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Explore the human body in stunning, 3D detail with a new online tool The free Human Organ Atlas gives users an up-close-and-personal look at 56 human organs.

Explore the human body in stunning, 3D detail with a new online tool
The free Human Organ Atlas gives users an up-close-and-personal look at 56 human organs: www.popsci.com/health/human... 🧪🌎🌍

How the brain spies on the gut: with help from newfound immune cells The body’s pathogen fighters can act as surveillance forces that ferry information from the gut and fat deposits to the brain.

How the brain spies on the gut: with help from newfound immune cells www.nature.com/articles/d41... #Medsky #Neuroskyence 🧪🌎🌍

Memory loss is fuelled by gut microbes in ageing mice If confirmed in people, the finding might lead to gut-targeted therapies that could reverse cognitive decline.

A species of gut bacteria that proliferates as mice get older plays a part in their cognitive decline, a new study in Nature finds.

Researchers determined that the bacterium interferes with signalling along sensory nerves that connect to the brain.

🧪🧠 #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A.I. Chatbots Want Your Health Records. Tread Carefully. Following rivals like Amazon and OpenAI, Microsoft is upgrading its artificially intelligent assistant to track your health. There are benefits and risks to consider.

Big tech is moving into your medical records. Microsoft’s Copilot Health will soon merge Apple Watch data with clinical histories to "connect the dots" in seconds. It’s an efficiency win, but the privacy stakes are high: HIPAA doesn't apply here, and AI bias hasn't been solved yet.
#MedSky #MedAI

Page-spread diagram on the typical lifecycle of smaller freshwater ponds in the eastern U.S.

Available now: PONDS: An Illustrated Guide
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ponds #lakes #freshwater

British man powers DIY car with discarded vapes The souped-up G-Wiz EV has a range of 18 miles and topped 40 miles per hour.

“Unfortunately we seem to live in some crazy dystopia where buying these single use devices (vapes)and then chucking them away is totally normalized, despite them having fully rechargeable lithium ion cells inside them,” Doel says in the video. www.popsci.com/environment/... 🌎

Divers Spot a Giant Ocean Creature Surrounded by an Entire Ecosystem, Unlike Anything Seen Before! Divers recently encountered a giant ocean creature in the Galápagos, but what followed was even more astonishing.

Divers Spot a Giant Ocean Creature Surrounded by an Entire Ecosystem, Unlike Anything Seen Before! indiandefencereview.com/giant-ocean-... 🌎🦈

This paper changed my life: Talia Lerner reflects on dopamine neuron diversity and the value of simple experiments In a 2011 Neuron study, Stephan Lammel and his colleagues showed that dopamine neurons with different projections have different physiological properties. The work inspired Lerner to think about how…

In our latest edition of “This paper changed my life,” @talialerner.bsky.social shares how Stephen Lammel and Rob Malenka’s 2011 Neuron paper on dopamine neuron diversity taught her how to go about challenging widely held assumptions in the field.

www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

Altruism

Altruistic people often show stronger empathy-region activation, stronger reward responses when giving & different prefrontal control patterns.

Twin studies show 30-50% genetic baseline tendency & the environmental 50-70% modifies & amplifies or suppresses it.

#Neuroskyence

Engineers Create a Cylinder Filled With Steel Balls That Can Absorb Earthquake Vibrations in Buildings at a Much Lower Cost What if protecting buildings from earthquakes didn’t require complex technology? Researchers have unveiled a new mechanical solution.

Engineers Create a Cylinder Filled With Steel Balls That Can Absorb Earthquake Vibrations in Buildings at a Much Lower Cost: dailygalaxy.com/2026/03/stee... 🌎

Scientists Studied the Soil Beneath a 2,400-Year-Old Tree, What They Found Surprised Even Them Some trees have stood for thousands of years. But their greatest secret may not be their age or their size, it lies hidden underground.

Scientists Studied the Soil Beneath a 2,400-Year-Old Tree, What They Found Surprised Even Them- dailygalaxy.com/2026/03/what... 🌎🧪

Ex-Meta AI chief Yann LeCun's AMI raises $1.03 billion for alternative AI approach Advanced Machine Intelligence, the startup founded by former Meta Platforms chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, said on Tuesday ​it raised $1.03 billion based on a $3.50 billion pre-money valuation, as it ...

Ex-Meta AI chief Yann LeCun's AMI raises $1.03 billion for alternative AI approach- www.reuters.com/business/ex-... 🌎

Opinion | Schools are teaching AI — and making a massive mistake They should teach kids to have agency over the technology, not just how to use it.

Schools are teaching AI — and making a massive mistake- www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 🌎

Propensity score modeling of adolescent e-cigarette use and cognitive performance: One-year follow-up study Introduction: Adolescent e-cigarette use remains an important public health challenge, and evidence on its neurocognitive effects at an early age is limited. This study examined associations between ...

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci 🧪🛟
“Exclusive e-cigarette use among early adolescents was associated with poorer performance in specific cognitive domains“

Public communication alters private confidence Andreassen et al. demonstrate that confidence exhibited in public affects our private assessment of confidence.

