Insect-borne diseases in the Amazon linked to land use and rural economies, study finds
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Researchers analysed more than 1.28 million reported cases of malaria, dengue, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis across the Brazilian Amazon and found that these diseases form distinct regional patterns linked to land use, rural economies and environmental change. The findings suggest that disease risk is shaped not only by insect vectors, but also by broader social and environmental conditions, with implications for public health, land-use planning and disease surveillance.
A research team led by Professors Jiafu Wang and Jue Qu has jointly developed an eye-tracking-driven, polarization-agile, and beam-programmable metasurface. This system integrates high-precision eye-tracking technology with advanced programmable metasurface design, enabling real-time 3D beam focusing and adaptive reconfiguration of polarization modes for wireless communication signals. This achievement was published in Research under the title "Eye-Tracking-Driven Programming Metasurface System for Adaptive Beam Focusing and Polarization-agile Communication".
AI Identifies Key Social Deficits in an Autism Mouse Model Without Prior Knowledge
Developed by Biology-Trained Researchers, Published in Leading Computer Vision Journal IJCV
This Brain Medicine mini-review gathers a decade of converging research on plasma neurofilament light chain (NfL), a protein shed from injured neurons that has become a leading blood-based window onto neuronal damage in Alzheimer’s disease. Synthesizing existing studies rather than reporting new experiments, the authors trace how rising NfL tracks cognitive decline, brain atrophy, and disease progression. Their central argument concerns biological sex. The analysis concludes that an identical NfL level may reflect a more advanced process in men than in women, making sex-specific interpretation a clinical necessity rather than a refinement.