In a paper published in National Science Review, a team of Chinese scientists developed an attention-based deep learning model, CGMformer, pretrained on a well-controlled and diverse corpus of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data to represent individual’s intrinsic metabolic state and enable clinical applications. It can accurately characterize individual dynamic glycemic behaviors such as maintenance of fasting blood glucose homeostasis and adaptation to postprandial hyperglycemia., It can assist in the diagnosis, disease duration assessment, and complication prediction of type 2 diabetes, subtype classification of non-diabetic populations, predict postprandial glucose responses accurately and provide personalized dietary recommendations for diabetes patients, thereby enabling lifestyle intervention recommendations.

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert – and Flinders University researchers have discovered new details about its feeding habits that might help to find it. 

The experts in marsupial evolution and ecology have compared the biting ability of different small animal skulls to understand the kinds of food the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris) ate, thus narrowing down the best areas to monitor for the little animal.

A new peer-reviewed Perspective (review) article shows that many widely-used prescription medications unintentionally disrupt sterol biosynthesis, a critical process for brain development. This disruption could have significant implications for fetal brain development when medications are taken during pregnancy, particularly in individuals with genetic vulnerabilities affecting cholesterol production.

A study in Ecology Letters shows birds worldwide make strategic decisions about how they live based on their environmental conditions. Some live fast, die young, and leave as many chicks as possible. Others live long and prosper by not breeding.