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AI can predict brain cancer survival rate in patients suffering from ‘most lethal form’ of the disease, scient – Daily Mail
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AI can predict brain cancer survival rate in patients suffering from ‘most lethal form’ of the disease, scientists reveal – Daily Mail
- AI can predict brain cancer survival rate in patients suffering from ‘most lethal form’ of the disease, scientists reveal Daily Mail
- Survival prediction of glioblastoma patients using modern deep learning and machine learning techniques | Scientific Reports Nature.com
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- MRI-guided radiation with AI allows for real-time monitoring of glioblastoma treatment response Healio
- AI can predict short-term and long-term survivors of brain cancer News-Medical.Net
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Alabama’s failed lethal injection execution is unprecedent third since 2018
Alabama’s recent inability to conduct lethal injections is unprecedented nationwide, according to a group that tracks capital punishment.
The Death Penalty Information Center told The Associated Press on Friday that no other state has had to stop an execution in progress since 2017.
The execution of 57-year-old death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith was called off ahead of a midnight deadline on Thursday because state officials couldn’t find a suitable vein.
It was the second such instance of being unable to kill an inmate in the past two months for the state, and the third since 2018.
EXECUTION OF ALABAMA MAN WHO KILLED PREACHER’S WIFE HALTED FOR BIZARRE REASON
This undated photo provided by Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher’s wife. Smith, 57, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022.
((Alabama Department of Corrections via AP).)
An execution was completed in July following a three-hour delay caused partially by the same problem with starting an IV line.
“I think Alabama clearly has some explaining to do, but also some reflection to do about what is going wrong in its execution process,” Ngozi Ndulue, the deputy director of the center, said. “The question is whether Alabama is going to take that seriously.”
However, the Alabama Department of Corrections disputed that the cancelation was a reflection of problems, blaming a late court action for a “short timeframe to complete it protocol.”
Officials said that they called off the execution for the night after they were unable to get it underway within the 100-minute window between the U.S. Supreme Court’s clearing the way for it to begin at about 10:20 p.m. and the death warrant’s expiration.
The court had lifted a stay earlier in the evening by the 11th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals, but the state decided an hour later that the injection would not happen.
FILE – This photo shows the gurney in the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oct. 9, 2014.
(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
“We have no concerns about the state’s ability to carry out future lethal injection procedures,” the Alabama Department of Corrections said in an emailed statement to the outlet, saying it would continue to review its processes to assess and identify areas of improvement.
Fox News Digital’s request for comment from the department was not immediately returned.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey blamed Smith’s last-minute appeals for the execution not going forward as scheduled.
“Kenneth Eugene Smith chose $1,000 over the life of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett, and he was guilty, no question about it. Some three decades ago, a promise was made to Elizabeth’s family that justice would be served through a lawfully imposed death sentence,” she said. “Although that justice could not be carried out tonight because of last-minute legal attempts to delay or cancel the execution, attempting it was the right thing to do.”
TEXAS MAN, WHO KILLED PREGNANT EX-GIRLFRIEND AND HER 7-YEAR-OLD SON, IS EXECUTED AFTER SAYING LAST WORDS
Smith’s layers say they believe he may have been strapped to a gurney four hours, even though final appeals were still underway after visiting with him.
“Mr. Smith no doubt has injuries from the attempted execution — and certainly physical and testimonial evidence that needs to be preserved — that can and should be photographed and/or filmed,” lawyers for Smith wrote.
Gov. Kay Ivey takes questions from reporters during a press conference at the Alabama State Capitol Building in Montgomery, Ala., on Wednesday, April 7, 2021.
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The state must go back to court to seek a new execution date.
He was returned to Holman Prison after surviving the attempt.
Smith was convicted in the 1998 murder-for-hire killing of preacher’s wife Elizabeth Sennett.
Prosecutors said the death row inmate was one of two men who were each paid $1,000 to kill Elizabeth Sennett on behalf of her husband, Charles Sennet Sr., who wanted to collect on insurance. Sennett was found dead in her Colbert County home on March 18, 1988, and the coroner testified that the 45-year-old had been stabbed eight times in the chest and once on each side of the neck.
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Her husband killed himself when the murder investigation focused on him as a suspect.
