Listen to a short overview of the scientific discoveries reported in the past fortnight.
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Listen to a short overview of the scientific discoveries reported in the past fortnight.
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May 30, 2021
Science News-2nd Fortnight of May 2021
<p>In this episode, we will talk about a treatment to prevent covid-19 vaccine-induced blood-clotting, the mechanism of sense of smell loss in covid-19 patients, the effect of plastics on IQ, a new blood glucose monitoring system that uses sweat instead of blood and how the body differentiates between good bacteria in the gut from the bad ones.</p> <p>-----------------------------------------------------------</p> <p>The papers reviewed in this podcast:</p> <p>1- Johannes Thaler, Cihan Ay, Karoline V. Gleixner, Alexander W. Hauswirth, Filippo Cacioppo, Jürgen Grafeneder, Peter Quehenberger, Ingrid Pabinger, Paul Knöbl. <strong>Successful treatment of vaccine‐induced prothrombotic immune thrombocytopenia (VIPIT)</strong>. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2021; DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jth.15346" target="_blank">10.1111/jth.15346</a></p> <p>2- Guilherme Dias de Melo, Françoise Lazarini, Sylvain Levallois, Charlotte Hautefort, Vincent Michel, Florence Larrous, Benjamin Verillaud, Caroline Aparicio, Sebastien Wagner, Gilles Gheusi, Lauriane Kergoat, Etienne Kornobis, Flora Donati, Thomas Cokelaer, Rémi Hervochon, Yoann Madec, Emmanuel Roze, Dominique Salmon, Hervé Bourhy, Marc Lecuit, Pierre-Marie Lledo. <strong>COVID-19-related anosmia is associated with viral persistence and inflammation in human olfactory epithelium and brain infection in hamsters</strong>. Science Translational Medicine, 2021; eabf8396 DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.abf8396" target="_blank">10.1126/scitranslmed.abf8396</a></p> <p>3- Elin Engdahl, Katherine Svensson, Ping-I Daniel Lin, Ali Alavian-Ghavanini, Christian Lindh, Joëlle Rüegg, Carl-Gustaf Bornehag. <strong>DNA methylation at GRIN2B partially mediates the association between prenatal bisphenol F exposure and cognitive functions in 7-year-old children in the SELMA study</strong>. Environment International, 2021; 156: 106617 DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2021.106617" target="_blank">10.1016/j.envint.2021.106617</a></p> <p>4- Juliane R. Sempionatto, Jong-Min Moon, Joseph Wang. <strong>Touch-Based Fingertip Blood-Free Reliable Glucose Monitoring: Personalized Data Processing for Predicting Blood Glucose Concentrations</strong>. ACS Sensors, 2021; DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.1c00139" target="_blank">10.1021/acssensors.1c00139</a></p> <p>5- Daniel F. Zegarra-Ruiz, Dasom V. Kim, Kendra Norwood, Myunghoo Kim, Wan-Jung H. Wu, Fatima B. Saldana-Morales, Andrea A. Hill, Shubhabrata Majumdar, Stephanie Orozco, Rickesha Bell, June L. Round, Randy S. Longman, Takeshi Egawa, Matthew L. Bettini, Gretchen E. Diehl. <strong>Thymic development of gut-microbiota-specific T cells</strong>. Nature, 2021; DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03531-1" target="_blank">10.1038/s41586-021-03531-1</a></p> <p>----------</p> <p>Music: https://www.purple-planet.com</p> <p>----------</p>
May 2, 2021
Science News-2nd Fortnight of April 2021
<p>In this episode, we will talk about the benefit of mushroom in preventing cancer, the effect of shift-work on health and the role of public toilets in spreading the COVID-19 virus. The large-scale analysis of COVID-19 vaccine receivers and the relationship between financial problem and physical pain will be discussed here.</p> <p>-----------------------------------------------------------</p> <p>The papers reviewed in this podcast:</p> <p>1- Djibril M Ba, Paddy Ssentongo, Robert B Beelman, Joshua Muscat, Xiang Gao, John P Richie. <strong>Higher Mushroom Consumption Is Associated with Lower Risk of Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies</strong>. Advances in Nutrition, 2021; DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/advances/nmab015" target="_blank">10.1093/advances/nmab015</a></p> <p>2- Stéphanie M.C. Abo, Anita T. Layton. <strong>Modeling the circadian regulation of the immune system: sexually dimorphic effects of shift work</strong>. PLOS Computational Biology (submitted), 2021 </p> <p>3- Jesse H. Schreck, Masoud Jahandar Lashaki, Javad Hashemi, Manhar Dhanak, Siddhartha Verma. <strong>Aerosol generation in public restrooms</strong>. Physics of Fluids, 2021; 33 (3): 033320 DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0040310" target="_blank">10.1063/5.0040310</a></p> <p>4- Cristina Menni, Kerstin Klaser, Anna May, Lorenzo Polidori, Joan Capdevila, Panayiotis Louca, Carole H Sudre, Long H Nguyen, David A Drew, Jordi Merino, Christina Hu, Somesh Selvachandran, Michela Antonelli, Benjamin Murray, Liane S Canas, Erika Molteni, Mark S Graham, Marc Modat, Amit D Joshi, Massimo Mangino, Alexander Hammers, Anna L Goodman, Andrew T Chan, Jonathan Wolf, Claire J Steves, Ana M Valdes, Sebastien Ourselin, Tim D Spector. <strong>Vaccine side-effects and SARS-CoV-2 infection after vaccination in users of the COVID Symptom Study app in the UK: a prospective observational study</strong>. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2021; DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00224-3" target="_blank">10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00224-3</a></p> <p>5- Kandauda A. S. Wickrama, Eric T. Klopack, Catherine Walker O'Neal. <strong>Midlife family financial strain, sense of control and pain in later years: An investigation of rural husbands and wives</strong>. Stress and Health, 2021; DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smi.3038" target="_blank">10.1002/smi.3038</a></p> <p>----------</p> <p>Music: https://www.purple-planet.com</p> <p>----------</p>
April 14, 2021
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<p>Listen to a short overview of the scientific discoveries reported in the past fortnight.</p>
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