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Mitochondrial swap from cancer to immune cells can cause damage totumour defences
Researchers claim to have discovered that “alien mitochondria” can steal T cell energy from healthy TILs. They found that TILs that had imbibed alien mitochondrial energy showed signs of T cell exhaustion, loss of cancer-killing potential. “My first thought was that this sounds crazy, like science fiction,” Holden Maecker, an immunologist at Stanford University, who…
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A pain-o-meter could improve treatments
Stanford University researcher Sean Mackey has said that the issue is not that we’re short of quality pain treatments. “The issue is not that we’re short of quality pain treatments. Preliminary findings suggest that advanced deep-learning AI could be transformative for accurate pain biomarker identification,” he added. Non-interpretable modelling presents a problem for pain-medicine practitioners,…
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Drug addiction is caused by the structure of the dopamine transporter
A detailed description of the structure of the human dopamine transporter in complex with cocaine has been published in Nature Communications. The structure is based on a model that was created by a team of scientists at Imperial College London, the University of Oxford, and Stanford University. It shows the transporter’s narcote as a hydrophobic…
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It is possible that the recent gaffes by Biden and Trump are signs of normal aging
Talking about former US President Donald Trump, who was diagnosed with dementia earlier this year, Stanford University neurologist Sharon Sha said, “Trump’s cognitive ability is on the high end.” She added that the screening test is used to flags major deficits and not comprehensive look at cognitive function. Sha further said that Trump did well…
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In the first week of the year 2024, nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off
Stanford University professor Jeffrey Pfeffer has called the phenomenon of companies in one industry mimicking each others’ employee terminations “copycat layoffs”. “Tech industry layoffs are…an instance of social contagion, in which companies imitate what others are doing,” Pfeffer said. He added that the S&P 500 has notched multiple all-time records, led by the so-called Magnificent…
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A hate crime inquiry was prompted by the report of hit-and-run
An Arab Muslim student injured after being hit by a vehicle at Stanford University said that he recognised the driver as someone “who had previously shown animosity” toward his community. He added that he was disappointed in what he described as a slow and inadequate response by the university. He further said that he’s “profoundly…
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Why scientists have to monitor the use of generative artificial intelligence
A Stanford University study has suggested that scientists should develop “living” guidelines for generative AI as it can help promote scientific research independence. Researchers found 10 different generative AI systems, mostly large language models. They scored the models on 13 different criteria including how transparent the developer was about the data used to train the…
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China sees an increase in natural sciences
China accounted for nearly 40% of all publications in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2021, far exceeding the UK and Europe (15% and the US (10%), according to Stanford University’s AI Index Report. China ranked second to the US in a 2022 assessment of AI and robotics articles in the Nature Index. The share rose over…
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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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During the Pandemic, math and reading scores for 4th- and 8th- graders dropped
A Stanford University-led research found that in the first year of the Pandemic, public school attendance fell by 1.1 million people, and then another 130,000 people in the second academic year. According to the research, 26 percent of the decline was caused by students switching to home-schooling and 14 percent by students leaving for private…
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They got bigger with their ethical red flags
Google’s chatbots could undermine users’ perception of its search engine as neutral arbiters of truth, according to a survey conducted by Stanford University. “It’s completely untransparent how [ AI-powered search] is going to work, which might have major implications if the language model misfires, hallucinates or spreads misinformation,” said a researcher. The survey surveyed over…
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Russia’s Ransomware Gangs are being called and Shamed
A researcher at Stanford University’s Internet Observatory has said there’s a relationship between the frequency and timing of “double extortion” attacks by Russia-based groups and the US presidential election. “We see an increase in the number of attacks starting four months before an election and moving three, two, one month in, up to the event,”…
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The opinion says that the Pandemic moves created a wild card.
The 2020 US presidential election results from the House and Senate maps have been analysed. Justin Gest, a political science professor at Stanford University, analysed the House and Senate map from the recent census and mapped the 2020 Presidential vote into the House map. Some of the tightest House electoral districts involved suburbs of Albuquerque,…
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The meaning of the apology to Jews is discussed in the opinion.
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) on Saturday released a report on anti-Semitism at Stanford University in the 1920s. It recommended that the university issue an official apology for the anti-Semitic policies of the 1920s and 1930s. The report recommends paying better attention to theJewish calendar, so the start of school doesn’t conflict with…