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Intracellular complement factor H protects neurons during CNS inflammation (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-02 | by Mayer | tags: complement factor h, multiple sclerosis, snrna-seq

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Trump expected to pick conservative policy wonk Heidi Overton to lead FDA (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: fda, heidi overton, johns hopkins

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Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: johns hopkins, waist circumference, visceral fat

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Doctors Warn That Med Students Are Surrendering Their Brains to Medical AIs That Are Even Worse than Regular Chatbots (futurism.com)

2026-08-11 | by Frank Landymore | tags: openevidence, chatgpt, claude

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AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive (wired.com)

2026-08-11 | by Claire L. Evans | tags: organoids, johns hopkins, biocomputing

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Economist Steve Hanke says AI won't destroy most jobs because it costs more than hiring humans (techspot.com)

2026-08-03 | by Rob Thubron | tags: johns hopkins, elon musk, jobs

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OpenAI’s top model just hacked a competitor, but the real issue is much scarier (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: openai, johns hopkins, model

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Ten years of mapping gene expression in tissues (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-21 | by Fan | tags: spatial transcriptomics, johns hopkins, gene expression

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Long After Pluto Fly-By, NASA's New Horizon's Probe Wakes Up Again, Starts Doing New Science (slashdot.org)

2026-07-18 | by Posted | tags: new horizons, pluto, kuiper belt

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A hidden predictor of sudden cardiac death uncovered by deep learning (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-24 | by Lai | tags: johns hopkins university, electrocardiogram, deep learning

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JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-21 | get JWST Weather Map Poster → | tags: james webb space telescope, wasp-94a b, exoplanet atmospheres

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See the clouds streaming and vanishing around this planet — 690 light years away (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-21 | by Castelvecchi | get Exoplanet Cloud Simulator → | tags: wasp-94 a b, james webb space telescope, exoplanet atmospheres

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Agentic AI for Robot Teams (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-05-18 | get Robot Team Collaboration Kit → | tags: johns hopkins, agentic ai, robotic teams

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Investors Flocking to Super-Anonymous Cryptocurrency Used for the Sketchiest Stuff Imaginable (futurism.com)

2026-05-17 | by Joe Wilkins | get Tornado Cash Cryptocurrency Mixer → | tags: bitcoin, blockchain, zcash

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Zcash is on the rise this year: Why the privacy-focused Bitcoin alternative is on the radar of crypto investors (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-15 | get Zcash Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet → | tags: zcash, bitcoin, mit

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Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-13 | by Ben Brubaker | get Quantum Encryption Device → | tags: zero-knowledge proofs, oded goldreich, yair oren

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Could Contact-Tracing Apps Help With the Hantavirus? Not Really (wired.com)

2026-05-10 | by Boone Ashworth | tags: contact-tracing apps, hantavirus, apple

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The World's Smallest Wellness Wearable, Smart Earrings, Just Launched on Kickstarter (cnet.com)

2026-04-29 | by See Full Bio | get Oura Ring Gen 3 → | tags: lumia health, lumia 2, smart earrings

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GLP-1 Drugs Linked to Cognitive Impairment, Though the Reason Why Probably Isn’t What You Expect (futurism.com)

2026-04-25 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: glucagon-like peptide-1, semaglutide, ozempic

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In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It Too Far? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-26 | by Leila Sloman | get Mathematical Proof Assistant Software → | tags: lean, qed manifesto, carnegie mellon university

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The Misuses of the University (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-25 | by Morgan Barry | get I can't fulfill this request. → | tags: snf agora institute, johns hopkins, airport sublime

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Hamilton Smith obituary: molecular biologist who co-discovered precise molecular scissors for cutting DNA (feeds.nature.com)

2025-11-10 | by Venter | get Scissors → | tags: genome, hopkins, sequencing

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DNA pioneer James Watson has died ― colleagues wrestle with his legacy (feeds.nature.com)

2025-11-08 | by Ledford | get Genome → | tags: franklin, hopkins, just

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An Interstellar Comet Is Here, and Its Age Is Mind-Bending (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Ellyn Lapointe | get Samsung Galaxy → | tags: 3i, atlas, hopkins

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A Third Interstellar Visitor Is Here, and Astronomers Might Know Where It Came From (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Ellyn Lapointe | get Samsung Galaxy → | tags: 3i, atlas, hopkins

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Doctors Find They Can Detect Cancer in Blood Years Before Diagnosis (futurism.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: cancer, early, hopkins