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AI Brings Citizens' Assemblies Into the 21st Century
Instead of elections in ancient Athens, most offices were filled by citizen volunteers, selected by random lottery. Today, citizens’ assemblies are making a comeback. One of the biggest challenges in organizing these assemblies is deciding who should serve. Now, a team of computer scientists has designed a selection process that satisfies representation and fairness simultaneously.
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Neurological Symptoms Post-COVID-19 Not Due to Brain Damage, Study Suggests
In a recent study, it has been shown that all participants achieve normalization of CNS injury biomarkers, regardless of previous disease severity or persistent neurological symptoms. Indicating that post-COVID-19 neurological sequalae are not due to active brain injury.
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Seeking To Define Social Order in Bacterial Communities
A new project at Rice University seeks to define the social order of bacterial communities, collectively known as microbiomes. the researchers will develop novel computational approaches to track environmental microbiome dynamics over time, across species and after perturbations.
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Crop Disease Burden Will Put Pressure on Farmers in Changing Climate
Research suggests that climate change will increase the burden of crop diseases in some parts of the world and reduce it in others.
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New Finding on How Stress Hormones Influence the Brain
A new study by researchers at the University of Bristol has further explored how the stress hormone cortisol affects gene expression in the brain, with novel findings.
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Two New Drugs Could Prevent Skin Aging Caused by Sun
Sunburn is a major cause of premature aging in skin, and a primary risk factor for skin cancer and other skin problems associated with aging. Two new molecules have been found to prevent skin from aging after being exposed to the ultraviolet light found in sunlight.
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Insights Into Lung Tumor Biology and Potential Drug Targets
A team of researchers has developed the largest and most comprehensive molecular map to date of lung squamous cell carcinoma. The database, which brings proteomic, transcriptomic and genomic data together, can be used to find potential new drug targets and identify underlying disease mechanisms related to therapy resistance.
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Warning Signs for the Collapse of the Gulf Stream Detected
Research suggests that the major Atlantic ocean current, to which the Gulf stream also belongs, may have been losing stability in the course of the last century. It influences weather systems worldwide and a potential collapse of this ocean current system could therefore have severe consequences.
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Predicting Skin Cancers’ Potential To Spread Using AI
Researchers have used artificial intelligence to develop a way to accurately predict which skin cancers are highly metastatic. The findings show the potential for AI-based tools to revolutionize pathology for cancer and a variety of other diseases.
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Enzyme Could Turn Trees Into a Source of Major Industrial Chemical
Scientists have identified an enzyme that could turn woody poplar trees into a source of a major industrial chemical currently derived from fossil fuels, p-hydroxybenzoic acid.
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