Surviving Pig Heart Transplants, Acidic Mental Health Insights, and Estuaries Getting Paved Over – for real tho

#Life

Now that we can grow organs in other animals, a new challenge arises for increased adoption of the organ transplant technique. (How does Kiya know things about cryoprotection of organs since 1999? More on that another day.)

Researchers think a combination of genetic edits and an experimental immunosuppressive drug could make the first pig kidney transplant a long-term success.

Large study shows acidic brain pH as indicator of neuropsychiatric disorders involving cognitive impairment mechanisms

https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/89376v2

Worldwide over the past 35 years, dams and land reclamation activities have converted 250,000 acres of estuary—an area roughly 17 times the size of Manhattan—to urban land or agricultural fields, with most land conversion and estuary loss in rapidly developing countries.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023EF003691

#DatAI

Intel on Tuesday unveiled its latest artificial intelligence chip, called Gaudi 3.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/04/09/intel-unveils-gaudi-3-ai-chip-as-nvidia-competition-heats-up-.html

Human action recognition (HAR) reflects progression from handcrafted feature-based approaches to end-to-end learning; HARNet, an architecture for Multi-Model Deep Learning integrates recurrent and convolutional neural networks.