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Sep 2024
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Rejection Prediction, Cool Fabric, Serot...

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Today, you’ll learn about a new way for doctors to use neural networks - or AI - to figure out the risks of organ transplants in individual patients, a new fabric that is - literally - cool, and how serotonin affects fertility.  

 

Rejection Prediction 

 

 

Cool Fabric 

 

 

Serotonin & Fertility 

 

 

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