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COVID-19 infection and pulmonary sarcoidosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of morbidity, severity and mortality

National Center for Respiratory Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Key findings

• Sarcoidosis patients are prone to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, increased severity, morbidity and greater mortality of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

What is known and what is new?

• Subjects with sarcoidosis are more vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection.

• Severity of COVID-19 was also more serious in subjects stricken with sarcoidosis.

What is the implication, and what should change now?

• Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 for sarcoidosis may be a compulsory measure.

Journal: Journal of Thoracic Disease

Humans as hardware: computing with biological tissue

The University of Osaka
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Yo Kobayashi from The University of Osaka has demonstrated that it is possible to use human tissue as a computational resource to perform complex calculations. The inherent nonlinear mechanical properties of soft tissue make it a surprisingly ideal reservoir for information processing. The results of this discovery pave the way for applications where human tissue can be used to handle computational tasks.

Journal: IEEE Access
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Science and Technology Agency

Smartwatches may help control diabetes through exercise

University of Birmingham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Wearable mobile health technology could help people with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) to stick to exercise regimes that help them to keep the condition under control.

Journal: BMJ Open

Brain-like computer steers rolling robot with 0.25% of the power needed by conventional controllers

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A smaller, lighter and more energy efficient computer, demonstrated at the University of Michigan, could help save weight and power for autonomous drones and rovers, with implications for autonomous vehicles more broadly.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

Machine learning algorithm that prices properties’ value benefitted market

Carnegie Mellon University

Housing tends to be a key part of household wealth, but despite its importance, it has been difficult to measure the value of a property. In a new article, researchers studied the impact of a popular machine learning pricing algorithm on the U.S. housing market. The study found that, overall, the algorithm benefitted the market.

Journal: Marketing Science

Top global award for young technologists goes to researcher who advanced AI with high-performance computers

Association for Computing Machinery
Grant and Award Announcement

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Torsten Hoefler, a Professor at ETH Zurich, the recipient of the 2024 ACM Prize in Computing for fundamental contributions to high-performance computing and the ongoing AI revolution. Hoefler developed many of the core capabilities of modern supercomputers and defined key aspects of the algorithms for distributing AI models on them.

Researchers achieve quantum computing milestone, realizing certified randomness

University of Texas at Austin
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using a 56-qubit quantum computer, researchers have for the first time experimentally demonstrated certified randomness, a way of generating random numbers from a quantum computer and then using a classical supercomputer to prove they are truly random and freshly generated. This could pave the way towards the use of quantum computers for a practical task unattainable through classical methods.

Journal: Nature
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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