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Their speed and ability to grow on their own make these nerves of great interest to scientists, who are investigating their ability to return mobility to damaged human limbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Male deer, elk, reindeer, and all other members of the cervid family use their antlers to fend off competitors and woo females, then shed them once mating season is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1217669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1217669\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"National Park Service wildlife ecologist David Press holds an antler shed by a tule elk at Point Reyes National Seashore, in West Marin County, California. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Park Service wildlife ecologist David Press holds an antler shed by a tule elk at Point Reyes National Seashore, in West Marin County, California. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>New antlers start growing right away, sprouting from two knobs on the deer’s forehead called pedicles, and growing as heavy as 60 pounds in the case of moose. A fuzzy layer of skin and fur called velvet carries blood rich in calcium and phosphorous to build up the bone that makes up the antlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1217659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1217659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"Antlers grow every year out of knobs called pedicles. These elk antlers are in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antlers grow every year out of knobs called pedicles. These elk antlers are in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Antlers start out as special cells in the pedicles that grow into cartilage and finally bone. While they’re growing, the antlers are soft and vulnerable. Deer know to keep them out of harm’s way. That’s because nerves in the velvet give them sensation in their developing antlers and prevent them from banging or scratching them before they’ve branched out and hardened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t get in any fights and are very careful with their environment. If they touch something, it hurts them,” said neuroscientist \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wolfgang_Pita-Thomas\">Wolfgang Pita-Thomas\u003c/a>, at Washington University in St. Louis, co-author of a recent paper on antler development with Nieto-Díaz. “That’s the evolutionary advantage of having nerves in your antler.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the bone is completely sturdy after about three months, blood flow stops and the velvet cracks. The process makes the males itchy, so they scratch their antlers on leaves and branches and the velvet peels off in bloody sheets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1217661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1217661\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up of the velvet peeling off the antler of a reindeer at Windswept Ranch, in Rosamond, California. The velvet is a furry skin that envelops the antlers as they develop. Blood that flows through the velvet carries calcium and phosphorous to build up the bone that makes up the antlers.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A close-up of the velvet peeling off the antler of a reindeer at Windswept Ranch, in Rosamond, California. The velvet is a furry skin that envelops the antlers as they develop. Blood that flows through the velvet carries calcium and phosphorous to build up the bone that makes up the antlers. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1217663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_SHREDS_720.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1217663\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_SHREDS_720.gif\" alt=\"Velvet peels off the antler of a reindeer at Windswept Ranch. Underneath the velvet is the hard bone that makes up the antlers.\" width=\"720\" height=\"404\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Velvet peels off the antler of a reindeer at Windswept Ranch. Underneath the velvet is the hard bone that makes up the antlers. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the antlers are fully developed, they’re dead bones devoid of any sensation, which makes them pretty useful weapons — ones that can take a pummeling without hurting their owner. (By comparison, our bones always have nerves in them, which is why we feel pain if we break one).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Male reindeer, elk, and all other cervids use their antlers to fight or keep other males away, or as a lure to attract females. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/learn/nature/tule_elk.htm\">Tule elk\u003c/a> on the Northern California coast, for example, use their antlers to tear up bushes, in an effort to keep competitors away from a group of females called a harem, which they try to mate with exclusively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_BULL_THRASHES_BUSH_720.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1217658\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_BULL_THRASHES_BUSH_720.gif\" alt=\"dl_401antlers_bull_thrashes_bush_720\" width=\"720\" height=\"404\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sign of dominance behavior,” said wildlife ecologist David Press of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/index.htm\">Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a>, in West Marin County, where some 500 tule elk — once on the brink of extinction – now live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The part of the nerve that grows in the deer velvet while the antlers are developing is especially interesting to scientists. These long nerve sections are called axons, and they can grow to be more than three feet long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Axons are the wiring,” said Nieto-Díaz. “When we talk about nerves, we’re really talking about axons. They’re the part of the nerve that transmits information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The axons in developing antlers are unique because they regrow year after year and they do so very fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually, in humans and most other animals, the formation of new nerves doesn’t happen. It happens some, but not to that extent,” said Pita-Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This makes it difficult for people whose limbs are crushed in an accident, or severed and reattached, to fully recover their use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can sow the nerves together to help them heal, but the chances of improvement are limited,” said Nieto-Díaz. “It depends on how long the sections of the nerve remained separate from each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If doctors could get axons to grow consistently and quickly in humans who have suffered nerve damage to their limbs, this would help them recover mobility. Nieto-Díaz and Pita-Thomas believe that by figuring out what makes axons grow in antlers, they might be able to devise new treatments, or improve on existing treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ideally, we’d like to identify several factors that would act together to promote nerve growth,” said Nieto- Díaz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1217662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1217662\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"Bits of furry skin called velvet hang from the antlers of a reindeer at Windswept Ranch, in Rosamond, California. The nerves that grow in the velvet of developing antlers are the focus of research by neuroscientists interested in developing treatments for people with damaged limbs. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bits of furry skin called velvet hang from the antlers of a reindeer at Windswept Ranch, in Rosamond, California. The nerves that grow in the velvet of developing antlers are the focus of research by neuroscientists interested in developing treatments for people with damaged limbs. