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ISC Third General Assembly opens in Muscat

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Muscat Dialogue closes with a collective call for action to leverage science for the global good

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The Muscat Declaration on Global Science

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Science Missions for Sustainability: Pilots launch to transform science and deliver real-world solutions

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ISC strengthens ties in the Middle East with new regional initiative

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Peter Gluckman opens the Muscat Global Knowledge Dialogue with a call for greater alignment and cooperation in science

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Shaping the future of global science: ISC’s fourth Global Knowledge Dialogue in Muscat

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A research team at KAIST has identified the core gene expression networks regulated by key proteins that fundamentally drive phenomena such as cancer development, metastasis, tissue differentiation from stem cells, and neural activation processes. This discovery lays the foundation for developing innovative therapeutic technologies.

Call for consultants: Artificial Intelligence in the context of international science

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Call for nominations: Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research

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In a study published today in Alzheimer’s and Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, Dr Underwood, together with Dr Ilianna Lourida from the University of Exeter, led a systematic review of existing scientific literature to look for evidence of prescription drugs that altered the risk of dementia. Systematic reviews allow researchers to pool several studies where evidence may be weak, or even contradictory, to arrive at more robust conclusions.

In total, the team examined 14 studies that used large clinical datasets and medical records, capturing data from more than 130 million individuals and 1 million dementia cases. Although they found a lack of consistency between studies in identifying individual drugs that affect the risk of dementia, they identified several drug classes associated with altered risk.

One unexpected finding was an association between antibiotics, antivirals and vaccines, and a reduced risk of dementia. This finding supports the hypothesis that common dementias may be triggered by viral or bacterial infections, and supports recent interest in vaccines, such as the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis, and decreased risk of dementia.

Science diplomat to lead International Science Council Regional Focal Point for Asia and the Pacific

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Human ancestors like Australopithecus – which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa – ate very little to no meat, according to new research published in the scientific journal Science. This conclusion comes from an analysis of nitrogen isotope isotopes in the fossilized tooth enamel of seven Australopithecus individuals. The data revealed that these early hominins primarily relied on plant-based diets, with little to no evidence of meat consumption.