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Feather report: Researchers develop link between birds and dinosaurs

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory researchers revealed the living biology of dinosaur feathers in a recent paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution on Sept. 21. “We found that ancient dinosaur feathers like those in 125-million-year-old dinosaur Sinornithosaurus are much more similar in chemistry to the feathers of modern birds than we previously thought,” said Tiffany … [Read more…]

‘Disease accelerates aging’: Stanford researchers develop an AI-driven aging clock for eyes

Stanford’s Mahajan Lab’s new artificial intelligence (AI) driven eye “aging clock” has revealed that diseased eyes undergo accelerated aging, particularly within disease-specific cell types.  The study was published in “Cell” in October and featured at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Tuesday. The team integrated proteomics techniques to create a software-based approach called tracing expression … [Read more…]