Rejection Prediction, Cool Fabric, Serotonin & Fertility

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Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Today, you’ll learn about a new way for doctors to use neural networks - or AI - to figure out the risks of organ transplants in individual patients, a new fabric that is - literally - cool, and how serotonin affects fertility.

Rejection Prediction

“Decoding the hallmarks of allograft dysfunction with a comprehensive pan-organ transcriptomic atlas.” by Harry Robertson, et al. 2024.
“History of transplantation.” UNOS. n.d.

Cool Fabric

“New fabric makes urban heat islands more bearable.” by Paul Dailing. 2024.
“Spectrally engineered textile for radiative cooling against urban heat islands.” by Ronghui Wu, et al. 2024.

Serotonin & Fertility

“Intriguing connection found between serotonin and fertility.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2024.
“Raphne glucose-sensing serotonergic neurons stimulate KNDy neurons to enhance LH pulses via 5HT2CR: rat and goat studies.” by Sho Nakamura, et al. 2024.

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0:50.4	Today you'll learn about a new way for doctors to use neural networks or AI to figure out the risks of organ
0:56.4	transplants in individual patients, a new fabric that is literally cool and how serotonin affects fertility.
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1:07.0	Organ transplantation feels like a bedrock of modern medicine,
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