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The relationship between SARS-CoV-2 infection and type 1 diabetes mellitus (www.nature.com)

Human embryos embrace asymmetry to form the body (www.nature.com)

This study performed lineage tracing of live human embryos from the first cleavage division until the blastocyst stage and discovered that the majority of cells in the EPI, the future human body, originate from one of the two cells in most embryos. The first blastomere to divide at the 2-cell stage has a higher likelihood to...

Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan - Scientific Reports (www.nature.com)

The first demonstration of entirely roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cell modules under ambient room conditions (www.nature.com)

Significantly wetter or drier future conditions for one to two thirds of the world’s population (www.nature.com)

Is it too late to keep global warmingbelow 1.5 °C? The challenge in 7 charts (www.nature.com)

Dengue is spreading. Can new vaccines and antivirals halt its rise? (www.nature.com)

Gene therapies for rare diseases are under threat. Scientists hope to save them. (www.nature.com)

"We have the technology, but we’re not going to save your kid because we can’t make any money on you’? Really?”

Two large, randomized controlled trials show that replacing regular salt with potassium-enriched salt substitute (~75% NaCl, 25% KCl) reduces cardiovascular events and probably all-cause mortality. (www.nature.com)

second study www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2105675

Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale (www.nature.com)

What a tease! Great apes pull hair and poke each other for fun (www.nature.com)

Consciousness theory slammed as ‘pseudoscience’ — sparking uproar (www.nature.com)

Researchers publicly call out theory that they say is not well supported by science, but that gets undue attention....

Long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on human brain and memory - Cell Death Discovery (www.nature.com)

AI for identifying social norm violation (www.nature.com)

Prof. Yair Neuman and the engineer Yochai Cohen at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have designed an AI system that identifies social norm violations. They trained a system to identify ten social emotions: competence, politeness, trust, discipline, caring, agreeableness, success, conformity, decency, and loyalty....

A trial finds that a dose of the psychedelic psilocybin administered with psychological support is a safe and acceptable treatment for patients with anorexia nervosa and may decrease eating-disorde... (www.nature.com)

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a deadly illness with no proven treatments to reverse core symptoms and no medications approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Novel treatments are urgently needed to improve clinical outcomes. In this open-label feasibility study, 10 adult female participants (mean body mass index 19.7 kg...

These crows have counting skills previously only seen in people (www.nature.com)

Chinese doctors treated an end-stage type 2 diabetic patient by implanting islet tissue derived in vitro from his own endoderm stem cells. The patient has been insulin-independent for 33 months. (www.nature.com)

Brain-reading device is best yet at decoding ‘internal speech’ (www.nature.com)

Swept coded aperture real-time femtophotography - Nature Communications (www.nature.com)

Ukraine nuclear power plant attack: scientists assess the risks (www.nature.com)

Mind-reading devices are revealing the brain’s secrets (www.nature.com)

What the EU’s tough AI law means for research and ChatGPT (www.nature.com)

Cyberattacks on knowledge institutions are increasing: what can be done? (www.nature.com)

In one study, researchers analysed 58 cyberattacks between 1988 and 2022 on universities, schools and other organizations worldwide, and found that the frequency of attacks had increased since 2015 (H. Singh Lallie et al. Preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2307.07755; 2023). Information on the attacks was gleaned from publicly available...

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