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Jul 13, 2023

Leaves are falling. Autumn is calling. So are fall allergies

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, food, health

Immunotherapy could be the “shot in the arm” you need to treat your allergies.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (August 7, 2019) – You may think you can’t tell the difference between the symptoms caused by spring, summer and fall allergies. They all usually involve sneezing, sniffling, itchy eyes and a runny nose. And while symptoms for each Allergies are inappropriate or exaggerated reactions of the immune system to substances that, in the majority of people, cause no symptoms. Symptoms of the allergic diseases may be caused by exposure of the skin to a chemical, of the respiratory system to particles of dust or pollen (or other substances), or of the stomach and intestines to a particular food. rel= tooltip allergy season may be similar, the treatment can look very different, particularly if Immunotherapy is a form of preventive and anti-inflammatory treatment of allergy to substances such as pollens, house dust mites, fungi, and stinging insect venom.

Jul 13, 2023

Treatment with JAK inhibitor for myelofibrosis leads to Mycobacterium marinum skin infection: A case report

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

China: A recent article published in Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology reports the case of mycobacterium marinum skin infection in the left upper limb of a female patient with chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis during ruxolitinib treatment.

“Our case illustrates the diversity of skin infections that may occur during JAK (Janus kinase) inhibitors treatment, and the need for clinical attention to atypical mycobacterial skin infections cannot be ignored,” Xiaonan Chen, Affiliated Hospital of Weifang Medical University, Weifang, People’s Republic of China, and colleagues wrote in their case study.

Mycobacterium marinum is an atypical bacterium, and skin infections that result from it are relatively rare, usually occurring in homemakers who clean and prepare fish for food and workers engaged in seafood processing. The infection often occurs after fish spines, scales, etc., puncture the skin. The JAK/STAT signalling pathway is closely linked with the human immune response to infections. Therefore, JAK inhibitors may induce and exacerbate various conditions in clinical practice.

Jul 13, 2023

Computer Vision System Marries Image Recognition and Generation

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

Computers possess two remarkable capabilities with respect to images: They can both identify them and generate them anew. Historically, these functions have stood separate, akin to the disparate acts of a chef who is good at creating dishes (generation), and a connoisseur who is good at tasting dishes (recognition).

Yet, one can’t help but wonder: What would it take to orchestrate a harmonious union between these two distinctive capacities? Both chef and connoisseur share a common understanding in the taste of the food. Similarly, a unified vision system requires a deep understanding of the visual world.

Now, researchers in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have trained a system to infer the missing parts of an image, a task that requires deep comprehension of the image’s content. In successfully filling in the blanks, the system, known as the Masked Generative Encoder (MAGE), achieves two goals at the same time: accurately identifying images and creating new ones with striking resemblance to reality.

Jul 13, 2023

How the immune system can alter our behavior

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, health

Simply the smell of seafood can make those with an allergy to it violently ill—and therefore more likely to avoid it. The same avoidance behavior is exhibited by people who develop food poisoning after eating a certain meal.

Scientists have long known that the played a key role in our reactions to allergens and pathogens in the environment, but it was unclear whether it played any role in prompting these types of behaviors towards allergic triggers.

According to Yale-led research published July 12 in the journal Nature, it turns out that the immune system plays a crucial role in changing our behaviors.

Jul 13, 2023

Tech CEO who takes 61 pills a day and eats 70 pounds of veggies a month to stay young forever says he’s never been happier: ‘I pity the previous version of me’

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, life extension

Bryan Johnson’s anti-aging routine costs him $2 million a year, and he’s constantly monitored. Yet, the tech CEO says he’s never been happier.

Jul 13, 2023

This 1 GW solar + salt + shrimp farm is a 3-in-1 power station

Posted by in categories: food, solar power, sustainability

A huge solar power station in China is generating clean energy, producing salt from sunlight, and serving as a shrimp-breeding site.

State-owned China Huadian Corporation said the 1-gigawatt (GW) Huadian Tianjin Haijing power station will generate 1.5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity each year – enough to power around 1.5 million households in China.

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Jul 12, 2023

A tiny invasive flying beetle that’s killed hundreds of millions of trees lands in Colorado

Posted by in categories: food, materials

The Emerald Ash Borer Network says that once the beetles reach their adult stage, the metallic green bugs will eat up foliage on ash trees – their only food source. But it’s the larvae that eat up the inner bark of ash trees and prevent nutrients and water from circulating.

Once that happens, Littleton officials said the tree that’s been attacked becomes structurally unsound and will die within just a few years.

It’s believed that the insects were introduced to the U.S. from Asia after tagging along on solid wood packing material, the network said. They were first discovered in the U.S. near Detroit in 2002, and have since expanded to at least 35 states as well as at least five Canadian provinces. Ash trees will typically lose most of their canopy within two years of an infestation and die within three to four years, the National Invasive Species Information Center says.

Jul 11, 2023

Study finds, ‘greedy’ genes from father encourage unborn babies to steal their mother’s food

Posted by in category: food

A mice experiment shows that genes from the father make an unborn child manipulate their mother’s metabolism so that the fetus could have more and more nutrition.

A new mice study from the University of Cambridge (UC) reveals that during pregnancy, a fetus tries to suck in as many nutrients as possible from its mother, and unique “greedy genes” from the father helps the fetus do so.

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Jul 11, 2023

Will AI Take Your Job? 27% Of Jobs In Wealthy Countries At High Risk, Report Says

Posted by in categories: employment, food, robotics/AI, transportation

Jobs at high-risk of being replaced by AI include construction, transportation and farming, according to a new report.

Jul 9, 2023

A $350 toilet powered by worms may be the ingenious future of sanitation that Bill Gates has been dreaming about

Posted by in categories: food, futurism

Tiger Toilets run on poop-eating worms and cost less than traditional sewage systems. All they leave behind is water, CO2, and a little fertilizer.

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