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Schistosomiasis is one of the most devastating tropical diseases in the world, second only to malaria in its prevalence. The only treatment currently used is extremely limited in its effectiveness and in who it can help. The Newmark Lab wants to develop something that protects people from being infected in the first place.

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Keywords: Schistosomiasis, Parasite, Parasitic Disease, regenerative biology, Basic Science, Stem Cell, Neglected Tropical Diseases, neglected diseases, Tropical Disease

In this Q&A, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Dan Jacobson talks about his team’s work on a genomic selection algorithm, his vision for the future of environmental genomics, and the space where simulation meets AI.

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Keywords: AI, high-performance computing , climate and environmental sciences, Energy and Environmental Science, Supercomputing

Delivering palliative care to rural, frontier areas is difficult, but the lack of infrastructure makes developing programs for three Northern Plains Indian tribes even more challenging.

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Keywords: Palliative Care, American Indian health, Northern Plains, Walking Forward, Avera Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, National Institutes Of Health (NIH) And The National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported that secondary tumor-reduction, or cytoreduction, surgery followed by chemotherapy did not result in longer survival than chemotherapy alone in patients with platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer.

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Keywords: MD Anderson Cancer Center, Ovarian Cancer, cytoreductive surgery

A team at Georgia Tech created a new turbulence algorithm optimized for the Summit supercomputer. It reached a performance of less than 15 seconds of wall-clock time per time step for more than 6 trillion grid points—a new world record surpassing the prior state of the art in the field for the size of the problem.

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Keywords: Turbulence, high-performance computing , Supercomputing

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Keywords: Donald Trump, Impeachment

A UTokyo team transformed its UNICORN code into an AI-like algorithm to more quickly simulate a tectonic plate deformation that leads to earthquakes. The team ran UNICORN at 416 petaflops and gained a 75-fold speedup from a previous state-of-the-art solver using the Summit supercomputer.

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Endocytosis, a fundamental process that cells use to take in macromolecules, functions a lot like an airlock on a spaceship – but squishier, says Dr. Gunther Hollopeter, assistant professor of molecular medicine at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.

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Keywords: Biology (Bacteriology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology), Biology