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Integrating Sustainability Into the Lab With Martin Farley

Martin Farley, sustainable research adviser at UCL and director of Green Lab Associates, was invited to Technology Networks’ Ask Me Anything session to answer your questions about the future of sustainability in research and laboratory practices.

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Why Tackling Neurodegeneration Requires Global Partnerships

Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by synapse dysfunction and the aggregation of proteins in the brain, which ultimately lead to neuronal loss. This article will review the studies and methods powering our growing understanding of the mechanisms behind neurodegenerative disease.

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Device Lets Blind People “Hear” Facial Features

Facial recognition is essential to socializing. A new study used a device that reshapes images into sound signals to let blind people “see” facial features. The results have shed new light on the brain areas used to identify and process faces.

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Your Lack of Sleep Is Hurting You

Chronic sleep disruption (CSD) has been shown to promote pain. Now, a team of scientists have shed light on some of the brain regions and signaling molecules that may be responsible, offering potential avenues for therapeutic investigation.

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Your Lack of Sleep Is Hurting You

Chronic sleep disruption (CSD) has been shown to promote pain. Now, a team of scientists have shed light on some of the brain regions and signaling molecules that may be responsible, offering potential avenues for therapeutic investigation.

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Chinstrap Penguins Survive on 10,000 Four-Second Naps Every Day

A study has found that chinstrap penguins sleep through thousands of short snoozes, each only a few seconds long.

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Protein Linked to Early-Onset Dementia Identified

Researchers have established the first potential therapeutic target for a type of early-onset dementia, by identifying the abnormal aggregation of a particular protein.

Stimulating the Vagus Nerve Reduces Chronic Inflammation for Children With IBD

Non-invasive stimulation of the vagus nerve through the ear reduces inflammation for pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

Cocoa Extracts Can Improve Cognition Among Older Adults With Poor Diets

A trial suggests that taking cocoa extract supplements containing 500 mg per day of cocoa flavanols had cognitive benefits for older adults with lower habitual diet quality.

Low Back Pain Linked to Cells in Spinal “Shock Absorbers”

A new study might have cracked the mystery surrounding the cause of a specific type of back pain – nerve endings that invade intervertebral discs.

What Causes Your Lower Back Pain?

A new Cedars-Sinai study might have cracked the mystery surrounding the cause of a specific type of back pain. Cedars-Sinai investigators point the way to an answer—and possibly a step toward targeted treatment.

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Biotech and Pharma’s Carbon Impact: Insights From My Green Lab

Using data provided by Intercontinental Exchange, My Green Lab has produced a report providing key insights into the current state of the sector’s carbon emissions. James Connelly highlights some of the key findings and their significance.

Long COVID Research Is a Bit of a Mess

The COVID-19 global pandemic has left in its wake a baffling array of symptoms, affecting many survivors for months after the virus has run its course. This article explores the current state of long COVID research.

Exploring Spatial Biology With Dr. Nigel Jamieson

Technology Networks invited Dr. Nigel Jamieson, clinical senior lecturer and honorary hepato-pancreato-biliary surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, to an Ask Me Anything session to answer your questions about spatial biology.

The Pulse: Psychedelic News From Technology Networks Issue 7

Hello and welcome to the Pulse, the monthly psychedelics industry roundup from Technology Networks and Analytical Cannabis. Here, we’ll highlight some of the most significant psychedelic industry news from the past month, including important announcements, pre-clinical work and the latest from groundbreaking psychedelic clinical trials.

An Introduction to Bayesian Statistics

Bayesian statistics has emerged as a powerful methodology for making decisions from data in the applied sciences. Bayesian brings a new way of thinking to statistics, in how it deals with probability, uncertainty and drawing inferences from an analysis.

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Fundamentals of Flow Cytometry

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Cell Therapy

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Applications of Mass Spectrometry

Weekly Science News Roundup

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The Science of Cold Plunging: How it Changes the Body

Weekly Science News Roundup

Weekly Science News Roundup

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Four Hacks for Culturing Neurons

Human iPSC-derived excitatory neurons provide helpful physiologically relevant cell models to investigate neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders, although achieving healthy neuronal cultures can be challenging.

How To Build an Effective Protein Degrader

This guide highlights the four major stages of targeted protein degradation, the challenges at each step, and the questions you should ask yourself to ensure your final product will result in a complete protein degradation.

How To Address NGS Challenges

Download this guide to learn how to select the appropriate NGS method and sequencing platform, deal with samples of variable quality, and set up and manage the data analysis pipeline.

Fall in Love With Pipetting Again: Automated Liquid Handling

Download this guide to learn more about automated liquid handling solutions.

How To Ensure Data Integrity

Download this guide to discover how data integrity is fundamental to quality assurance, process development and production, and analytical development and quality control.

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Ask Me Anything : Predatory Conferences

The Neuroscience of Psychedelics – Harnessing Neuroplasticity for New Therapeutics

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Identification and Quantitation of Lipid Biomarkers Using High-Resolution MS

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Five Applications of Single-Cell Analysis Technologies

Sequencing the Brain

Achieving Cost-Effective, High-Throughput Single-Cell Multiomic Analysis

Clinical Applications of Cell Therapy

Spatial Transcriptomics: Understanding Gene Regulation in the Tissue Context

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