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Released: 6-Jun-2023 7:00 AM EDT
Salud masculina: un experto de Mayo Clinic Healthcare comparte los síntomas principales sobre los que hay que actuar
Mayo Clinic

A medida que los hombres envejecen, incluso aquellos acostumbrados a una buena salud pueden desarrollar síntomas que afecten su calidad de vida y es importante que se los mencionen a sus médicos. Vikas Mehta, Licenciado en Medicina y Cirugía, un médico de Mayo Clinic Healthcare en Londres, describe varios signos físicos que vale la pena controlar.

Newswise: New superconducting diode could improve performance of quantum computers and artificial intelligence
Released: 6-Jun-2023 7:00 AM EDT
New superconducting diode could improve performance of quantum computers and artificial intelligence
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering

A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has developed a more energy-efficient, tunable superconducting diode—a promising component for future electronic devices—that could help scale up quantum computers for industry and improve artificial intelligence systems.

Released: 6-Jun-2023 7:00 AM EDT
Saúde masculina: especialista da Mayo Clinic Healthcare fala sobre os principais sintomas e quando tomar providências
Mayo Clinic

À medida que os homens envelhecem, mesmo que eles levem uma vida saudável, podem surgir alguns sintomas que podem afetar sua qualidade de vida e devem ser relatados ao médico. O Dr. Vikas Mehta, bacharel em medicina e cirurgia da Mayo Clinic Healthcare em Londres, descreve vários sinais físicos que valem a pena acompanhar.

Released: 6-Jun-2023 6:00 AM EDT
صحة الرجال: يشارك خبير مايو كلينك للرعاية الصحية أعراضًا مهمة يجب الانتباه لها
Mayo Clinic

قد يواجه الرجال مع تقدمهم في العمر، بما فيهم أولئك الذين يتمتعون بصحة جيدة، أعراضًا تؤثر على جودة حياتهم، وعليهم أن يذكروها لأطبائهم. يصف الدكتور فيكاس ميهتا، بكالوريوس الطب والجراحة، وهو طبيب في مايو كلينك للرعاية الصحية بلندن، عددًا من المؤشرات الجسدية التي تستدعي المتابعة والفحص.

Released: 6-Jun-2023 6:00 AM EDT
On the origin of congenital limb deficiency
SUNY Upstate Medical University

David R. Hootnick, M.D., reveals clinical evidence that most human congenital long bone deficiencies of lower limbs are the result of downstream effects of embryonic arterial dysgenesis, similar to that of thalidomide embryopathy; such limb deficiencies are, in fact, indistinguishable from those seen in the thalidomide epidemic of the ‘50s and ‘60s.

5-Jun-2023 2:55 PM EDT
Fine-tuning 3D lab-grown mini tumors to help predict how patients respond to cancer therapies
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

Scientists from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a new method to bioprint miniature tumor organoids that are designed to mimic the function and architecture of real tumors. The improved process allows researchers to use an advanced imaging method to study and analyze individual organoids in great detail, which can help researchers identify personalized treatments for people with rare or hard-to-treat cancers.

Newswise: Mount Sinai Researchers Use New Deep Learning Approach to Enable Analysis of Electrocardiograms as Language
2-Jun-2023 12:35 PM EDT
Mount Sinai Researchers Use New Deep Learning Approach to Enable Analysis of Electrocardiograms as Language
Mount Sinai Health System

Mount Sinai researchers have developed an innovative artificial intelligence (AI) model for electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis that allows for the interpretation of ECGs as language. This approach can enhance the accuracy and effectiveness of ECG-related diagnoses, especially for cardiac conditions where limited data is available on which to train. In a study published in the June 6 online issue of npj Digital Medicine DOI: 10.1038/s41746-023-00840-9, the team reported that its new deep learning model, known as HeartBEiT, forms a foundation upon which specialized diagnostic models can be created. The team noted that in comparison tests, models created using HeartBEiT surpassed established methods for ECG analysis.