John Forrest Parker, the other man convicted in the slaying, was executed in 2010.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Gene-edited sheep offer hope for treatment of lethal childhood disease | Health
A flock of gene-edited sheep has been used by scientists to pinpoint a promising treatment for a lethal inherited brain disease that afflicts young children. The researchers, based in the UK and US, say their work could lead to the development of drugs to alleviate infantile Batten disease.
In the UK, Batten disease affects between 100 and 150 children and young adults and is inherited from two symptomless parents who each carry a rare recessive gene mutation.
Children who carry two copies of this faulty gene begin to suffer loss of vision, impaired cognition and mobility problems. Seizures and early death follow. “The effect on families is devastating,” said Professor Jonathan Cooper of Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, one of the project’s leaders.
Researchers first began experiments, working with colleagues at Collaborations Pharmaceuticals, which showed mice affected by one form of Batten disease, known as CLN1 disease, could be treated with a missing enzyme.
“That was encouraging but we needed to test the treatment in larger brains with a structure more like those of a child,” said another project leader, Professor Tom Wishart, of Edinburgh University’s Roslin Institute, where cloning techniques were used to create Dolly the Sheep in 1996. “You cannot extrapolate straight from mouse experiments to humans. Having an intermediate larger model is important.”
The project scientists used the gene-editing technique Crispr-Cas9 to create a version of the faulty gene responsible for CLN1 in sheep. “Sheep ovaries were collected from abattoirs, eggs were removed and fertilised. Crispr reagents were added to make the required changes in CLN1 and the eggs were then implanted into surrogate sheep.” The scientists were able to create a small flock of sheep, each engineered to carry a single functional copy of the CLN1 gene.
“These are symptomless carriers, like the parents of Batten disease children,” added Wishart. “From these we could then breed sheep that have two faulty copies. These go on to develop a disease like those children, and became the subjects of our therapy trials.”
Children succumb to this version of Batten disease because they lack an enzyme made by healthy CLN1 genes. Without it the performance of their bodies’ lysosomes, which recycle waste material that builds up in cells, is impaired. This process is impeded in Batten disease.
The research on mice revealed that injecting the missing enzyme into the brain produced noticeable improvements. But jumping straight to trials on humans was not practical or safe, the group reasoned.
“You can miss two crucial issues,” added Cooper. “How to deliver the drug to the right place in a bigger brain and how to scale up dosing.”
Answers were provided by experiments on a half-dozen sheep bred from the Roslin flock with two faulty CLN1 genes. These showed many hallmarks of the disease that affects humans. By calculating an appropriate dose and the route to deliver it to brains of sheep, improvements in their disease could be observed by the team, whose research is published by the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
The results are promising, say the scientists, but they stress several years’ research will still be needed to optimise treatment.
“We have gained enormous insights that will help in the development of therapies for children one day,” said Wishart. His point was backed by Cooper. “We have still some way to go but we have taken a very important step.”
Rabbits in South Carolina, Connecticut suddenly drop dead from lethal virus
A highly-contagious and deadly virus is claiming the lives of rabbits in South Carolina.
Authorities detected Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus Type-2 after a herd of feral bunnies suddenly died at a homestead in Greenville County, the Clemson University Veterinary Diagnostic Center said Thursday.
Surviving members of the herd have been placed in quarantine.
It is the first time the vicious virus has been detected in the state. RHDV2 was first detected in 2018 and has quickly become an epidemic in Western states.
The disease was also detected earlier this month in Connecticut after 13 rabbits died in 24 hours, with the 14th member of the herd succumbing to the virus two days later, the state Department of Environmental Protection said.
Rabbits and hares infected with RHDV2 have a slim 30% chance of survival, the university said. Symptoms include anorexia, lethargy, conjunctivitis, respiratory signs, and bloodstained noses or mouths.
“The introduction of RHDV2 to wild rabbits in South Carolina poses a serious threat to wild populations and has contributed to significant mortality events in the western United States. It is important that we do what we can to prevent contact between infected feral rabbits and wild rabbits,” said Will Dillman, Assistant Chief of Wildlife for the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.
Though humans cannot become sick from RHDV2, they can spread the killer virus. It is also transmitted through direct contact with infected rabbits, bedding, water, feed, hay and other materials used in the care and feeding of rabbits.
Mitchell Ryan, ‘Dark Shadows’ and ‘Lethal Weapon’ actor, dead at 88
Actor Mitchell Ryan died on Friday. He was 88.
