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Single quantum device that measures amperes, volts and ohms could revolutionize how we measure electricity

A team of scientists has revealed how a single quantum device can accurately measure the three fundamental units of electricity—the ampere (unit of electrical current), the volt (unit of electrical potential) and the ohm (unit of electrical resistance). This is a significant breakthrough because until now, no single instrument could measure all three primary electrical units in one practical system. It means that making electrical measurements could be more precise and reduce the potential for human error.

TAU Breakthrough Offers New Hope to Help People With Paralysis Walk Again

Paralysis from spinal injury has long remained untreatable. Could scientific developments get people affected on their feet again sooner than imagined? In a worldwide first, Tel Aviv University researchers have engineered 3D human spinal cord tissues and implanted them in a lab model with long-term chronic paralysis, demonstrating high rates of success in restoring walking abilities. Now, the researchers are preparing for the next stage of the study, clinical trials in human patients.

New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients

LOS ANGELES — A new drug-releasing system, TAR-200, eliminated tumors in 82% of patients in a phase 2 clinical trial for individuals with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer whose cancer had previously resisted treatment.

In the majority of cases, the cancer disappeared after only three months of treatment, and almost half the patients were cancer-free a year later.

“Traditionally, these patients have had very limited treatment options. This new therapy is the most effective one reported to date for the most common form of bladder cancer,” said Sia Daneshmand, MD, director of urologic oncology with Keck Medicine of USC and lead author of a study detailing the clinical trial results published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. “The findings of the clinical trial are a breakthrough in how certain types of bladder cancer might be treated, leading to improved outcomes and saved lives.”#

IVAE: an interpretable representation learning framework enhances clustering performance for single-cell data

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) serve as essential components in large generative models for extracting latent representations and have gained widespread application in biological domains. Developing VAEs specifically tailored to the unique characteristics of biological data is crucial for advancing future large-scale biological models.

Through systematic monitoring of VAE training processes across 31 public single-cell datasets spanning oncological and normal conditions, we discovered that reducing the β β value which corresponds to lower disentanglement of VAE significantly improves unsupervised clustering metrics in single-cell data analysis. Based on this finding, we innovatively developed iVAE with an irecon module that, when benchmarked against 8 established dimensionality reduction methods across 5 clustering performance metrics, exhibited superior capabilities in representing single-cell transcriptomic data.

5 Weird Alien Tech Sci-Fi You Need to Read

In this video, I’m counting down 5 Weird Alien Tech Sci-Fi You Need to Read—plus a few honourable mentions—for fans of mind-bending, physics-breaking, utterly baffling extraterrestrial inventions.

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Check out these early Tao Solandis reviews:

Sweat-sensitive jacket adjusts its thickness to keep you comfortable when it’s cold

When we are out in cold weather, we wear warm clothes to stay comfortable. But there is a snag. Regular warm clothing can’t adjust to changes in our body temperature. If we start to sweat, we get too hot and sticky, which makes us want to remove layers. This defeats the purpose of wearing them, since we still need to stay warm.

But what if our clothes could adapt? That’s the question Xiuqiang Li at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China and his colleagues set out to answer. They have developed a jacket with a filling made from a bacterial cellulose membrane that responds to human sweating.

The innovative membrane automatically adjusts its thickness based on humidity. It’s 13 millimeters thick in cool, and shrinks to just 2 millimeters when humidity levels are high, such as when you sweat. This allows the to be thick when you need to stay warm and then get thinner when you want to cool down a little.

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