlackHistoryMonth.
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

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Artificial intelligence-assisted academic writing: recommendations for ethical use

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Apixaban for Extended Treatment of Provoked Venous Thromboembolism. #NEJM

"Low-intensity therapy with apixaban for 12 months resulted in a lower risk of symptomatic recurrent VTE than placebo, with a low risk of major bleeding."

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Unpacking the pursuit of happiness: Being concerned about happiness but not aspiring to happiness is linked with negative meta-emotions and worse well-being

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Ketogenic diet inhibits glioma progression by promoting gut microbiota-derived butyrate production The ketogenic diet (KD) is a potential therapeutic strategy for glioma; however, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Herein, we first identify t…

Ketogenic diet inhibits glioma progression by promoting gut microbiota-derived butyrate production

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HBIcloud: A comprehensive, user-centric platform for integrative multi-omics analysis

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Cities and climate change Climate change is having a profound impact on cities worldwide and sustainable urban solutions are urgently needed.

🎯Cities and climate change

"As hubs of human activity, cities are both major contributors to climate change and essential actors in the fight against it."

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Future of climate–city research
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Neural basis of cooperative behavior in biological and artificial intelligence systems Cooperation, the process through which individuals work together to achieve common goals, is fundamental to human and animal societies and increasingly critical in artificial intelligence. Here, we in...

Neural basis of cooperative behavior in biological and artificial intelligence systems. #Science

"How they learn to actively coordinate their actions to obtain shared rewards."

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Full utilization of noble metals by atom abstraction for propane dehydrogenation Maximizing atomic utilization of noble metals is crucial for efficient industrial catalysis. We demonstrate that minimal platinum (Pt) loading for propane dehydrogenation (PDH) can be achieved through...

Full utilization of noble metals by atom abstraction for propane dehydrogenation. #Science

"This configuration reduced Pt usage by one order of magnitude for propane dehydrogenation and improved catalytic stability."

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Pre- and postantibiotic epoch: The historical spread of antimicrobial resistance Plasmids are now the primary vectors of antimicrobial resistance, but our understanding of how human industrialisation of antibiotics influenced their evolution is limited by a paucity of data predati...

Modern plasmids have evolved through complex microevolution and fusion events into a distinct group of highly recombinogenic, multi-replicon, self-transmissible plasmids that now pose the highest risk to resistance dissemination, and therefore to human health.

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Medical education should shift from pattern recognition to critical thinking and pathophysiological reasoning to reduce diagnostic errors and adapt to AI advancements. @jama.com

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Vaccination: Risks and Benefits

Driving is important for our jobs and lifestyles, and the risk is quite low. So is vaccination.

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