Ukraine is engaged in a dialogue with all partners in the EU to extend the so-called autonomous trade measures (ATMs) introduced by the EU for trade with Ukraine at least until the end of this year in order to maintain the duty-free trade regime between Ukraine and the EU until a new…
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Relief sweeps Capitol Hill after Trump’s tariff U-turn
Republican lawmakers exhaled in relief Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced he was pausing most of his sweeping reciprocal tariffs for 90 days.
While Trump left a lower, 10 percent global tariff in place and escalated his confrontation with China — upping those duties to 125…
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Zelensky assures that Ukraine is ready to pay for US aid packages
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine is ready to pay for future aid packages from the United States, including Patriot systems.
The head of state said this during a conversation with journalists, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
“Regarding the…
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Further translation of the language of the genome
New research has uncovered more about the complexity of human gene regulation by identifying certain sequences of proteins called transcription factors that bind to DNA and regulate the expression of human genes.
Published today (9 April) in Nature, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger…
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Rapid growth of blood cancer driven by a single genetic ‘hit’
A new study has unveiled when chronic myeloid leukaemia, a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow, arises in life and how fast it grows. Researchers reveal explosive growth rates of cancerous cells years before diagnosis and variation in these rates of growth between patients….
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Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?
The process of discovering molecules that have the properties needed to create new medicines and materials is cumbersome and expensive, consuming vast computational resources and months of human labor to narrow down the enormous space of potential candidates.
Large language models (LLMs) like…
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Protein necessary for fruit fly fertility
The global birthrate has been in significant decline for decades. In the U.S., couples are deciding to have children later in life. A 2022 U.S. Census data analysis of Census Bureau and National Center for Health Statistics data, reveals that fertility rates for women age 20-24 declined by 43%…
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What links cannabis use and psychosis? Researchers point to brain’s dopamine system
A McGill University-led study found that people with cannabis use disorder (CUD) had elevated dopamine levels in a brain region associated with psychosis.
“This could help explain why cannabis use increases the risk of hallucinations and delusions, key symptoms of schizophrenia and other…
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More people now die at home after stroke than in medical facilities
A new analysis finds a significant uptick in the number of people dying at home due to ischemic stroke compared to inpatient medical facilities, and when not at home, individuals in rural communities and Black Americans were more likely to die in less specialized care environments.
Additionally,…
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Discovery reveals protein involved in Parkinson’s disease also drives skin cancer
A small protein involved in neurodegeneration leading to Parkinson’s disease also drives a type of skin cancer known as melanoma, new research led by Oregon Health & Science University finds.
The study, published today in the journal Science Advances, suggests new avenues for drug development to…
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