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In research reported in the November edition of the journal Neuroscience, the neuroscientists identified three proteins in deer velvet that work together to help axons grow fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find these proteins, they cut off the tips of the developing antlers of live red deer that had been anesthetized, cultured them in the lab and collected the substances the velvet produced. Then they added these proteins to rat neurons in the lab and identified the ones that made the neurons grow faster. Finally, they tested several proteins acting together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They found that the combination that best promoted the growth of the rat neurons was a mix of a protein called nerve growth factor and two other proteins — periostin and laminin — that serve as a surface for the nerves to grow on. The rat neurons in the lab grew about four times faster than they would naturally, but thousands of times slower than axons in developing antlers, which can grow three quarters of an inch per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw a decent growth rate (in the rat neurons), but it’s not amazing,” said Nieto-Díaz. The fact that the rat neurons didn’t grow at the astounding rate of antler nerves leads him to believe there’s some sort of mechanical force at work stretching the axons in antler velvet, but he and his colleagues haven’t tested this out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next step in the research is to try adding the three proteins to live rats, said Pita-Thomas, who is looking for funding to carry out this new experiment. He also would like to compare the success of the three proteins to existing treatments. Currently, when the nerves in a patient’s arm or leg are damaged, doctors can transplant nerves from another part of the patient’s body to the damaged area. This procedure is risky because extracting nerves can cause damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another treatment, a scaffold made out of collagen is sown between the two parts of a sectioned nerve, and nerves are allowed to grow through it. But nerves grow slowly. A treatment developed from fast-growing antler velvet nerves could help with this, said Pita-Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helping patients with a spinal cord injury, caused for example by a traffic accident, would be much more difficult than helping patients with limb damage, said Nieto-Diaz, because the spinal cord secretes substances that impede nerve regrowth. Developing a treatment based on antler velvet nerves would require first inhibiting these substances. The need for spinal cord injury treatments is pressing, though: \u003ca href=\"https://www.christopherreeve.org/living-with-paralysis/health/causes-of-paralysis/spinal-cord-injury\">a study from the Reeve Foundation\u003c/a> estimates that in the U.S. more than 1.2 million people are living with paralysis from spinal cord injuries, and there’s no cure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As December comes around and the tule elk in Northern California lose their antlers, a new pair begins to grow right away. In that quick turnaround could lie the key to treatments for thousands of patients with limited mobility.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Every year, male members of the deer family — and females too, in the case of reindeer — perform a feat no other adult mammal can do. In about three months they grow an entirely new set of antlers, their iconic crown of bones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year the deer cast their antlers and they regenerate,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manuel_Nieto-Diaz\">Manuel Nieto-Díaz\u003c/a>, a paleontologist-turned-neuroscientist based at the National Paraplegics Hospital, in Toledo, Spain. “Among mammals, it’s a unique process of complete regeneration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nerves involved in this regeneration grow back at the same rate as the antlers. Their speed and ability to grow on their own make these nerves of great interest to scientists, who are investigating their ability to return mobility to damaged human limbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Male deer, elk, reindeer, and all other members of the cervid family use their antlers to fend off competitors and woo females, then shed them once mating season is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1217669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1217669\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"National Park Service wildlife ecologist David Press holds an antler shed by a tule elk at Point Reyes National Seashore, in West Marin County, California. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_DAVID_PRESS_HOLDS_CAST_ANTLER_AT_POINT_REYES_NATIONAL_SEASHORE-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Park Service wildlife ecologist David Press holds an antler shed by a tule elk at Point Reyes National Seashore, in West Marin County, California. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>New antlers start growing right away, sprouting from two knobs on the deer’s forehead called pedicles, and growing as heavy as 60 pounds in the case of moose. A fuzzy layer of skin and fur called velvet carries blood rich in calcium and phosphorous to build up the bone that makes up the antlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1217659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1217659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"Antlers grow every year out of knobs called pedicles. These elk antlers are in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_PEDICLES_TEXTED-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antlers grow every year out of knobs called pedicles. These elk antlers are in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Antlers start out as special cells in the pedicles that grow into cartilage and finally bone. While they’re growing, the antlers are soft and vulnerable. Deer know to keep them out of harm’s way. That’s because nerves in the velvet give them sensation in their developing antlers and prevent them from banging or scratching them before they’ve branched out and hardened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t get in any fights and are very careful with their environment. If they touch something, it hurts them,” said neuroscientist \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wolfgang_Pita-Thomas\">Wolfgang Pita-Thomas\u003c/a>, at Washington University in St. Louis, co-author of a recent paper on antler development with Nieto-Díaz. “That’s the evolutionary advantage of having nerves in your antler.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the bone is completely sturdy after about three months, blood flow stops and the velvet cracks. The process makes the males itchy, so they scratch their antlers on leaves and branches and the velvet peels off in bloody sheets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1217661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1217661\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up of the velvet peeling off the antler of a reindeer at Windswept Ranch, in Rosamond, California. The velvet is a furry skin that envelops the antlers as they develop. Blood that flows through the velvet carries calcium and phosphorous to build up the bone that makes up the antlers.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_AND_BLOOD-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A close-up of the velvet peeling off the antler of a reindeer at Windswept Ranch, in Rosamond, California. The velvet is a furry skin that envelops the antlers as they develop. Blood that flows through the velvet carries calcium and phosphorous to build up the bone that makes up the antlers. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1217663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_SHREDS_720.