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Doctors Use Brainwaves to Objectively Measure Chronic Pain

Popular Science

Chronic pain can be objectively measured from brain signals recorded in daily life, scientists demonstrated for the first time in a study published in Nature Neuroscience in May 2023. A team led by Prasad Shirvalkar, a neurologist and pain medicine specialist at UCSF, used deep brain stimulation implants to monitor four patients with uncontrollable chronic pain, three recovering from strokes and one with phantom limb syndrome, over three to six months.

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NCAA's Cannabis Testing Changes Await Approval

NPR

An NCAA medical committee formally recommended removing cannabis from the organization's list of banned substances in June 2023, arguing that marijuana does not enhance athletic performance and that disciplinary enforcement belongs at the school level rather than through national testing. The Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports called for a harm-reduction approach emphasizing education and support over punitive suspensions for student-athletes who use cannabis.

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STEM

From Helicopters to Clones: the Quest for Perfect Seeds Takes Off

Science

Scientists achieved a long-sought breakthrough in agricultural genetics by engineering hybrid rice plants to reproduce clonally through seeds, a process called apomixis that plant biologists had described as a "holy grail" for decades. The technique uses specific genetic mutations to produce more than 95% clonal seeds from commercial hybrid varieties, potentially eliminating the expensive helicopter-based pollen transfer methods currently used to produce hybrid rice seed at scale.

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