Preliminary results from a $5.2 million clinical trial led by University of Cincinnati researchers show that the immunosuppressive drug belatacept can help safely and effectively treat kidney transplant patients without the negative long-term side effects of traditional immunosuppressive regimens, the study's leaders announced this week.
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Wednesday 5 June 2019
Lowering cholesterol levels may worsen nerve damage in T2DM
(HealthDay)—Lowering serum cholesterol levels in patients with type 2 diabetes is associated with diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN), according to a study published online May 31 in JAMA Network Open.
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Study sheds light on how cells in the body can sense cancer
Fresh insights into how cells alert the body when they are in danger of becoming cancerous could open new doors in the search for therapies.
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A new method for 3-D reconstructions of eruptive events on sun
An international team of scientists led by Skoltech professor Tatiana Podladchikova developed a new 3-D method for reconstructing space weather phenomena, in particular, shock waves produced by the Sun's energy outbursts. Their findings can help better understand and predict extreme space weather occurrences that affect the operation of engineering systems in space and on Earth. The results of their study were published in The Astrophysical Journal.
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Hacking diabetes: People break into insulin pumps as an alternative to delayed innovations
Just before the start of Memorial Day weekend, Meg Green meticulously followed online instructions for hacking an insulin pump.
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W3C and WHATWG agreement: Single version of HTML, DOM specifications
Having two separate HTML specifications? What's up with that? Stephen Shankland's account of the two in CNET: "for nearly a decade, two separate groups have been issuing separate documents to define Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML, the standard that tells you how to make a web page."
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Koala drinking stations can reduce impact of climate change
A long-held view that koalas get all their hydration from eating leaves has been overturned by new research published today from Dr. Valentina Mella and colleagues at the University of Sydney.
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Investigating the implications of social robots in religious contexts
Researchers at Siegen University and Würzberg University, in Germany, have recently carried out a study investigating the user experience and acceptability associated with the use of social robots in religious contexts. Their paper, published in Springer's International Journal of Social Robotics, offers interesting insight into how people perceive blessing robots compared to other robots for more conventional purposes.
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DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians
Two children's milk teeth buried deep in a remote archaeological site in north eastern Siberia have revealed a previously unknown group of people lived there during the last Ice Age.
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App Store in crosshairs as Apple courts developers
Apple is set to court software savants at its annual developers conference beginning Monday while contending with criticism that the iPhone maker has made its App Store a walled garden.
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The epic search for oldest ice in Antarctica
On 1st June 2019, the European Beyond EPICA Oldest Ice Core project started with the aim of drilling for and recovering ice from up to 1.5 million years ago in Antarctica. The previous EPICA project recovered ice from 800,000 years ago. The new project aims to go beyond that. The new core will provide information on the greenhouse gases present during the Middle Pleistocene Transition (MPT), which occurred between 900,000 and 1.2 million years ago. During this period, the climatic periodicity transitioned from 41,000 to 100,000 years between ice ages. Why this change happened is the mystery scientists want to resolve.
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State alcohol policies may affect aggression- and driving-related harms from someone else's drinking
New research suggests that state alcohol policies may be effective in reducing aggression-related and driving-related harms due to other drinkers, mainly in younger adults.
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Watchdog says FBI has access to about 640M photographs
A government watchdog says the FBI has access to about 640 million photographs—including from driver's licenses, passports and mugshots—that can be searched using facial recognition technology.
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