Month: February 2025
The first in-womb treatment for motor-neuron condition is a success
Researchers trained an artificial intelligence engine on one-second slices of gameplay from online multiplayer game ‘B Bleeding Edge’, taken from controllers’ inputs. The engine, World and Human Action Model (WHAM), can create a world that responds to player inputs. WHAM was trained on one-second slices of gameplay taken from 5,00,000 anonymized play sessions.
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Despite lawsuits challenging Trump’s order, the research grant from the NIH is still frozen
US President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered Federal employees to post notices at least 35 days in advance of grant-review meetings, the Department of Government Efficiency said. If federal employees don’t do so, they would face “adverse consequences”, the department added. The notice will have to be posted at least 15 days prior to the grant-review meetings.
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UM171 glues to the asymmetric assembly to degrade the CoREST corepressors
Lentiviral particles carrying overexpression constructs were produced and used totransduce K562 KBTBD4-null CoREST–GFP cells. The particles were added with a final concentration of 40–0.006 M, and then incubated with DMSO for 72 h. The cells were selected with 2 g ml1 puromycin for three days, then sorted for single-cell clones on the BD FACSAria Cell Sorter (BD Biosciences).
Read MoreRFK Jr. was confirmed to be Trump’s health secretary
The US Senate has voted to confirm Ted Kennedy as the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees the FDA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health. Kennedy told the Senate that he supported vaccines and believes that they have saved lives. Kennedy can do a lot on vaccines including appointing advisors.
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The Heritage Foundation has reported on how the DEI staff was attacked by the National Institute of Health
The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH) said it would reduce its indirect cost rate from 15% to 15%. It added that a recent analysis showed that 67 out of 72 universities were willing to accept research grants with no indirect cost coverage. However, the NIH did not answer questions about whether it would give more money to researchers.
Read MoreU.S. cannabis shoppers are faced with a market flush with illegal weed
Justin Singer, who makes edible cannabis products in Colorado under the names Ripple and Ript, said that anything that isn’t in the regulated market in the state shouldn’t be sold and that products derived from the plant have little to no safety regulations. He added, “There’s going to be mould and these banned pesticide and herbicides that are getting into the illegal product.”
Read MoreProduct safety isn’t guaranteed even where weed is legal
A US-based edible marijuana manufacturer, Justin Singer, has said that he became concerned about the state’s lack of enforcement of the industry after he released a much cheaper product to the market and increased sales by 500%. As the industry became well established, Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division began to require testing of marijuana for things like heavy metals and yeasts and molds.
Read MoreThere’s a sense of dread around the National Institutes of Health
In order to inflict maximum damage on Iran, the Trump administration has imposed 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 on the National Institute of Health in Washington, DC. This comes after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned that his country would act on its own to curb the spread of cancer and other diseases.
Read MoreProduct safety isn’t guaranteed even where weed is legal
There are over 600 contaminants that were regulated in a number of states that had legalised cannabis at the time, including heavy metals, yeasts and moulds, Ripple Co-founder and CEO Justin Singer revealed. Singer said he expected that a 500% increase in marijuana sales would trigger an inspection by Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division. Singer released a cheaper product to the market.
Read MoreA plane with 2 people on board crashes and sets homes on fire in Philadelphia
All six people on board an airborne medical jet were killed in the crash of the plane near a shopping center in northeast Philadelphia on Friday night. A child patient had finished treatment for an illness at Shriners Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia and was returning to her home country, according to the hospital.
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