The actor was known for playing a villainous general in the first “Lethal Weapon” movie, a ruthless businessman on TV’s “Santa Barbara” and had character roles on the soap opera “Dark Shadows” and the sitcom “Dharma & Greg.”
Ryan died of congestive heart failure at his Los Angeles home, his stepdaughter, Denise Freed, told the Hollywood Reporter.
Rugged, granite-jawed and sporting a sleek mane of hair, Ryan was instantly recognizable on TV and the big screen. His career spanned more than a half-century, beginning with an uncredited role in the 1958 Robert Mitchum film “Thunder Road.”
He was a general-turned heroin smuggler in “Lethal Weapon,” police officer in “Magnum Force” and “Electra Glide in Blue,” and the conniving, murderous Las Vegas businessman Anthony Tonell in the nighttime TV soap opera “Santa Barbara.”
In the 1990s, he had a long-running role as Greg’s wealthy, eccentric and boozy father on “Dharma & Greg.”
Ryan played Burke Devlin on the cult 1960s soap opera “Dark Shadows” for one season but he was fired because of his alcoholism.
Ryan acknowledged his drinking issues in his 2021 autobiography, “Fall of a Sparrow.”
“I’m blessed that, 30 years a drunk, I’ve managed to live a working actor’s life to be envied. And I’ve lived a great deal of real life while I was at it,” he wrote. “Sober for the next 30 years, I’m told that I’ve come out of it all a good and useful human being.”
Ryan had roles on many TV shows and in movies ranging from “High Plains Drifter” with Clint Eastwood to “Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.”
He also performed in the theater, including Broadway appearances in “Wait Until Dark,” “Medea” and “The Price.”
“He was a great gift in my life,” Kathryn Leigh Scott, who appeared with him in “Dark Shadows,” said in a Facebook post. “I cherish my warm memories of his beautiful soul. I’m heartbroken.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
‘Lethal Weapon,’ ‘Dharma & Greg’ Actor 88 – The Hollywood Reporter
Mitchell Ryan, the square-jawed character actor who played a heroin-smuggling retired general in the first Lethal Weapon movie, an ex-con on Dark Shadows and an obnoxious father on Dharma & Greg, has died. He was 88.
Ryan died Friday of congestive heart failure at his home in Los Angeles, his stepdaughter Denise Freed told The Hollywood Reporter.
Ryan was perhaps at his best as Shorty Austin, a ranch hand who gets mixed up with the wrong crowd, in the Lee Marvin-Jack Palance Western Monte Walsh (1970), directed by William Fraker from a novel by Jack Schaefer (Shane).
Ryan had a big year in 1973, when he appeared opposite Clint Eastwood in High Plains Drifter and Magnum Force — in the latter as a burned-out motorcycle patrolman — with Robert Mitchum in Peter Yates’ The Friends of Eddie Coyle and as a hippie-hating detective alongside Robert Blake in Electra Glide in Blue.
Ryan also portrayed the head of a sanitarium and leader of a Druid-like cult in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), Hugh Hefner in Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981) and Minnie Driver’s father in Grosse Pointe Blank (1997).
As Gen. Peter McAllister, Ryan gets trapped in an overturned car and goes up in a ball of flames on Hollywood Boulevard in Richard Donner’s Lethal Weapon (1987), done in by detectives Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) in their first cinematic partnership.
Later, Ryan played it for laughs on about 120 episodes of the 1997-2002 ABC sitcom Dharma & Greg as Edward Montgomery, the rich, boozy father of Greg (Thomas Gibson) and proud Notre Dame graduate who frequently tussles with Dharma’s hippie dad (Alan Rachins).
For three years, Ryan appeared as ex-con Burke Devlin on Dark Shadows before being fired in 1966. “I was so drunk that year, I barely remember what it was about,” he told TV Guide in 1976. (He said he eventually gave up booze.)
On Facebook, his Dark Shadows co-star Kathryn Leigh Scott wrote that Ryan “was a great gift in my life. I cherish my warm memories of his beautiful soul. I’m heartbroken.” He played Burke Devlin on the soap, and she was Maggie Evans.
He later appeared on other daytime serials including All My Children, Santa Barbara and General Hospital.
In a 2018 interview, Ryan said he almost landed the role of Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
“I was pretty well considered until they ran across that incredible British actor … Patrick Stewart,” he said. “I don’t know how close I came, but I was told [at the time] I was really being considered and it was looking good.”
