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The artificial intelligence system was a good thing and a bad thing
A new study claims that a new type of AI called ChatGPT, developed at the Harvard Medical School, was capable of analysing more than 50,000 samples of wine in its first week. ChatGPT has the ability to analyse wine molecules in real-world conditions, as well as to detect changes in molecules as they move through…
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The living descendants of enslavement are revealed through ancient DNA
Researchers at the Smithsonian’s College of Science, Harvard Medical School and the Catoctin Historical Society have used genetic data to identify the living relatives of African-Americans who were buried in the remains of 27 workers from the world’s first black coal mine in Washington DC. The researchers analysed the remains using genetic data from 23…
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Heeding the happiness call, why should faculty mental health be taken more seriously
The NIH Advisory Committee to the Director Working Group on Diversity, set up in response to an NIH report about diversity in biomedical-research workforce, endorsed the subgroup’s recommendations after the publication of the 66-page report last month. Its three co-chairs include Lisa Iezzoni, a health-services researcher at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, and Bonnielin…