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    Gut Microbiome implicated in Healthy Aging and Longevity

    February 21, 2021, Categories  Biology/Biotechnology, Health/Medical

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    Data from over 9,000 people reveal a distinct gut microbiome signature that is associated with healthy aging and survival in the latest decades of life. The gut microbiome is an integral component of the body, but its importance in the human aging process is unclear. ISB researchers and their collaborators have identified distinct signatures in the gut microbiome that are associated with either healthy or unhealthy aging trajectories, which in turn predict survival in a population of older individuals. The work is set to be published in the journal Nature Metabolism.

    The research team analyzed gut microbiome, phenotypic and clinical data from over 9,000 people — between the ages of 18 and 101 years old — across three independent cohorts...

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    First Black Hole ever detected is more Massive than we thought

    February 20, 2021, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    First black hole ever detected is more massive than we thought
    An artist’s impression of the Cygnus X-1 system. A stellar-mass black hole orbits with a companion star located 7,200 light years from Earth. Credit: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research.

    New observations of the first black hole ever detected have led astronomers to question what they know about the Universe’s most mysterious objects.

    Published today in the journal Science, the research shows the system known as Cygnus X-1 contains the most massive stellar-mass black hole ever detected without the use of gravitational waves.

    Cygnus X-1 is one of the closest black holes to Earth. It was discovered in 1964 when a pair of Geiger counters were carried on board a sub-orbital rocket launched from New Mexico.

    The object was the focus of a famous scientific wager between ...

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    New link between Personality and Risk of Early Death

    February 20, 2021, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    Dr Páraic Ó Súilleabháin, from the Department of Psychology and Health Research Institute at University of Limerick, who was principal investigator on the study

    Ground-breaking research led by University of Limerick has revealed for the first time that the immune system directly links personality to long-term risk of death. The study sheds new light on why people who are more conscientious tend to live longer.

    Results from the new international study published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity have found that the immune system plays a previously unknown role in the link between personality traits and long-term risk of death.

    “Personality is known to be associated with long-term risk of death, it is a well replicated finding observed across numerous research studies...

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    A System that Automatically Generates Comic Books from Movies and other Videos

    February 20, 2021, Categories  Physics, Technology/Electronics

    A system that automatically generates comic books from movies and other videos
    The overall pipeline of the researchers’ system. (a): Keyframe Extraction and Stylization. (b): Automatic Multi-Page Layout Framework, red, purple and green dotted boxes mean different groups. (c): Balloon Generation and Placement. In step (a), we perform keyframe selection and stylization to get the stylized keyframes of the input video frames. In step (b), we first obtain four layout parameters of the frames including region of interest, importance rank, semantic relation, and allocate the frames across different pages. Then, we perform the layout algorithm in [2] for multi-page layout. In step (c), we designed an emotion-aware model for balloon generation and placement. Credit: Yang et al.

    Over the past few years, computer scientists have created numerous computational techniques ...

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