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Artificial intelligence
This is How Technology Will Solve Chronic Pain
2020-09-16 21:20:00 UTC
Artificial intelligence is already innovating in many industries. It's time to use AI to transform pain relief.
Read more at Entrepreneur
Andbox utilizing AI, analytics to complete new Valorant team - Reuters
2020-09-17 23:49:00 UTC
Andbox announced it is entering the Valorant esports scene with a team that will compete under the organization's New York banner and use artificial intelligence and analytics to help complete the roster.
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Telefonica partners with Japan's Rakuten to develop open 5G network - Reuters UK
2020-09-16 10:18:00 UTC
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Bioinformatics
How did coronavirus get transferred to humans? Scientists may have an answer
2020-09-17 12:50:26 UTC
How did the novel coronavirus get transferred from animals to humans? Scientists are getting closer to an answer.
Read more at ABC News
Scientists predict economically important traits of crops
2020-09-18 04:00:00 UTC
Researchers developed a new mathematical model to predict economic performance of crops. It can assist the breeders to obtain the plants with the highest possible quality.
Read more at EurekAlert
Reprogrammingroadmap reveals route tohuman induced trophoblast stem cells
2020-09-16 00:00:00 UTC
Single-cell transcriptomics roadmap of human dermal fibroblasts reprogrammed to primed and naive pluripotency reveals a route for the direct reprogramming of somatic cells into induced trophoblast stem cells.
Read more at Nature.com
Genomics
Ansa Biotechnologies wants to usher in a new era of DNA manufacturing
2020-09-17 12:33:59 UTC
Daniel Arlow has spent the last eighteen years studying genomics and synthetic biology. The arc of his career has taken the first-time founder of the new startup Ansa Biotechnologies from MIT to the famous Keasling Lab at the University of California at Berke
Read more at TechCrunch
Population genomics of the Viking world
2020-09-16 00:00:00 UTC
Ancient DNA analyses reveal that Viking Age migrations from Scandinavia resulted in differential influxes of ancestry to different parts of Europe, and the increased presence of non-local ancestry within Scandinavia.
Read more at Nature.com
How did coronavirus get transferred to humans? Scientists may have an answer
2020-09-17 12:50:26 UTCHow did the novel coronavirus get transferred from animals to humans? Scientists are getting closer to an answer.
Read more at ABC News
Genetics
Friedrich Miescher discovered DNA in 1869, a century before Watson and Crick
2020-09-17 11:34:23 UTC
In 1869, the young Swiss biochemist Friedrich Miescher discovered the molecule we now refer to as DNA, developing techniques for its extraction. In this paper we explain why his name is all but forgotten, and his role in the history of genetics is mostly over
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What is new in behavioral genetics?
2020-09-17 05:05:43 UTC
Here is an excellent conceptual survey article by K. Paige Harden, it goes well beyond the usual. Hard to summarize, but here are two good bits: An early study using a DNA-based method estimated the heritability of height to be80%,and it noted that this res
Read more at Marginalrevolution.com
Daily briefing: Genes map how the Vikings spread across Europe
2020-09-18 00:00:00 UTC
Genetics reveals which Vikings went where during the influential Viking Age. Plus, how to get a COVID-19 vaccine to those who need it most and what happens when you read a paper every single day.
Read more at Nature.com
GWAS
An integrated personal and population-based Egyptian genome reference
2020-09-18 00:00:00 UTC
North Africans are underrepresented in current genome-wide data sets. Here, the authors provide an Egyptian genome reference, consisting of de novo assembly of the genome of an Egyptian individual and genome-wide genetic variation from a representative cohort
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Polygenic risk for autism spectrum disorder associates with anger recognition in a neurodevelopment-focused phenome-wide scan of unaffected youths from a population-based cohort
2020-09-17 18:09:06 UTCAuthor summary Large-scale genetic studies have identified many regions of the genome associated with autism spectrum disorder that are considered common in the general population. We investigated how the additive effects of these genetic variations associate
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The qBED track: a novel genome browser visualization for point processes
2020-09-17 00:00:00 UTC
Abstract
Summary
Transposon calling cards is a genomic assay for identifying transcription factor binding sites in both bulk and single cell experiments. Here we describe the qBED format, an open, text-based standard for encoding and analyzing calling card
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Data science
Emails Detail Effort to Silence C.D.C. and Question Its Science
2020-09-18 18:10:02 UTC
Emails from a former top Trump health official and his science adviser show how the two refused to accept Centers for Disease Control and Prevention science and sought to silence the agency.
Read more at New York Times
Climate science contrarian installed in upper-level NOAA position
2020-09-16 19:31:15 UTC
Deputy assistant secretary job goes to author of reality-defying nonsense.
Read more at Ars Technica
The 943-Dimensional Chess of a Trustworthy Covid-19 Vaccine
2020-09-19 11:00:00 UTC
Scientists want public confidence. The White House wants an October Surprise. The FDA wants to avoid looking political. Big Pharma wants a win. Youre in the middle.
Read more at Wired
Population genetics
What is new in behavioral genetics?
