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Images outside the courtroom ahead of the opening of Paolo Macchiarini's trial in Stockholm. The Italian surgeon who made headlines in 2011 for the world's first synthetic trachea transplants has been charged in Sweden with aggravated assault. IMAGES
Nairobi, March 12 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Daniel Irungu) The life of the Italian-Colombian Gaia Dominici, 28, changed radically when she fell in love with Ntoyiai, a Maasai warrior with whom she lives in the Rift Valley in Kenya and father of her daughter, Lily Rose, just one and a half years old.FOOTAGE OF GAIA DOMINICI AND HER PARTNER, A MAASAI WARRIORSOUNDBITES OF DOMINICITRANSLATION "I first came in 2014, I came to my university, I had to do a job as a photographer. I was working in Nairobi, in the suburbs, documenting stories, and I felt like I needed to take a break from that job. From then on, he suggested that I come to Maasai land. "
The common parasite Toxoplasma gondii is spread to people through undercooked pork and occasionally domestic cats. Chronic T. gondii infections are linked to an increased risk of schizophrenia, lowered cognition, and behavioral changes like more risk-taking and aggression. Now, scientists say the parasite might have more insidious health effects than previously suspected. Gizmodo reports new research suggests a link between Toxoplasma gondii infection and an increased risk of gliomas, the most common form of brain cancer. The US sees 24,000 new cases of brain cancer annually, while 11% of Americans over age six carry T. gondii--upwards of 30 million people. So even if the connection is real, the chances of getting brain cancer as a result of chronic T. gondii infection are very low on an individual level.
New research out is looking to bring us closer to understanding how covid-19 can cause brain damage. The study suggests that while the viral infection may not directly reach the brain in most cases... ...It can spark the sort of destructive inflammation that’s seen with other neurological conditions. The research was conducted by U.S. government scientists at the National Institutes of Health. The team studied the brains of 19 people who died after contracting covid-19, says Gizmodo. The researchers found clogged, thinned out, and leaky blood vessels as well as inflammation.
Hungarian researchers want to reassure the human companions of dogs that they do care about you. However, they don't particularly care for your face. In fact, CNN reports dogs can't even distinguish the front of your head from the back of it. Instead, dogs use more information from smell or larger parts of the body to identify people. Despite lacking specialized neural machinery to process faces, dogs nevertheless excel at eye contact, following gaze, and reading emotions from faces. The researchers say that as dogs domesticated, they learned that reading facial cues meant survival, even though they lacked a specific region in the brain to do so.
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