How does uncertainty transmit from one head to another? Our new paper out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social reveals how public communication alters private confidence.

w/ Einar Andreassen & @cdfrith.bsky.social

@birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
@leverhulme.ac.uk

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Developing brains and changing worlds: Macroenvironmental changes and their association with brain development Growing evidence suggests that physical environmental features at the neighborhood level are linked to brain structure during human development. In a …

New CEN paper! 📣
Juan F. Quinones et al. used structural equation models & regularized multivariate path analysis to identify macroenvironmental features that predict changes in whole-brain structural features in a sample of 368 adolescents

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#neuroskyence

Hippocampus a ‘general-purpose statistical learning machine’ New cross-species findings may help settle a long-standing debate about whether the hippocampus is required for passively learning information.

Whether the hippocampus is involved in unrewarded learning has been a controversial question. A new preprint finds that it may be critical for passively learning information.

By @natmesanash.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/memory/hippo...

Baby Teeth Could Hold A Surprising Key To Treating Cerebral Palsy A study found baby tooth stem cells may help reverse cerebral palsy symptoms in animals, pointing to a promising new treatment approach.

Baby Teeth Could Hold A Surprising Key To Treating Cerebral Palsy- studyfinds.com/baby-teeth-s... #Neuroskyence 🧪🌎

UCSD launches first human milk analytics hub UC San Diego's Human Milk Institute has launched the Milk Analytics Core (MAC), an innovative analytical hub designed to investigate the bioactive molecules in human milk. Led by Dr. Lars Bode, the MA...

USCD launches first human milk analytics hub- www.nutraingredients.com/Article/2026... 🧪🌎#Medsky

Repositioning lidocaine as a TMEM16A Ca2+-activated Cl− channel blocker for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension TMEM16A forms a Ca2+-activated Cl− (ClCa) channel that plays essential roles in the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and central nervous systems. Dys…

Repositioning lidocaine as a TMEM16A Ca2+-activated Cl− channel blocker for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension -https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022356525403127?via%3Dihub 🧪🌎 #Medsky

Daily Multivitamin May Slow Ticking of Biological Aging Clock Whether supplements can increase a healthy lifespan is an open question, however

Daily Multivitamin May Slow Ticking of Biological Aging Clock- www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/... 🧪🌎

PET imaging study reveals how ketamine relieves treatment-resistant depression Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, and approximately 30% of patients develop treatment-resistant depression (TRD), a condition that does not respond ...

PET imaging study reveals how ketamine relieves treatment-resistant depression- medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03... 🧪🌎

A surgery-free way to treat appendicitis? Finnish study suggests antibiotics can be an effective alternative to going under the knife

A surgery-free way to treat appendicitis? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪🌎

The Ratio of Fats in Diet Has a Significant Effect on Immunity | Cell And Molecular Biology Our diet can affect our health in different ways–diet directly impacts the calories and nutrients we consume; it can influence metabolism ... | Cell And Molecular Biology

The Ratio of Fats in Diet Has a Significant Effect on Immunity | Cell And Molecular Biology @Labroots- www.labroots.com/trending/cel... 🧪🌎

リゾホスファチジン酸に着目する創食基礎研究 Our early study showed the vasoactive effects of soybean lecithin-derived lysophosphatidic acid (LPA). The finding indicates that the oral administrat …

Basic food-oriented research focusing on lysophosphatidic acid - www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/yaku... 🧪🌎

Emerging threat: Pseudomonas aeruginosa and dental implant longevity: Part 2 Anne O. Rice analyzes the array of virulence factors of P. aeruginosa, the challenges associated with its detection, the increasing concerns regarding antibiotic resistance, and...

Emerging threat: Pseudomonas aeruginosa and dental implant longevity: Part 2- www.rdhmag.com/patient-care... 🧪🌎

Drug breakthrough for children with rare form of extreme epilepsy Families say the groundbreaking medicine is transforming the lives of children with Dravet syndrome.

A new drug is transforming the lives of children born with a severe form of epilepsy, say doctors and families.

Dravet syndrome, external can cause dozens of dangerous seizures a day and affects about one in every 15,000 babies born.

🧪🧠💊 @medsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scientists Grow Fully Functional Hair Follicles in Lab: A Game-Changer for Hair Loss Scientists have made a major breakthrough by successfully growing fully functional hair follicles in the lab, bringing us closer to potential solutions for hair loss.

Will we be able to eliminate baldness some day soon? indiandefencereview.com/scientists-g... 🧪🌎

A Toxicologist Is Urging You to Stop Using These Dish Soaps — and Which Ones to Buy Instead Non-toxic dish soap avoids ingredients that can cause adverse effects on personal and environmental health, and we asked a toxicologist for their top recommendations, plus which toxins to avoid.

I Asked a Toxicologist for Non-Toxic Dish Soap Recommendations — Here’s What They Said- www.foodandwine.com/toxicologist... 🌎🧪