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☆ He was the first person to be diagnosed with a new sleep disorder. It led to a scientific breakthrough
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-08 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Five years earlier, Dorff had become the first patient diagnosed with an unusual disease called rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, or RBD. By 1986, Schenck and his team had published their first paper on the newly discovered sleep disorder. RBD can affect women, tooLewy body dementia can refer to two different types of dementia: Parkinson’s disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies, which both affect cognition. Called the North American Prodromal Synucleinopathy Consortium, the research hopes to identify potential treatments for rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder and slow its progression into Parkinson’s and dementia. Seek medical treatment if violent dreams beginAs a child, Donald Dorff shared a room with three brothers and never had any signs of a sleep disorder.

Persons: Donald Dorff, “, ” Dorff, Dorff, There’s, ”, Carlos Schenck, ” Schenck, Schenck, Lewy, Parkinson’s, you’ve Organizations: CNN, Geographic, Sleep Disorders, Hennepin County Medical, University of Minnesota, Johns Hopkins Medicine, RBD Locations: Golden Valley , Minnesota, Minnesota, Minneapolis, Hennepin, United States

The projects will cost nearly $298 million and are designed to protect some of the region's most vulnerable communities. Both projects were formulated by the group Rebuild By Design, which was initiated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2013, and New Jersey environmental officials. It calls for building 9,000 linear feet (about 1.7 miles or 2.7 kilometers) of flood walls, installation of flood gates and construction of berms and levees. They include planting more grass, trees and vegetation in urban areas to absorb rainfall and allow less runoff to flood streets and storm sewers. And as big as they are, the two projects starting Wednesday pale in comparison to huge flood control efforts being contemplated by the federal government.

Persons: Sandy ’, ”, Amy Chester, Hudson, Sandy, It's, Chester, Wayne Parry Organizations: U.S . Department of Housing, Urban Development, Hudson, Meadowlands, Twitter Locations: HOBOKEN, N.J, New Jersey, New York City, Hoboken, Meadowlands, New Jersey , New York, Connecticut, Jersey City, Weehawken, Manhattan, Little Ferry, Hackensack, Carlstadt, New York, www.twitter.com

☆ Loosen Your Tie for This Field Trip to Madison Square Garden
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Frank Rojas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In striped ties, white button-ups, denim skirts and red blazers, the crowds outside Madison Square Garden last week looked more ready for a field trip than a pop concert. But on Thursday (a school night!) and Friday, fans basked in nostalgia and welcomed the return of RBD, a 2000s pop act born out of a telenovela. RBD — a real-life group with real-life hits that just so happens to have evolved out of a fictional pop group — played two sold-out shows at the Garden to thousands of fans outfitted in early-2000s styles and renditions of prep school uniforms. He wore a cherry red blazer bearing an Elite Way School patch, a white button-up, a red-and-white striped tie and a pair of Converse.

Persons: —, ”, ” Diego Moreno Organizations: Elite Locations: Madison, Mexican, Argentine, Venezuela, Chicago, Converse

☆ The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( David Quammen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

But as the researchers describe it, these apparent contradictions were simply a reflection of their fast-evolving views. It showed that such an RBD had evolved in the wild and might well have gotten into SARS-CoV-2 by recombination, the natural gene-swapping process. The genome was 96.2 percent identical to the SARS-CoV-2 genome as sampled from people during the early days of the pandemic. RaTG13 has attained renown, not just because it constituted strong evidence of SARS-CoV-2’s ancestry in bat viruses but also because the Mojiang mine figures in some of the more lurid scenarios for a lab-leak origin. The inference is that Shi’s team, a year after the mine workers died, may have taken the virus back to Wuhan.

Persons: Andersen, ”, Slack, Matt Wong, ” Andersen, Zhengli Shi, Shi, RaTG13 Organizations: Twitter, Nature, Wuhan Institute of Virology Locations: Houston, Yunnan Province, Wuhan, Tongguan, Mojiang, Yunnan

Indonesia, the world's biggest producer of palm oil, raised the mandatory blend of palm oil in biodiesel to 35% starting in February, from 30% earlier, to reduce diesel fuel imports amid high global energy prices and to reduce emissions. The benchmark palm oil contract on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange slid 24 ringgit to 4,181 ringgit a tonne on Wednesday. An El Nino episode usually results in below-average rainfall in main palm oil producers Indonesia and Malaysia, cutting yields and pushing up global prices. "It used to be palm oil is export-oriented for Indonesia, but sales are declining and domestic consumption is increasing," Fadhil said. James Fry, the chairman of commodities consultancy LMC International, however, cautioned that the correction in gasoil prices could bring down demand for biodiesel and pull-down palm oil prices.

☆ Коронавирус был в Италии еще в сентябре 2019 года. Так когда же он появился?
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-26 | by ( ) nokta.md time to read: +6 min

Итальянские онкологи обнаружили антитела на коронавирус в анализах крови, взятых в сентябре 2019 года. Считается, что коронавирус SARS-CoV-2 появился в Китае примерно год назад. Однако по последним данным, коронавирус нового типа уже существовал в сентябре 2019 года — и не в Китае, а в Италии, сильно пострадавшей потом во время первой — весенней — волны пандемии. Коронавирус был в Италии раньше, чем предполагалосьИсследование итальянских ученых, установившее, что первые бессимптомные пациенты с атипичной пневмонией, вызванной SARS-CoV-2, были в Италии еще в сентябре 2019-го, стало не единственным доказательством появления коронавируса в Европе еще в прошлом году, до официальной вспышки пандемии. Анализ сточных вод на севере Италии, результаты которого были обнародованы в июне, также указывал на то, что коронавирус циркулировал в стране еще в конце 2019 года.

Persons: —, Питер Форстер, Форстер Organizations: China Morning, National Academy of Science, Всемирная организация здравоохранения (ВОЗ), Институт онкологии Милана, Университет Сиены Locations: Ухань, Китай, Италия, Ухане город, Северная Америка, Австралия, Сингапур, Япония, Тайвань, Гуандун, Европа

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