9 posts tagged by Digg
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Eli Lilly says its investigational drug also reduced knee osteoarthritis pain and obstructive sleep apnea severity in the obesity trial. In a separate type 2 diabetes trial, it reports average A1C reductions of up to 2.0% at 40 weeks.
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A Cell paper says indole-producing E. coli worsens ischemic stroke by activating AHR signaling in dendritic cells.
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A PNAS paper examines how removing school-entry vaccine requirements could affect measles transmission in Florida. A post sharing it says MMR vaccination in the state has already fallen below critical herd-immunity thresholds.
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A post says recent studies found blood immune cells infiltrating the brain, raising the possibility of immunotherapy to prevent Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.
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A post sharing a Wall Street Journal opinion essay points to wearable sensor metrics, AI and context. The essay's description says a well-designed system could help us understand what we don't know as well as what we do.
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A study in Cell Genomics reports that cell-free DNA methylation patterns distinguish future prostate cancer risk levels. Breast cancer signals were modest and varied by subtype and other factors.
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Physician-scientist supports AI in health while rejecting recent cure timelines as unrealistic.
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Arc Institute scientists trained genome language models to generate functional bacteriophage genomes absent from nature.