Newswise: NUS researchers invent powerful tool to gather data on immune response at single-cell level
Released: 5-Jun-2023 11:05 PM EDT
NUS researchers invent powerful tool to gather data on immune response at single-cell level
National University of Singapore (NUS)

Scientists from the National University of Singapore have invented a powerful tool that captures data on immune cell response at a single-cell level. This groundbreaking technique will accelerate the discovery of new immunotherapies to treat diseases such as cancer, autoimmune disorders, and infectious diseases.

   
Released: 5-Jun-2023 7:30 PM EDT
The look of your eyebrows is in your genes; A new study uncovers genes that define the appearance of eyebrows
Elsevier

The first gene mapping study on eyebrow thickness in Europeans discovered three previously unreported genetic loci, as reported in a Letter to the Editor in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, published by Elsevier.

Released: 5-Jun-2023 7:20 PM EDT
Amid volumes of mobile location data, new framework reduces consumers’ privacy risk, preserves advertisers’ utility
Carnegie Mellon University

In a new study, researchers used machine learning to create and test a framework that quantifies personalized privacy risks; performs personalized data obfuscation; and accommodates a variety of risks, utilities, and acceptable levels of risk-utility tradeoff.

Released: 5-Jun-2023 7:10 PM EDT
Quantum computers are better at guessing, new study demonstrates
University of Southern California (USC)

Daniel Lidar, the Viterbi Professor of Engineering at USC and Director of the USC Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology, and first author Dr. Bibek Pokharel, a Research Scientist at IBM Quantum, achieved this quantum speedup advantage in the context of a “bitstring guessing game.” They managed strings up to 26 bits long, significantly larger than previously possible, by effectively suppressing errors typically seen at this scale. (A bit is a binary number that is either zero or one).

2-Jun-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Queen’s research finds greater societal awareness needed to protect our privacy and data from AI when we die
Queen's University Belfast

A research study from Queen’s University Belfast, Aston Law School and Newcastle University Law School, has suggested that greater societal awareness of ‘ghostbots’ and a ‘Do not bot me’ clause in wills and other contracts could prevent us from being digitally reincarnated without our permission when we die.

Released: 5-Jun-2023 7:00 PM EDT
New discoveries about where atherosclerotic plaques rupture can lead to preventive treatments
Lund University

A common cause of myocardial infarction and stroke is the rupture of atherosclerotic plaques. The exact location of plaque ruptures has previously been unknown, but now researchers at Lund University have mapped this. The research team has also identified an enzyme, a marker, that they hope will help predict who is at risk of having a myocardial infarction or a stroke due to a ruptured atherosclerotic plaque.

Released: 5-Jun-2023 6:50 PM EDT
“Butterfly chaos effect” discovered in swarms and herds of animals
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) have discovered a phase shift between chaotic states that can appear in herds of animals and, in particular, in swarms of insects. This advance may help to better understand their behaviour or be applied to the study of the movement of cells or tumours.

Released: 5-Jun-2023 5:30 PM EDT
Awada leads development of ag, environment research for national defense
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Defense of the United States is an undertaking that requires the help of experts from a wide array of obviously related disciplines — physics, engineering, computer science, political science and more. One discipline that might not immediately come to mind is plant ecophysiology. But the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Tala Awada is leading the way.

Newswise: Striking gold with black, brown and red rice
Released: 5-Jun-2023 5:20 PM EDT
Striking gold with black, brown and red rice
King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)

Fundamental research offers opportunities for new varieties of pigmented rice and a resource to address malnutrition.

Newswise: Health Insurance Coverage Rises for LGBTQIA2S+ Adults Yet Access Lags
Released: 5-Jun-2023 5:05 PM EDT
Health Insurance Coverage Rises for LGBTQIA2S+ Adults Yet Access Lags
University of Michigan Ross School of Business

Michigan Ross professors Tom Buchmueller and Sarah Miller explore how the changing landscape of the health care has affected coverage and care for members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community.

