BR Medical Topics Corner

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Infosys Prize2024 in Life Sciences is awarded to Prof. Siddhesh Kamat, IISER Pune.
...for his discoveries concerning bioactive lipids and their receptors, and their metabolic and signaling pathways.

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From MIT: MIT researchers are developing tiny "wearable" devices for cells that could revolutionize brain health. These breakthroughs could help restore brain function and combat diseases like multiple scleros
Wearable” devices for cells

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From MIT: MIT scientists may have unlocked potential new mechanisms in Alzheimer’s treatment. By studying fruit flies and human data, they’ve identified drug targets tied to DNA repair and RNA modification, moving beyond the usual suspects like amyloid plaques.
Scientists discover potential new targets for Alzheimer’s drugs

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The first large language health model that predicts >1,000 diseases and the time they will occur in a person was just published Nature
Learning the natural history of human disease with generative transformers

This, along with other recent groundbreaking reports, represents the dawn of a new era of primary prevention in medicine