Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength(ugr.es)

116 points by gnabgib 6 months ago | 63 comments

ARPA-H announces awards to develop novel technologies for precise tumor removal(arpa-h.gov)

128 points by melling 2 years ago | 23 comments

Nutrient found in beef and dairy improves immune response to cancer(biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu)

264 points by elorant 2 years ago | 160 comments

Supercharging Fuel Cells with Caffeine(chiba-u.ac.jp)

26 points by geox 2 years ago | 2 comments

Ushikuvirus: Newly discovered virus may offer clues to the origin of eukaryotes(tus.ac.jp)

121 points by rustoo 9 months ago | 40 comments

X-ray flashes from nearby supermassive black hole accelerate mysteriously(news.mit.edu)

70 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 3 comments

Single Dose of Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Eradicates 100% of Tumors in Mice(thefocalpoints.com)

321 points by mpweiher 3 months ago | 162 comments

Substack newsletter post by Nicolas Hulscher on a Gut Microbes study where a frog-derived bacterium, Ewingella americana, eliminated tumors in mice after one dose.

Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice(med.stanford.edu)

368 points by mustaphah 7 months ago | 176 comments

Stanford Medicine news article reporting that enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice.

Bacteria (and their metabolites) and depression(science.org)

384 points by Luc 1 year ago | 172 comments

Derek Lowe's In the Pipeline blog post at Science on research linking the gut bacterium Morganella morganii and its metabolites to depression.

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.

Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique(newatlas.com)

480 points by 01-_- 1 year ago | 114 comments

New Atlas article reporting on a new islet cell transplantation technique that reversed type 1 diabetes.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.