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isbscience.org/news/2024/11/21/isb-study-highlights-ais-potential-and-pitfalls-in-analyzing-health-data/  Posted on November 21, 2024 ISB Associate Professor Dr. Jennifer Hadlock, left, and Dr. Alexandra Ralevski. Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) researchers have gained new insights into the strengths and limitations of using artificial intelligence (AI) to identify social determinants of health from electronic health records. Their peer-reviewed results were published on November 19. The ISB team, collaborating with Providence, leveraged large language models (LLM) developed from generative pre-trained transformers (GPT). Their research was conducted completely within the secure Providence internal environment. The study – aimed at detecting housing instability – was conducted on over 25,000 clinical notes from…

Although more common in dogs, 4 in 10 pet cats also choose to play fetch with their owners, Mikel Delgado from Purdue University, US, and colleagues report in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, publishing September 4, 2024.Credit: Leeza Kolesnikov, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Although more common in dogs, 4 in 10 pet cats also choose to play fetch with their owners, Mikel Delgado from Purdue University, US, and colleagues report in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, publishing September 4, 2024.Dogs are well-known for playing fetch, but some cats also engage in fetching behavior. Fetching may have its roots in the natural…

by Gertrud U. Rey During the first few months of life, residual maternal antibodies that crossed the placenta during gestation and antibodies from breast milk protect infants from infection with various microbes. This type of immune protection is known as “passive immunity,” and differs from “active immunity,” which develops in an individual following vaccination or natural infection with a pathogen. Active immunity involves the function of both antibodies and T cells. During a first exposure to a pathogen (or immunization against that pathogen), T helper cells sense the presence of one or more antigens as foreign and trigger the release…

No such thing as a standard career path – an interview with Maria Rostovskaya Maria Rostovskaya is a senior research scientist at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK, studying development using human pluripotent stem cells. Between her undergraduate degree and her PhD, Maria was a dancer and dance teacher for a few years. What made her decide to switch careers and eventually follow an academic career path? How did her experience in dancing shape her subsequent career? We chatted to Maria to find out more. How has your career path been so far? I did my undergrad in molecular biology at…

Photo credit: John West. It was the end of August, and I was standing in the woods looking out on mountains, meadows, and a crisp blue sky. The scene was stunning in its serenity and beauty. Yet it was also haunted by sadness. I was standing amidst the ruins of the Berghof, Hitler’s infamous retreat near the German-Austrian border. This was where some of the worst atrocities in human history were planned. How could so much evil spring forth from a place of such incredible beauty? For me, the experience underscored how much our view of nature matters. At the…

isbscience.org/news/2024/11/26/2024-25-school-year-isb-education-highlights/  Posted on November 26, 2024 Each month throughout the 2024-2025 academic year, we will highlight some of the top projects the ISB Education team is working on. November Dr. Phil Bell and Dr. Deb Morrison were this year’s recipients of the Valerie Logan Leadership in Science Education Award. Ignite STEM! Thank you to all the friends of ISB Education   On November 13, ISB held the annual Ignite STEM event to celebrate our education program impacts. At the heart of this evening is the Valerie Logan Leadership in Science Education award. The two awardees for this 11th year are Dr.…

Young male northern elephant seals are captured on camera returning to a deep sea cabled observatory off Canada’s British Columbia coast, demonstrating new insight into fish foraging behaviorCredit: Ocean Networks Canada, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Young male northern elephant seals are captured on camera returning to a deep sea cabled observatory off Canada’s British Columbia coast, demonstrating new insight into fish foraging behavior### Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0308461 Article Title: Deep-sea cabled video-observatory provides insights into the behavior at depth of sub-adult male northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris Author Countries: Canada, USA, Spain Funding: Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is funded through the Canada…

Rory L. Cooper, Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh & Michel C. Milinkovitch Laboratory of Artificial and Natural Evolution (LANE), Geneva, Switzerlandhttps://www.lanevol.org A juvenile (2 years old) Nile crocodile.
Credits: M. C. Milinkovitch & A. Debry
© [email protected] — University of Geneva, Switzerland. From the hard, protective scales of reptiles to the soft, insulating fur of mammals, amniotes are equipped with a remarkable range of skin appendages that help them thrive in diverse environments. To fulfil their various functions, such as mechanical protection, thermoregulation, and the provision of camouflage, skin appendages must be precisely arranged (or patterned). For instance, birds display a regular spatial arrangement of…

Hello friends – This is just a quick note to let you know that very soon I will be announcing the imminent release of my new book, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships. I am very excited to be entering the national conversation on sex and gender and I hope that my book will make a meaningful contribution. Along with that, I will be jumping back into social media in an effort to promote the book and its message, and connect with other scientists and activitists in the sex and gender…

It has been a few weeks since the 15th Chinese Symposium on Biodiversity Science and Conservation, where the first “Seminar on Methods in Ecology and Evolution in China” was held. In these blog posts, we hear from some of the winners of the “Outstanding Young Scholar Award in Ecological and Evolutionary Methodology in China”. Here, winner Jin Liu discusses the background behind their research. Post provided by Jin Liu. I am Jin Liu, a postdoctoral researcher at Peking University. I am broadly interested in seasonality and eco-evo dynamics. My current research integrates theoretical modelling and empirical data to understand how…