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1217663\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_SHREDS_720.gif\" alt=\"Velvet peels off the antler of a reindeer at Windswept Ranch. Underneath the velvet is the hard bone that makes up the antlers.\" width=\"720\" height=\"404\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Velvet peels off the antler of a reindeer at Windswept Ranch. Underneath the velvet is the hard bone that makes up the antlers. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the antlers are fully developed, they’re dead bones devoid of any sensation, which makes them pretty useful weapons — ones that can take a pummeling without hurting their owner. (By comparison, our bones always have nerves in them, which is why we feel pain if we break one).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Male reindeer, elk, and all other cervids use their antlers to fight or keep other males away, or as a lure to attract females. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/learn/nature/tule_elk.htm\">Tule elk\u003c/a> on the Northern California coast, for example, use their antlers to tear up bushes, in an effort to keep competitors away from a group of females called a harem, which they try to mate with exclusively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_BULL_THRASHES_BUSH_720.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1217658\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_BULL_THRASHES_BUSH_720.gif\" alt=\"dl_401antlers_bull_thrashes_bush_720\" width=\"720\" height=\"404\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sign of dominance behavior,” said wildlife ecologist David Press of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/index.htm\">Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a>, in West Marin County, where some 500 tule elk — once on the brink of extinction – now live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The part of the nerve that grows in the deer velvet while the antlers are developing is especially interesting to scientists. These long nerve sections are called axons, and they can grow to be more than three feet long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Axons are the wiring,” said Nieto-Díaz. “When we talk about nerves, we’re really talking about axons. They’re the part of the nerve that transmits information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The axons in developing antlers are unique because they regrow year after year and they do so very fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually, in humans and most other animals, the formation of new nerves doesn’t happen. It happens some, but not to that extent,” said Pita-Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This makes it difficult for people whose limbs are crushed in an accident, or severed and reattached, to fully recover their use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can sow the nerves together to help them heal, but the chances of improvement are limited,” said Nieto-Díaz. “It depends on how long the sections of the nerve remained separate from each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If doctors could get axons to grow consistently and quickly in humans who have suffered nerve damage to their limbs, this would help them recover mobility. Nieto-Díaz and Pita-Thomas believe that by figuring out what makes axons grow in antlers, they might be able to devise new treatments, or improve on existing treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ideally, we’d like to identify several factors that would act together to promote nerve growth,” said Nieto- Díaz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1217662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1217662\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"Bits of furry skin called velvet hang from the antlers of a reindeer at Windswept Ranch, in Rosamond, California. The nerves that grow in the velvet of developing antlers are the focus of research by neuroscientists interested in developing treatments for people with damaged limbs. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/DL_401Antlers_VELVET_ON_REINDEER_ANTLERS-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bits of furry skin called velvet hang from the antlers of a reindeer at Windswept Ranch, in Rosamond, California. The nerves that grow in the velvet of developing antlers are the focus of research by neuroscientists interested in developing treatments for people with damaged limbs. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In research reported in the November edition of the journal Neuroscience, the neuroscientists identified three proteins in deer velvet that work together to help axons grow fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find these proteins, they cut off the tips of the developing antlers of live red deer that had been anesthetized, cultured them in the lab and collected the substances the velvet produced. Then they added these proteins to rat neurons in the lab and identified the ones that made the neurons grow faster. Finally, they tested several proteins acting together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They found that the combination that best promoted the growth of the rat neurons was a mix of a protein called nerve growth factor and two other proteins — periostin and laminin — that serve as a surface for the nerves to grow on. The rat neurons in the lab grew about four times faster than they would naturally, but thousands of times slower than axons in developing antlers, which can grow three quarters of an inch per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw a decent growth rate (in the rat neurons), but it’s not amazing,” said Nieto-Díaz. The fact that the rat neurons didn’t grow at the astounding rate of antler nerves leads him to believe there’s some sort of mechanical force at work stretching the axons in antler velvet, but he and his colleagues haven’t tested this out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next step in the research is to try adding the three proteins to live rats, said Pita-Thomas, who is looking for funding to carry out this new experiment. He also would like to compare the success of the three proteins to existing treatments. Currently, when the nerves in a patient’s arm or leg are damaged, doctors can transplant nerves from another part of the patient’s body to the damaged area. This procedure is risky because extracting nerves can cause damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another treatment, a scaffold made out of collagen is sown between the two parts of a sectioned nerve, and nerves are allowed to grow through it. But nerves grow slowly. A treatment developed from fast-growing antler velvet nerves could help with this, said Pita-Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helping patients with a spinal cord injury, caused for example by a traffic accident, would be much more difficult than helping patients with limb damage, said Nieto-Diaz, because the spinal cord secretes substances that impede nerve regrowth. Developing a treatment based on antler velvet nerves would require first inhibiting these substances. The need for spinal cord injury treatments is pressing, though: \u003ca href=\"https://www.christopherreeve.org/living-with-paralysis/health/causes-of-paralysis/spinal-cord-injury\">a study from the Reeve Foundation\u003c/a> estimates that in the U.S. more than 1.2 million people are living with paralysis from spinal cord injuries, and there’s no cure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>James Heilman isn't an easy man to get a hold of; he kept offering us odd, off-hour windows of availability to do a phone interview. When we finally connected, he explained: He works the night shift as an emergency room physician in British Columbia. He also puts in time as a clinical assistant professor in emergency medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal\">\u003cstrong>How to check the accuracy of Wikipedia pages\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYou can check how Wikipedians rate the quality and thoroughness of every entry on the encyclopedia by clicking on the \"Talk\" tab near the top left of each page. There you will find the page's rating, which will fall somewhere on this \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Assessment#Quality_scale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scale\u003c/a>. Here are lists of the health articles with the \u003ca href=\"https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=FA-Classhttps://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=FA-Class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=GA-Class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second-highest ratings\u003c/a>; these are the most trustworthy health entries.