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College sues for damages, saying cleaner turned off lab freezer and destroyed research
Credit: CC0 Public Domain More than 20 years of cell cultures and other specimens stored at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute were destroyed when a cleaner switched off power to a lab freezer, according to a lawsuit filed by the school. RPI is seeking $1 million from Daigle Cleaning Systems, claiming one of the company’s employees…
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Bacteria that ‘sense’ Earth’s magnetic field found on deep undersea vents — ScienceDaily
Magnetotactic bacteria, which can align with the Earth’s magnetic field, have been discovered in a new location. Previously observed on land and in shallow water, analysis of a hydrothermal vent has proven that they can also survive deep under the ocean. The bacteria were able to exist in an environment that was not ideal for…
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‘the most successful failure in my life’
Laura Walker joined Moderna in March.Credit: Anna Z. Wec In March, Laura Walker left the biopharmaceutical company she had co-founded three years earlier to join Moderna as the head of its infectious disease biotherapeutics team in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Walker was chief scientific officer at Invivyd in Waltham, Massachusetts, which launched as Adagio Therapeutics at the…
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Spatiotemporal patterns and determinants of renewable energy innovation: Evidence from a province-level analysis in China
Dependent variable Patents can reflect the innovative performance of an economy in a manner that is attractive to researchers from an output perspective. Despite their shortcomings, patent counts are still the best available source of data on innovation that is readily available and comparable across countries and China’s provinces (Johnstone et al., 2010; Geng and…
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Ancient-DNA researcher fired for ‘serious misconduct’ lands new role
Charles Sturt University in south-eastern Australia has confirmed the appointment of Alan Cooper to its faculty.Credit: Alan Levine/Flickr (CC0 1.0) Former staff and students of the ancient-DNA researcher Alan Cooper have expressed surprise that Charles Sturt University has appointed him as a faculty member after the University of Adelaide dismissed him in 2019 for “serious…
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AI technology application and employee responsibility
Theoretical basis Behavioral science theory At the end of 19th century and the beginning of 20th century, with economic development and social progress, people found that scientific management theory could not solve all problems in practice. The scientific management theory assumes that people are “economic people”, with a one-sided emphasis on the stimulus role of…
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A decades-long decline in extreme poverty has gone into reverse — here’s how to fix things
Queuing for food in Hamburg, Germany, in 1946. After the Second World War, many European countries established social and health protections, something that would help to end extreme poverty today.Credit: Fred Ramage/Keystone Features/Getty By 2030, says the World Bank, something like 574 million people will be living in extreme poverty. That is equivalent to the…
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Battling a health crisis in the Amazon
An urgent public-health situation is unfolding among Indigenous communities in the Brazilian state of Roraima. Health workers trying to tackle the problem, which includes a deadly malaria outbreak, must deal with the complex mixture of biological and political factors that have led to the current situation and that could act as obstacles to potential solutions.…
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Lessons from COVID-19 must be learned before the next outbreak
World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/news/item/05-05-2023-statement-on-the-fifteenth-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations-(2005)-emergency-committee-regarding-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-19)-pandemic (accessed 5 May 2023). Bill Signed: H.J.Res. 7. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/legislation/2023/04/10/bill-signed-h-j-res-7/ (2023). Mathieu, E. et al. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-stringency-index (accessed 16 March 2023). World Health Organization. https://covid19.who.int/table (accessed 16 March 2023). He, L., Chen, J. & Cheung, E.
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To share is to be a scientist
“A data file itself is really pointless,” says Freeberg. Data need associated information, which might be about the phenotype or disease or sample quality, and it’s crucial to data sharing. In the case of organoids, metadata might include how the organoid was grown or collected. With human data, metadata can include an individual’s demographic and…