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☆ Meet Reed Jobs, the Apple cofounder's son who just launched a VC fund to invest in cancer treatments
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Reed Jobs, the son of Steve Jobs, launched Yosemite, a VC firm that will invest in cancer treatments. Reed Jobs, Steve Jobs's oldest son, is striking out on his own. Jobs, one of three children of the Apple cofounder and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, is launching Yosemite, a venture capital firm that will invest in new cancer treatments, according to a press release. The 31-year-old was inspired by his father to start the fund after Steve Jobs died from complications of pancreatic cancer in 2011, he told The New York Times. Jobs's latest business venture will build on his previous work as a managing director at the Emerson Collective, the mission-driven corporation founded by his mother.

Persons: Reed Jobs, Steve Jobs, Jobs, mother's Emerson, Steve Jobs's, Laurene Powell Jobs, John Doerr, Emerson, —, Walter Isaacson, Yosemite Organizations: VC, Apple, New York Times, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University, Times, Emerson, Emerson Collective's, Stanford Locations: Yosemite, Hawaii

☆ Video may show an octopus waking up from a nightmare, scientists believe
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A video shows an octopus appearing to wake up from sleep in distress. The behaviour looked similar to waking up from a nightmare, scientists said. One of the study's co-authors noted that it would be difficult to study an octopus' brain activity and determine whether they actually dream. Robyn Crook, an associate professor of biology at San Francisco State University, told Live Science that the octopus' behavior could have been due to senescence, which is when an octopus' body starts to break down before death. "I don't exclude that senescence could be one of the drivers of this," Ramos told Live Science.

☆ Is This Octopus Having a Nightmare?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Carolyn Wilke | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Costello the octopus was napping while stuck to the glass of his tank at the Rockefeller University in New York. A minute later, Costello scuttled along the glass toward his tank’s sandy bottom, curling his arms over his body. “This was not a normal octopus behavior,” said Dr. Ramos, who is now at the University of Vermont. Perhaps Costello was having a nightmare, he and a team of researchers speculated. They shared this idea and other possible explanations in a study uploaded this month to the bioRxiv website.

☆ In a novel experiment, brain-like human tissue implanted in rat brains influenced the rodents' behavior
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Aria Bendix | Aria Bendix Is The Breaking Health Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Their results, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, showed that the brain-like human tissue integrated with the rat tissue, then continued to mature. The researchers injected the human tissue into the rats’ somatosensory cortexes — regions that receive and process sensory information like touch or pain. The researchers also used a puff of air to prod the rats’ whiskers, then observed how the human neurons responded. "We found that human neurons respond very quickly after we stimulated the whiskers. "Human neurons become part of the rat circuitry," Pașca said, adding that the neurons were "sparkling with electrical activity" under a microscope.

☆ Waiting for market bottom is a mistake and investors should buy now, David Rubenstein says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Carmen Reinicke | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Investors looking to scoop up deals and position themselves for long-term growth should act now instead of waiting for stocks to bottom, David Rubenstein said Wednesday. "People shouldn't be afraid of going in and buying things now," The Carlyle Group co-founder said during CNBC's Delivering Alpha Investor Summit in New York City. He also noted that investors should start buying now rather than try to time the market bottom. Still, for investors that want to take advantage of the market, she recommends active management. "You have to find active [management] and you have to go into thematic areas where you can generate some returns," she said.

The incessant drumming of a woodpecker on a hollow tree can be an annoying distraction for anyone who has to listen to it. “When you study songbirds, hummingbirds and parrots, you find areas that control vocal learning express parvalbumin more than other parts of the brain,” Fuxjager said. Future studies will look for other similarities, such as if the patterns of woodpecker drumming are learned at an early age, like the singing of songbirds, he said. Fuxjager noted that there are more than 200 species of woodpecker around the world and that they inhabit every continent, except Australia. Scientists study the singing of songbirds — and possibly now the drumming of woodpeckers — because it has parallels to human speech.

☆ 'Should I get my omicron booster and flu shot at the same time?' and other questions about fall vaccines, answered
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Renée Onque | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Though the CDC says it's completely fine to get a flu vaccine and Covid-19 shot simultaneously, there hasn't been specific guidance pertaining to the newly formulated booster. 'When should I get my flu vaccine?' The timing of when you get your flu shot should be aligned with the time frame that would allow you to have the best antibody response during the beginning of flu season, Hatziioannou tells CNBC Make It. At this time, Hatziioannou recommends getting your flu shot at the end of October or early November to have the highest protection throughout December. 'Should I get my omicron booster and flu shot at the same time?'

☆ Imunitatea după infectarea cu Covid-19 durează cel puţin şase luni, arată un nou studiu
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-18 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Imunitatea după infectarea cu Covid-19 durează cel puţin şase luni, arată un nou studiuImunitatea după infecţia cu virusul SARS-CoV-2 poate dura cel puţin şase luni, arată un nou studiu publicat de revista Nature. Mai mulți cercetători de la Rockefeller University din New York au analizat 87 de persoane testate pozitiv cu noul coronavirus, relatează Agerpres. Astfel, sistemul imunitar uman răspunde la infecţie producând anticorpi care pot neutraliza specific agentul infecţios. Aceste observaţii arată că celulele B de memorie au capacitatea de a evolua în prezenţa unor mici cantităţi de agent viral persistent (mici proteine ale virusului ce pot fi detectate de sistemul imunitar). Prezenţa şi evoluţia continuă a celulelor B de memorie sugerează că persoanele care au fost diagnosticate cu COVID-19 sunt capabile să producă rapid anticorpi puternici neutralizatori în cazul reinfectării cu SARS-CoV-2, au conchis autorii.

Persons: Michel Nussenzweig Organizations: Nature, Rockefeller University, Agerpres Locations: New York

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