\u003c/span>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then there's the 60 -- count'em, 60 -- hours a week he toils away editing Wikipedia, the massive online encyclopedia written and edited by, well, anyone who wants to give it a whirl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My wife likes to joke that Wikipedia's my mistress; I prefer to call it our first child,” he says, chuckling with a tinge of self-awareness that he's gone a bit off the rails in his goal of making the copious health-related pages on the site more accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how does an emergency doc become an obsessive Wikipedian?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10 years ago, he says, during a quiet night shift, he got to browsing one of the medical articles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought, 'Oh, my God this is really bad,'\" he says. \"And then I saw the edit button, and I realized, oh, my God, I could fix the internet! I sort of got madly hooked. I’ve been trying to fix the Internet ever since.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Accuracy Questioned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that quest was creating the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WikiProject Medicine\u003c/a> group, where 320 like-minded editors work on the site's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_information_on_Wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">health content. \u003c/a>Heilman estimates about half are medical professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"I thought ‘Oh, my God this is really bad.' And then I saw the edit button, and I realized, oh, my God, I could fix the internet!\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Reworking Wikipedia health entries is not a trivial task. A 2014 study found about 25,000 pages of English-language health-related articles. That number is now up to 32,000, Heilman says. The health pages worldwide attracted almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4376174/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">4.9 billion pageviews\u003c/a> in 2013. A 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/0142159X.2012.737064?scroll=top&needAccess=true&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey\u003c/a> of several hundred medical students found 94 percent use the site for health information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite its popularity, the reliability of Wikipedia's medical content has often been questioned. A 2011 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3241521/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">review \u003c/a>on the accuracy and thoroughness of the site's medical entries found mixed results. Other studies show that the site fell short in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24276492\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gastroenterology and hepatology\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://aop.sagepub.com/content/42/12/1814.abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drug information\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3193353/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statins\u003c/a> (later \u003ca href=\"http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0106930#pone.0106930-Kupferberg1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">improved\u003c/a>), and issues of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ijporlonline.com/article/S0165-5876(12)00336-9/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ear, nose and throat\u003c/a>. Other studies found the website provided better information in \u003ca href=\"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sdi.12059/epdf?r3_referer=wol&tracking_action=preview_click&show_checkout=1&purchase_referrer=onlinelibrary.wiley.com&purchase_site_license=LICENSE_DENIED_NO_CUSTOMER\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nephrology\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/quality-of-information-sources-about-mental-disorders-a-comparison-of-wikipedia-with-centrally-controlled-web-and-printed-sources/595CEE672BB7C503101FAF5A9E303673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">depression and schizophrenia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal\">To get good health info online:\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Check multiple, high-quality sources like those from academic and government institutions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Be alert for sites that contain information that conflicts with other sources, a possible indication of low-quality information.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Consult \u003ca href=\"http://www.uptodate.com/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UpToDate\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PubMed\u003c/a>, and peer-reviewed journals for primary research on a topic.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If using Wikipedia, click the 'Talk' tab at the top of each page to see how the site's editors have rated the quality of the article. Look at the footnotes to check the sources of assertions.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But just recently, in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(16)30254-6/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Lancet: Global Health, \u003c/a>\u003c/em>researchers reported that Wikipedia entries on stillbirths were missing critical information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a 2014 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24778001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> comparing peer-reviewed literature to the site's articles on 10 different widespread diseases and conditions found a significant number of assertions in the Wikipedia material that were unsupported by the evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heilman doesn't think much of that study; he co-wrote a \u003ca href=\"http://community-archive.cochrane.org/news/blog/wikipedia%E2%80%99s-medical-content-really-90-wrong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rebuttal\u003c/a> to it with other medical experts/Wikipedians. Still, he acknowledges \"there's a lot of work to do\" to bring health entries up to snuff. The reality of that is borne out by the small number of health articles -- \u003ca href=\"https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=FA-Class%20featured%20health%20articles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">63\u003c/a> -- that have received the highest grade by Wikipedia editors. Those articles qualify as featured articles on the encyclopedia's front page. (The next-best level -- \"good\" -- contains a mere \u003ca href=\"https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=GA-Class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">200 articles\u003c/a>.) The \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Assessment#Quality_scale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criteria\u003c/a> for a \"featured\" article is comprehensiveness, neutrality and accuracy. That means the information has been verified against high-quality sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Calls to Action\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/wikipedia-is-already-the-worlds-dr-google-its-time-for-doctors-and-researchers-to-make-it-better-66769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article\u003c/a> last month on the academic publishing site \"The Conversation\" by Thomas Shafee, one of the researchers who wrote about Wikipedia's inadequate \"stillbirth\" entries, is headlined \"Wikipedia is already the world’s ‘Dr Google’ -- it’s time for doctors and researchers to make it better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Health professionals have a duty to improve the accuracy of medical entries in Wikipedia, because it’s the first port of call for people all over the world seeking medical information,\" Shafee wrote. \"The accuracy of the site is vital, because every medical entry... has the potential for immediate \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/87/4/08-056713/en/\">real-world health consequences\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others agree. University of California, San Francisco psychiatrist Amin Azzam recently co-authored a \u003ca href=\"http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/Why_Medical_Schools_Should_Embrace_Wikipedia__.98408.aspx\">report\u003c/a> published in the journal \u003cem>Academic Medicine \u003c/em>titled “Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Improving Wikipedia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to improve the entire site, including the health section, are underway. Hundreds of students in both the U.S. and Canada, for example, are working as editors through the \u003ca href=\"https://wikiedu.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wiki Education Foundation\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco that acts as a bridge between Wikipedia and academia. The organization encourages university faculty to assign students Wikipedia entries as a part of coursework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rather than write a biography of a woman scientist for their class that their instructor would read and throw away and never engage in again,\" says the foundation's LiAnna Davis, \"these students instead have the opportunity to create content for Wikipedia where thousands of people can gain from their work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pharmacology students at the University of California, San Francisco, for example, are \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:UCSF_School_of_Medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">working to improve entries\u003c/a> on popular drugs like the HIV antiviral drug \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacavir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abacavir\u003c/a>. Students in a voice disorders class at McGill University in Montreal are adding information about \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laryngitis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">laryngitis\u003c/a>. Students fill in missing information, improve gross inadequacies, and rewrite articles using fewer technical terms to appeal to the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, 280 science classes at universities in the U.S. and Canada have added content to 3,650 articles and generated 300 new entries receiving more than 102 million views, says Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heilman points to many efforts to improve articles, and a \u003ca href=\"http://translatorswithoutborders.org/?s=wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">collaboration\u003c/a> with the group Translators Without Borders to rewrite Wikipedia medical content in as many languages as possible. That \u003ca href=\"https://opensource.com/life/16/11/support-indian-languages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">includes Odia\u003c/a>, spoken by tens of millions of people in India that is not included in\u003ca href=\"https://translate.google.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Google Translate\u003c/a>. Heilman also cites as a success the Wikipedia entry for dengue fever, which was published in the peer-reviewed open-access journal \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4242787/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Medicine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal agencies are also tapping Wikipedia. The National Institutes of Health is creating an online biomedical \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/topics/health/a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dictionary\u003c/a> for PubMed Health. which provides consumer-friendly research information.\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/topics/health/a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> \u003c/a>The NIH usually creates the definitions by drawing on material in its own collection, but sometimes It will use Wikipedia as a source. Both organizations benefit, as the NIH will flag Heilman if it comes across something inaccurate in the material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heilman fervently hopes more health and science academics and professionals will help expand the accuracy of the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I spend a fair amount of time trying to convince my colleagues to come work on Wikipedia,\" he says. \"As a physician I believe all people deserve access to quality health care information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to Find Good Health Info\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So ... after all is said and done, how should the average person approach looking for health information on the Web?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azzam, the UCSF psychiatrist who called for medical schools to embrace Wikipedia, would actually first send patients to government sites like the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and National Library of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of those sites have information targeting 'lay' people,\" he wrote in an email. \"Additionally there are national advocacy organizations for specific disease and/or health conditions. For example, as a psychiatrist I will refer my patients and their families to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who do use Wikipedia, he recommends using the \"Talk\" tab near the top left of every page. That will take you to a rating of how thorough and accurate Wikipedia editors think the page is. He also looks at the references that each assertion of fact in Wikipedia entries are required to link to. (You can do this by clicking on the superscript numbers at the end of a sentence.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That gives me some idea of how much to trust the content,\" Azzam says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recommends consulting multiple sources to ferret out any outliers, a method that is \"effectively a proxy measure for validity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to consult material that health professionals use themselves, he recommends \u003ca href=\"http://www.uptodate.com/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UpToDate\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PubMed\u003c/a>, and peer-reviewed journals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health information is on a \"continuum,\" he believes, with subscription-only top tier scholarly journals on one end and the user-created Wikipedia on the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe [journal] content to be the scientific truth as we know it because content experts have peer-reviewed the manuscripts,\" he says. \"But the challenge at that extreme is gaining access to that knowledge, especially with high-cost subscription charges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is why he's working with students to improve Wikipedia, \"pulling that pole toward the other end of the spectrum.