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Medical Xpress / GLP-1 shows promise for patients with advanced fatty liver disease

Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have reported results from a large international clinical trial showing that semaglutide, a medication in the GLP-1 class of drugs widely used to treat ...

6 hours ago
Medical Xpress / First animal behavior test shows contactless cochlear stimulation can mimic sound

A new study using Mongolian gerbils as an animal model demonstrated for the first time that trans-tympanic infrared laser stimulation of the cochlea evokes reliable auditory-guided behavior in awake animals without the need ...

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Phys.org / Global soil protections deliver measurable gains for farmland health

Erosion, salinization and shrinking numbers of organisms such as worms and beneficial fungi can have a devastating effect on soil fertility, and so many parts of the world have passed laws to curb these processes. A study ...

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Phys.org / Water-exchange openings linked to distinct marine communities inside offshore wind foundations

Research carried out three years after installation at the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm in the North Sea has found that distinct marine communities have developed inside offshore wind turbine foundations equipped ...

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Phys.org / Ticks that survive pesticides can withstand colder winters

Ticks that survive less-than-lethal doses of pesticide are able to withstand dangerous cold, which could help them spread tick-borne diseases farther north, a UC study has found. Biologists with the University of Cincinnati ...

7 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Researchers develop prototype thin-film electronics that can dock and undock themselves

Publishing in the journal npj Flexible Electronics, researchers from Kyushu University have developed prototype thin-film electronic modules that can automatically connect and disconnect with one another.

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Phys.org / Hazardous Canadian wildfire smoke choking millions in US

The Manhattan skyline was obscured by thick haze, and Chicago closed its beaches Thursday as out-of-control Canadian wildfires raged, sending smoke spewing into the United States and exposing millions of people to dangerously ...

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Medical Xpress / Q&A: A new model reveals hidden disease signatures and predicts health outcomes

Sarah Urbut, MD, Ph.D., of the Mass General Brigham Heart and Vascular Institute, is the lead author of a paper published in Nature, "A Bayesian framework for longitudinal EHR and genetic discovery." Pradeep Natarajan, MD, ...

7 hours ago
Phys.org / New method makes epigenetic aging clocks accurate and easier to interpret

Epigenetic clocks are important tools in modern aging research. Typically, they use characteristic DNA methylation patterns in the genome to precisely predict a person's age and infer conclusions about the individual's biological ...

7 hours ago
Tech Xplore / A new robotic hand capable of switching between multiple grippers using a single motor

For robots to be used in various settings, such as factories, logistics, service industries and households, they must be able to stably handle a diverse range of objects differing in shape, size, weight and rigidity. However, ...

7 hours ago
Phys.org / New map shows which neighborhoods are at risk of climate gentrification

Extreme heat is not only making cities less livable; it is also reshaping who can afford to live where. The highest levels of vulnerability to climate gentrification are no longer found in the urban core, but in the metropolitan ...

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Medical Xpress / Two studies advance sudden cardiac arrest prediction

Warning symptoms, recurrent heart events may identify people at risk for this often-deadly event. Two studies from investigators at Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University move the medical field closer to solving a longstanding ...

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