Kgusler
@kgusler.bsky.social
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I post news mostly about science and medical related research. Some music might slip in here or there! My brain is curious and my heart is caring, so that makes me a democrat, at least in my eyes!
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Kgusler
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'People are going to die': Idahoans fear spike in insurance costs
At 59, Susan Wood, a longtime Boise, Idaho, resident, was too young to qualify for Medicare when she retired in July. So she signed up for a marketplace plan under the Affordable Care Act, often calle...
medicalxpress.com
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@kgusler.bsky.social
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Alzheimer's disease research in brain tissue from African American donors points to roles for many novel genes
The prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is approximately two times higher in African Americans (AA) compared to white/European-ancestry (EA) individuals living in the U.S. Some of this is due to so...
medicalxpress.com
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@kgusler.bsky.social
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Medicaid cuts could be dangerous for cancer survivors
Earlier in 2025, the Trump administration approved $900 billion in sweeping cuts to Medicaid, the publicly funded health program for low-income families and people with disabilities. Democrats are now...
medicalxpress.com
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Vaccine shows promise against typhoid and invasive Salmonella in first human trial
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD) have completed a successful Phase I clinical trial of a novel vaccine designed to ...
medicalxpress.com
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Whole genome sequencing could match more breast cancer patients to tailored therapies and trials
Whole genome sequencing offered to breast cancer patients is likely to identify unique genetic features that could either guide immediate treatment or help match patients to clinical trials, say scien...
medicalxpress.com
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Three scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for the development of metal-organic frameworks
Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their development of metal–organic frameworks, which an expert likened to Hermione Grange...
phys.org
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New 3D printing method ‘grows’ ultra-strong materials
EPFL researchers have pioneered a 3D printing method that grows metals and ceramics inside a water-based gel, resulting in exceptionally dense, yet intricate constructions for next-generation energy, ...
www.eurekalert.org
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Engineered “natural killer” cells could help fight cancer
Researchers at MIT and Harvard Medical School found a way to engineer CAR-NK immune cells that makes them much less likely to be rejected by the patient’s immune system, a common drawback of thi...
www.eurekalert.org
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@kgusler.bsky.social
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AI breakthrough helps astronomers spot cosmic events with just a handful of examples
A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real changes in the night sky — such as an exploding star, a black hole t...
www.eurekalert.org
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Once dominant, US agricultural exports falter amid trade disputes and rising competition
The U.S. has traditionally been an agricultural powerhouse with a healthy trade surplus. But global dynamics are changing due to a confluence of political and economic factors. U.S. agricultural impor...
phys.org
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@kgusler.bsky.social
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Antibody discovered that blocks almost all known HIV variants in neutralization assays
A Cologne-led research team has discovered the antibody 04_A06, which neutralizes the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in almost all tested variants in vitro and even overcomes typical resistance me...
www.uni-koeln.de
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@kgusler.bsky.social
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Record-breaking 2024 Amazon fires drive unprecedented carbon emissions and ecosystem degradation
A new study by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Center reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, which t...
phys.org
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@kgusler.bsky.social
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Scientists unlock the quantum magic hidden in diamonds
Researchers have found a way to extract almost every photon from diamond color centers, a key obstacle in quantum technology. Using hybrid nanoantennas, they precisely guided light from nanodiamonds i...
www.sciencedaily.com
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A strange quantum metal just rewrote the rules of electricity
In a remarkable leap for quantum physics, researchers in Japan have uncovered how weak magnetic fields can reverse tiny electrical currents in kagome metals—quantum materials with a woven atomic struc...
www.sciencedaily.com
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@kgusler.bsky.social
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Gaia solves the mystery of tumbling asteroids and reveals what’s inside them
By combining Gaia’s massive asteroid dataset with AI modeling, scientists discovered that asteroid rotation depends on how often they’ve been hit. A mysterious gap in rotation speeds marks where colli...
www.sciencedaily.com
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How hair and skin characteristics affect brain imaging: Making fNIRS research more inclusive
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a promising non-invasive neuroimaging technique that works by detecting changes in blood oxygenation linked to neural activity using near-infrared ligh...
medicalxpress.com
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Brain-on-a-chip technology reveals how sepsis and neurodegenerative diseases damage the brain
In lieu of animal experiments, researchers from the University of Rochester are using state-of-the-art microchips with human tissue to better understand how the brain operates under healthy conditions...
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