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Medical Xpress / Immune cells that may help sustain type 1 diabetes attack identified

Type 1 diabetes isn't an overnight attack against the body's ability to make insulin. It can be a sustained campaign over years that relentlessly targets insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Scientists have not fully ...

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Phys.org / Milky Way's first microblazar may produce fastest particles in the galaxy

An international team of astronomers from ASTRON, JIVE, the University of Amsterdam and other institutions has found the first so-called "microblazar" in the Milky Way. This stellar system is composed of a massive star and ...

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Medical Xpress / AI assistant learns from radiology reports to spot problems in abdominal scans

An abdominal CT scan packs an extraordinary amount of information into a single image, layering dozens of organs and hundreds of possible conditions. It's widely considered one of the most complex scans in medicine to read, ...

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Medical Xpress / Engineered probiotic bacteria produce cancer drugs inside tumors

E. coli in uncooked meat can cause diarrhea and food poisoning. Scientists, however, have found a way to turn the bacterium into a delivery agent that takes drugs straight to a tumor and transforms it into a tiny cancer drug ...

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Phys.org / Can a long-lived seabird evolve fast enough to avoid extinction under a changing climate?

As the climate changes, species face a critical question: Can they evolve quickly enough to keep pace with their changing environment?

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Tech Xplore / Consumer camera modification offers low-cost way to assess solar cell performance

Commercial cameras can be powerful, producing images with exquisite detail that mimic real life. In the lab, specially designed cameras can photograph objects in the infrared region, invisible to the naked eye.

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Medical Xpress / Why repeated exposures may make allergies worse

A new preclinical study led by investigators from Mass General Brigham offers a potential explanation for two longstanding questions in allergy: Why do allergies often emerge only after repeated exposure, and why do people ...

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Phys.org / Hot spring amoeba breaks record for heat tolerance of complex life

A tiny, single-celled organism can thrive at temperatures that would kill all other known complex life. In a study published in Cell, scientists describe a new species of amoeba that can eat and reproduce in hot spring water ...

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Medical Xpress / Brain-mapping framework reveals shifts in information flow during pain and movie watching

In the brain, information travels among distributed networks, groups of interconnected regions that work together and contribute to specific behaviors, feelings or thoughts. To study how information travels through these ...

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Phys.org / Methane beneath the Greenland ice sheet shapes microbial life and influences the carbon cycle

A new study involving researchers from the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, shows that methane concentration is among the key factors determining the composition of microbial communities at the margin of the ...

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Phys.org / Quantum protocol securely verifies a device's position using stations 2 km apart

Reliably verifying the location of a device connected to the internet or other networks is important for various real-world applications. For instance, it could be valuable for authorizing financial transactions, securing ...

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Phys.org / A tiny chariot fitting reveals Egyptian glass reached Iron Age Britain

At the end of last year, curators from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford came to Diamond to learn more about a 2,000-year-old prehistoric artifact. Using the microfocus beamline at I18, researchers unlocked new insights into ...

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