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Beating Blindness and Resilient Microbiomes (Season 4: Episode 40)


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Get ready for the PRIMA system to treat age-related blindness, surprising chemistry on Saturn's moon Titan, Kagome tubes for vibration damping in engineering, the R-Multiverse, and a grant on the Foundations of a Resilient Microbiome. Science On.


References:

  • Subretinal Photovoltaic Implant to Restore Vision in Geographic Atrophy Due to AMD
  • SnOx Nanoflakes as Enhanced Near-Infrared Photothermal Therapy Agents Synthesized from Electrochemically Oxidized SnS2 Powders
  • Hydrogen cyanide and hydrocarbons mix on Titan
  • Topological polarization of kagome tubes and applications toward vibration isolation
  • Potassium-40 isotopic evidence for an extant pre-giant-impact component of Earth’s mantle
  • Overlay multiple custom density curves on a histogram in SAS
  • Go for Launch! Packages Shipped to the R-Multiverse
  • What’s new for Python in 2025?
  • leap: Foundations of a Resilient Microbiome
  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative: Implementation of Synthetic Biology Principles in Immunology


R Packages:

  • alpmixBayes: Bayesian Estimation for Alpha-Mixture Survival Models
  • bayesQRsurvey: Bayesian Quantile Regression Models for Complex Survey Data Analysis
  • arete: Automated REtrieval from TExt
  • nbpInference: Inference on Average Treatment Effects for Continuous Treatments
  • partialling.out: Residuals from Partial Regressions
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Science Research WeeklyBy Mark R Williamson