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  • Antibody developed to protect immune system cells in vitro from a dangerous hospital-acquired bacterium

    Antibody developed to protect immune system cells in vitro from a dangerous hospital-acquired bacterium

    A monoclonal antibody created by the Nanobiotechnology for Diagnostics group (Nb4D) at the Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC), part of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has demonstrated in cell cultures that it can…

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  • Generative adversarial networks and hyperparameter-optimized XGBoost for enhanced heart disease prediction

  • World Health Organization, Cardiovascular diseases (cvds) fact sheet, accessed: 2025-03-29. URL (2021). https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cardiovascular-diseases-(cvds).

  • Friedman, J. H. Greedy function approximation: A gradient…

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  • Fast-food AI drive-thrus may nudge you toward junk food

    Fast-food AI drive-thrus may nudge you toward junk food

    How does ordering food via AI influence customer food choices? This is what a recent study published in the International Journal of Hospitality Management hopes to address as a team of researchers…

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  • Fast-food AI drive-thrus may nudge you toward junk food

    Fast-food AI drive-thrus may nudge you toward junk food

    How does ordering food via AI influence customer food choices? This is what a recent study published in the International Journal of Hospitality Management hopes to address as a team of researchers…

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  • First-ever in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair shows safe results

    First-ever in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair shows safe results

    A Phase I clinical trial published in The Lancet has shown that combining stem cell therapy with standard fetal surgery before birth is a safe and promising approach to treat myelomeningocele, a severe form of spina bifida. This is the first time…

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  • Immune blueprint maps how the system fights most widespread form of malaria parasite

    Immune blueprint maps how the system fights most widespread form of malaria parasite

    New research co-led by Burnet Institute and WEHI has uncovered how the human immune system fights Plasmodium vivax, paving the way for the first effective vaccine against the most widespread form of malaria. Published in Immunity, the study…

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