Author: Russell Moreno
NIH To Fund $20 Million To Search Substitutes To Fetal Tissue For Research
The NIH (National Institutes of Health) wants to contribute up to $20 Million worth of investigation into substitutes for using human fetal tissue to analyze disease, the agency declared recently. The announcement is mainly preliminary. The formal funding prospect announcements will be revealed soon, the agency said, and researchers cannot yet present proposals to be…
Read MoreNexstar To Buy Tribune Media For $4.1bn
Nexstar, American media group, is ready to become the largest local TV stations operator in the country following a deal to purchase Tribune Media for around $4.1 billion. This deal comes 3 months after failure of Tribune’s sale to Sinclair Group because of regulatory hurdles. Sinclair Group is presently the largest local TV operator in…
Read MoreScientists Claiming To Have Produced First Gene-Edited Babies Suspended By China
China has reportedly stopped all the research activities of some of the scientists that have actually claimed to have created something which seems pretty hard to believe at first. As per the claims, the scientists say that they have created the first ever gene-edited babies in the world, as per the reports obtained from…
Read MoreAddison Lee And Jaguar To Test Driverless Vehicles In London
Information of the “world-leading” programs was disclosed by the Department for Business as it declared the winners of a £25 Million investment initiative. The two Government-supported London plans involve car maker Jaguar Land Rover and taxi company Addison Lee. The first program will set up 15 cars in North Greenwich on 4 taxi services. It…
Read MoreFCC Plans To Fight Spam Texts Messages By Categorizing It As Information Service
The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) revealed two plans this week to fight against the scourge of phone spam, even though at least one of those decisions is expected to be controversial. In its declaration, the agency claimed that it aims to officially classify text messaging as an data service, a lawful distinction it claimed that…
Read MoreGoogle To Add Live Public Comments For Searches Starting With Sports
Google is shutting down its Google + after discovering some of the data privacy flaw, but this should not be at all mistaken as that the search engine giant is not interested in the social features. The crew of 9to5Google has found what is actually appearing in-testing support for the comments on search results. Currently,…
Read MoreLeading Scientists Call For Prohibition On Broadly Used Insecticides
Public health professionals have discovered there is enough proof that prenatal exposure to broadly employed insecticides (dubbed as organophosphates) puts kids at jeopardy for neurodevelopmental diseases. In a scientific call to action and evaluation posted in PLOS Medicine, the scientists call for urgent government interference to eliminate all organophosphates. “There is compelling proof that exposure…
Read MoreL’Oréal’s Sensor Will Keep An Eye On Your UV Exposure
L’Oréal has declared a wearable device that calculates your exposure to UV radiation that can seriously injure your eyes & skin and possibly lead to skin cancer. The La Roche-Posay My Skin Track UV sensor is developed to attach on your bag or clothes, and it depends on NFC instead of Bluetooth to transfer data,…
Read MoreMarker Genes Can Be Substituted By Neural Networks In RNA Sequencing
A novel and efficient approach have been discovered by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University to differentiate cell types after scRNA-seq (single-cell RNA sequencing). The new technique entails the use of neural networks and controlled machine learning techniques instead of marker genes—that aren’t accessible for all cell types. Utilizing this novel, automated method, scientists can examine…
Read MoreTick-Borne Diseases Like Lyme Strikes Record High In US: CDC
According to a new report, the number of infectivity by ticks has strike a record high in the U.S. In 2017, almost 60,000 people were identified with a tick-borne infection—mostly Lyme disease—the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) stated. And that is approximately certainly just a portion of the true count. Dr. John Aucott—Chair…
Read MoreResearch States US Leads In Highest Rate Of Drug Overdoses
The U.S. has twice the number of premature drug overdose deaths compare to at least 12 other countries, as per a new research. The study, published recently in the Annals of Internal Medicine, reported that there were approximately 63,632 drug overdose fatalities in 2016 in the U.S. Yingxi Chen—researcher and a postdoctoral fellow at the…
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