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There is a research round-up about sleep
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University have found a way to artificially increase sleep by delivering acoustic stimulation in the form of soft pulses of ‘Pink Noise’ to a sleeping person through a headset. In a study published in Science, researchers used a fluorescent tracer to show that brain clearance is actually reduced during sleep.
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The age of flames has reached the US East Coast
Wildfire smoke from wildfires in Canada is the result of climate change and human interference in order to send toxic smoke to the East Coast, said Johns Hopkins University professor Peter DeCarlo. The air quality in the US was expected to be poor on Thursday and Friday due to the smoke. However, the weather conditions…
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Red State, Blue State and Tight State are the opinions
A study by the University of California, Berkeley, and the Johns Hopkins University found conservatives are “happier than liberals” when confronted with public opinion. It found that 48% of the most extreme conservatives supported the view that “The world is becoming a more and more dangerous place”, compared to 20% of the mostextreme liberals. However,…
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The science is unsure as to the source of the outbreak of the H1N1 swine flu
Brain samples from 21 people who had severe SARS-CoV-2 infections when they died were analysed by scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The brain samples were taken after they passed away from COVID-19. They found that the brain of the 21 people was infected with SARS-CoV-2 but didn’t develop any symptoms of COVID-19.
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Human brain tissue can be grown in a lab
Researchers from Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, and Australia’s Cortical labs have shown that neural networks can be used to help neurons learn to play’Pong’. The study was conducted with a macaque brain organoid that was harvested from the brain of a patient with autism. The organoids were used to study the effects of drugs…
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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…
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We can save lives
The US has a long way to go before it is free of opioid addiction, according to a report by Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Health. “We have a long way to go, but I hope we do,” US Senator Sam Tonko said. The report stated that the US would need to spend over…
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Experts debate who is to blame for gun violence in America
Gun violence is the second leading cause of death in the US after heart disease, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Gun Violence Archive. “Gun violence…is the third-leading cause of death in the US,” it added. According to Johns Hopkins, there are over 2 million deaths from gun violence in the US every year.
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Public health experts warn that a new variant of coronaviruses could end up happening.
The Omicron COVID-19 sub-virus, that was first identified in China, has been discovered in the US. It’s a new combination of the most evasive Omicron sub-virus subvariants, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers. The original Omicron variant was from the COVID-19 viruses and has shifted as far as the antibodies we have made to use…
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Republicans won the popular vote, but they’re not used to it.
Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday won the US popular vote by 4.5 percentage points over President Donald Trump, according to an early projection by Johns Hopkins University. However, Biden’s margin of victory in the presidential election wasn’t as high as the margin of victory in the 2016 election, where Trump had won the…
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Nuclear waste will power a spaceship.
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Texas at Galveston have found evidence that COVID-19 was more common in a predominantly Black area of US’ Buffalo than the official tolls suggest. The study, published in Nature, showed that the death toll was 2.7 times higher in African-Americans than in Caucasians. COVID-19 has…