Newswise: MacNeal Hospital Mental Health Counselor Competes to be Crowned Miss Illinois and Advocates for LatinX Mental Health
Released: 5-Jun-2023 5:00 PM EDT
MacNeal Hospital Mental Health Counselor Competes to be Crowned Miss Illinois and Advocates for LatinX Mental Health
Loyola Medicine

Natalie Baeza, a mental health counselor at MacNeal Hospital, will be competing in the 2023 Miss Illinois Scholarship Competition beginning June 7th. She hopes to use her platform as the reigning Miss Cicero and experience as a counselor to help reduce the stigma surrounding mental health in the LatinX community.

Newswise:Video Embedded precisely-measure-a-quasar-galaxy-s-weight
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Released: 5-Jun-2023 4:50 PM EDT
Weigh a quasar’s galaxy with precision
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

A team of researchers from EPFL have found a way to use the phenomenon of strong gravitational lensing to determine with precision – about 3 times more precise than any other technique – the mass of a galaxy containing a quasar, as well as their evolution in cosmic time.

Newswise: Whales not to be counted on as ‘climate savers’: study
Released: 5-Jun-2023 4:35 PM EDT
Whales not to be counted on as ‘climate savers’: study
Griffith University

Do whales increase the removal of carbon from the atmosphere? Despite some hope that this would be the case, a new study led by Griffith University and a team of global researchers has found the amount of potential carbon capture by whales is too little to meaningfully alter the course of climate change.

Newswise: Astronomers are Reducing Satellite Interference in Hubble Images
Released: 5-Jun-2023 4:15 PM EDT
Astronomers are Reducing Satellite Interference in Hubble Images
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Artificial satellites photobomb about 10% of Hubble exposures on celestial targets. But a typical satellite trail is very thin and will affect less than 0.5% of a single Hubble exposure. Astronomers have developed tools for cleaning the images and improving the quality of Hubble science observations.

Released: 5-Jun-2023 4:10 PM EDT
MEDSIR Study Finds No Progression-Free Survival Benefit with Palbociclib Maintenance After First-Line Regimen in HR+/HER2- Advanced Breast Cancer Patients
Medica Scientia Innovation Research (MEDSIR)

MEDSIR announced today the results of the PALMIRA trial. This randomized phase 2 study evaluated the safety and efficacy of palbociclib maintenance in combination with second-line endocrine therapy in patients with hormone receptor-positive/HER2-negative (HR+/HER2-) advanced breast cancer who had showed a confirmed progressive disease on first-line palbociclib plus endocrine therapy-based treatment after having achieved clinical benefit to this regimen.

Newswise: Ready for risk: FAMU-FSU researcher maps flood hazards in Bay County, Florida
Released: 5-Jun-2023 4:05 PM EDT
Ready for risk: FAMU-FSU researcher maps flood hazards in Bay County, Florida
Florida State University

A new study by Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf, a researcher at the Resilient Infrastructure and Disaster Response Center in the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, will map infrastructure and assets that are threatened by flooding in Bay County, Florida.

Newswise: Fostering acceptance of sexual minorities in the Hispanic community
Released: 5-Jun-2023 4:00 PM EDT
Fostering acceptance of sexual minorities in the Hispanic community
University of Miami

A new intervention developed by a team of researchers and led by Guillermo “Willy” Prado, professor of nursing and health studies at the University of Miami, aims to curb devastating mental health trends and drug use among Hispanic youth who identify as sexual minorities.

   
Newswise: Professor Receives Prestigious U.S. Fulbright Award to Explore the ‘Big Questions of Democracy and Development in Nepal’
Released: 5-Jun-2023 3:30 PM EDT
Professor Receives Prestigious U.S. Fulbright Award to Explore the ‘Big Questions of Democracy and Development in Nepal’
University of Northern Colorado

Richard Bownas has a personal connection to Nepal. Rather than keeping that to himself, Bownas will be focusing his work and research around the Nepalese Civil War traveling to the country from January to July 2024 to conduct an oral history project. He's able to do this through a U.S. Fulbright award.

Released: 5-Jun-2023 3:20 PM EDT
Study shows promising treatment for tinnitus
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

A randomized controlled clinical trial of a device shows promise for quieting the phantom noises of tinnitus.

