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Newswise: Bridging the gap: From frequent molecular changes to observable phenomena
Released: 15-May-2024 1:00 AM EDT
Bridging the gap: From frequent molecular changes to observable phenomena
Hokkaido University

New research employs shutter speed analogies to validate 55-year-old theory about chemical reaction rates.

Newswise: A Mediterranean diet can ease symptoms of stress and anxiety
Released: 14-May-2024 8:05 PM EDT
A Mediterranean diet can ease symptoms of stress and anxiety
University of South Australia

It’s no secret that the Mediterranean diet is good for your health. Already recommended to reduce the risks of bowel cancer, heart disease, and dementia, new research from the University of South Australia shows that the Mediterranean diet can also reduce symptoms of stress and anxiety.

14-May-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Cash incentives drive weight loss in men
University of Bristol

A major UK study led by health experts at the University of Stirling has found that offering financial incentives is effective in helping men to lose weight.

Newswise: Equity Must Be Considered In Ocean Governance To Achieve Global Targets By 2030
Released: 14-May-2024 5:05 PM EDT
Equity Must Be Considered In Ocean Governance To Achieve Global Targets By 2030
Wildlife Conservation Society

As the world presses forward with urgency towards reaching global biodiversity and climate targets by 2030, there must be increased attention to center equity in dialogue and practice when designing ocean conservation, adaptation and development interventions.

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Newswise: Exercise benefits the brain but improving its blood vessels may take longer
Released: 14-May-2024 4:05 PM EDT
Exercise benefits the brain but improving its blood vessels may take longer
Iowa State University

Results from an Iowa State University pilot study indicate three months of exercise benefits vascular health, but improving brain blood flow may require more time.

Released: 14-May-2024 4:05 PM EDT
New Research: 1 in 5 U.S. Adults Lost to Suicide Had Recent Jail Experience
Michigan State University

A newly published study found that one in five U.S. adults who die by suicide spent at least one night in jail in the year prior to their death. Rapidly and efficiently providing prevention, screening and outreach resources for this group is critical to reducing adult suicides nationwide.

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Newswise: Novel inhibitor insights offer pathway to preventing PXR-associated drug resistance
Released: 14-May-2024 4:05 PM EDT
Novel inhibitor insights offer pathway to preventing PXR-associated drug resistance
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital uncovered a route to blocking activity of protein notorious for eliminating drugs, offering a potential boon to cancer therapy.

Newswise: UAH researcher to lead $600K study exploring how lithium-ion batteries degrade, particularly at ocean temperatures, impacting UUVs
Released: 14-May-2024 4:05 PM EDT
UAH researcher to lead $600K study exploring how lithium-ion batteries degrade, particularly at ocean temperatures, impacting UUVs
University of Alabama Huntsville

The Department of Defense (DOD) has announced that a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has won a Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) award for $600,000 to study how high-energy density lithium-ion batteries degrade over a range of temperatures. The work is particularly relevant to power applications for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs).

Newswise: Mutations protected mice from B-cell cancers
Released: 14-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Mutations protected mice from B-cell cancers
UT Southwestern Medical Center

By completely or even partially depleting a protein called midnolin in B cells, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers suppressed leukemia and lymphoma in a mouse model genetically prone to these cancers. Their findings, reported in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, could lead to new treatments for these diseases that avoid the serious side effects of current therapies.

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Released: 14-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT
New AI guidelines for Arizona K-12 educators advocates a balanced approach
Northern Arizona University

NAU’s Arizona Institute for Education and the Economy shared a free, downloadable document that provides guidance on teaching and learning with generative AI, developed in collaboration with teachers, parents and technology experts across the state and nation.

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Released: 14-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Fast Company Honors Johns Hopkins APL Innovation as ‘World Changing Idea’
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

An innovative new capability being developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) that combines the abilities of human medics with virtual and robotic assistants has been recognized with an honorable mention in the Rapid Response category of Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards.

Newswise: Cal State Fullerton’s Class of 2024 Commencement to Celebrate More Than 13,000 Titans
Released: 14-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Cal State Fullerton’s Class of 2024 Commencement to Celebrate More Than 13,000 Titans
California State University, Fullerton

More than 120,000 attendees are expected to visit Cal State Fullerton’s campus to celebrate more than 13,000 Titans at 12 in-person ceremonies throughout May 20-23.

Released: 14-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT
UC Irvine-led study links sleep apnea severity during REM stage to verbal memory decline
University of California, Irvine

A research team led by the University of California, Irvine has revealed the link between the frequency of sleep apnea events during the rapid-eye-movement stage and the severity of verbal memory impairment in older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Verbal memory refers to the cognitive ability to retain and recall information presented through spoken words or written text and is particularly vulnerable to Alzheimer’s.

Newswise: Making Every Hair Appointment a Sound Experience #ASA186
7-May-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Making Every Hair Appointment a Sound Experience #ASA186
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

At Image Creators salon in Maryland, employees and customers noticed they had to work hard to understand each other’s words, but they couldn’t put their finger on exactly why.

