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Cambridge researchers develop urine test for early detection of lung cancer | University of Cambridge
 Cambridge scientists have developed a urine test for early detection of lung cancer. The test, the first of its kind, detects "zombie" cells that could indicate the first signs of the disease.
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Editor's Note: Lung cancer has a poor prognosis for many patients because often there are no noticeable symptoms until it has spread through the lungs or into other parts of the body. The new urine test will allow doctors to spot the disease before it develops.
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WorkWorkHow to Pronounce Chinese Names a Little BetterMainland China uses the pinyin system to write Mandarin words and names with English letters.Pinyin isn't used in Cantonese or other Chinese dialects, and it's not as widely used in Taiwan. China officially adopted pinyin in 1958, and earlier emigrants also spelled their names differently.
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WorkWorkHow Shopping Malls Are Being Transformed Into Apartments In The U.S. While many U.S. malls face anchor store closures and empty parking lots, some are finding new life by becoming housing. Real estate developers are building housing inside of or next to shopping malls as department stores like Macy's, JCPenney and Sears shrink or cease to exist. At least 192 U.S. m
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WorkLife Is One Long Intelligence Test This is part of a series, of people, who have contributed significantly to their field. Whilst they are known within the field, rarely are they known outside the field or widely, yet should be. See below for others. I keep a note on my desk; "memory is all we have". WorkEmmanuel Macron to Name New French PM Within Days French President Emmanuel Macron has rejected calls to stand down amid a political crisis that has seen his prime minister ousted in a no-confidence vote. In an address following Michel Barnier's resignation, Macron said that his mandate was one of five years that he would see through to the end.
WorkWorkWhy housing shortages cause homelessness Diona's mom gave her one week's notice. There were too many kids and too little space. If 17-year-old Diona didn't find someone to stay with, she would be forced to check herself and her 3-month-old son into a homeless shelter. WorkMicrobiome interventions for children raise the ethical stakes When she had her daughter in 2008, microbiologist Deanna Gibson rarely saw probiotics in the baby formula on supermarket shelves. "Then when I had my son in 2012, it was pretty much in every formula," recalls Gibson, who is at the University of British Columbia in Kelowna, Canada. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWhy did clothing become boring? One of the reasons I'm a historian is that I find the strangeness of the past to be underrated. You can find something deeply, fascinatingly weird about virtually any aspect of any human culture prior to around the year 1880, provided you take the time to dig into it. WorkIs the Dunning-Kruger effect real? This is an abridged, less technical version of our longer report, found here. You've probably heard that people who are bad at something tend to overestimate how skilled they are. They don't even know enough to know how bad they are. WorkDesigning a Shared Use, Incubator, or Commissary Kitchen The shared kitchen industry continues to grow. Pandemic disruptions, a surge in delivery platforms, and the daunting hurdles of escalating construction costs and labor shortages have resulted in a dramatically altered landscape. WorkWorkYour Internet Shouldn't Be My InternetI deleted my Instagram a few weeks ago. It felt like the most difficult platform to give up in my quest to redefine my relationship to the internet and reduce the time I spent doomscrolling. WorkWorkWorkWorkYour Stress Could Be Stressing Out Your Dog New research suggests that a person's stress levels could directly impact their dog. The study, conducted by researchers at Queen's University, Belfast (QUB), found a potential correlation between a dog's stress levels and its owner's stress levels. WorkPulseNet identifies and stops foodborne illness outbreaks. Health care needs something similar - STAT (No paywall) The recently ended Boar?s Head listeria outbreak, which has caused 57 infections and nine deaths, is just one of the many foodborne illness incidents that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention detects each year using its PulseNet system. Many people might not realize the extensive effort behind PulseNet, which systematically collects data on foodborne illnesses from patients across the U.S., performs genomic fingerprinting, and traces outbreaks back to their sources. This network of surveillance has been alerting the public to foodborne outbreaks and recalls for years. WorkThe 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding After spending the last few years embedded in AI-assisted development, I've noticed a fascinating pattern. While engineers report being dramatically more productive with AI, the actual software we use daily doesn't seem like it's getting noticeably better. What's going on here? WorkWorkThe Immigrants Most Vulnerable to Trump's Mass Deportation Plans Entered the Country Legally - The New Yorker (No paywall) One afternoon, in November, 2022, Emily was on her way to church, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, when she received a video call from her husband. It had been two years since they'd seen each other in person. He was a policeman who had fled the country after refusing to arrest pro-democracy demonstrators. Emily and their two children, who were seven years old and eleven months old, had stayed behind. Travelling north was expensive, and the journey would have taken the family through the dangerous jungle of the Dari
WorkHow to Build a General-Purpose LLM Agent Why build a general-purpose agent? Because it's an excellent tool to prototype your use cases and lays the groundwork for designing your own custom agentic architecture. Before we dive in, let's quickly introduce LLM agents. Feel free to skip ahead. WorkWhat to know about the civil war in Syria - WSJ (No paywall) Islamist rebels launched a large-scale attack on Syrian government forces, causing the largest shift in the balance of power since 2020 in Syria, where more than a decade of war has taken place. Battling Iran- and Russian-backed regime forces, the rebels in a lightning offensive captured Aleppo, which was Syrias largest city before the war, and then advanced south to the strategic and symbolically important city of Hama. Heres what to know. WorkTaylor Swifts Eras Tour changed everything - WSJ (No paywall) The pop-music sensation accounts for nearly 2% of the U.S. music marketmore than any other artist. Even in todays splintered media landscape, where top acts can go unnoticed by swaths of the public, shes a cultural phenomenon on par with Michael Jackson in the 1980s and the Beatles in the 1960s. WorkRobinhoods hot new tech bet: The desktop computer - WSJ (No paywall) In its early days, a decade ago at this point, the online brokerage began making headway into the crowded business of stock and options trading partly by making it easy to do so via mobile devices. That helped it become a pathway into investing for many younger people, though it also drove some of the criticism of its service as a gamification" of the industry. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkCan Russia still save Assad in Syria? Just when it seemed he had consolidated his position as Syrian president after the Arab Spring uprising and Islamic State land grabs, Bashar al-Assad's future hangs in the balance after a stunning advance by anti-regime forces, who seized control of key cities. WorkHow to reduce inflammation from your body? For those who are not aware of what inflammation can do to your body, have a look at the image above. Just a glimpse of it can give you shivers throughout your body. Can you see any part of your body left out? NO! WorkBlockbuster Blogs: How Breakthrough Ideas Are Born Books certainly spread breakthrough ideas, but it's rarely where they're born. Each of the examples I just mentioned started from somewhere else: blockbuster blogs. Let's start close to home. You probably know Jimmy Daly, now the CEO and founder of Superpath, formerly VP of Growth here are Animalz. WorkDesigning a Responsible AI Program? Start with this Checklist - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) As companies devote resources to implementing AI, many realize that they need a strategy to manage the technologys well-documented ethical, regulatory, and legal risks. A responsible AI program (or RAI program for short) not only builds guardrails for particular AI solutions and the teams that manage them, but it also defines the enterprise-wide policy, governance structures, roles and responsibilities, processes, and more that enable wide-scale deployment of AI. TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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