Newswise: New Strategy Can Harvest Chemical Information on Rare Isotopes with a Fraction of the Material
Released: 5-Jun-2023 3:15 PM EDT
New Strategy Can Harvest Chemical Information on Rare Isotopes with a Fraction of the Material
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Studying radioactive materials is very difficult due to the potential health risks, the cost, and the difficulty of producing some radioisotopes. Scientists recently developed a new approach to harvest detailed chemical information on radioactive and/or enriched stable isotopes. The new approach is much more efficient, requiring 1,000 times less material than previous state-of-the-art methods, with no loss of data quality.

   
Newswise: Roswell Park Study May Provide Clues to Treating Colorectal Cancer More Effectively in Younger Patients
Released: 5-Jun-2023 3:00 PM EDT
Roswell Park Study May Provide Clues to Treating Colorectal Cancer More Effectively in Younger Patients
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

While the incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) has dropped significantly among older adults in recent years — a trend attributed to regular screening colonoscopies and lower smoking rates — the opposite is true for people born between 1981 and 1996, who have double the risk compared with people born in 1950. There’s an urgent need to identify more-effective therapies for those younger people: Approximately 58% of patients age 50 or under have advanced, distant disease at the time of diagnosis, and only 14% of that group will survive five years.

Newswise: Human factors affect bees’ communication, researchers find
5-Jun-2023 7:05 AM EDT
Human factors affect bees’ communication, researchers find
University of Bristol

Human influences have the potential to reduce the effectivity of communication in bees adding further stress to struggling colonies, according to new analysis.

Newswise: Saving moths may be just as important as saving the bees
Released: 5-Jun-2023 2:45 PM EDT
Saving moths may be just as important as saving the bees
University of Sheffield

Night-time pollinators such as moths may visit just as many plants as bees, and should also be the focus of conservation and protection efforts, a new study from the University of Sheffield suggests.

Newswise: Barry Fields elected new Chair of UCMC Board of Trustees
Released: 5-Jun-2023 2:35 PM EDT
Barry Fields elected new Chair of UCMC Board of Trustees
University of Chicago Medical Center

Barry Fields, retired partner in Kirkland & Ellis, begins a term as Chair of the University of Chicago Medical Center Board of Trustees in May 2023.

Released: 5-Jun-2023 2:35 PM EDT
Fetal exposure to PCBs affects hearing health later in life
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology found that early exposure to an environmental chemical called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, made it more difficult for mice to recover from sound-related trauma sustained later in life.

Newswise: A Low-Energy ‘Off Switch’ for Quark-Gluon Plasma
Released: 5-Jun-2023 2:30 PM EDT
A Low-Energy ‘Off Switch’ for Quark-Gluon Plasma
Department of Energy, Office of Science

systematically varying the amount of energy involved in collisions of gold nuclei, scientists have shown that the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) exists in collisions at energies from 200 billion electron volts (GeV) at least to 19.6 GeV. However, its production appears to be “turned off” at the lowest collision energy, 3 GeV. The “off” signal shows up as a sign change in data that describe the distribution of protons produced in these collisions. The findings will help physicists further study the QGP and phases of nuclear matter.

Newswise:Video Embedded direct-air-capture-technology-licensed-to-knoxville-based-holocene
VIDEO
Released: 5-Jun-2023 2:00 PM EDT
Direct air capture technology licensed to Knoxville-based Holocene
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

An innovative and sustainable chemistry developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory for capturing carbon dioxide from air has been licensed to Holocene, a Knoxville-based startup focused on designing and building plants that remove carbon dioxide from atmospheric air.

Released: 5-Jun-2023 1:40 PM EDT
The digital dark matter clouding AI
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Artificial intelligence has entered our daily lives. First, it was ChatGPT. Now, it’s AI-generated pizza and beer commercials. While we can’t trust AI to be perfect, it turns out that sometimes we can’t trust ourselves with AI either.

