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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.
WorkHow to write your own job description (and invent your role) ? Hey, it's Wes. Welcome to my weekly newsletter on managing up, executive communication, and standing out as a higher performer. I originally published a version of this essay in September 2019. If you find this post helpful, please share it with friends and colleagues. Enjoy. WorkThe first known animal that's "immune" to alcohol intoxication If a 175 pound-man drank five one-liter handles of vodka in a day, he would die. But when a tiny Oriental hornet weighing half a gram consumes the equivalent amount of alcohol relative to its body size, it carries on like nothing happened. Many animals, humans among them, imbibe alcohol.
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WorkWhen You Have Two Bosses and They Dont Talk to Each Other - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) Levs promotion to senior project manager came with an unexpected challenge. Although he continued to report to his functional boss, Gina, the head of product development, he now also answered to a project-specific boss, Navin, the leader of a critical new software implementation. This dual reporting structure was meant to speed up delivery, but Lev soon noticed that his two bosses hardly talked to each other. He often found himself relaying information between them, trying to align conflicting priorities and navigatedifferent directives. WorkWhy You Should Start Using Encrypted CommunicationsToday - Inc (No paywall) If youre concerned about the privacy of your communications, encryption is your friend. Thats the surprisingly blunt assessment of Jeff Greene, executive assistant director for cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, the federal outfit charged with protecting our data,in light of the ongoing compromise of the U.S. telecommunications infrastructure.
WorkWill private markets morph into ETFs? BlackRock thinks so - WSJ (No paywall) Back in 2009, in the shadow of the global financial crisis, BlackRock bought Barclays Global Investors for around $15 billion. Included in that business focused on index investing was iShares, the provider of exchange-traded funds. ETFs exploded into the massive asset class they are today, as foundations of both active and passive strategies, helping turn BlackRock into the worlds largest asset manager, now overseeing an incredible $11.5 trillion of clients money. WorkFood prices reach 19-month high in November, UN says | Today News - WSJ (No paywall) The FAOs food price index, which tracks global prices for a basket of staple foods, averaged 127.5 points in November, a 0.5% increase from Octobers level and 5.7% higher than a year earlier. The index stands at its highest level since April 2023, but is still significantly below the record reached in March 2022 after Russias invasion of Ukraine.
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WorkNew video of UnitedHealthcare CEO suspect emerges The chief suspect in the killing of Brian Thompson appears to have dumped something on a pile of trash bags before shooting the UnitedHealthcare chief executive in New York, footage obtained by Newsweek shows. WorkMuhammad is UKs most popular boys baby name for first time Muhammad has become the UK's most popular baby name for boys for the first time, new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed. The name has been among the top 10 names for baby boys since 2016, but has now overtaken the previous favourite, Noah.
WorkBiden cant save Trumps enemies with preemptive pardons If you believe in the work we do at Vox, please support us by becoming a member. Our mission has never been more urgent. But our work isnt easy. It requires resources, dedication, and independence. And thats where you come in. Work
WorkWork WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWhen They Hear Plants Crying, Moths Make a Decision You may not want to sit next to a crying baby on an airplane. Apparently, moths feel the same way about plants. When some plants are dehydrated or under some other form of stress, they cry a mournful melody made of ultrasonic clicks. WorkAI Weapons and the Dangerous Illusion of Human Control "I'll be back," Arnold Schwarzenegger famously promised in the 1984 sci-fi hit The Terminator. He wasn't kidding. In a 2023 interview, the actor turned governor suggested that the movie's vision of autonomous weapons was now a reality. WorkWorkWorkElon Musk weighs in on whether he would abuse his growing political influence As for Altman, Musk was an OpenAi co-founder in 2015 before he left over a conflict of interest in 2018. A few years later, he launched his own artificial intelligence startup, xAI, which just secured another $6 billion in funding, according to a regulatory filing. Musk has sued OpenAI and has asked a federal court to stop it from becoming a for-profit business and to prevent it from allegedly requiring investors to refrain from funding rivals, including xAI. WorkCanada Moves to Protect Arctic From Threats by Russia and China Canada’s government said the country was committed to increasing military spending in the Arctic, including a 5 billion Canadian dollar, or $3.6 billion, upgrade of defense systems used by the North American Aerospace Defense Command — a joint operation of the two countries. WorkRebels Advance in Syria as Iran Steps Back TikTok, a video app used by more than 170 million Americans, moved one step closer today to disappearing from the U.S. market. A panel of federal judges unanimously upheld a new law that requires the app’s Chinese owner to either sell TikTok to a non-Chinese owner by mid-January or face a nationwide ban in the U.S. