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Watch the Full Video at https://www.jove.com/v/55334/in-vivo-tracking-edema-developm…ideos-2022.

In Vivo Tracking of Edema Development and Microvascular Pathology in a Model of Experimental Cerebral Malaria Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging — a 2 minute Preview of the Experimental Protocol.

Angelika Hoffmann, Xavier Helluy, Manuel Fischer, Ann-Kristin Mueller, Sabine Heiland, Mirko Pham, Martin Bendszus, Johannes Pfeil.
Heidelberg University Hospital, Department of Neuroradiology; Heidelberg University Hospital, Division of Experimental Radiology, Department of Neuroradiology; Ruhr-University Bochum, NeuroImaging Centre Research, Department of Neuroscience; Heidelberg University Hospital, Centre for Infectious Diseases, Parasitology Unit; German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF),; University of Würzburg, Department of Neuroradiology; Heidelberg University Hospital, Center for Childhood and Adolescent Medicine, General Pediatrics;

We describe a mouse model of experimental cerebral malaria and show how inflammatory and microvascular pathology can be tracked in vivo using magnetic resonance imaging.

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Amazon unveils its newest warehouse robotic arm that utilizes artificial intelligence, which proves a terrifying possibility for Amazon warehouse workers to be easily replaced. John Iadarola and Jessica Burbank break it down on The Damage Report.

Amazon’s new robot should strike fear into its hundreds of thousands of warehouse workers — https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-released-warehouse-ro…022-11

“What do you call a robotic arm that relies on computer vision, artificial intelligence, and suction cups to pick up items?

In Amazon’s world, it’s called a “Sparrow.”

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For more information on pancreatic cancer, please visit https://cle.clinic/3rvBj1a.

Pancreatic cancer accounts for about 3% of all cancers in the United States and about 7% of all cancer deaths. Because it’s hard to detect early, it’s important to recognize any symptoms that occur.
Find out what to look for and when you should talk to your provider with this helpful video from Cleveland Clinic.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro.
0:28 What is pancreatic cancer?
0:58 What are the warning signs of pancreatic cancer?
2:46 When to talk with your healthcare provider about symptoms of pancreatic cancer.

Resources:

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A vaccine (DCVax-L), trialed at King’s College Hospital and other centers around the world, using patients’ immune cells to target brain cancer can extend survival by many months or, in some cases, years, the final unblinded results from a phase 3 clinical trial has shown. The final results were published on Thursday, November 17 in JAMA Oncology.

This is the first time in 17 years that such significant outcomes have been achieved in a phase 3 trial for a systemic treatment in newly diagnosed glioblastoma, and the first time in 27 years that any treatment has been shown to extend survival in recurrent glioblastoma.

The vaccine is created for each patient individually by isolating specific immune cells, known as , from their blood. These cells are then primed with biomarkers from a sample of the patient’s tumor. When the vaccine containing the cells is injected back into the patient, it shares that information so that the body’s entire immune system recognizes and attacks the target.

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To observe living cells through a microscope, a sample is usually squeezed onto a glass slide. It then lies there calmly and the cells are observable. The disadvantage is that this limits how the cells behave and it only produces two-dimensional images.

Researchers from UiT The Arctic University of Norway and the University Hospital of North Norway (UNN) have now developed what they are referring to as the next generation . The new technology can take pictures of much larger samples than before, while living and working in a more natural environment.

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Dogs cry tears of joy when reuniting with their owners.

Pet dogs produce a larger volume of tears when they are reunited with their owners than with acquaintances, possibly because of surging oxytocin levels—findings that could be the first evidence of emotional crying in nonhuman animals.

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The stimulations were critical for their learning. Separate experiments with DishBrain without any electrical feedback performed far worse.

Game On

The study is a proof of concept that neurons in a dish can be a sophisticated learning machine, and even exhibit signs of sentience and intelligence, said Kagan. That’s not to say they’re conscious—rather, they have the ability to adapt to a goal when “embodied” into a virtual environment.

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Sponsored by Kishore Tipirneni’s new book “A New Eden” available here: https://getbook.at/NewEden | Abiogenesis – origin of life. Living matter from non-living matter. The origin of living organisms from inorganic or non-living material is called abiogenesis. But abiogenesis is not evolution.

Despite the incredible variations of life we see today, at the fundamental level, all living things contain three elements: Nucleic acids, Proteins, and lipids. These three things had to have been present in order for life to start.

The most important component may have been lipids which make up the cell walls because without a way to encapsulate certain elements, they various chemicals could not come together to potentially interact.

Lipids molecules have a unique structure. The round part loves water. The tail part hates water. So it has a tendency to self-assemble into natural spheres. However, when there are certain salt ions present, it destroys the lipid spheres. But RNA and other functions of a cell require salts and other ions. However, researchers at the University of Washington showed that lipid spheres do not disassemble if they are in the presence of amino acids, precursor to protein molecules. So it turns out that lipid cell walls and proteins need each other to exist, in salty water.

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