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STAT+: ‘If this works, it changes everything’: Altos Labs founders lay out plan to reverse disease

STAT News

BOSTON — The executives behind Altos Labs would really, really like people to stop saying they’re trying to reverse aging. For one, the first article about the biotech and its $3 billion stash talked about Silicon Valley billionaires “ living forever.”

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STAT+: Research misconduct allegations put Stanford’s president — and science — under an uncomfortable spotlight

STAT News

And it’s the last thing people want to talk about openly. But if you step away from Stanford University’s public spaces — its spacious courtyards surrounded by sandstone buildings and bike paths flanked by palm trees — a subject that almost feels too big to talk about emerges at last.

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Study raises new possibilities for triggering room-temperature superconductivity with light

Scienmag

Much like people can learn more about themselves by stepping outside of their comfort zones, researchers can learn more about a system by giving it a jolt that makes it a little unstable – scientists call this “out of equilibrium” – and watching what happens as it settles back down into a more stable state. […].

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Has the CRISPR revolution arrived yet?

Medical Xpress

A decade after scientists developed the ability to edit DNA using the CRISPR sequence, the first drugs using the technique are approaching the market, with the potential to transform the lives of people with certain genetic illnesses. But questions of ethics, access, and pricing remain.

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A 20-year study may upend long-held theory about chromosomes and cancer

Medical Xpress

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say their 20-year study of more than 200 people with premature aging syndromes caused by abnormally short telomeres, or shortened repetitive DNA sequences at the ends of chromosomes, may upend long-held scientific dogma and settle conflicting studies about how and whether short telomeres contribute to cancer risk. (..)

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Health misinformation online abounds

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While psychological factors leave people unguarded against misinformation, people in the U.S. Roughly 45 million American adults (out of about 200 million) cannot read above a fifth-grade level , according to the Literacy Project Foundation. No matter the form, inaccurate health information is a danger to public health.

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Machine learning helps to tackle long COVID

Medical Xpress

As scientists work to untangle the many remaining unanswered questions about how the initial infection impacts the body, they must now also investigate why some people develop debilitating, chronic symptoms that last months to years longer. Long COVID has emerged as a pandemic within the pandemic.