Apple of Sodom
As regulars to the Sciencebase site will know, I’ve been doing some ad hoc wilding of our garden for a few years now. Always hoping that blooming wildflowers would attract interesting invertebrates. There are therefore patches and pots that I’ve not managed with all sorts of odd things sprouting from them at different times of year. At the moment, there is a big tub, which used to be crocuses and daffodils that has a very tall and leafy plant growing in it at the moment, with pale-purple flowers in bloom (it’s November!).
Apple of Peru, usually only has one or two blossoms at a time
I used the ObsIdentify...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 11, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Biology Botany Source Type: blogs
Podcast Recommendation: a16z's Bio+Health interviews Adam Fein
Julie Yoo, who ' s a General Partner at the Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm known as Andreessen Horowitz (known by the acronym " a16z " ) which was co-founded by Marc Andreessen, a man perhaps best known as one of the original co-authors of Mosaic, which was the first widely-used web browser, and subsequently Netscape. Mr. Andreesen later also co-founded Ning, which was the social platform upon which the old TuDiabetes (by Diabetes Hands Foundation) ran on for years. Before merging with the nonprofit Beyond Type 1 (BT1), TuDiabetes ultimately did migrate away from Ning to different software prior to combi...
Source: Scott's Web Log - November 9, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 Adam Fein Adam J. Fein Bio Health Drug Channels Julie Yoo Pembroke Consulting Source Type: blogs
And you thought Mastadons were extinct …
by KIM BELLARD
Until last week, for me, “mastodon” only meant the giant animal that went extinct several thousand years ago (I was, it appears, unaware of the heavy metal band Mastodon). Now, as the result of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, many Twitter users are being forced to take a look at alternatives, such as the social networking site Mastodon.
It’s possible that we are about the witness the Myspace-ization of Twitter, brought down by competition, bad management, and bad product decisions. In my usual “there must be a pony in here somewhere” fashion, there may be some lessons in the Twitter saga ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Elon Musk Kim Bellard Mastadon Twitter Source Type: blogs
Sparking Rural Students ’ Interest in STEM
When asked why he leads the NIGMS-supported Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program at Dartmouth College in Hannover, New Hampshire, Roger D. Sloboda, Ph.D., the Ira Allen Eastman Professor of Biological Sciences (emeritus), shares a story. Several years ago, he learned of a public-school science teacher in rural New Hampshire who had a very limited budget for classroom equipment. With her annual budget, she’d been able to buy a single stainless-steel laboratory cart. “Next year, I hope to buy a piece of equipment to put on it,” she said. A short time later, Dr. Sloboda attended a scientific meeting and ta...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 8, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist STEM Education Scientific Process Training Source Type: blogs
Precision psychiatry pioneer Alto Neuroscience raises $35M to advance digital biomarker-to-treatment platform
Alto Neuroscience Raises $35M Series B Financing (FinsMes):
Alto Neuroscience, a Los Altos, CA-based neuro-tech company which specializes in precision psychiatry, raises $35M Series B Financing … The company intends to use the funds to advance lead candidates into Phase 2b studies in major depressive disorder … Proceeds from the financing will also be used to progress the company’s artificial intelligence-enabled brain biomarker platform and launch new clinical trials in areas of high unmet medical need. Alto will report Phase 2a data in early 2023 and further anticipates Phase 2b data readouts by early 2024.
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Source: SharpBrains - November 7, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation Alto Neuroscience Amit Etkin artificial intelligence brain biomarker EEG activity Major Depressive Disorder neuro-tech precision psychiatry Source Type: blogs
