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Released: 25-Aug-2023 1:05 PM EDT
New gene-editing technique offers path to precision therapies
 King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)

PNP editing emerges as a versatile and programmable tool for site-specific DNA manipulations.

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Released: 25-Aug-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Paper cups are just as toxic as plastic cups
 University of Gothenburg

Replacing single use plastic cups with paper ones is problematic.

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Released: 25-Aug-2023 1:00 PM EDT
Dance as a performative art form enhanced identity negotiation and strengthened group identity in people with Parkinson’s disease
 University of Eastern Finland

A recent study by the University of Eastern Finland and Balettakademien Stockholm found that performing in a dance company and being involved in its activities play a significant role in the identity and disease-related identity negotiation in people with Parkinson’s disease.

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Newswise: Adrenocortical carcinoma: No mitotane for low risk of recurrence
Released: 25-Aug-2023 12:50 PM EDT
Adrenocortical carcinoma: No mitotane for low risk of recurrence
 University of Würzburg

In 2017, the teams of Massimo Terzolo and Martin Fassnacht published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine that provided evidence for the efficacy of Mitotane in the prevention of recurrence in adrenocortical carcinoma.

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Released: 25-Aug-2023 12:05 PM EDT
SLU Research: Erectile Dysfunction Linked to Undiagnosed Prediabetes, Type 2 Diabetes in Young Men
 Saint Louis University

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is more common in older individuals with long-term Type 2 diabetes.

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Released: 25-Aug-2023 11:55 AM EDT
Half as many AF patients dying of heart attacks and strokes in the UK
 University of Leeds

Patients living with one of the UK’s most common heart rhythm conditions are 50% less likely to die from a heart attack or stroke than they were at the start of the millennium, new research has found.

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Released: 25-Aug-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Tides may be responsible for up to 69% of under-ice melting in an Antarctica ice shelf
 Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research (OLAR)

The ice shelves — the marine-terminating glaciers of the Antarctic Ice Sheet — are melting, and it's not just because of rising atmospheric temperatures.

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Released: 25-Aug-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Understanding the Surge in Cannabis Use among Pregnant and Postpartum Women in the US
 Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Rutgers researcher leads effort to map associations between mental health disorders, cannabis use and cannabis use disorder during pregnancy and postpartum in the United States

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Newswise: How local communities depend on the ivory palm tree in coastal Ecuador
Released: 25-Aug-2023 11:05 AM EDT
How local communities depend on the ivory palm tree in coastal Ecuador
 College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The ivory palm tree, also known as tagua, is endemic to the Chocó-Darien region on the Pacific coast of South America. Two studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) explore the ecosystem services provided by tagua in coastal Ecuador.

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Released: 25-Aug-2023 5:30 AM EDT
For Whom the School Bells Toll: New Psychological Research for the New Academic Year
 Association for Psychological Science

A collection of research published in the APS journals in 2022 and 2023 related to peer relationships, pandemic-related learning losses, the positive impacts of growth mindsets, and much more.

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Newswise: Myocardial infarction, the number one cause of sudden death, may be treated by modulating the immune response
Released: 25-Aug-2023 12:00 AM EDT
Myocardial infarction, the number one cause of sudden death, may be treated by modulating the immune response
 National Research Council of Science and Technology

Dr. Yoon Ki Joung and Dr. Juro Lee of the Biomaterials Research Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), together with Prof. Hun-Jun Park and Dr. Bong-Woo Park of the Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, have developed a new treatment for myocardial infarction that uses nanovesicles derived from fibroblasts with induced apoptosis to modulate the immune response.

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Released: 24-Aug-2023 6:05 PM EDT
UCLA researchers say embedding study recruitment in pre-appointment check-in may significantly boost participation
 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

This method produced enrollment rates many times higher than is typically seen for patient portal based recruitment – and unexpectedly increased racial and ethnic participation as well. So it could be a promising new tool to improve research recruitment and diversity in biomedical research.

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Released: 24-Aug-2023 6:05 PM EDT
The Best Bioenergy Grass Crops to Accumulate Carbon in the Soil
 Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory - EMSL

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Released: 24-Aug-2023 6:05 PM EDT
New Deep Neural Network Could Speed Calculations in Climate Models
 Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory - EMSL

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Newswise: Study Shows Technology Boosts Public Health Programs
Released: 24-Aug-2023 5:05 PM EDT
Study Shows Technology Boosts Public Health Programs
 University of Utah Health

SCALE-UP Counts was designed to promote COVID-19 testing in local schools. Huntsman Cancer Insitute’s Yelena Wu, PhD, hopes the insight gained from the program improves cancer screening and education initiatives.
Released: 24-Aug-2023 3:30 PM EDT
Climate change: Emperor penguin breeding fails due to Antarctic sea ice loss
 Scientific Reports

Four out of five emperor penguin colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica, saw no chicks survive to fledge successfully in the spring of 2022, reports a study published in Communications Earth & Environment.

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Released: 24-Aug-2023 3:15 PM EDT
Millions of carbon credits are generated by overestimating forest preservation, study finds
 University of Cambridge

Study analyses 18 major carbon offset projects, and compares their conservation claims with matched sites that offer a real-world benchmark for deforestation levels.

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Released: 24-Aug-2023 3:15 PM EDT
FDA approving drugs after fewer trials, providing less information to public, OSU studies find
 Oregon State University

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is approving more novel pharmaceutical drugs based on single clinical trials and with less public disclosure about those trials than was the norm just a few years ago, a pair of recent studies from Oregon State University found.

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Newswise: Mysterious Neptune dark spot detected from Earth for the first time
Released: 24-Aug-2023 3:05 PM EDT
Mysterious Neptune dark spot detected from Earth for the first time
 European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it.

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Newswise: Remoteness didn’t protect Amazonian Tsimané from COVID-19
Released: 24-Aug-2023 2:30 PM EDT
Remoteness didn’t protect Amazonian Tsimané from COVID-19
University of Utah

Voluntary collective isolation alone was ineffective to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 into small-scale, remote Indigenous communities of the Tsimané in the Bolivian Amazon.



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