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Discovery unravels the mystery of a rare bone disease
Clinical description of affected individuals from Family 1 and 2. a Pedigrees of the two affected families. Black symbols represent affected individuals. b Photographs of the hands of two individuals from Family 1 showing short hands (including short palms and brachydactyly) and brachytelephalangism. Left: Individual 1 (at 52 years of age); Right: Individual 2 (at
If You Give People This ‘Discovery’ — They’ll Buy From You Instead of Amazon
Last week, I saw the sad news that one of my favorite shops was closing its doors after 22 years of business. Lulu's Cuts and Toys, which sold kids' toys and haircuts, was a mainstay in the Park Slope neighorhood of Brooklyn. I don't have any children of my own, but Lulu's was always go-to
Supervised discovery of interpretable gene programs from single-cell data
Overview of SpectraSpectra (https://github.com/dpeerlab/spectra) grounds data-driven factors with prior biological knowledge (Supplementary Fig. 1). First, Spectra takes in prior biological information in the form of cell-type labels and explicitly models separate cell-type-specific factors that can account for local correlation patterns. This explicit separation of cell-type-specific and global factors enables the estimation of factors at multiple
Warner Bros. Discovery Q1 2023 Results Sees Media Giant Realize Streaming Profit despite Sustaining Overall Loss
Due to its commendable Q1 2023 streaming numbers, Warner Bros. Discovery expects its streaming business to stay profitable this year. On Friday, May 5, Warner Bros Discovery (NASDAQ: WBD) reported its Q1 2023 earnings before the bell that came in mixed. For instance, the media and entertainment giant reported a significant overall loss despite raking in profit from
Discovery of a circovirus involved in human hepatitis
In situ hybridization in liver section from a heart-lung transplant patient in France. Chromogenic in situ hybridization detected human circovirus type 1 mRNA (red staining) in hepatocytes nuclei and cytoplasm. Nuclei were counterstained with Harris hematoxylin and eosin stain; original magnification ×40. Credit: Emerging Infectious Diseases (2023). DOI: 10.3201/eid2902.221468 Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Necker-Enfants
Webb Confirms Discovery of Four Galaxies in Early Universe
The light from these four galaxies has taken more than 13.4 billion years to reach us, as they date back to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, when the Universe was only 2% of its current age. Distant galaxies selected and confirmed by the JWST JADES program. Image credit: Robertson et al.
Pandas eat for up to 15 hours a day and an adult panda can consume 45kg of bamboo a day. The discovery of panda fossils in China has helped researchers solve the mystery of how the giant species developed a "false thumb" and became the only dedicated vegetarian in the bear family. Fossils dating back…
Discovery of 30 exocomets in a young planetary system
The star β Pictoris harbors a young planetary system of about 20 million years old. This planetary system is characterized by the presence of a gaseous and dusty debris disk, at least two massive planets, and many minor bodies. These were detected as early as 1987. For more than thirty years, exocomets transiting the star…
Discovery may explain why more females than males get knee osteoarthritis
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Female astronauts could avoid knee injuries during space flight—and better tests, prevention and treatments could be developed for knee osteoarthritis in women here on Earth—based on newly published research on the sex differences in knee meniscus tissue. Knee osteoarthritis is more common in females than in males, but hormones alone are…
Scientists make rare discovery of a protein function universal to bacteria and humans
The amino acid selenocysteine, 3D-balls model. Credit: YassineMrabet/CC BY 3.0/Wikipedia Scientists have discovered that a human receptor protein has the ability to detect individual amino acids in exactly the same way that bacteria do. The finding could lead to enhancements of drugs derived from the amino acid GABA, but also has evolutionary implications: It adds…