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Mashup Score: 0Are synthetic food dyes bad for you? Here's the science. - 19 day(s) ago
California is banning them in schools. The FDA says they’re fine. But synthetic dyes added to food to make them more colorful have a long, troubled history.
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Mashup Score: 0A new implant tested in animals reverses drug overdoses - 22 day(s) ago
In pigs, the device detected overdoses and administered naloxone. It could also alert emergency services to respond.
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Success in animals bodes well for implant that recognizes and then reverses drug overdoses. https://t.co/c85Zp71NPR
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Mashup Score: 0Megafire smoke may dampen California’s nut harvests - 22 day(s) ago
The summer after wildfire smoke blocked sunlight for long stretches, harvests at some almond tree orchards in California’s Central Valley dropped.
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Nuts to you: Your favorite nut may be at risk from California fires and the problem is not the fire itself. https://t.co/9gis8Hifda
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Mashup Score: 0A new implant tested in animals reverses drug overdoses - 25 day(s) ago
In pigs, the device detected overdoses and administered naloxone. It could also alert emergency services to respond.
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Success in animals bodes well for implant that recognizes and then reverses drug overdoses. https://t.co/c85Zp71NPR
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Mashup Score: 4A viral gene drive could offer a new approach to fighting herpes - 1 month(s) ago
A new gene drive can copy and paste itself into the genomes of herpes simplex viruses in mice. The end goal is a version that disables the virus in humans.
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“the team has shown simply that their gene drive DNA sequence can copy/paste itself into the genomes of other herpes viruses during an infection in mice..the idea is to one day create a gene drive virus that shuts down herpes simplex infections in people” https://t.co/XykC9NZ85j
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Mashup Score: 0Brain-controlled bionic limbs are inching closer to reality - 1 month(s) ago
Bionics engineers typically view biology as something to be worked around. “Anatomics” engineers the body to be part of the system.
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Headline of the Day: Brain-controlled bionic limbs are inching closer to reality https://t.co/ycuEkuBHCt
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Mashup Score: 0Radioactive beams give a real-time view of cancer treatment in mice - 1 month(s) ago
This first successful treatment of tumors with radioactive ion beams could one day lead to treating human patients’ tumors with millimeter precision.
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Radioactive beam promises millimeter precision in treating cancer. https://t.co/NL7fCSN16z
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Mashup Score: 3
A clinical trial found blood pressure readings were higher with the arm on the lap or along the side, compared with supported at heart height.
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Blood pressure may read falsely high if the arm isn’t positioned properly https://t.co/oIZkOotiAA
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Mashup Score: 0Brain-controlled bionic limbs are inching closer to reality - 1 month(s) ago
Bionics engineers typically view biology as something to be worked around. “Anatomics” engineers the body to be part of the system.
Source: www.sciencenews.orgCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet-
Headline of the Day: Brain-controlled bionic limbs are inching closer to reality https://t.co/ycuEkuBHCt
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For the ninth year, Science News honors researchers in its SN 10: Scientists to Watch list.
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Congratulations to @DWWilliamsLab who was selected as of the the Science News Top 10 Scientists to Watch (https://t.co/RVcgZOYmgv)
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Synthetic food dyes: attractive or dangerous? The long-troubled history of food dyes. https://t.co/OS2M90mK1V