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‘Skinny’ Genes Could Help Tackle Obesity Crisis
Researchers have looked at why some people manage to stay thin while others gain weight easily. They have found that the genetic dice are loaded in favour of thin people and against those at the obese end of the spectrum.
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UK and China Show Solidarity in Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance
The UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, have announced winners of research competitions worth £20 million to address the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in humans and animals. The announcement coincides with publication of the UK Government’s strategy to tackle AMR.
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Muscle Nuclei Gained in Training Persist During Atrophy
New evidence suggests that we can "bank" muscle growth potential in our teens to prevent frailty in old age. It also suggests that athletes who cheat and grow their muscles with steroids may go undetected.
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Sleep Deprivation Accelerates Alzheimer's Brain Damage in Mice
Study in mice, people explains why poor sleep linked to Alzheimer's.
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Copy Number Variants Contribute to Risk of 'Schizophrenia-Like' Bipolar Disorder Subtype
A form of rare genomic structural variation called copy number variants (CNVs) may be more closely associated with schizophrenia than bipolar disorder.
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Synaptic Protein Regulates Anxiety Behavior in Mice
Anxiety disorders are severe mental disorders in which patients suffer from intense fears and anxiety or from sudden, inexplicable panic attacks. In extreme cases, the affected individuals barely leave their homes, which can have serious consequences for their relationships with family and friends as well as for their professional lives. Scientists have now identified a synaptic protein which, when inactivated, has an anxiolytic effect in mice.
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All Too Human
New research suggests that our brains are like modern washing machines – evolved to have the latest sophisticated programming, but more vulnerable to breakdown and prone to develop costly disorders. Researchers compared the efficiency of the neural code in non-human and human primates, and found that as the neural code gets more efficient, the robustness that prevents errors is reduced.
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Public Trust in Robots Has Fallen
Robots performing in surgeries, robots in automobile production, and robots in caregiving. In some areas, machines are already well-established, in others they are on the rise. But how do people feel about robots? Apparently, increasingly uncomfortable. Thatis the verdict of a cross-European data analysis that shows robots were evaluated more negatively in 2017 than five years before.
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Machine Learning Could Improve Intensive Care Treatment
Doctors in intensive care units face a continual dilemma: Every blood test they order could yield critical information, but also adds costs and risks for patients. To address this challenge, researchers from Princeton University are developing a computational approach to help clinicians more effectively monitor patients’ conditions and make decisions about the best opportunities to order lab tests for specific patients.
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AI Helps Keep Single-Cell Analysis in Check
Modern technology makes it possible to sequence individual cells and to identify which genes are currently being expressed in each cell. These methods are sensitive and consequently error prone. Researchers have now developed algorithms that make it possible to predict and correct potential sources of error.
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