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkGoogle Wallet can now hold your US passport Google has been testing the use and storage of digital passports in Google Wallet for some time. Several states have started accepting digital IDs just in the last few months. New Mexico is the newest state to accept digital IDs including driver’s licenses and state IDs in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet. WorkCrypto evangelist David Sacks will serve as Trump's AI and cryptocurrency advisor As for Trump, appointing Sacks to his advisory council shows just how much his stance on crypto has changed. As recently as 2021, he said he thought Bitcoin seemed “like a scam,” and advocated for “very, very high” government regulation of the currency. That was before the crypto industry funneled $131 million during the 2024 election to get 274 pro-crypto candidates elected to the House of Representatives and 20 candidates to the Senate. During his campaign, Trump promised to make the United States “the crypto capital of the planet.” WorkCanada boosting Arctic presence in face of Russian threats It will also create a new Arctic ambassador post and open consulates in Alaska and Greenland, as it seeks to settle a boundary dispute with the United States in the Beaufort Sea and finalize a deal with Denmark to split Hans Island. WorkMissing US journalist Austin Tice believed alive in Syria, mother says In the final months of the last Trump administration, two US officials – the government’s top hostage negotiator, Roger Carstens, and Kash Patel, now Trump’s pick to lead the FBI – made a secret visit to Damascus to seek information on Tice and other Americans who had disappeared in Syria. WorkHopeful hearts and other startup news | TechCrunch Voyager Ventures investment director Leonardo Banchik and other climate tech investors are cautiously optimistic about policy changes being considered by the second Trump administration. These won’t be universally detrimental to the sector, and some might even stand to benefit climate tech, TechCrunch heard. WorkWorkWorkWorkUSDA launching mandatory national milk testing program to track H5N1 flu outbreak in cows The new federal order allows USDA to obtain raw milk samples from any player in the production and distribution network. It also requires herd owners found to have positive cattle to provide information that would allow the agency to trace the source of the virus and follow movement of cows. And it reiterates a requirement from an earlier order that private laboratories and state veterinarians that detect positive cows must report them to the USDA. WorkWorkThe Philosopher L. A. Paul Wants Us to Think About Our Selves - The New Yorker (No paywall) The Sonoran Desert, which covers much of the southwestern United States, is a vast expanse of arid earth where cartoonish entitiesroadrunners, tumbleweeds, telephone-pole-tall succulentsmake occasional appearances. It was in this iconic, Looney Tunes landscape that dozens of philosophers gathered in the winter of 2022 at a three-thousand-acre dude ranch on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, as if inhabiting a thought experiment of their own design. Between archery practice and lassoing lessons, they met in an adobe structure, where there was talk of inconsistency relations and the concept of entailment. How does probably work? was unanimously agreed to be one of the more polarizing questions a person could ask. WorkWhat to Know about Lead Contamination in Cinnamon - Scientific American (No paywall) Spices bring up feelings of comfort, cultural belonging and holidays. They can make our homes smell amazing and our food taste delicious. They can satisfy our cravings, expand our culinary horizons and help us eat things that we might normally dislike. Spices have health-enhancing properties and, in medicine, have been used to heal people since the ancient times. WorkCould the next pope come from Africa or Asia? - The Economist (No paywall) In the shadow of the giant pillars that encircle St Peters Square, Nancy Samai sells visitors tickets to the Vatican Museums. A Roman Catholic, Ms Samai arrived in Italy 22 years ago after fleeing the civil war in her native Sierra Leone. As she works, she can see the very window from which Pope Francis greets pilgrims on a Sunday. Like many of them, she wonders whether one day the face that emerges from that window might be black. If America can have Barack Obama as its president, then surely the next pope can be African, she says. Thats my dream. Thats what Im praying for. WorkGenerative AI is transforming radiology, and its only the beginning - STAT (No paywall) Medical imaging already leads the way in the clinical application of artificial intelligence: Algorithms that help to analyze CT scans, MRIs, and X-rays account for more than three-quarters of AI-based devices authorized by the Food and Drug Administration. But at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America this week, the next generation of AI large language models was at the center of attention. Products using LLMs to streamline radiology documentation dominated the demonstration hall, and several sessions centered on health technologys latest poster child. WorkWorkThe UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Has Corporate America Panicking As soon as the manhunt for the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson got underway, the security and risk-consultancy firm Kroll started getting calls from its clients. As the the head of enterprise security risk management, Matthew Dumperts job is to protect executives and wealthy individuals from a wide variety of threats, including violence. I spoke to him the day after the attack about the public reaction to the vigilante-style killing and whether the shooting is a wake-up call for corporate America. WorkA Second Trump Term Is Set to Scramble Trade Alliances Trade relationships have been undergoing a seismic shift over the past eight years as the United States has backed away from its longstanding position as a champion of globalization and free-trade agreements. Mr. Trump’s first presidency included a sharp turn toward protectionism, as he negotiated deals globally but ended up leaving much higher tariffs in place against allies like Mexico and Europe, and competitors like China. |
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