A 66 million-year-old fossilized lung belonging to a previously unknown giant coelacanth fish was recently discovered in Morocco. Source: https://www.livescience.com/massive-coelacanth-fossilized-lung-discovered.html
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A woman seemed recovered from COVID-19. Then both her lungs collapsed.
The case is unusual because the woman had not been previously hospitalized with COVID-19 or put on a ventilator. Source: https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-lung-collapse.html
2 infants inhaled cancer cells from mothers during birth
The infants who were born to mothers with cervical cancer may have developed lung cancer after “aspirating” tumor cells Source: https://www.livescience.com/infants-inhale-cancer-mothers.html
Can Chatbots Simulate Conversations with Dead People?
The author of the book Online Afterlives describes the unusual projects of people like Eugenia Kuyda, co-founder of Luka, an AI-powered chat simulator that books restaurant reservations and makes recommendations. Kuyda worked with computer scientists to convert several thousand text messages between deceased tech entrepreneur Roman Mazurenko and his friends and relatives into a chatbot simulation: “How are you there?” asks…
Two children with cancer may have acquired tumour cells before birth
Two boys with lung cancer in Japan acquired the tumour cells from their mothers during or shortly before birth – an incredibly rare way of developing the disease Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2264067-two-children-with-cancer-may-have-acquired-tumour-cells-before-birth/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Evidence Builds That an Early Mutation Made the Pandemic Harder to Stop
As the coronavirus swept across the world, it picked up random alterations to its genetic sequence. Like meaningless typos in a script, most of those mutations made no difference in how the virus behaved. But one mutation near the beginning of the pandemic did make a difference, multiple new findings suggest, helping the virus spread more easily from person to person…
Illegal Tampering By Diesel Pickup Owners Is Worsening Pollution, EPA Says
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: The owners and operators of more than half a million diesel pickup trucks have been illegally disabling their vehicles’ emissions control technology over the past decade, allowing excess emissions equivalent to 9 million extra trucks on the road, a new federal report has concluded. The practice, described in a report…
Coronavirus Emerged In Italy Earlier Than Thought, Study Shows
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The new coronavirus was circulating in Italy since September 2019, a study by the National Cancer Institute (INT) of the Italian city of Milan shows, signaling that COVID-19 might have spread beyond China earlier than previously thought. The Italian researchers’ findings, published by the INT’s scientific magazine Tumori Journal, show that 11.6% of…
Teen contracts ‘hot tub lung’ from indoor swimming pool
Bacteria carried by humidity from a family’s indoor swimming pool sent a teen boy to the emergency room with severe breathing difficulties. Source: https://www.livescience.com/hot-tub-lung.html
New Nasal Spray Prevents Covid Infection in Ferrets, Study Finds
The New York Times reports: A nasal spray that blocks the absorption of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has completely protected ferrets it was tested on, according to a small study released on Thursday by an international team of scientists. The study, which was limited to animals and has not yet been peer-reviewed, was assessed by several health experts at the request of…