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Intestinal helminth infection impairs vaccine-induced T cell responses and protection against SARS-CoV-2 in mice | Science Translational Medicine

Intestinal helminth infection blunts T cell responses induced by SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in mice.
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Modified C-type natriuretic peptide normalizes tumor vasculature, reinvigorates antitumor immunity, and improves solid tumor therapies | Science Translational Medicine

CNP-based agonist agent improves the perfusion of solid tumor tissues to reactivate immune response and increase efficacy of anticancer therapies.
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Microglia-specific IL-10 gene delivery inhibits neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease | Science Translational Medicine

Microglia-specific IL-10 gene delivery protects from neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease mice by reshaping immune response and microglial state.
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Stress-induced eosinophil activation contributes to postoperative morbidity and mortality after lung resection | Science Translational Medicine

Lung resection results in eosinophil activation that damages the remaining pulmonary tissue in an iNOS-dependent manner.
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Astronomers might finally have explanation for mysterious Wow! signal

New Scientist - Space - Wed, 21/08/2024 - 14:41
A radio signal detected in 1977, sometimes claimed as evidence for aliens, may have been caused by a laser-like beam of microwave radiation
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Can AI make crime scene investigations less biased?

New Scientist - Technology - Wed, 21/08/2024 - 14:09
AI tools could help eliminate human bias in forensic investigations, say UCL scientists, who are using eye-tracking technology to study decision-making in skeletal analysis and crime scene examinations
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AI could help shrinking pool of coders keep outdated programs working

New Scientist - Technology - Tue, 20/08/2024 - 18:00
Computer code dating back to the 1960s is still vital to banks, airlines and governments, but programmers familiar with the language are in short supply. Now AI models are being trained to fill the skills gap
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Lightning can make energy waves that travel shockingly far into space

New Scientist - Space - Fri, 16/08/2024 - 22:00
Lightning strikes near Earth give rise to electromagnetic waves called “whistlers” that can carry energy high enough above our planet to pose a risk to satellites and astronauts
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Strange meteorites have been traced to their source craters on Mars

New Scientist - Space - Fri, 16/08/2024 - 22:00
Mars rocks that were blasted off the surface of the Red Planet millions of years ago have been traced back to craters where they originated, which could transform our understanding of Mars’s volcanism and evolution
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Interstellar to Doctor Who: Sci-fi dramas getting science mostly right

New Scientist - Space - Fri, 16/08/2024 - 17:52
Space exploration has long been a staple of sci-fi films and TV, yet most play fast and loose with the laws of physics, and scientific fact often couldn't be further from the truth
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Hellish conditions have warped an Earth-like planet into an egg

New Scientist - Space - Thu, 15/08/2024 - 23:00
Planets that orbit close to their parent stars are blasted with radiation and contorted by gravity – and the exoplanet TOI-6255b might be the most extreme example yet
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Why the T in ChatGPT is AI's biggest breakthrough - and greatest risk

New Scientist - Technology - Thu, 15/08/2024 - 17:30
AI companies hope that feeding ever more data to their models will continue to boost performance, eventually leading to human-level intelligence. Behind this hope is the "transformer", a key breakthrough in AI, but what happens if it fails to deliver?
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Don't disrespect Alan Turing by reanimating him with AI

New Scientist - Technology - Wed, 14/08/2024 - 21:00
Plans to create an interactive AI model of the legendary code breaker Alan Turing are reckless and problematic, says Matthew Sparkes
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Erratum for the Research Article “A β-Arrestin–Biased Agonist of the Parathyroid Hormone Receptor (PTH1R) Promotes Bone Formation Independent of G Protein Activation” by D. Gesty-Palmer et al. | Science Translational Medicine

Because of an error introduced when the figures were being assembled for the Research Article “A β-Arrestin–Biased Agonist of the Parathyroid Hormone Receptor (PTH1R) Promotes Bone Formation Independent of G Protein Activation” by D. Gesty-Palmer et al. more than 16 years ago, the same image was inserted in Fig. 4A for vehicle-treated samples for WT and βarrestin2 KO only rotated 90°. This error does not alter any of the data or conclusions of the paper, including those shown in Fig. 4. The histomorphometry images in Fig. 4A were included for illustrative purposes only, and hence the images for vehicle-treated samples have been deleted in the revised figure. The actual data are shown in the bar graphs in the remaining panels of the figure.
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An identity crisis for lung cancer cells | Science Translational Medicine

Omic analysis of clinical specimens undergoing histological transformation defines targetable drivers to prevent plasticity and treatment resistance.
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Targeting the transferrin receptor to transport antisense oligonucleotides across the mammalian blood-brain barrier | Science Translational Medicine

Systemic dosing with a transferrin receptor binding molecule delivering antisense oligonucleotides resulted in RNA target knockdown in the mammalian brain.
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Development and preclinical validation of 2-deoxy 2-[18F]fluorocellobiose as an Aspergillus-specific PET tracer | Science Translational Medicine

Radiolabeled [18F]fluorocellobiose is shown to be an Aspergillus-specific diagnostic PET tracer in mouse models of myositis and pneumonia.
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Mechanical ventilation guided by driving pressure optimizes local pulmonary biomechanics in an ovine model | Science Translational Medicine

Mechanical ventilation at minimal driving pressure optimizes local lung biomechanics in a ventilator-induced lung injury and endotoxemia ovine model.
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Acyl-CoA binding protein for the experimental treatment of anorexia | Science Translational Medicine

Stress- or chemotherapy-induced anorexia can be treated in mice by supplementation of the appetite-stimulatory hormone ACBP/DBI.
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Natural killer cells promote neutrophil extracellular traps and restrain macular degeneration in mice | Science Translational Medicine

Natural killer cells promote the formation of neutrophil extracellular traps and suppress pathological angiogenesis in a mouse model of nvAMD.
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