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Nov 25, 2024

This Is How Exercise Can Support Your Vision as You Age

Posted by in categories: health, neuroscience

Exercise can do more than strengthen your muscles and boost your mental health: It can also support your eyes.

Nov 25, 2024

From Hallucinations to Healing: Reducing Errors in AI for Healthcare

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, robotics/AI

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Now that AI is transforming nearly every industry, healthcare stands out as a field with immense potential — and unique risks.

A single AI-generated error here could lead to serious consequences for patient health.

Nov 24, 2024

Vitamins and Supplements to Fight Inflammation

Posted by in categories: food, health

Arthritis, intense exercise, and sugary or fatty foods are some of the things that can lead to inflammation. Here’s what you can take or add to your diet to help fight it.

Nov 23, 2024

New gene drive reverses insecticide resistance in pests… then disappears

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

Insecticides have been used for centuries to counteract widespread pest damage to valuable food crops. Eventually, over time, beetles, moths, flies and other insects develop genetic mutations that render the insecticide chemicals ineffective.

Escalating resistance by these mutants forces farmers and vector control specialists to ramp up use of poisonous compounds at increasing frequencies and concentrations, posing risks to human health and damage to the environment since most insecticides kill both ecologically important insects as well as pests.

To help counter these problems, researchers recently developed powerful technologies that genetically remove insecticide-resistant variant genes and replace them with genes that are susceptible to pesticides. These gene-drive technologies, based on CRISPR gene editing, have the potential to protect valuable crops and vastly reduce the amount of chemical pesticides required to eliminate pests.

Nov 23, 2024

Study reveals RNA’s unknown role in DNA damage repair

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, evolution, genetics, health, neuroscience

A multi-institutional team of researchers, led by Georgia Tech’s Francesca Storici, has discovered a previously unknown role for RNA. Their insights could lead to improved treatments for diseases like cancer and neurodegenerative disorders while changing our understanding of genetic health and evolution.

Nov 23, 2024

Researchers discover a new face-detecting brain circuit

Posted by in categories: health, robotics/AI

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have uncovered a brain circuit in primates that rapidly detects faces. The findings help not only explain how primates sense and recognize faces, but could also have implications for understanding conditions such as autism, where face detection and recognition are often impaired from early childhood.

The newly discovered circuit first engages an evolutionarily ancient part of the brain called the superior colliculus, which can then trigger the eyes and head to turn for a better look. This better view enables different brain areas in the to engage in more complex facial recognition. The study was published in the journal Neuron.

“Quick recognition of faces is a key skill in humans and other primates,” said Richard Krauzlis, Ph.D., of NIH’s National Eye Institute (NEI) and senior author of the study.

Nov 22, 2024

Nationwide IV fluid shortage could change how hospitals manage patient hydration

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Hospitals around the country are conserving critical intravenous fluid supplies to cope with a shortage that may last months. Some hospital administrators say they are changing how they think about IV fluid hydration altogether.

Hurricane Helene, which hit North Carolina in September, wrecked a Baxter International facility that produces 60% of the IV fluids used in the U.S., according to the American Hospital Association.

The company was forced to stop production and is rationing its products. In an update posted Nov. 7, Baxter said its North Cove facility had resumed producing some IV fluids. In an email to KFF Health News, the company wrote that customers will be able to order normal quantities of “certain IV solutions products” by the end of the year, but there is no timeline for when the North Cove facility will be back to prehurricane production levels.

Nov 22, 2024

Top 5 AI Therapists in 2025

Posted by in categories: health, neuroscience, robotics/AI

As we move into 2025, mental health continues to be a vital aspect of overall well-being in an increasingly fast-paced and complex world.


- CBT-based exercises that help users manage anxiety, depression, and emotional stress.

- Daily check-ins with an AI chatbot to track moods and thoughts, enabling users to gain insights into their emotional health.

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Nov 21, 2024

Scientists use ‘sleep age’ to infer longterm health

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Numbers tell a story. From your credit score to your age, metrics predict a variety of outcomes, whether it’s your likelihood to get a loan or your risk for heart disease. Now, Stanford Medicine researchers have described another telling metric — one that can predict mortality. It’s called sleep age.

Sleep age is a projected age that correlates to one’s health based on their quality of sleep. So for instance, if you analyze the sleep characteristics of dozens of 55-year-olds and average them out, you’ll have an idea of what sleep looks like at that age. For instance, someone who’s 55 and sleeps soundly through the night with good quality REM cycles could, theoretically, might have a sleep age of 45.

Nov 21, 2024

New bioplastic doesn’t create cancer-causing microplastics

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Some researchers and public health experts have also expressed concerns that microplastic exposure can lead to babies being born underweight.

Recent studies found that the average liter of store-bought bottled water contains more than 240,000 nanoplastics while the majority of meat and plant-based alternatives contain tiny plastics linked to cancer.

Scientists have cautioned that it will take time to transfer to creating the new material because existing manufacturing equipment was only built for traditional plastic.

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