Zebrafish reveal new insights into the biology of autism | Yale News
April 20, 2026https://news.yale.edu/2026/04/02/zebrafish-reveal-new-insights-biology-autism?utm_source=YaleToday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YT_YaleToday-Faculty_4-7-2026 QT{{” Here, we leverage the strengths of zebrafish as a scalable in vivo system to screen 520 US FDA-approved drugs and establish a database of their effects on sensory processing and arousal behaviors. Using this database, we nominate pharmacological candidates relevant to specific ASD genes or gene subgroups. “}}
Jamadagni, P., Dai, Y., Liu, Y., Mendes, H. W., Pruitt, A., Khan, S., Yang, L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Deans, P. J. M., Balafkan, N., Zhao, D., Xu, G., Liu, Y., Li, N., Wu, W., Fitzpatrick, S. E., Neelakantan, U., Chen, T., . . . Hoffman, E. J. (2026). Pharmaco-behavioral profiling identifies suppressors of autism gene–associated phenotypes in zebrafish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(12), e2518846123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518846123
Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down, and hardware boss John Ternus will be new CEO | Fortune
April 20, 2026Source: The Art Institute of Chicago
April 20, 2026Source: The Art Institute of Chicago To the Naked Eye: Using RTI to Reveal the Hidden | The Art Institute of Chicago
https://www.artic.edu/articles/998/to-the-naked-eye-using-rti-to-reveal-the-hidden
Source: Hammond Castle
April 20, 2026Source: Hammond Castle Hammond Castle Museum https://hammondcastle.org/
The high-tech race to improve weather forecasting
April 20, 2026https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/07/26/the-high-tech-race-to-improve-weather-forecasting QT:{{” A 2021 collaboration between DeepMind, a part of Google, and the Met Office in Britain used AI to forecast precipitation based on observations from rain-detecting radar. The AI system outperformed existing, numerical forecasting methods nine times out of ten—though it started to stumble when asked to forecast beyond about 90 minutes. Other big firms with AI expertise are getting involved, too. A paper published in Nature on July 5th described Pangu-Weather, an AI system built by Huawei, a Chinese firm, and trained on 39 years of weather data. Huawei claims Pangu-Weather can produce week-ahead predictions comparable in accuracy to forecasts from outfits like ECMWF, but thousands of times faster. Last year Nvidia, an American chipmaker, claimed that FourCastNet, its AI weather program, could generate, in two seconds, a forecast that can predict hurricanes and heavy rain up to a week in advance. “}}
YY1 – Wikipedia
April 20, 2026https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YY1
QT:{{” YY1 is a ubiquitously distributed transcription factor belonging to the GLI-Kruppel class of zinc finger proteins. The protein is involved in repressing and activating a diverse number of promoters. Hence, the YY in the name stands for “yin-yang.” “}}
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