Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Clash of the Titans


When the big dogs fight each other you know it's getting crazy (like how Ford and Blue Cross had a lawsuit prior to the labor negotiations circa 2023).

Beyonce and Adele publisher accuses firms of training AI on songs
May 2024, BBC News


So this is very much an arms race between (pro-profit anti-human) food manufacturers who spend their astronomical profits on research that makes their food addictive, vs pro-human scientists who are trying to make our brains not-addicted to food (albeit then using the for-profit pharma industry). 

Trojan Horse' weight loss drug found to be more effective than available therapies
May 2024, phys.org

"We already know that GLP-1-based drugs can lead to weight loss. The molecule that we have attached to GLP-1 affects the so-called glutamatergic neurotransmitter system, and in fact, other studies with human participants suggest that this family of compounds has significant weight loss potential. What is interesting here is the effect we get when we combine these two compounds into a single drug," Clemmensen says.

via Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen: Jonas Petersen et al, GLP-1-directed NMDA receptor antagonism for obesity treatment, Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07419-8

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