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Ozempic Drug May Add Addiction Treatment To Its Growing List Of Uses

Semaglutide was associated with a decrease in drug and alcohol consumption, and anecdotally, many patients taking the drug report a decrease in the urge to drink.

AI Helps Scientists Track Icebergs By Analysing Radar Data

The hope is that by accurately detecting and tracking icebergs, it will be possible to develop a digital twin of the Antarctic sea that will lead to a better understanding of the complex physics of how the ocean, ice, and atmosphere interact with one another.

Speed Counts When Walking To Beat Diabetes, Says New Study

"While current strategies to increase total walking time are beneficial, it may also be reasonable to encourage people to walk at faster speeds to further increase the health benefits of walking."

Zombie Cells Have A Weakness. An Experimental Anti-Aging Therapy Exploits It.

It's a promising alternative to existing methods for wiping out senescent cells.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says His Company Is Now Building GPT-5

Google DeepMind is currently working on its next AI algorithm, Gemini, and big tech is investing heavily in other leading startups, like Anthropic, Character.

Did This Chemical Reaction Create The Building Blocks Of Life On Earth?

A chemical reaction called the formose reaction, first discovered in 1861, is one of the best examples of an autocatalytic reaction that could have happened on the early Earth.

DeepMind Defines Artificial General Intelligence And Ranks Today's Leading Chatbots

While some believe true AGI will not be possible unless AI is embodied in physical robotic machinery, the DeepMind team say this is not a prerequisite for AGI. The focus, they say, should be on tasks that fall in the cognitive and metacognitive-for instance, learning to learn-realms.

An AI Tool Just Revealed Almost 200 New Systems For CRISPR Gene Editing

This month, a team at MIT and Harvard led by CRISPR pioneer Dr. Feng Zhang took inspiration from an existing big-data approach and used AI to narrow the sea of genetic sequences to a handful that are similar to known CRISPR systems.

'Breakthrough' CRISPR Treatment Slashes Cholesterol In First Human Clinical Trial

For these treatments, scientists extract immune cells or blood cells from the body, edit the cells using CRISPR to correct the genetic mistake, and reinfuse the treated cells into the patient.

Google DeepMind's AI Revolutionizes Weather Forecasting With GraphCast

GraphCast's introduction into the field of meteorology signifies a turning point in weather forecasting.

How Patient Data Is Helping Beat Cancer

"The more tumours we study, the more we understand how they differ from each other and how we can use this information to improve outcomes for people with cancer."

Stand Up To Cancer Unveils New Gastroesophageal Cancer Research Teams And Awards

Stand Up To Cancer® (SU2C) today announced three Research Teams focused on bringing new therapies to clinical trials for the treatment of gastroesophageal cancer.