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Sleep Frees the Hippocampus for New Memories
A research team at the University of Tübingen is monitoring how the cerebral cortex works as a long-term information store.
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Genetics Won’t Influence Your Dental Health – But Your Mother’s Diet May
A new study has found genetic makeup does not predispose people to tooth decay, however the research did find that children with overweight mothers are more likely to have cavities.
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An Investigation of "13 Reasons Why" and Young Adult Suicide Risk
One of the most heavily watched and debated fictional portrayals of suicide in recent years was the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why,". Given the series' popularity and its potentially harmful effects, researchers conducted a study to more fully understand the effects of the show through a survey of U.S. young adults before and after the release of its second season.
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Insomniacs Are Haunted by the Past
Cringe-worthy mistakes and embarrassing blunders made today won’t seem so bad tomorrow. That is, unless you’re an insomniac, new research shows. The scientists asked participants to relive their most shameful experiences while making MRI scans of their brain activity. While good sleepers literally settled those experiences as neutralized memories, people with insomnia were not able to do so.
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It's OK to Indulge Now and Then
Overeating has been found to impair blood sugar control and insulin levels. However, the duration of a bout of overeating can affect how the body adapts glucose and insulin processing when calorie intake increases.
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Smelling With Your Tongue
Scientists report that functional olfactory receptors, the sensors that detect odors in the nose, are also present in human taste cells found on the tongue. The findings suggest that interactions between the senses of smell and taste, the primary components of food flavor, may begin on the tongue and not in the brain, as previously thought.
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Circular RNAs Have Important Role in Innate Immunity
Scientists discovered that most examined circRNAs tend to form 16-26 bp intramolecularly imperfect RNA duplexes. In addition, circRNAs preferentially bind to dsRNA-activated protein kinase (PKR) which is related to innate immunity and act as PKR inhibitors.
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Mission Bio Scales Executive Leadership Team With Three New Hires
Darrin Crisitello, Nigel Beard, and Marcel Roche join Mission Bio, bringing extensive experience in scaling advanced genomics technologies and markets to over $1 billion in revenue.
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Chatbots Need More Chat Before They Can Become Human-like
Sorry, Siri, but just giving a chatbot a human name or adding humanlike features to its avatar might not be enough to win over a user if the device fails to maintain a conversational back-and-forth with that person, according to researchers. In fact, those humanlike features might create a backlash against less responsive humanlike chatbots.
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Taking the Petro Out of the Petrochemicals Industry
An alternative technology — renewable electrosynthesis — could usher in a more sustainable chemical industry, and ultimately enable us to leave much more oil and gas in the ground.
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