   
Released: 14-May-2024 2:30 PM EDT
ICAN Act Increases Patient Access to High-Quality Healthcare Throughout the United States
American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology

During a congressional briefing today, leaders from American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA), along with associations representing other advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), outlined how current Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) billing and care restrictions are out of line with many state laws and briefed on a current legislative solution to address these outdated barriers.

Newswise: Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and Forsyth County EMS Launch Innovative Program to Improve Cardiac Arrest Outcomes
Released: 14-May-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and Forsyth County EMS Launch Innovative Program to Improve Cardiac Arrest Outcomes
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and Forsyth County EMS have launched a program, believed to be the first in North Carolina, designed to improve outcomes for patients suffering from cardiac arrest.

Newswise: Using AI to repurpose routine CT scans
Released: 14-May-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Using AI to repurpose routine CT scans
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

A collaborative NIH-funded team is using AI to mine common chest CT scans to predict mortality. Their research identified a collection of cardiac factors that were predictive of death in a large group of patients, potentially setting the stage for improved cardiac screening.

   
Released: 14-May-2024 2:05 PM EDT
مكافحة اللمفومة: يوضح الخبير أن خيارات العلاج تشمل بدائل المعالجة الكيميائية
Mayo Clinic

عادةً ما تكون المعالجة الكيميائية هي العلاج الأول الذي يحاول الأطباء اتباعه لعلاجاللمفومة, بما في ذلك الشكلين الأكثر شيوعًا للمرض وهما:اللِمْفُومة اللَاهودجكينيواللِمْفُومة الهودجكيني. لكن بدائل المعالجة الكيميائية آخذة في التطور، مثل علاجات الخط الأول والخيارات الاحتياطيةهذا ما يوضحه ستيفن أنسيل، دكتور في الطب، دكتوراه الفلسفة, المعتلي كرسي الدَّمَوِيَّات وأخصائي أورام الدَّمَوِيَّات فيمركز مايو كلينك الشامل للسرطان.

Released: 14-May-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Combate ao linfoma: as opções de tratamento incluem alternativas à quimioterapia, explica especialista
Mayo Clinic

A quimioterapia é geralmente o primeiro tratamento que os médicos tentam para tratar um linfoma, incluindo as duas formas mais comuns: o não Hodgkin e o Hodgkin. Mas alternativas à quimioterapia estão se desenvolvendo, como os tratamentos de primeira linha e as opções de backup, explica o Ph.D e Dr. Stephen Ansell, com cadeira na área de hematologia e hematologista oncológico no Centro Oncológico Integral da Mayo Clinic.

Newswise: UA Little Rock Nursing Students Participate in Day of Service at Ronald McDonald House in Honor of Classmate’s Late Daughter
Released: 14-May-2024 2:05 PM EDT
UA Little Rock Nursing Students Participate in Day of Service at Ronald McDonald House in Honor of Classmate’s Late Daughter
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

A group of senior nursing students from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock volunteered at Ronald McDonald House to honor the late daughter of a fellow nursing student.

Released: 14-May-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Lucha contra el linfoma: Las opciones de tratamiento incluyen alternativas a la quimioterapia, explica experto
Mayo Clinic

La quimioterapia suele ser el primer tratamiento que intentan los médicos para tratar un linfoma, incluyendo las dos formas más comunes: no Hodgkin y el Hodgkin. Pero se están desarrollando alternativas a la quimioterapia, como los tratamientos de primera línea y las opciones de respaldo, explica el Ph.D y Dr. Stephen Ansell, con cátedra en el área de hematología y hematólogo oncológico en el Centro Oncológico Integral de Mayo Clinic.

Newswise: Social distancing plus vaccines prevented 800,000 COVID deaths - but at great cost
Released: 14-May-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Social distancing plus vaccines prevented 800,000 COVID deaths - but at great cost
University of Colorado Boulder

Changing people’s behavior until a vaccine could be developed prevented roughly 800,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S., according to new CU Boulder and UCLA research. But the authors stress that interventions like lockdowns and school closures came at great economic and social cost.

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NIH renews COBRE grant for Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine
University of Kansas Cancer Center

The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine (KIPM) will continue its mission to improve health care by training physicians and scientists in precision medicine and supporting their research, thanks to a renewed Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health.

Newswise: Grant from Gordie Howe Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority to address air quality in Detroit homes
Released: 14-May-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Grant from Gordie Howe Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority to address air quality in Detroit homes
Wayne State University Division of Research

Wayne State University has received a $638,283 grant from the Gordie Howe Windsor-Bridge Authority to improve air quality within homes in Detroit, particularly near the new bridge, where issues like diesel smoke and industrial pollutants may become a factor.

Newswise:Video Embedded so-you-think-you-are-too-young-for-colon-cancer
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Released: 14-May-2024 1:05 PM EDT
So You Think You Are Too Young for Colon Cancer?
Cedars-Sinai

Michelle Usher knew something was wrong when she became too tired to hold a paint brush or read a book. The avid oil painter and voracious reader could devour 100 novels and memoirs a year until late 2022, when overwhelming exhaustion set in.

