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Powerful Map Illustrates Worldwide Environmental Degradation
By comparing 24 years of satellite images, the map helps illuminate disasters such as the shrinking Aral Sea and what motivates 'climate refugees' to flee.
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AI Program Learns to Draw Caricatures
Automating caricatures poses challenges due to the amount of intricate details and shapes involved and level of professional skill required. A team of computer scientists have developed an innovative deep learning-based approach to automatically generate the caricature of a given portrait
efficiently and realistically.
efficiently and realistically.
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10-20% of Cells in a Kidney Organoid Found to be Non-Renal
Single-cell transcriptomics revealed 10-20% of cells in a kidney organoid were non-renal cells.
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Molecule Could Transform the Treatment of Diabetes
Scientists from the University of Bristol have designed a new synthetic glucose binding molecule platform that brings us one step closer to the development of the world's first glucose-responsive insulin which, say researchers, will transform the treatment of diabetes.
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Receptor Blueprint Helps Design Osteoporosis Drugs
Researchers at the University of Zurich have determined the three-dimensional structure of a receptor that controls the release of calcium from bones. The receptor is now one of the main candidates for developing new drugs to treat osteoporosis.
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MDMA Makes People More Cooperative, But Not Gullible
New research from King’s College London has found that MDMA, the main ingredient in ecstasy, causes people to cooperate better - but only with trustworthy people. In the first study to look in detail at how MDMA impacts cooperative behaviour the researchers also identified changes to activity in brain regions linked to social processing.
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Rooting in the Genomes of Giants
Giant virus genomes have been discovered for the first time in a forest soil ecosystem.
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Drug Discovery Could Halt Brain Cancer Spread
The tissues in our bodies largely are made of fluid. It moves around cells and is essential to normal body function. In people who have glioblastoma, the deadliest form of brain cancer, this fluid has a much higher pressure, causing it to move fast and forcing cancer cells to spread. Researchers may have found a solution to stopping this inevitable cancer cell spread.
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Skeletal Imitation Reveals Bone Mineralization in Fine Detail
A crucial but unclear stage in bone mineralisation has become clearer: the origins of the nanostructured, platelet-like bone apatite crystals.
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Autism Gene Makes Mouse Brains Less Flexible
About 1% of patients diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability have a mutation in a gene called SETD5. Scientists have now discovered what happens on a molecular level when the gene is mutated in mice, and how this changes the mice’s behavior.
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