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since so many consumers of health information online are reading that content, I want to be a part of a movement to make it as high quality as possible!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Heilman, the avid health editor, he also recommends checking multiple, high-quality sources when looking for specific health information, paying attention to what they agree on. But that doesn't mean he's going to give up on improving Wikipedia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a physician, I can help one person at a time,\" he says. \"But as a Wikipedian, I can make a difference in millions and millions of people’s lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>James Heilman isn't an easy man to get a hold of; he kept offering us odd, off-hour windows of availability to do a phone interview. When we finally connected, he explained: He works the night shift as an emergency room physician in British Columbia. He also puts in time as a clinical assistant professor in emergency medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal\">\u003cstrong>How to check the accuracy of Wikipedia pages\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYou can check how Wikipedians rate the quality and thoroughness of every entry on the encyclopedia by clicking on the \"Talk\" tab near the top left of each page. There you will find the page's rating, which will fall somewhere on this \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Assessment#Quality_scale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scale\u003c/a>. Here are lists of the health articles with the \u003ca href=\"https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=FA-Classhttps://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=FA-Class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=GA-Class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second-highest ratings\u003c/a>; these are the most trustworthy health entries.\u003c/span>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then there's the 60 -- count'em, 60 -- hours a week he toils away editing Wikipedia, the massive online encyclopedia written and edited by, well, anyone who wants to give it a whirl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My wife likes to joke that Wikipedia's my mistress; I prefer to call it our first child,” he says, chuckling with a tinge of self-awareness that he's gone a bit off the rails in his goal of making the copious health-related pages on the site more accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how does an emergency doc become an obsessive Wikipedian?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10 years ago, he says, during a quiet night shift, he got to browsing one of the medical articles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought, 'Oh, my God this is really bad,'\" he says. \"And then I saw the edit button, and I realized, oh, my God, I could fix the internet! I sort of got madly hooked. I’ve been trying to fix the Internet ever since.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Accuracy Questioned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that quest was creating the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WikiProject Medicine\u003c/a> group, where 320 like-minded editors work on the site's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_information_on_Wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">health content. \u003c/a>Heilman estimates about half are medical professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"I thought ‘Oh, my God this is really bad.' And then I saw the edit button, and I realized, oh, my God, I could fix the internet!\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Reworking Wikipedia health entries is not a trivial task. A 2014 study found about 25,000 pages of English-language health-related articles. That number is now up to 32,000, Heilman says. The health pages worldwide attracted almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4376174/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">4.9 billion pageviews\u003c/a> in 2013. A 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/0142159X.2012.737064?scroll=top&needAccess=true&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey\u003c/a> of several hundred medical students found 94 percent use the site for health information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite its popularity, the reliability of Wikipedia's medical content has often been questioned. A 2011 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3241521/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">review \u003c/a>on the accuracy and thoroughness of the site's medical entries found mixed results. Other studies show that the site fell short in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24276492\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gastroenterology and hepatology\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://aop.sagepub.com/content/42/12/1814.abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drug information\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3193353/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statins\u003c/a> (later \u003ca href=\"http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0106930#pone.0106930-Kupferberg1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">improved\u003c/a>), and issues of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ijporlonline.com/article/S0165-5876(12)00336-9/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ear, nose and throat\u003c/a>. Other studies found the website provided better information in \u003ca href=\"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sdi.12059/epdf?r3_referer=wol&tracking_action=preview_click&show_checkout=1&purchase_referrer=onlinelibrary.wiley.com&purchase_site_license=LICENSE_DENIED_NO_CUSTOMER\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nephrology\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/quality-of-information-sources-about-mental-disorders-a-comparison-of-wikipedia-with-centrally-controlled-web-and-printed-sources/595CEE672BB7C503101FAF5A9E303673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">depression and schizophrenia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal\">To get good health info online:\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Check multiple, high-quality sources like those from academic and government institutions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Be alert for sites that contain information that conflicts with other sources, a possible indication of low-quality information.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Consult \u003ca href=\"http://www.uptodate.com/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UpToDate\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PubMed\u003c/a>, and peer-reviewed journals for primary research on a topic.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If using Wikipedia, click the 'Talk' tab at the top of each page to see how the site's editors have rated the quality of the article. Look at the footnotes to check the sources of assertions.