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• Scientists Dramatically Reduce Plaque-Forming Substances in Mice with Alzheimer’s Disease

  Scientists have found that eliminating an enzyme from mice with symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease leads to a 90 percent reduction in the compounds responsible for formation of the plaques linked to Alzheimer’s disease. That is the most dramatic reduction in this compound reported to date in published research.

  The research is [...]

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• STEM Internships at Torrey Pines Institute Offer Hands-on Educational Experience to Students

  Science, technology, engineering and math, also known as STEM areas, are increasingly related to our everyday lives, including the products we buy, services we use and careers that will be available. In fact, STEM careers are predicted to make up 80% of future jobs. With this foresight and commitment to [...]

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• Crowdsourcing Sexual Behavior Data; tagged, timestamped and geo-located

  “People are natural observers. It’s part of being social, and using mobile apps is an excellent way to involve citizen scientists,” said Julia Heiman, director of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University. Taking advantage of this natural tendency, Kinsey has released Kinsey [...]

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• How to Keep Medical Devices Secure, Communicating on Hospital Networks

  What if you could shut down several emergency rooms simultaneously without leaving your own home? How about hacking a pacemaker and reprogramming it to cause a heart attack?

  Although these could be scenes from an espionage film, they are also some of the plausible scenarios that Kansas State University cybersecurity experts [...]

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• $7 Million to Mayo Clinic to Name Medical Simulation Center

  Motivated by their commitment to better the Jacksonville community and improve the lives of its citizens, J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver have given $7 million to the new Multidisciplinary Simulation Center at Mayo Clinic in Florida. The center will be named “Mayo Clinic J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver [...]

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