Rejection Prediction, Cool Fabric, Serotonin & Fertility

Today, you’ll learn about a new way for doctors to use neural networks - or AI - to figure out the risks of organ transplants in individual patients, a new fabric that is - literally - cool, and how serotonin affects fertility.

Rejection Prediction

• “Decoding the hallmarks of allograft dysfunction with a comprehensive pan-organ transcriptomic atlas.” by Harry Robertson, et al. 2024.
• “History of transplantation.” UNOS. n.d.

Cool Fabric

• “New fabric makes urban heat islands more bearable.” by Paul Dailing. 2024.
• “Spectrally engineered textile for radiative cooling against urban heat islands.” by Ronghui Wu, et al. 2024.

Serotonin & Fertility

• “Intriguing connection found between serotonin and fertility.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2024.
• “Raphne glucose-sensing serotonergic neurons stimulate KNDy neurons to enhance LH pulses via 5HT2CR: rat and goat studies.” by Sho Nakamura, et al. 2024.

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