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Several thousand scientists from 113 countries say that the job pressures of being a researcher are rising.Credit: L. E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Scientists feel that the pressure to publish is rising, but that the time and resources they have to do the necessary research are falling, according to a survey of 3,200 researchers.The results come from Elsevier’s 2025 Researcher of the Future report, which surveyed people from 113 countries between August and September, to assess how researchers view the evolving research landscape.About 68% of respondents said the pressure to publish their research is greater than it…
Traditional brain implants involve invasive surgery. A new approach could bypass this risky process.Image credit:© iStock.com, Moor StudioBrain implants can provide important insights into the nervous system and even relieve the symptoms of brain diseases. But getting implants into a patient’s head is an operation fraught with risks of tissue damage and infection. Some approaches use blood vessels to deliver implants to the fringes of the brain, but these cannot access deep-lying areas at the roots of some of the most stubborn brain disorders. To overcome this, researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by bioengineer Deblina Sarkar, took up…
Trader Joe’s November Fearless Flyer highlights six ready-to-serve Thanksgiving desserts.Options include pies from apple crumble to pecan, plus classic cinnamon buns.Each dessert needs little to no prep and is perfect for easy entertaining and store-bought holiday hosting. You may be in the middle of Thanksgiving menu planning, or you may have no idea what to bring to your family’s gathering. Either way, we understand if making dessert offerings from scratch seems like too much this year. That’s why we compiled six pre-made Trader Joe’s desserts that are so delicious, no one will even suspect that they’re store-bought. Featuring pies and…
Several factors go into protecting our brains from dementia as we age.Volunteering or helping people may help reduce cognitive decline.Diet, exercise, lowering stress and quality sleep can also help protect our brains. Your brain is your control tower. Everything that goes on in your body is regulated and controlled in some way by your brain. As we age, our brains change—that’s why you may walk into a room and find that you’ve forgotten what you came there for. It can also be why you have a hard time remembering where your keys are. Some of this can be a normal…
Credit: Abdul Rauf/Getty Images Using an analysis of nearly 900 cases of childhood medulloblastoma, researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have designed a new approach to treatment that could safely reduce radiation and chemotherapy exposure for many young patients. Their work, which combines clinical and molecular data from three major clinical trials, offers a data-driven method to guide therapy intensity and limit long-term treatment toxicities. “We found data to support that 40% of patients with medulloblastoma can receive lower doses of craniospinal radiation therapy and almost all can receive less chemotherapy than they received in the clinical trials we…
While ulcerative colitis (UC) is best known for causing symptoms like abdominal cramping, fatigue, and rectal pain, bloating is also common. While it may not be the most disruptive UC symptom you’ve experienced, bloating can be extremely uncomfortable — and potentially avoidable, if you learn to address its potential causes and find treatments that can alleviate it.”Ulcerative colitis [causes] inflammation in the digestive system, and when this inflammation is active — and particularly when bowel habits are irregular — there can be a sensation of feeling bloated,” says Pratima Dibba, MD, a gastroenterologist at the Medical Offices of Manhattan in New…
Jin sat waiting, silent and still, as the full-brain digital back-up neared completion.Above him, the consciousness scanner buzzed quietly, reading every memory, mapping every neuron, preparing to create a cloud-bound digital self.The process of bestowing an immortal digital life on humans was expected to take about half an hour. To pass the time, Jin looked out of the window.The first thing that caught his eye was not anything outside the window, but his own reflection. The white hair, weathered by time, framed his face like a reminder etched in silver. It spoke, wordlessly, of his age — and the fear…
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The smoldering rubble after the World Trace Center collapsed on 11 September, 2001. Credit: Porter Gifford/Corbis/GettyAfter interviewing health-care workers who had responded to the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in New York City, Erin Smith, a disaster-response researcher at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia, noticed her behaviour changing. “I started having nightmares where it was me buried in the rubble and I would wake up gasping for breath,” says Smith. She became anxious about being in crowded spaces and had intrusive thoughts about the stories she had heard during her research.It was only when she saw a psychiatrist…
Speaking with NutraIngredients+ at the recent SupplySide Global, Israelsen, who was also one of the key architects of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), explained the history of the new dietary ingredient (NDI) provision in the bill and the last-minute dilemma faced by the drafters. “We got to a point [in the negotiations around DSHEA] where the question was asked by the opposition side, ‘What do we do with all these ingredients, and what about new things?’ And the trigger point was concern expressed by the pharma industry to the other side,” Israelsen said. The pharma industry was…