Clinical trial: novel nutritional formula treats gut microbial overgrowth(medicalxpress.com)

52 points by wglb 1 year ago | 21 comments

An ingestible device to record gastric electrophysiological activity(medicalxpress.com)

34 points by wglb 2 years ago | 3 comments

Mother's gut microbiome during pregnancy shapes baby's brain development(medicalxpress.com)

75 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 16 comments

Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells, research suggests(medicalxpress.com)

290 points by jdmark 2 years ago | 138 comments

3D-printable tissue adhesive(medicalxpress.com)

43 points by wglb 2 years ago | 4 comments

Engineers develop wearable heart attack detection technology(medicalxpress.com)

61 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 23 comments

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics(news.umich.edu)

537 points by giuliomagnifico 7 months ago | 242 comments

University of Michigan news release on a study finding nitrile and latex gloves can contaminate samples and cause overestimation of microplastics.

EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices(foodwatch.org)

489 points by john-titor 4 months ago | 267 comments

Foodwatch news article reporting that pesticides banned in the EU were found in rice, tea and spices sold to consumers.

Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers(news.unl.edu)

426 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 301 comments

University of Nebraska–Lincoln news article on a study finding microwaving plastic baby food containers releases billions of nanoplastics that harm cultured kidney cells.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics(thedrive.com)

598 points by geox 3 years ago | 487 comments

The Drive news article reporting a study finding that tire dust accounts for the majority of microplastics in the ocean.

Plastics are poisoning us(newyorker.com)

361 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 416 comments

New Yorker article by Elizabeth Kolbert on how plastics release and attract toxic chemicals and spread everywhere, from human placentas to deep ocean trenches.