The scientist and the prosecutor: MIT Prof. Gang Chen, accused of exploiting country at China’s benefit, at odds with US Attorney Andrew Lelling about where his loyalties lie
Updated Feb 13, 2021;
Posted Feb 13, 2021
Students walk past the Great Dome atop Building 10 on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology s (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Charles Krupa/AP)
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MIT professor Gang Chen was at his home in Cambridge on a Thursday morning when he was met by the police, there to arrest the engineer over claims that for years he had hid illicit ties to the People’s Republic of China.
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Sophia Antipolis, 12 February 2021: The number of patients with heart failure worldwide nearly doubled from 33.5 million in 1990 to 64.3 million in 2017. That s the finding of a study published today in the
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1 Our study challenges the common view that heart disease is fully under control, said study author Dr. Nicola Bragazzi of York University, Toronto, Canada.2 Despite progress and achievements, the global burden imposed by heart failure is significantly growing.
The analysis used data from the Global Burden of Disease Study to examine the burden and causes of heart failure from 1990 to 2017 in 195 countries and territories. The age-standardised prevalence rate showed a slow downward trend, suggesting that population ageing and growth are responsible for most of the increase in prevalence.
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2021 FEB 09 (NewsRx) By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Information Technology Daily Investigators publish new report on Information Technology - Data Recovery. According to news reporting originating in Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “In this paper, we focus on the false data injection attacks (FDIAs) on state estimation and corresponding countermeasures for data recovery in smart grid. Without the information about the topology and parameters of systems, two data-driven attacks (DDAs) with noisy measurements are constructed, which can escape the detection from the residue-based bad data detection (BDD) in state estimator.”
In a new study published in
Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, Chen-Yu Zhang s group and Antonio Vidal-Puig s group at University of Cambridge report that pancreatic β cells secrete miR-29 family members (miR-29a, miR-29b and miR-29c) in response to high levels of free fatty acids (FFAs). These β cell-derived miR-29s are delivered to the liver, promoting insulin resistance and enhancing hepatic glucose output.
Over 100 years after insulin was discovered, it was believed that pancreatic β cells only secreted a single hormone insulin. Pancreatic β cell-derived insulin regulates glucose homeostasis by binding with the insulin receptors located in the liver, skeletal muscle, adipose tissues and other peripheral organs. The discovery of insulin and its receptor was essential to understand the mechanisms controlling glucose homeostasis and the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes defined by defective insulin secretion, signal transduction and insulin resistance. However, glucose homeos
Researchers propose testing standards for particulate photocatalysts in solar fuel production
Utilization of renewable solar energy is crucial for addressing the global energy and environmental concerns and achieving sustainable development. In this regard, photocatalytic water splitting has attracted significant interest as a cost-effective means to convert sustainable solar energy into valuable chemicals.
However, because efficiency is sensitive to reaction conditions and experimental setup, it is difficult to compare the results obtained by different research groups or provide a reliable guide for large-scale implementation. Due to the lack of testing standards, it is difficult to compare the results obtained by different research groups or provide a reliable guide for large-scale implementation.