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Global survey of gut microbes uncovers 18 new bacterial species and clues to antibiotic resistance

Broad Institute

Global survey of gut microbes uncovers 18 new bacterial species and clues to antibiotic resistance By Leah Eisenstadt February 29, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Global survey of gut microbes uncovers 18 new bacterial species and clues to antibiotic resistance Researchers examined scat from hundreds of animals around the world and pinpointed genes that could fuel drug-resistant infections.

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CDC Experts Recommend Seniors Get Another COVID Shot

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 -- Even if they got a COVID booster last fall, American seniors should still get a second shot this spring to best protect themselves, U.S. health officials recommended Wednesday.The latest guidance, voted on by a vaccine.

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Rare Disease Day: Understanding the power of diagnosis and connection

Antidote

Rare Disease Day, typically observed on February 28th, will be celebrated this year on February 29th! Rare Disease Day is an awareness holiday intended to generate change for the 300 million people who are diagnosed with a rare disease worldwide, as well as their families and caregivers.

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Women in Stem with Dr Amber D. Van Laar

Drug Target Review

Can you tell us about your journey in the field of STEM and the challenges you encountered along the way? From a very young age, I was drawn to science and medicine. My interest in the field of STEM sharpened when, in my early teens, I had the chance to work in a neuro-oncology lab. This early exposure to bench science had a long-lasting impact. It propelled me to continue lab work during my undergraduate training, my medical training, and to an academic appointment in the Movement Disorders Div

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Service Dogs May Lessen Seizure Frequency in Folks With Epilepsy

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 -- Perhaps by reducing anxiety, a service dog can help reduce seizures in people with tough-to-treat epilepsy, a new study finds.A group of 25 study participants had an average 31% fewer seizures after months of owning a.

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Tutorial 4 – Microservices – Discovery Client, LoadBalancer Client and Feign Client.

Perficient: Drug Development

Read the other blogs in this series: Tutorial 01 – Microservices Architectural Design by using Spring Boot Tutorial 02 – Spring Cloud – Netflix Eureka Server Tutorial 03 – Publish Microservices to the Eureka Server / Blogs / Perficient In the Eureka Server environment, 3 “Client Component” types are possible: Discovery Client Component ( Legacy, No Support for Load Balancing ).

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The Golgi organelle's ribbon structure is not exclusive to vertebrates, contrary to previous consensus

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers report that the Golgi ribbon, an organelle structure previously thought to be exclusive to vertebrates, is also present in animal taxa, including mollusks, earthworms, and sea urchins. The function of the Golgi ribbon is still enigmatic, but its presence in diverse animal lineages indicates that its function is not vertebrate specific, as previously thought.

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'Ultra-Processed' Foods Harm Your Health in More Than 30 Different Ways

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 -- Ultra-processed foods can cause dozens of terrible health problems among people who eat them too often, a new review warns.Researchers linked diets high in ultra-processed foods to an increased risk of 32 separate.

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Ice shell thickness reveals water temperature on ocean worlds

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures of distant worlds based on the thickness of their ice shells, effectively conducting oceanography from space.

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U.S. Deaths Linked to Alcohol Keep Rising, Especially Among Women

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 -- Deaths where alcohol played a key role climbed sharply in recent years, hitting women even harder than men, new government data shows. Between 2016 and 2021 (the latest numbers available), "the average number of U.S.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Uploading blobs to Optimizely DXP via PowerShell

Perficient: Drug Development

We had a client moving from an On-Prem v11 Optimizely instance to DXP v12 and we had a lot of blobs (over 40 GB) needing uploading to DXP as a part of the conversion. This was my first experience doing both a version and environment upgrade and I leaned heavily on Optimizely support to help me get it right. Along the way, I wrote down each step so that I could reference it for any future projects that were doing the same.

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Changes in Gay Men's Behaviors, Not Vaccine, Halted Mpox Outbreak

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 -- New research finds the 2022 mpox outbreak among gay and bisexual men began to slow down after just a few months -- even though just 8% of high-risk people had received the mpox vaccine. That suggests that it was changes.

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Building bionic jellyfish for ocean exploration

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers show how biohybrid robots based on jellyfish could be used to gather climate science data from deep in the Earth's oceans.

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Impaired Sense of Direction Could Be Early Alzheimer's Sign

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 -- Middle-aged folks who have difficulties navigating their way through space could be at higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease years later, a new study finds.“Very early symptoms of dementia can be subtle and.

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.

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Astronomers discover heavy elements after bright gamma-ray burst from neutron star merger

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

An international team of astronomers obtained observational evidence for the creation of rare heavy elements in the aftermath of a cataclysmic explosion triggered by the merger of two neutron stars.

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Simple Eye Test Might Spot Autism in Kids

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 -- The eyes may have it when it comes to the early diagnosis of autism in children, a new study finds.Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), have pinpointed a gene that affects how kids' eyes.

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Molecular Bidents with Two Electrophilic Warheads as a New Pharmacological Modality

Covalent Modifiers

Zhengnian Li, Jie Jiang, Scott B. Ficarro, Tyler S. Beyett, Ciric To, Isidoro Tavares, Yingde Zhu, Jiaqi Li, Michael J. Eck, Pasi A. Jänne, Jarrod A. Marto, Tinghu Zhang, Jianwei Che, and Nathanael S. Gray ACS Central Science 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.3c01245 A systematic strategy to develop dual-warhead inhibitors is introduced to circumvent the limitations of conventional covalent inhibitors such as vulnerability to mutations of the corresponding nucleophilic residue.

