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Rijk Gans retweeted
Jun 8
In today's @TheLancet there are 3 papers on cardiometabolic disease: biology, epidemiology, prevention/treatment.
The sobering and all to common story from womb to tomb conveyed in this graphic
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‘Severe’ stress on oceans as rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns theguardian.com/environment/…
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Are we crossing a line towards eugenics? Efficient base editing and development in human embryos without chromosomal alterations | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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A worrisome development: Tools that strip AI safety controls from open models are spreading: FT buff.ly/gqKZwj1
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A new study has found that nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide had mental disorders in 2023, reflecting a 95.5% increase since 1990, with the largest increases in anxiety and depression. cnn.it/4a5hKDV
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Rijk Gans retweeted
May 20
Supplementation with Vitamin D or calcium, or both does not help prevent fractures or falls. From a new systematic review of 69 randomized trials and >150,000 participants
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Rijk Gans retweeted
May 21
Liquid Moves Through A Connected Straw:
🌀A continuous liquid path lets pressure differences and gravity drive flow between the glasses
🌀Once the straw is moved, the fluid redistributes until the levels start to even out
🌀The interesting part is that the system is chasing balance, not following the straw
🌀In a connected fluid, “where it goes” is really just a matter of pressure and height
📹 via interesting_ail (X)
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Rijk Gans retweeted
May 21
The new issue of Daedalus, the open-access Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is chock full of good material on AI. w/@demishassabis @ylecun @alondra @pushmeet and so many others
I wrote about the future of AI-facilitated medicine
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Rijk Gans retweeted
May 20
Important editorial @Nature on the new "AI-scientist" papers
"AI scientists can and should empower human
researchers. They cannot and should not replace them."
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May 19
A big day for multi-agent AI to accelerate biomedical discovery, hypothesis generation, designing experiments with proof points of new candidate drugs (cancer, fibrosis, macular degeneration, antimicrobial resistance, and more)
2 @Nature reports @GoogleDeepMind @FutureHouseSF
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“Never again” We had learned our lesson after COVID-19. Fragmented global cooperation tells a very different story. Hantavirus—surprise, complacency, and peril buff.ly/7CHKaYl
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Rijk Gans retweeted
May 10
Why is there such obsession with extending lifespan when the bigger issue is that average healthspan is 65 years and there are no data (except in super-centenarians) that longer lifespan = longer healthspan (known as compression of morbidity)?
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Rijk Gans retweeted
May 8
The big advance in the science of human aging is the ability to quantify it and relate the metrics to health and disease. A new paper today @CellCellPress takes this to the next level with organ clocks and multiple biologic layers (omics) of data across the lifespan.
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Rijk Gans retweeted
May 8
Metformin, one of the most commonly prescribed drugs, was thought to work via the liver. Check that. It's primarily through the gut. @NatMetabolism
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Rijk Gans retweeted
Apr 28
What superhuman vision can detect from the retinal photo, which human eyes cannot, is stunning. A new foundation AI model screening for diabetes hypertension, hyperlipidemia, gout, osteoporosis, and thyroid disease @NatureMedicine
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The next #EBIM newsletter is out! Timely insights on medical topics that could change primary care practice tomorrow. EBIM in the Loop, April 18 buff.ly/BsWf18M #InternalMedicine #PrimaryCare #MedicalEducation
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Australia Bans Use of Genetic Testing Data by Life Insurers: the way forward! buff.ly/1CWCfle
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A µ-opioid receptor superagonist analgesic with minimal adverse effects | a breakthrough in pain? Nature buff.ly/DrBEtty
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Rijk Gans retweeted
Apr 4
This year 5 tech companies have introduced AI chatbots to consumers for health support @AnthropicAI @perplexity_ai @OpenAI @Microsoft @amazon
@nicnguyen, a @WSJ journalist, tried some out.
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Rijk Gans retweeted
Apr 2
The $70 billion/year industry in the US with zero evidence of benefit in healthy people and thousands of paid influencers, by @saraashleyo
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