COVID-19's lingering shadow: The molecular link between SARS-CoV-2 and lung cancer risk

A new study suggests that COVID-19 may slightly increase the risk of lung cancer by triggering a biological chain reaction in ...

New open-source Python-based software boosts space-weather modeling

University of Birmingham experts have created open-source computer software that helps scientists understand how fast-moving ...

From lockdown to the lab: Researcher develops 'decoy molecule' to slow down coronavirus

While the Netherlands was in lockdown because of the coronavirus, Ph.D. candidate Koen Rijpkema began his research into the ...

OpenAI debuts GPT-Rosalind, a new limited access model for life sciences, and broader Codex plugin on Github

Credit: VentureBeat made with OpenAI GPT-Image-1.5 The journey from a laboratory hypothesis to a pharmacy shelf is one of the ...

OpenAI identifies security issue involving third-party tool, says user data was not accessed

The ChatGPT maker said it found no evidence that its user data was accessed or that its systems or intellectual property were ...
Nature

Dozens of AI disease-prediction models were trained on dubious data

The models are designed to predict someone’s risk of diabetes or stroke. A few might already have been used on patients.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Python Cave tours? The ways disease jumps from animals to humans are evolving

Tourism at a cave swarming with bats known to have transmitted a deadly fever disease? The popularity of Uganda's Python Cave points to yet another way interactions at the animal-human interface—where ...
AHA/ASA Journals

Targeting Interleukin-8–Mediated Cellular Crosstalk Reverses Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Cardiac Fibrosis in Noonan Syndrome

BACKGROUND: Genetic variants in components or regulators of the RAS-MAPK signaling pathway are causative for severe and early-onset hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in patients with Noonan syndrome ...