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Stressed Parents Could Mean More Self-Harm by Kids

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 -- Teens have a higher risk of self-injury -- deliberately cutting or burning themselves -- if they have a fraught relationship with a struggling parent, a new study shows.Teenagers were nearly five times more likely to.

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Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics

Clinical development organizations face a wide array of challenges when it comes to data, many of which can impact the operational effectiveness of their clinical trials. In this whitepaper, experts from Revvity Signals explore how solutions like TIBCO® Spotfire® enable better, more streamlined studies. The whitepaper also features a success story from Ambrx, a leading biopharmaceutical company, detailing how it has leveraged Spotfire to tackle data quality and collaboration challenges in clinic

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Wildfire smoke disproportionately affects California’s Indigenous communities, new research shows

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Researchers using a novel method of measuring long-term wildfire smoke exposure have found that Indigenous communities in California are exposed to disproportionate amounts of dangerous particulate matter — sometimes far beyond what has been previously known.

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Dispelling Myths to Make Healthy Hearing a Reality

NIOSH Science Blog: Drugs

This World Hearing Day, March 3, 2024, the World Health Organization is promoting awareness of hearing loss to reduce societal misperceptions and stigma and is encouraging you to do the same. Over 80% of ear and hearing care needs are not met worldwide.[1] Hearing care has an annual cost of nearly $1 trillion (US) globally.[2] Changing mindsets on ear and hearing care is the first step to combatting this largely preventable global health issue.

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Astronomers reveal a new link between water and planet formation

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have found water vapor in the disc around a young star exactly where planets may be forming. Water is a key ingredient for life on Earth, and is also thought to play a significant role in planet formation. Yet, until now, we had never been able to map how water is distributed in a stable, cool disc -- the type of disc that offers the most favorable conditions for planets to form around stars.

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A new chapter for biotech: Confidence returns to the market

Fierce BioTech

After a few years characterised by uncertainty, the narrative across the biotech industry is changing.

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MSU co-authored study: 10 insights to reduce vaccine hesitancy on social media

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Effective population level vaccination campaigns are fundamental to public health. Countercampaigns, which are as old as the first vaccines, can disrupt uptake and threaten public health globally. Credit: Courtesy: Young Anna Argyris EAST LANSING, Mich. — Effective population level vaccination campaigns are fundamental to public health.

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Data Lake Governance with Tagging in Databricks Unity Catalog

Perficient: Drug Development

The goal of Databricks Unity Catalog is to provide centralized security and management to data and AI assets across the data lakehouse. Unity Catalog provides fine-grained access control for all the securable objects in the lakehouse; databases, tables, files and even models. Gone are the limitations of the Hive metadata store. The Unity Catalog metastore manages all data and AI assets across different workspaces and storage locations.

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Investigating cell killers: Advanced system for size-dependent cytotoxicity analysis of silica

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Metal nanomaterials have become an indispensable part of industrial and medical fields due to their unique and versatile properties. Their size, which imparts them with the desired physiochemical properties, is also the reason for environmental and health concerns.

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Astronomers measure heaviest black hole pair ever found

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Using archival data from the Gemini North telescope, a team of astronomers has measured the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes ever found. The merging of two supermassive black holes is a phenomenon that has long been predicted, though never observed. This massive pair gives clues as to why such an event seems so unlikely in the Universe.

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Remote height and weight measurements for children proven as accurate as in-person

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

BATON ROUGE – The increased popularity of telehealth and telemedicine in recent years has provided a new level of accessibility for patients to visit doctors and learn more about their health. Certain remote measurements, however, have long been speculated to be less accurate and less trustworthy than when gathered at in-person appointments.

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Abingworth invests in Trodelvy development in deal with Gilead

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The unusual deal will see one of the investment firm’s startups work with Gilead to expand the cancer drug’s label, with Abingworth receiving payment if successful.

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Faster and simpler point-of-care malaria test developed by Rice researchers

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Rice University researchers have developed a rapid, accurate test for diagnosing malaria that is significantly faster and easier to use than traditional tests. The advancement has the potential to improve patient outcomes, especially in rural regions with limited health care resources. Credit: Rice University.

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Long COVID May Harm Cognition

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 -- In a finding that unearths yet another way Long COVID can harm health, new research finds the condition may trigger thinking declines.Published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, the study involved.

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Chemical Biology and Drug Design

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NYC's Bold Move: Life Sciences Take Center Stage

Fierce BioTech

With a bold vision and strategic investment, New York City is emerging as a global hub for the life sciences. | Ready to shape the future of life sciences? Discover how NYC's strategic investments are driving change.

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Perficient Wins 2023 Acquia Partner Advocate of the Year: North America

Perficient: Drug Development

Perficient is excited to announce we’ve won the 2023 Acquia Partner Advocate of the Year Award for North America ! This award commemorates a partner that has exhibited outstanding performance and industry leadership. Since 2017, our Acquia practice has demonstrated consistent expertise with Acquia products and cloud hosting services. Our engagements range from implementing Drupal websites and portals to strategizing personalization and customer journeys, including clients in regulated industries