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Heavy winds and precipitation are moving through New England
Hundreds of thousands of people were without power in parts of the US on Monday amid a major coastal storm in theNortheast that is expected to cause high winds, heavy rains and flooding. The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a Coastal Flood Warning for Philadelphia, New York and Boston. The storm is expected to hit the US on Monday morning.
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The US Supreme Court is expected to decide the fate of abortion drugs
A US court ruled that women with life-threatening pregnancies in Texas who don’t get appropriate care could sue their doctors for malpractice under a state abortion law. The law was passed to protect the public from malpractice under which anyone can be sued for helping someone get an abortion. The court also refused to intervene in a lawsuit by a woman who got an abortion.
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Brain-wide correspondence ofgenomics and projections
Our study found that there’s statistically significant higher enrichment (P = 0.004) of chromatin interaction signals at the corresponding-specific cCRE-gene pair anchors, compared with non-corresponding pair anchors. This suggests that cCRE-gene pairs are more likely to interact in cell types in which the cCREs are active. We used snRNA-seq cells for GWAS with MAGMA v.1.10 to compare human and mouse gene sets.
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A woman who sued the state for abortion traveled out of state for her procedure
The Texas state attorney general’s office has proposed indicting Kate Cox, who was told by her doctor that she should not carry the baby to term, since it could jeopardize her future fertility. Cox’s petition to the court “fails to identify what ‘life-threatening’ medical condition that Ms Cox purportedly has that is aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy”, the office said.
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The FDA approved the first treatment for a human illness
Victoria Gray, a sickle cell patient who was the first person to receive CRISPR gene-editing treatment in the US, said she is “excited about the promise that this technology has for those living with sickle cell disease.” “Many of the countries where most sickle cell patients live don’t have enough sophisticated medical centres to provide the complicated treatment,” she added.
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Your blood is indicative of how your organs are aging
The Knight-ADRC cohort is an NIA-funded study of clinical dementia subjects and age-matched controls. Among individuals with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma data, Alzheimer’s (AD) cases corresponded to those with a diagnosis of dementia of the Alzheimer’s type using criteria equivalent to the National Institute of Neurological and Communication Disorders and Stroke- Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association for probable AD58.
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Safety experts want tech to reduce speeding during the 4th GOP debate
A US-based advocacy group said that it has advocated for “continued emphasis on transportation policies that focus on driver education andawareness, strong laws and law enforcement and infrastructure investment to support these safety initiatives”. The group said that vehicletechnology can play a role, adding, “While vehicle technology can play a role, we have advocated for a continued emphasis on transportation policies.”
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People with severe head injury are helped by brain implants
Stanford University researchers have found that implanting deep brain stimulation can improve the functioning of a brain structure known as thalamus. “For some participants…improvements have been transformative, even many years after the injury,” said Jaimie Henderson, a neurosurgeon at Stanford University in California. The team used brain images and atlases to design treatment procedures for four men and one woman.
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There is a race to find the reason why America’s dogs are sick
Over 200 dogs have died in the US’ Oregon from a respiratory illness, which is similar to a respiratory illness, known as kennel cough, in its symptoms but it’s not responsive to the common antibiotics used to treat it. A veterinarian has said he’s looked at a lot of dog lungs in his career, and these are a little bit different.
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There has been a surge in pneumonia in China
A study by a University College London’s Computational biologist, Francois Balloux, has found that infections with Mycobacterium pneumoniae, a bacterium that causes pneumonia, are increasing in China. “Since China experienced a far longer and harsher lockdown than essentially any other country on Earth…it was anticipated that those ‘lockdown exit’ waves could be substantial in China,” Balloux said.
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