Month

May 2021
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May

Training the Circadian Clock, Clocking the Drugs, and Drugging the Clock to Prevent, Manage, and Treat Chronic Diseases

May 13, 2021
Sulli G, Manoogian ENC, Taub PR, Panda S. Training the Circadian Clock, Clocking the Drugs, and Drugging the Clock to Prevent, Manage, and Treat Chronic Diseases. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences. 2018 Sep;39(9):812-827. DOI: 10.1016/j.tips.2018.07.003. Highlights Although circadian rhythm disruption (CRD) was typically considered to be a risk for chronic diseases solely for shift workers (∼20%...
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May

Estrogens and the circadian system

May 13, 2021
Alvord VM, Kantra EJ, Pendergast JS. Estrogens and the circadian system. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2021 May 8:S1084-9521(21)00083-5. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2021.04.010. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33975754. Abstract Circadian rhythms are ~24 h cycles of behavior and physiology that are generated by a network of molecular clocks located in nearly every tissue in the body. In...
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12
May

Podcast: In Machines We Trust – What’s in a voice

May 12, 2021
Apple Podcasts Preview https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-in-a-voice/id1523584878?i=1000518953755 And we speak with a father who thinks scam artists may have used artificial intelligence to capture the essence of his son’s voice. pic.twitter.com/eAPVMdOZfg— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) May 11, 2021 Synthetic voice technologies are increasingly passing as human. But today’s voice assistants are still a far cry from the hyper-intelligent thinking...
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12
May

FROM INGENUITY TO THOMAS PESQUET: WHICH FREQUENCIES ARE USED FROM SPACE?

May 12, 2021
Source: ANFR https://www.anfr.fr/toutes-les-actualites/actualites/dingenuity-a-thomas-pesquet-quelles-frequences-sont-utilisees-depuis-lespace/ Auto-translated from French 05/12/2021 In recent weeks, the conquest of space has occupied the news a lot with the success of the flight of the first drone on Mars, Ingenuity and the arrival of the French astronaut Thomas Pesquet in the international space station where he will stay 6 months. This media interest...
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12
May

Book: When Cell Phone Towers Cosplay as Trees

May 12, 2021
Source: https://hyperallergic.com/643295/annette-lemay-burke-fauxliage-cell-phone-towers/ Photographer Annette LeMay Burke turns her eye to one of the latest incursions on the visual landscape: cell phone towers cosplaying as trees. https://t.co/u56Xdyrj02— hyperallergic (@hyperallergic) May 11, 2021 In 66 photographs, Annette LeMay Burke explores the giant fake trees hosting crow’s nests of cellular transmitters. by Sarah Rose Sharp May 10, 2021 As...
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May

Optically Improved Mitochondrial Function Redeems Aged Human Visual Decline

May 12, 2021
Harpreet Shinhmar, MSc, Manjot Grewal, BSc, Sobha Sivaprasad, MBBS, PhD, Chris Hogg, Victor Chong, MBBS, PhD, Magella Neveu, PhD, Glen Jeffery, DPhil, Optically Improved Mitochondrial Function Redeems Aged Human Visual Decline, The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Volume 75, Issue 9, September 2020, Pages e49–e52, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaa155 Abstract The age spectrum of human populations is shifting toward the...
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May

BERENIS – The Swiss expert group on electromagnetic fields and non-ionising radiation Newsletter Nr. 25 / May 2021

May 12, 2021,
Summaries and assessments of selected studies In the period from mid of July to mid of October 2020, 108 new publications have been identified, and eight of these were discussed in depth by BERENIS. Based on the selection criteria, three of these publications were selected as the most relevant ones. Their summaries and assessments are...
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11
May

Feb. 4 Media Briefing: iPhone 12 Deactivates Defibrillator

May 11, 2021
HenryFordTV Henry Ford Hospital cardiologists Gurjit Singh, M.D., and Joshua Greenberg, M.D., made a stunning discovery when they found that the magnet in the iPhone 12 can disrupt the function of a life-saving defibrillator. Alarmed by their discovery, they drafted a manuscript about their findings and submitted it to the medical journal HeartRhythm, which was...
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11
May

Henry Ford Cardiologists Find Apple iPhone 12 Magnet Deactivates Implantable Cardiac Devices

May 11, 2021
Source https://www.henryford.com/news/2021/02/iphone-12-deactivates-defibrillator February 04, 2021 DETROIT (February 4, 2021) – One of the newest features of the Apple iPhone 12 series of mobile devices is a strong magnet that helps align the phone on Apple’s MagSafe accessory to maximize charging – a feature that raised the curiosity of Henry Ford Heart & Vascular Institute cardiologist Gurjit Singh,...
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11
May

TRAILER: BECOMING DATA

May 11, 2021
Co-produced by Data & Society and Public Books, “Becoming Data” is the third season of of Public Books 101, a podcast that turns a scholarly eye towards a world worth studying. https://datasociety.net/library/trailer-becoming-data/ The first episode premieres Monday, May 17, 2021. https://datasociety.simplecast.com/episodes/becoming-data-trailer In the podcast series, Natalie Kerby of Data & Society asks her guests: How...
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