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Study: Using machine learning to detect coronaviruses potentially infectious to humans. Image Credit: MAVV/Shutterstock

New machine learning method detects animal coronaviruses that could infect humans

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In a recent study published on bioRxiv*preprint server, researchers used machine learning (ML) tools to discover animal coronaviruses (CoVs), both alpha and beta CoVs, previously unknown to infect humans. Study: Using machine learning to detect coronaviruses potentially infectious to humans. Image Credit: MAVV/Shutterstock Background It has remained difficult to predict which animal CoVs might infect …

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Erin Bailey witnessed a virtual alien abduction at 36th and Walnut Streets on Nov. 11, 2022. The experience is designed to parallel the sci-fi scenario with medical research on animals.

The PETA Virtual Experiment at Penn equates animal medical research with human testing. Scientists are unsure of the analogy.

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On Friday, animal rights activists staged a virtual reality alien abduction on the University of Pennsylvania campus to encourage people to consider lab animal experiments. A virtual reality helmet and earphones immersed the participants in a a first-person perspective centered on a story in which X-Files-style bug-eyed aliens pushed and experimented on captured young couple …

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PETA 'kidnaps' Yale students for VR experience to protest animal research

PETA ‘kidnaps’ Yale students for VR experience to protest animal research

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The animal rights organization urged passers-by along York Street to jump into their ‘abduction’ van and put the students in the shoes – or paws – of animals used in research labs of the University. Sophie Sonnenfeld 11:22 p.m., October 27, 2022 Staff reporter Sophie Sonnenfeld, collaborating photographer Sophie Huttner ’23 felt ‘definitely out of …

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Raising Farmer Awareness of Emergency Animal Diseases Through Augmented Reality

Raising Farmer Awareness of Emergency Animal Diseases Through Augmented Reality

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The red meat and livestock industry contributes over $18 billion a year (about 1.4%) to Australia’s gross domestic product and directly and indirectly employs nearly half a million of people. “An outbreak of a disease such as foot-and-mouth disease would be devastating to our producers,” says Emily Mellor, who runs the red meat and wool …

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ai weiwei designs tibetan tiger rug to advocate animal conservation

ai weiwei designs tibetan tiger rug to advocate animal conservation

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tibetan tiger rug by ai weiwei Ai Weiwei has long been intrigued by the relationship between humans and animals. These living beings usurp the time that Weiwei could have invested in rather mundane tasks and push him to invest his efforts in detailed research that taps into his passion for documentation and marks his constantly …

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