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Weekly Science Update

News and Research Papers From a Variety of Science Subreddits

Gentrification may emerge because rich people work long hours

[Source] | [Reddit Discussion]

• Low-wage workers are now much less likely to work long hours than high-wage workers, a trend that has coincided with the rise in gentrification.

• According to the models used in the research, the changing value of time for higher-income people explains 10% of gentrification.

• Clearly, though, time did not explain everything: While more educated workers were moving to the city, their jobs were not centralizing.

• Do you really think, in New York City, are we really going to see the kind of gentrification that we see?"

• And while the coronavirus pandemic has left many higher-income and "high-skilled" workers working from home, Su said he expects gentrification to continue apace post-pandemic.

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At Mating Time, These Ants Carry Their Young Queen to a Neighbor’s Nest

[Source] | [Reddit Discussion]

• There is also evidence that at least some young queens are carried from one nest to another, potentially mating with males from multiple colonies.

• No young queen ever returns to her home nest, spending the winter instead in a foreign nest.

• In spring, she is kicked out — there can be only one egg-laying queen per nest — and presumably starts a colony of her own, starting the cycle anew.

• There is only one season of mating for these young queens, but that is more than enough.

• A queen stores and preserves her mates’ sperm in a sac called the spermatheca for the rest of her life.

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Studying science isn’t what makes students less religious

[Source] | [Reddit Discussion]

• The institute has been conducting an annual survey of college students since 1966, administered to freshman students who are then given a follow-up survey during their senior year.

• The survey collects a large swath of information on the students, including their field of study, religious preferences and the frequency of attending religious service.

• First, he divided the sample into students studying traditional science fields, such as physics, chemistry and biology, and non-science fields, such as those in the humanities and social sciences.

• Evans cautioned, though, that college students are a very particular subset of the general population, with a limited age range, stage in the life course and socioeconomic class, among others.

• Thus, the observation of this social phenomenon between religion, science and inquiry should be treated as suggestive, rather than conclusive, for the larger debate.

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Neanderthals carb loaded, helping grow their big brains

[Source] | [Reddit Discussion]

• Neanderthals carb loaded, helping grow their big brainsHere’s another blow to the popular image of Neanderthals as brutish meat eaters: A new study of bacteria collected from Neanderthal teeth shows that our close cousins ate so many roots, nuts, or other starchy foods that they dramatically altered the type of bacteria in their mouths.

• The work suggests the ancestors of both humans and Neanderthals were cooking lots of starchy foods at least 600,000 years ago.

• And they had already adapted to eating more starchy plants long before the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago, she says.

• In particular, humans and Neanderthals harbored an unusual group of Streptococcus bacteria in their mouths.

• These microbes had a special ability to bind to an abundant enzyme in human saliva called amylase, which frees sugars from starchy foods.

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Desperate for workers, US restaurants and stores raise pay

[Source] | [Reddit Discussion]

• U.S. restaurants and stores are rapidly raising pay in an urgent effort to attract more applicants and keep up with a flood of customers as the pandemic eases.

• U.S. restaurants and stores are rapidly raising pay in an urgent effort to attract more applicants and keep up with a flood of customers as the pandemic eases.

• ADVERTISEMENTStill, the pay increases could contribute to higher inflation if companies raise prices to cover the additional labor costs.

• McDonald’s on Thursday said it will raise pay for workers in its 650 company-owned stores to an average of $15 an hour by 2024.

• But the rise was driven largely by soaring used car prices and more expensive airline tickets, not higher labor costs.

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Adjuvant oncolytic virotherapy for personalized anti-cancer vaccination

[Source] | [Reddit Discussion]

• NS: p > 0.05, *: p < 0.05, **: p < 0.01, ***: p < 0.001 (unpaired two-tailed t-test).

• NS: p > 0.05, *: p < 0.05, **: p < 0.01, ***: p < 0.001 (unpaired two-tailed t-test).

• NS: p > 0.05, *: p < 0.05, **: p < 0.01, ***: p < 0.001 (unpaired two-tailed t-test).

• p > 0.05, *: p < 0.05, **: p < 0.01, ***: p < 0.001 (Mantel–Cox test, two-sided).

• Tumor growth analyses: NS: p > 0.05, *: p < 0.05, ***: p < 0.001 (unpaired multiple two-tailed t-tests) and survival analyses: NS: p > 0.05, *: p < 0.05, **: p < 0.01, ***: p < 0.001 (Mantel–Cox test, two-sided).

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Gene therapy offers potential cure to children born without an immune system

[Source] | [Reddit Discussion]

• The investigational gene therapy method involves first collecting some of the child’s blood-forming stem cells, which have the potential to create all types of blood and immune cells.

• Most adverse events were mild or moderate, and were considered to be related to routine procedures performed in preparation for the experimental gene therapy treatment or effects of the immune system rebuilding.

• ADA-SCID patients began receiving the new gene therapy at GOSH in 2012; the following year, the experimental treatment was offered at UCLA and the NIH.

• These children experienced similar outcomes to the children treated with cells that were not frozen.

• The investigational lentiviral gene therapy is licensed to Orchard Therapeutics and has not been approved for clinical use by any regulatory authority.

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