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Bayesian modeling for analyzing heterogeneous response in preclinical mouse tumor models | Science Translational Medicine

Statistical modeling allows the classification of individual tumor responses and assessment of treatment effects with heterogeneous response.
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Inhibition of an Alzheimer’s disease–associated form of necroptosis rescues neuronal death in mouse models | Science Translational Medicine

A granulovacuolar degeneration–associated form of necroptosis represents an Alzheimer’s disease–related type of nerve cell death that can be inhibited.
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Single-cell transcriptomic and proteomic analysis of Parkinson’s disease brains | Science Translational Medicine

A single-cell transcriptomic atlas with integrated proteomics for the prefrontal cortex of late-stage Parkinson’s disease human brains is presented.
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Daily Brain Teaser for Oct 30, 2024

Daily Brain Teaser - Wed, 30/10/2024 - 02:00
Which Noun?

Which noun, from group B, belongs in group A?
Why?

Group A

Man,
Foot,
Child,
Tooth,
Mouse.

Group B

Girl,
Hand,
Adult,
Toe,
Goose.


Check Braingle.com for the answer.
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Astronauts could hitch a ride on asteroids to get to Venus or Mars

New Scientist - Space - Tue, 29/10/2024 - 20:00
Asteroids that regularly fly between Earth, Venus and Mars could provide radiation shielding for human missions to explore neighbouring planets
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AI helps driverless cars predict how unseen pedestrians may move

New Scientist - Technology - Tue, 29/10/2024 - 16:00
A specialised algorithm could help autonomous vehicles track hidden objects, such as a pedestrian, a bicycle or another vehicle concealed behind a parked car
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AI models fall for the same scams that we do

New Scientist - Technology - Fri, 25/10/2024 - 22:00
Large language models can be used to scam humans, but AI is also susceptible to being scammed – and some models are more gullible than others
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NASA is developing a Mars helicopter that could land itself from orbit

New Scientist - Space - Fri, 25/10/2024 - 20:00
The largest and most ambitious Martian drone yet could carry kilograms of scientific equipment over great distances and set itself down on the Red Planet unassisted
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Tiny battery made from silk hydrogel can run a mouse pacemaker

New Scientist - Technology - Fri, 25/10/2024 - 13:00
A lithium-ion battery made from three droplets of hydrogel is the smallest soft battery of its kind – and it could be used in biocompatible and biodegradable implants
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Complex form of carbon spotted outside solar system for first time

New Scientist - Space - Thu, 24/10/2024 - 22:00
Complex carbon-based molecules crucial to life on Earth originated somewhere in space, but we didn't know where. Now, huge amounts of them have been spotted in a huge, cold cloud of gas
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Battery-like device made from water and clay could be used on Mars

New Scientist - Technology - Thu, 24/10/2024 - 20:55
A new supercapacitor design that uses only water, clay and graphene could source material on Mars and be more sustainable and accessible than traditional batteries
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Battery made from water and clay could be used on Mars

New Scientist - Technology - Thu, 24/10/2024 - 20:55
A new battery design that uses only water, clay and graphene could source material on Mars and be more sustainable and accessible than traditional batteries
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Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Oct 24, 2024)

Daily Brain Teaser - Thu, 24/10/2024 - 03:00
Filtered Lens

My first, by means of reflection meets your eyes
My second means no image is recognized
My whole means a grayscale world is normalized

What am I?


Check Braingle.com for the answer.
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Musical AI harmonises with your voice in a transcendent new exhibition

New Scientist - Technology - Wed, 23/10/2024 - 21:00
What happens if AI is trained to write choral music by feeding it a specially created vocal dataset? Moving new exhibition The Call tackles some thorny questions about AI and creativity – and stirs the soul with music
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DNA has been modified to make it store data 350 times faster

New Scientist - Technology - Wed, 23/10/2024 - 19:00
Researchers have managed to encode enormous amounts of information, including images, into DNA at a rate hundreds of times faster than was previously possible
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Google tool makes AI-generated writing easily detectable

New Scientist - Technology - Wed, 23/10/2024 - 19:00
Google DeepMind has been using its AI watermarking method on Gemini chatbot responses for months – and now it’s making the tool available to any AI developer
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A supernova may have cleaned up our solar system

New Scientist - Space - Wed, 23/10/2024 - 17:55
A nearby star that exploded some 3 million years ago could have removed all dust smaller than a millimetre from the outer solar system
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From blood to mucosa | Science Translational Medicine

Current COVID-19 vaccines induce suboptimal respiratory mucosal immunity even after mRNA boosters (Declercq et al. and Lasrado et al., this issue).
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Repeated COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccination contributes to SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody responses in the mucosa | Science Translational Medicine

mRNA booster vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 induce circulating virus neutralizing antibodies that may enter the respiratory mucosa.
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