
Robert West, PhD ✝️ 🟦 🧬⚕️#PM101
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@SUNY Emeritus via @Harvard @ucdavis. #PersonalizedMedicine AI and 🧬 of Disease. #Arachnoiditis: #neuropathicpain #paraplegia. Pic: St. Marks, FL
Tallahassee, FL
Joined March 2008
FWIW, this is the most dead-on balls accurate symptom appraisal for inflammation of the spinal arachnoid membrane/leptomeninges causing havoc in the lives of those w #arachnoiditis, and we had to wait for #ChatGPT5: .(Doctors, take note!)
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RT @NeuroCellPress: Online now: Dietary-dependent sensitization of neuronal leptin signaling promotes neural repair after injury via cAMP….
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RT @TOEwithCurt: Straight from Roger Penrose, Bob Coecke, Ivette Fuentes, and Michael Wright, a new project aims to digitize an entirely ne….
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RT @NeuroscienceNew: “Stomach–brain coupling indexes a dimensional signature of mental health” by Micah Allen et al. Nature Mental Health….
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Nature Mental Health - Using a relatively large and diverse sample of mostly young adults, this study by Banellis, Rebollo and colleagues examines associations between regional stomach–brain...
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Scientific panel puts new guardrails around stem cell-based embryo models via @statnews.
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An influential scientific panel is pumping the brakes on stem cell-based embryo models.
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GPT-5 vs GPT-4: I tested both on 7 real-world challenges — one dominated
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The results weren't even close
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RT @NirvanicAI: 🧠How can consciousness be accessed in non-biological systems, like AI? @SuzanneGildert takes this Q below, in our third vi….
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"Kelly Krechmer, 54, claims in papers filed in a Manhattan Surrogate Court she is entitled to a chunk of the artist’s $39 million estate." #23andMe.
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Kelly Krechmer was born in 1971, and claims in papers filed in New York County Surrogate Court she's entitled to some of the influential sculptor's $40 million estate.
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Vinay Prasad returns to the FDA, weeks after his ouster via @statnews 👊🏼.
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HFO HFO Vinay Prasad returns to a top FDA role just weeks after his abrupt dismissal.
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Will AGI cure cancer? Author Karen Hao on OpenAI’s promises and track record via @statnews . "This is why ChatGPT has a free tier, she said. Getting user data directly gives OpenAI a competitive advantage. “Any company can scrape from the internet. But if.
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The latest in AI in medicine and health tech, brought to you by a real human.
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RT @davidasinclair: NEW STUDY: Epigenetic alterations turn on ancient endogenous retrotransposon genes to accelerate aging and Alzheimer’s,….
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RT @MAstronomers: 🚨: Voyager 1, currently over 15 billions miles away, still operates using 69KB of memory, 8 track tape and Fortran code w….
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“specific terpenoids, particularly α-Bisabolol and eucalyptol, emerge as key predictors of treatment response”.
🚨 NEW RESEARCH! ⚕️ 🩺 . Hatav et al. use machine learning to analyze chemical profiles of medical cannabis cultivars and their association to pain relief outcomes. Specific terpenoids predict pain relief outcomes in people with chronic pain.
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RT @StuartHameroff: Great. The problem in Alzheimer’s is microtubules fall apart, and lithium stabilizes microtubules, as has been known si….
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RT @JAMA_current: Twenty-five years ago, Maja Matarić and USC colleagues pioneered socially assistive robotics for health care. #AI advance….
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This Medical News article is an interview with Maja Matarić, PhD, of the University of Southern California, who discussed how AI is advancing the field of socially assistive robotics in areas ranging...
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“One obvious question is whether the regressive correlates of average aging can be slowed and delayed to promote the superaging phenotype. Preliminary evidence suggests that genes such as KLOTHO, BDNF, APOE, REST, and TMEM106b might exert such influences.”.
Some octogenarians have exceptionally sharp memories, even sharper than people who are decades younger. A new analysis of their brains could help explain why.
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I’ve spent 30 years trying to harness AI to fight cancer. I’m dismayed by the AI pseudo-revolution via @statnews . "Health care systems are rushing to adopt flawed solutions without fully grasping their risks".
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The AI pseudo-revolution in medicine is, in reality, a series of incremental shifts, marked by superficial changes rather than fundamental structural disruption, writes longtime medicine and AI...
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Scientists just cracked the code to editing entire chromosomes flawlessly
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A group of Chinese scientists has created powerful new tools that allow them to edit large chunks of DNA with incredible accuracy—and without leaving any trace. Using a mix of advanced protein...
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