LSCDS #ScienceNews and #Innovation

Dec. 17

This week in #ScienceNews and #Innovation, a study published in Nature found that when blood taken from “marathoner” mice who ran 4+ miles per day was injected into sedentary mice, it reduced brain inflammation in the latter group.

And, last week the 8-year long Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology released their final reporting that failed to reproduce findings from half of the influential cancer research papers that they studied, with vague experimental protocols being one major hurdle to reproducibility.

(*Image Credit: Patrick Hertzog/AFP/Getty*)

Finally, DeepMind has developed a machine-learning algorithm that can calculate a molecule’s material properties by predicting the electron distribution within it.

Kyla Germain

Kyla is a PhD candidate in the Department’s of Biochemistry (University of Toronto) and Cell Biology (The Hospital for Sick Children), where she studies the cellular basis of a pediatric brain disease. She has a continued interest in science communication for all audiences and has led the LSCDS writing team for three years.