2020-09-17 05:05:43 UTCHere is an excellent conceptual survey article by K. Paige Harden, it goes well beyond the usual. Hard to summarize, but here are two good bits: An early study using a DNA-based method estimated the heritability of height to be80%,and it noted that this res
Read more at Marginalrevolution.com
Population genomics of the Viking world
2020-09-16 00:00:00 UTCAncient DNA analyses reveal that Viking Age migrations from Scandinavia resulted in differential influxes of ancestry to different parts of Europe, and the increased presence of non-local ancestry within Scandinavia.
Read more at Nature.com
Scientists create super stud livestock with ideal genetic traits
2020-09-16 03:21:29 UTC
- Scientists have developed a method by which male animals can pass on the genetic material of other, different males.
- The idea is that these animals would pass on the genes of the most desirable sire in a herd, maximizing the yield for the
Read more at BGR
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Inheritance
Botswana opts to make land owners of wives with new law - Reuters
2020-09-17 17:29:00 UTCA wife in Botswana can now own land alongside her husband, President Mokgweetsi Masisi said on Thursday in a boost for women that rights groups called long overdue.
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Adebumni Gabadebo: A Dilemma of Inheritance @ Claire Oliver Gallery
2020-09-17 17:15:05 UTC
Claire Oliver Gallery is pleased to announce the debut solo exhibition by artist Adebunmi Gbadebo, A Dilemma of Inheritance. The exhibition will showcase the artists True Blue series which is comprised of more than 45 works that grapple with concepts surroun
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Trump warns of left-wing segregation and pushes patriotic education in bizarre speech at National Archives
2020-09-18 06:48:36 UTCPresident ignores fact that 400,000 African slaves were brought to North America against their will and had no rights
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Bioinformatics AI
Innate, non-cytolytic CD8+ T cell-mediated suppression of HIV replication by MHC-independent inhibition of virus transcription
2020-09-17 18:07:57 UTCAuthor summary Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has revolutionized the fight against the HIV pandemic, but this approach requires life-long treatment in order to maintain suppression of virus replication, as rapid viral rebound follows ART discontinuation. Our cu Read more at Plos.org
Fighting Coronavirus with Faith: Religious and Parareligious Responses to Covid-19 in Rural Banglade
2020-09-16 17:07:57 UTC
Many communities in Asia, Africa, and Latin Americaoften left out of human-computer interaction (HCI) discussionsdefy the boundary of scientific rationality and seek healthcare and well-being from various traditional faith-based practices. For example, Sout
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Precision medicine
CRISPR creates "surrogate sires" that produce prize-winning donor sperm
2020-09-16 01:54:49 UTC
In a breakthrough that promises to revolutionize the precision breeding of animals, an international team of scientists led by Jon Oatley, a reproductive biologist with Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, has for the first time used
Read more at New Atlas
Russia vaccine data questioned by experts worried about global distribution
2020-09-17 09:22:19 UTC
A growing chorus of experts is calling on Russian scientists to explain potential discrepancies in the data supporting the country's COVID-19 vaccine, dubbed Sputnik V.
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Pandemic inspires push to shrink jails, prisons
2020-09-17 17:40:14 UTC
> Science's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation
Even before COVID-19 began to sweep through U.S. correctional facilities, Michael Daniels saw the storm coming. As the director of justice policy and prog
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Health
Health Official to Take Leave of Absence After He Attacked Federal Scientists
2020-09-16 22:36:58 UTC
Michael R. Caputo, the assistant secretary of health for public affairs, and his science adviser will be leaving the Department of Health and Human Services after both criticized the C.D.C.
Read more at New York Times
How to Protect Children from Wildfire Smoke
2020-09-18 21:54:30 UTC
Even if flames are far away, smoke can travel and threaten kids health. But staying inside has trade-offs too.
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Coronavirus: US health chiefs reverse advice on Covid-19 testing
2020-09-18 21:20:33 UTC
The CDC caused controversy in August by saying that anyone without symptoms should not be tested.
Read more at BBC News
Technology
China tops 110 million 5G users in less than a year
2020-09-16 06:31:50 UTC
Over 110 million users in China have signed up for 5G plans, announced president of the China Academy for Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), a think tank under the telecoms watchdog Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, at an indust
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When the Economy Stalled, They Needed Laptops to Move Ahead
2020-09-17 09:00:09 UTC
With new technology in their homes, New Yorkers get a lifeline to pursuing their dreams.
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Everything You Missed From Today's Facebook Connect 2020 Event
2020-09-16 20:30:00 UTC
Todays Facebook Connect kicked off with a two-hour keynote that detailed the companys latest virtual and augmented reality developments. There were product announcements, new apps and games on display, and compelling peeks at some speculative technology. We
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Scientific publications
Americas Top Science Journal Has Had It With Trump
2020-09-16 11:00:00 UTC
The editor of Science has abandoned staid academic-speak to take on falsehoods in the White Housedecorum be damned.
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All together now: why collaboration is better than competition
2020-09-18 09:00:52 UTC
This week, the Upside finds that to reach a broader readership, publications need to work togetherJournalism isnt always about cut-throat competition and newspaper rivalry. In fact, youd be surprised how often journalists collaborate with colleagues from di
Read more at Theguardian.comworld
Africa's scientific capacity and solutions need to be driven by locals
2020-09-17 14:23:22 UTC
Africa bears a disproportionately high burden of globally significant diseases. But the continent has lagged in scientific knowledge production to address its health challenges.
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