He did appear on the series in 1989 as the estranged father of Cmdr. William Riker (Jonathan Frakes).
Ryan was born in Cincinnati on Jan. 11, 1934, and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. His father was a novelty salesman and his mother a writer.
After a stint in the U.S. Navy, where he served in the special services entertainment unit during the Korean War, Ryan became convinced that acting was for him after he saw Warren Oates star in a 1953 production of Dark of the Moon in Louisville.
“If you are [young] and have no feelings of your own, the theater has a fatal attraction,” he told TV Guide. “I became totally involved, worked for nothing, 20 hours a day. Playing at being somebody else took me out of myself and gave the illusion of meaning and worth.”
He moved to New York and worked on the stage and in television, then made his film debut in Thunder Road (1958), starring Mitchum.
“I had a small scene with Mitchum, who was just short of being a god and at the height of his popularity,” Ryan recalled. “He stood by the camera joking with the crew. At last I heard my scene called, at which point Mitchum walked over to me, was silent for a second and then said, ‘Remember, I’m Big Mitch and you’re Little Mitch.’ He looked grim, then burst out laughing and said, ‘Let ‘s do this fucking thing.’ “
Ryan appeared on such TV shows as Naked City and The Defenders and joined Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival, then made it to Broadway in 1966 as one of the bad guys who terrorize a blind woman (Lee Remick) in the thriller Wait Until Dark, directed by Arthur Penn.
He noted that in Monte Walsh, his character was billed as the “second best bronc rider in the West.” Ryan, however, had never ridden a horse before and thus earned the nickname “The Lincoln Center Kid” on the set.
In the 1970s, Ryan starred in three short-lived TV series: Chase, a cop show co-created by Stephen J. Cannell; Executive Suite, based on the 1954 William Holden movie; and Having Babies, a hospital drama.
His film credits also include Two-Minute Warning (1976), Midway (1976), Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), Speechless (1994), Judge Dredd (1995), Liar Liar (1997) and The Devil’s Own (1997).
In addition to his stepdaughter, survivors include his wife, Barbara, and grandchildren Ashley, Jacqueline, Olivia, Kaila and Noah.
He published a memoir, Fall of a Sparrow, in 2021.
Alexa told a child to do potentially lethal ‘challenge’
Amazon’s Alexa told a child to touch a penny to the exposed prongs of a phone charger plugged into the wall, according to one parent who posted screenshots of their Alexa activity history showing the interaction (via Bleeping Computer). The device seemingly pulled the idea for the challenge from an article describing it as dangerous, citing news reports about an alleged challenge trending on TikTok.
According to Kristin Livdahl’s screenshot, the Echo responded to “tell me a challenge to do” with “Here’s something I found on the web. According to ourcommunitynow.com: The challenge is simple: plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs.” In a statement to the BBC, Amazon said: “As soon as we became aware of this error, we took swift action to fix it.” Livdahl tweeted yesterday that asking for a challenge was no longer working.
Amazon isn’t the only company to run into issues trying to parse the web for content. In October, a user reported that Google displayed potentially dangerous advice in one of its featured snippets if you Googled “had a seizure now what” — the info it showed was from the section of a webpage describing what not to do when someone was having a seizure. At the time, The Verge confirmed the user’s report, but it appears to have been fixed based on tests we did today (no snippet appears when Googling “had a seizure now what”).
Users have reported other similar problems, though, including one user who said Google gave results for orthostatic hypotension when searching for orthostatic hypertension, and another who posted a screenshot of Google displaying terrible advice for consoling someone who’s grieving.
We’ve also seen warnings about dangerous behavior amplified to make the problem bigger than it originally was — earlier this month, some US school districts closed after self-perpetuating reports about shooting threats being made on TikTok. It turned out that the social media firestorm was overwhelmingly caused by people talking about threats, far more than any threats that may have existed. In the case of Alexa, an algorithm picked out the descriptive part of a warning and amplified it without the original context. While the parent was there to immediately intervene, it’s easy to imagine a situation where that isn’t the case or where the answer shared by Alexa isn’t so obviously dangerous.
Livdahl tweets that she used the opportunity to “go through internet safety and not trusting things you read without research and verification” with her child.
Amazon didn’t immediately reply to The Verge’s request for comment.