Released: 5-Jun-2023 1:35 PM EDT
Social media posts can be used to track individuals’ income and economic inequalities
Queen Mary University of London

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London analysed 2.6 million posts on popular social media network Nextdoor and accurately predicted individuals’ income by solely examining the posts they’ve published.

Newswise: Race and Ethnicity Affect 21-Gene Recurrence Score, Overall Survival in Women with ER+ Breast Cancer
Released: 5-Jun-2023 1:30 PM EDT
Race and Ethnicity Affect 21-Gene Recurrence Score, Overall Survival in Women with ER+ Breast Cancer
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

An observational cohort study out of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center demonstrates that race and ethnicity affect a woman’s 21-gene recurrence score, a tool used to determine risk of recurrence and distant metastasis in patients with early-stage, hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer. Based on the expression of 21 cancer-related genes detected in pre-treatment tumor specimens, recurrence score is used routinely in clinical care to identify patients who might benefit from chemotherapy as part of their treatment plan. Scores range from 0-100, with a score of 26 or higher indicating greater risk of recurrence and poorer overall survival.

Newswise: CSU Students Impress at Systemwide Research Competition
Released: 5-Jun-2023 1:25 PM EDT
CSU Students Impress at Systemwide Research Competition
California State University (CSU) Chancellor's Office

Student researchers from across the CSU presented their work at the 37th Annual CSU Student Research Competition, hosted by San Diego State University.

Newswise: Roswell Park Study is First to Show That Exercise Strengthens Immune System in Multiple Myeloma Patients
Released: 5-Jun-2023 1:20 PM EDT
Roswell Park Study is First to Show That Exercise Strengthens Immune System in Multiple Myeloma Patients
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Research has shown that the immune system doesn’t function properly in patients with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that occurs when plasma cells — a type of white blood cell — multiply out of control. But a clinical trial led by Jens Hillengass, MD, PhD, Chief of Myeloma at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, shows that exercise may have the power to strengthen the immune system in those patients, providing a non-pharmaceutical method of helping control the disease.

Released: 5-Jun-2023 1:15 PM EDT
Previously unknown antibiotic resistance widespread among bacteria
Chalmers University of Technology

Genes that make bacteria resistant to antibiotics are much more widespread in our environment than was previously realised.

   
Released: 5-Jun-2023 1:00 PM EDT
Women taking oral estrogen hormones may have increased risk of high blood pressure
American Heart Association (AHA)

Women ages 45 years and older taking estrogen hormone therapy in pill form were more likely to develop high blood pressure than those using transdermal (topical, applied to the skin) or vaginal formulations, according to new research published today in Hypertension, a peer-reviewed American Heart Association journal.

Newswise: Robot ‘chef’ learns to recreate recipes from watching food videos
Released: 5-Jun-2023 1:00 PM EDT
Robot ‘chef’ learns to recreate recipes from watching food videos
University of Cambridge

Researchers have trained a robotic ‘chef’ to watch and learn from cooking videos, and recreate the dish itself.

Released: 5-Jun-2023 12:35 PM EDT
Susan and Henry Samueli give $50 million to UC Irvine’s engineering school
University of California, Irvine

The creation of three new multidisciplinary research institutes in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering is being made possible by a $50 million gift from Susan and Henry Samueli to the University of California, Irvine. Unified under the banner “Engineering+,” the Engineering+Health Institute, Engineering+Society Institute and Engineering+Environment Institute will allow researchers from diverse disciplines to conduct transformational research addressing the most important issues facing humanity today.

Newswise: Early Universe Crackled With Bursts of Star Formation, Webb Shows
Released: 5-Jun-2023 12:20 PM EDT
Early Universe Crackled With Bursts of Star Formation, Webb Shows
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

With its large, light-gathering mirror and infrared sensitivity, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is uniquely suited to study galaxies that existed in the early universe, just a few hundred million years after the big bang. Just over one whole month of Webb’s observing time is devoted to the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES. JADES will peer deeply into the universe to study some of the faintest and most distant galaxies. Among the program’s first findings: Hundreds of galaxies that existed when the universe was less than 600 million years old, and galaxies that have undergone repeated bursts of star formation.



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