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But just recently, in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(16)30254-6/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Lancet: Global Health, \u003c/a>\u003c/em>researchers reported that Wikipedia entries on stillbirths were missing critical information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a 2014 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24778001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> comparing peer-reviewed literature to the site's articles on 10 different widespread diseases and conditions found a significant number of assertions in the Wikipedia material that were unsupported by the evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heilman doesn't think much of that study; he co-wrote a \u003ca href=\"http://community-archive.cochrane.org/news/blog/wikipedia%E2%80%99s-medical-content-really-90-wrong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rebuttal\u003c/a> to it with other medical experts/Wikipedians. Still, he acknowledges \"there's a lot of work to do\" to bring health entries up to snuff. The reality of that is borne out by the small number of health articles -- \u003ca href=\"https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=FA-Class%20featured%20health%20articles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">63\u003c/a> -- that have received the highest grade by Wikipedia editors. Those articles qualify as featured articles on the encyclopedia's front page. (The next-best level -- \"good\" -- contains a mere \u003ca href=\"https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=GA-Class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">200 articles\u003c/a>.) The \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Assessment#Quality_scale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criteria\u003c/a> for a \"featured\" article is comprehensiveness, neutrality and accuracy. That means the information has been verified against high-quality sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Calls to Action\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/wikipedia-is-already-the-worlds-dr-google-its-time-for-doctors-and-researchers-to-make-it-better-66769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article\u003c/a> last month on the academic publishing site \"The Conversation\" by Thomas Shafee, one of the researchers who wrote about Wikipedia's inadequate \"stillbirth\" entries, is headlined \"Wikipedia is already the world’s ‘Dr Google’ -- it’s time for doctors and researchers to make it better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Health professionals have a duty to improve the accuracy of medical entries in Wikipedia, because it’s the first port of call for people all over the world seeking medical information,\" Shafee wrote. \"The accuracy of the site is vital, because every medical entry... has the potential for immediate \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/87/4/08-056713/en/\">real-world health consequences\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others agree. University of California, San Francisco psychiatrist Amin Azzam recently co-authored a \u003ca href=\"http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/Why_Medical_Schools_Should_Embrace_Wikipedia__.98408.aspx\">report\u003c/a> published in the journal \u003cem>Academic Medicine \u003c/em>titled “Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Improving Wikipedia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to improve the entire site, including the health section, are underway. Hundreds of students in both the U.S. and Canada, for example, are working as editors through the \u003ca href=\"https://wikiedu.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wiki Education Foundation\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco that acts as a bridge between Wikipedia and academia. The organization encourages university faculty to assign students Wikipedia entries as a part of coursework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rather than write a biography of a woman scientist for their class that their instructor would read and throw away and never engage in again,\" says the foundation's LiAnna Davis, \"these students instead have the opportunity to create content for Wikipedia where thousands of people can gain from their work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pharmacology students at the University of California, San Francisco, for example, are \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:UCSF_School_of_Medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">working to improve entries\u003c/a> on popular drugs like the HIV antiviral drug \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacavir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abacavir\u003c/a>. Students in a voice disorders class at McGill University in Montreal are adding information about \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laryngitis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">laryngitis\u003c/a>. Students fill in missing information, improve gross inadequacies, and rewrite articles using fewer technical terms to appeal to the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, 280 science classes at universities in the U.S. and Canada have added content to 3,650 articles and generated 300 new entries receiving more than 102 million views, says Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heilman points to many efforts to improve articles, and a \u003ca href=\"http://translatorswithoutborders.org/?s=wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">collaboration\u003c/a> with the group Translators Without Borders to rewrite Wikipedia medical content in as many languages as possible. That \u003ca href=\"https://opensource.com/life/16/11/support-indian-languages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">includes Odia\u003c/a>, spoken by tens of millions of people in India that is not included in\u003ca href=\"https://translate.google.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Google Translate\u003c/a>. Heilman also cites as a success the Wikipedia entry for dengue fever, which was published in the peer-reviewed open-access journal \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4242787/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Medicine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal agencies are also tapping Wikipedia. The National Institutes of Health is creating an online biomedical \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/topics/health/a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dictionary\u003c/a> for PubMed Health. which provides consumer-friendly research information.\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/topics/health/a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> \u003c/a>The NIH usually creates the definitions by drawing on material in its own collection, but sometimes It will use Wikipedia as a source. Both organizations benefit, as the NIH will flag Heilman if it comes across something inaccurate in the material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heilman fervently hopes more health and science academics and professionals will help expand the accuracy of the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I spend a fair amount of time trying to convince my colleagues to come work on Wikipedia,\" he says. \"As a physician I believe all people deserve access to quality health care information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to Find Good Health Info\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So ... after all is said and done, how should the average person approach looking for health information on the Web?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azzam, the UCSF psychiatrist who called for medical schools to embrace Wikipedia, would actually first send patients to government sites like the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and National Library of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of those sites have information targeting 'lay' people,\" he wrote in an email. \"Additionally there are national advocacy organizations for specific disease and/or health conditions. For example, as a psychiatrist I will refer my patients and their families to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who do use Wikipedia, he recommends using the \"Talk\" tab near the top left of every page. That will take you to a rating of how thorough and accurate Wikipedia editors think the page is. He also looks at the references that each assertion of fact in Wikipedia entries are required to link to. (You can do this by clicking on the superscript numbers at the end of a sentence.