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Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022
Sweden was well equipped to prevent the pandemic of COVID-19 from becoming serious. Over 280 years of collaboration between political bodies, authorities, and the scientific community had yielded many successes in preventive medicine. Sweden’s population
Nele Brusselaers, David Steadson, Kelly Bjorklund, Sofia Breland, Jens Stilhoff Sörensen, Andrew Ewing, Sigurd Bergmann, Gunnar Steineck   +7 more
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Urban Surveillance and Panopticism: will we recognize the facial recognition society?

Surveillance & Society, 2002
This paper explores the implementation of facial recognition surveillance mechanisms as a reaction to perceptions of insecurity in urban spaces. Facial recognition systems are part of an attempt to reduce insecurity through knowledge and vision, but ...
Mitchell Gray
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Jornalismo e ativismo: Um repórter português do lado russo da guerra na Ucrânia

Communication, Technologies et Développement, 2023
This article proposes a thinking of the journalistic act as a theory of action, capable of responding to an analysis of the intersections between activism and journalism, by decomposing the individual and collective actantial dimensions of journalism ...
Luís M. Loureiro
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The controversy around anti-amyloid antibodies for treating Alzheimer’s disease

EMBO Reports
The recent rejection of lecanemab by the European Medicines Agency despite its approval in other countries highlights the debate among researchers and regulatory bodies about the efficacy, safety, and underlying scientific basis of drugs to treat ...
Philip Hunter
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Divine life force: The fragile power of blood

Biomedical Journal
Issue 47–6 of the Biomedical Journal explores the delicate boundaries of human blood. It examines the relationship between anemia and the gut microbiome, as well as the modified activation patterns in compensatory blood oxygenation observed in COVID-19 ...
Aila Akosua Kattner
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Security challenges by AI-assisted protein design

EMBO Reports
Scientists and security experts are concerned that the increasing power of AI-assisted protein design and synthesis could be abused by various actors for terrorist or criminal purposes.
Philip Hunter
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And those who were seen dancing: Human interactions with fungi and vice versa

Biomedical Journal
This issue of the Biomedical Journal features a special section exploring mycobiota. Three articles examine the role of fungi in common metabolic disorders in, Clostridium difficile infection, and in immunocompromised patients.
Aila Akosua Kattner
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Exogestation for treating premature births and congenital diseases

EMBO Reports
Exogestation has made considerable advances lately to the point that first therapeutic applications in human can be considered.
Philip Hunter
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Ancient wisdom and modern innovations: Methods of administering healing

Biomedical Journal
This issue of the Biomedical Journal highlights major advancements in drug delivery, including aptamer-functionalized liposomes and nanozymes. A new biomarker combination shows promise for improved diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Aila Akosua Kattner
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Communicating across distances – Biological functions of extracellular vesicles

Biomedical Journal
This issue of the Biomedical Journal features a special section on extracellular vesicles (EVs), covering their role in neurological diseases, viral infections, trogocytosis, allogeneic organ rejection and tolerance, as well as EV biodistribution.
Aila Akosua Kattner
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