Newswise: The Wistar Institute Awarded Second National Science Foundation Grant to Expand Award-winning STEM Training Program
Released: 14-May-2024 1:05 PM EDT
The Wistar Institute Awarded Second National Science Foundation Grant to Expand Award-winning STEM Training Program
Wistar Institute

Wistar was awarded a $649,971 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the continued expansion of its award-winning Biomedical Technician Training (BTT) Pre-apprenticeship Program.

Newswise: Simulating diffusion using 'kinosons' and machine learning
Released: 14-May-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Simulating diffusion using 'kinosons' and machine learning
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Diffusion in solids is the process by which atoms move throughout a material. The production of steel, ions moving through a battery and the doping of semiconductor devices are all things that are controlled by diffusion.

Released: 14-May-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Large Language Model (LLM) Training Forthcoming from UMD Smith
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Information systems professor Kunpeng Zhang will direct a deep dive into the technical framework behind the large language model in an initiative tailored for professionals in public-facing and commercial sectors.

   
Newswise: FSU experts available to comment for anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
Released: 14-May-2024 12:05 PM EDT
FSU experts available to comment for anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
Florida State University

By: Bill Wellock | Published: May 14, 2024 | 12:14 pm | SHARE: The Brown v. Board of Education court case was a milestone in American education and politics. The unanimous 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling declared that separating children in public schools by race was unconstitutional.This week marks the 70th anniversary of the ruling.

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Released: 14-May-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Cedars-Sinai Names Vice President of Government and Industry Relations
Cedars-Sinai

Cedars-Sinai has named Stephanie Cohen as its new vice president of Government and Industry Relations. Cohen will play a vital role advocating for healthcare delivery, research, education and community benefit priorities with local, state and national policymakers.

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Released: 14-May-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Smidt Heart Institute Experts Available to Discuss Heart Rhythm Society Presentations
Cedars-Sinai

Investigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai are presenting more than 40 original research studies at the Heart Rhythm Society annual meeting in Boston, May 16-19.

Newswise: Meet the new insect killing Utah's fir trees
Released: 14-May-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Meet the new insect killing Utah's fir trees
University of Utah

University of Utah researchers document a close association between the pest’s spread and warming temperatures. Their study includes an online tool that forecasts the adelgid spread across the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest based on various climate scenarios.

Newswise: University students tackle Adventure in CyberForce — Conquer the Hill competition
Released: 14-May-2024 12:05 PM EDT
University students tackle Adventure in CyberForce — Conquer the Hill competition
Argonne National Laboratory

The DOE’s CyberForce Adventure Competition 2024 awarded Cameron Whitehead from University of Central Florida as the winner, one of 112 students who competed in this event, as part of the CyberForce program aiming to bridge the growing cybersecurity workforce gap in the United States.

Released: 14-May-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Harnessing hydrogen: New test facility to support decarbonization of heavy-duty transportation
Argonne National Laboratory

Groundbreaking initiative funded by Department of Energy poised to shape future of sustainable mobility by advancing decarbonization of trucks, locomotives, marine vessels and more.

Newswise: Award-winning author Kristin Smedley will deliver Keynote at Glaucoma Research Foundation 2024 Patient Summit
Released: 14-May-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Award-winning author Kristin Smedley will deliver Keynote at Glaucoma Research Foundation 2024 Patient Summit
Glaucoma Research Foundation

Kristin Smedley is an award-winning author, TEDx speaker, trailblazer for the disability community, and mother of three children, two of whom were born blind. “Thriving Blind: Succeeding Without Sight” will be the theme of her keynote talk at the Glaucoma Patient Summit in Philadelphia.

Newswise: New West Coast Offshore Wind Science Consortium Launches
Released: 14-May-2024 12:05 PM EDT
New West Coast Offshore Wind Science Consortium Launches
Cal Poly Humboldt

The Pacific Offshore Wind Consortium (POWC) is a joint effort between three university research centers: the Schatz Energy Research Center at Cal Poly Humboldt, the Pacific Marine Energy Center at Oregon State University, and the Center for Coastal Marine Sciences at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. These universities are housed in and support the coastal communities in California and Oregon which are anticipated to host floating offshore wind development.

Newswise: Nation’s First Mobile Stroke Unit 
Gets New Look, Updated Imaging and Treatment Capabilities
Released: 14-May-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Nation’s First Mobile Stroke Unit Gets New Look, Updated Imaging and Treatment Capabilities
Memorial Hermann Health System

Houston’s Mobile Stroke Unit (MSU), the first specialized ambulance for pre-hospital stroke treatment in the United States, has a new look and updated imaging and treatment capabilities.

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Newswise: Going big: World’s fastest computer takes on large language modeling
Released: 14-May-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Going big: World’s fastest computer takes on large language modeling
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team led by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory explored training strategies for one of the largest artificial intelligence models to date with help from Frontier, the world’s fastest supercomputer.



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