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Babies, even when hungry, are willing to give a tasty snack to a stranger in need, a new study shows. The findings demonstrate that altruism (the act of giving away something desirable, even at a cost to oneself) begins in infancy. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58645-9 …pic.twitter.com/TlEhnGMtRz

Researchers have engineered a device the size of a wristwatch that can monitor an individual's body chemistry and metabolism (glucose, lactate, pH, temperature, and more) in real time. The device could identify potential health problems. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095656632030035X …pic.twitter.com/JbvNJJepI0

Squid brains are nearly as complex as Dog brains, researchers say. For example, some cephalopods have more than 500 million neurons, compared to 200 million for a rat and 20,000 for a normal mollusc. https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(19)30562-0 …pic.twitter.com/Sr8K0LZAyS

Scientists develop tiny organoids grown from snake gland stem cells that produce real venom. This discovery means it will be much easier to study complex venom and venom glands without handling live, dangerous snakes. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(19)31323-6 …pic.twitter.com/7PLi7q7nnS

Mammalian genomes sorted into fast-mutating regions involved with adapting to environmental pressure and slow-mutating regions that are more highly-expressed and fundamental by widespread RNA transcription in the testes. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(19)31377-7 …pic.twitter.com/Ki7mzU1Le5

Scientists think that the Chinese krait and the Chinese cobra -- may be the original source of the newly discovered coronavirus that has triggered an outbreak of a deadly infectious respiratory illness in China this winter. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmv.25682 …pic.twitter.com/eDj8RPqApt

New species of walking sharks have been discovered in the tropics. Data suggest the new species evolved after the sharks moved away from their original population, became genetically isolated and developed into new species that use their fins to walk. http://www.publish.csiro.au/mf/MF19163 pic.twitter.com/DtPrBi3JCZ

Dozens of non-oncology drugs can kill cancer cells, according to a new study. This study marks the first time researchers screened the entire collection of mostly non-cancer drugs for their anti-cancer capabilities. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-019-0018-6 …pic.twitter.com/t09SMhl2Ph

Scientists unexpectedly witness wolf puppies play fetch. The remarkable ability to interpret human cues that enables a dog to fetch a ball & bring it back also exists in wolves. This behavior could have had a selective advantage in early dog domestication. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004219305577?via%3Dihub …pic.twitter.com/W9AoDmuKMc

Injection of seasonal flu vaccine into tumors generates systemic immune responses and serves as an immunotherapy for cancer, reports new study in mice. Repurposing the “flu shot”, based on its FDA approval, may be quickly translated for clinical care. https://www.pnas.org/content/117/2/1119 …pic.twitter.com/xioSBL8y61

Researchers have discovered 15 new types of wasps in the Amazon that are able to manipulate the behavior of spiders so that they spin a special web that protects the wasp’s developing pupa. This kind of host manipulation is a rare phenomenon in nature. https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4719.1.1 …pic.twitter.com/TgiS3Bywrp

Scientists invent a method for converting low-grade waste heat to usable electricity. This technology taps into the massive potential of recycling low-grade heat as an energy source that can be used all over the world and help reduce industrial emissions. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12144-2 …pic.twitter.com/xZHVNup6K7

Scientists have discovered that when a key protein needed to generate new brain cells during early childhood development is missing, part of the brain goes haywire– that can lead to long-term cognitive behaviors characteristic of autism spectrum disorder. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/39/46/9119 …pic.twitter.com/QQCjeZCRsO

Globally, 12% of cancers are caused by infectious diseases. Of these, more than 90% are due to the bacterium H. pylori, HPV & Hepatitis B and C. The good news is that such infections, and hence the cancers they cause, are largely preventable or treatable. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(19)30488-7/fulltext …pic.twitter.com/N8N5JBgxcf

Scientists developed a new lithium-sulfur battery with capacity 5X higher than that of lithium-ion batteries. It maintained efficiency of 99% for more than 200 cycles. It could lead to cheaper electric cars and keep a smartphone charged for >5 days. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/1/eaay2757 …pic.twitter.com/Y0denVsKQg

The annual cost of hemophiliaA treatment is around $500,000. A new gene therapy appears to serve as a functional cure, with patients who received the one-time therapy showed a 90% decrease in bleeding events 2-3 years after treatment, in a clinical trial. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1908490 …pic.twitter.com/Op9O27Hubo

Great to see my research work selected among six others to be highlighted as ‘Must-Read 2018 Collection’ by AACR Cancer Immunol. Res @CIR_AACR @AACRpic.twitter.com/CMvqssExE4

Researchers developed an ultrathin membrane for high-performance separation of oil from water. It was able to reject 99.9% of oil droplets, and 6000 liters of wastewater can be treated in one hour under an applied pressure of 1atm. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/TA/C9TA07988B#!divAbstract …pic.twitter.com/R7kHwQjLKB