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That gives me some idea of how much to trust the content,\" Azzam says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recommends consulting multiple sources to ferret out any outliers, a method that is \"effectively a proxy measure for validity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to consult material that health professionals use themselves, he recommends \u003ca href=\"http://www.uptodate.com/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UpToDate\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PubMed\u003c/a>, and peer-reviewed journals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health information is on a \"continuum,\" he believes, with subscription-only top tier scholarly journals on one end and the user-created Wikipedia on the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe [journal] content to be the scientific truth as we know it because content experts have peer-reviewed the manuscripts,\" he says. \"But the challenge at that extreme is gaining access to that knowledge, especially with high-cost subscription charges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is why he's working with students to improve Wikipedia, \"pulling that pole toward the other end of the spectrum.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since so many consumers of health information online are reading that content, I want to be a part of a movement to make it as high quality as possible!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Heilman, the avid health editor, he also recommends checking multiple, high-quality sources when looking for specific health information, paying attention to what they agree on. 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"content": "\u003cp>An experimental vaginal ring that continuously releases the anti-HIV drug dapivirine has the potential to save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what's it going to do to sex lives?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a question researchers posed as part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/women-report-vaginal-ring-preventing-hiv-had-little-effect-sexual-intercourse\">ASPIRE study,\u003c/a> which tested the flexible silicone rings with women ages 18 to 45 living in Malawi, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. And it's a practical one, explains \u003ca href=\"https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/director\">Dr. Anthony Fauci\u003c/a>, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which funded ASPIRE. The less obtrusive a form of prevention is, the easier it is to convince people to use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something not noticeable is great,\" Fauci says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The encouraging news, gleaned from ASPIRE staff interviews with 214 of the 2,629 participants, is that sex with the ring wasn't much different — at least physically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens in people's bedrooms, however, is also psychological. Some women reported worrying about what would happen if their partners felt or discovered the ring, which is 2.2 inches in diameter and a third of an inch thick. They feared being interrogated in the middle of sex, despite the fact that Fauci notes, \"That's not what happens. It's less obvious than a diaphragm.\" But because of this anxiety, several women slipped out the ring prior to intimate contact, while others avoided certain positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Understanding these real world concerns is critical, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.ipmglobal.org/about/ipm-executive-leadership/zeda-f-rosenberg-ceo\">Zeda Rosenberg\u003c/a>, CEO of the nonprofit International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM), which developed the ring. From earlier studies, IPM learned that women could use the rings without a problem, and that they don't cause irritation or make the user more susceptible to yeast infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the point of the ring is to help women gain control over their sexual health, what their partners think — or could think — also matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, virtually every option for HIV prevention comes with some partner baggage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Condoms are problematic for women,\" Fauci explains. \"When women demand use of a condom, they can be subject to partner violence or rejection or stigma.\" Or their partners might flat out refuse to wear one. \"The man gets insulted and says he doesn't have HIV. That's baloney because sometimes men are infected,\" Fauci adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Different challenges have emerged with the rollout of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP). \"It's so easy to take a single pill every day,\" Fauci says. \"But some people don't want to do it, even though it's 98, maybe 100 percent effective.\" One reason? \"Maybe the partner finds the pills,\" he says. That can lead to questions about what the meds are for, and whether the women on them might already be HIV positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ring, when used as directed, is inserted just once a month and left in place\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>then taken out and replaced with a new ring for the next month. So that will hopefully make it an appealing option for women, Rosenberg says, adding that her group is already working on the next generation of ring. It will also provide contraception, which may help women make a stronger case for using it. \"Partners might be more forgiving because it's not necessarily passing judgment on the man,\" she explains. Women can claim they're trying to avoid pregnancy rather than infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because, as Rosenberg says, \"there are going to be as many scenarios as there are people,\" the most important thing is to offer choices — and as much information as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will require more research. Overall results from ASPIRE showed that among the entire group of participants using a dapivirine ring, the risk of HIV infection dropped 27 percent. But when researchers separated out the participants who had used the ring consistently, they got much more impressive numbers: Risk of HIV infection fell by around 75 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not hard to tell who kept the ring in and who didn't. When participants came in for their monthly visit, researchers could see how much of the drug was left in the ring, Rosenberg explains. The more dapivirine, the less time it was inside a woman's vagina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think it works much better if you use it all of the time,\" Rosenberg says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she understands why only about 25 percent of ASPIRE participants did that. \"In trials and real life, people are not perfectly adherent,\" she says, noting that's particularly true of healthy populations, who don't have the same incentives for following doctor's orders. And women in ASPIRE didn't know whether they had an active ring or a placebo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the 25 percent who barely used it at all? Rosenberg suspects that they may have signed up for ASPIRE to receive the other benefits, which included high quality health care without long waits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other HIV researchers find these results promising, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/people/our-faculty/jj2158\">Dr. Jessica Justman\u003c/a>, an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. \"If you don't use something, it doesn't work. That's not a surprise,\" says Justman, who has learned through her clinical research studies that it takes time for people to accept something that's different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ideally, the ring would have offered full protection even in the cases where women just removed it occasionally, but that doesn't seem to be the case. \"The ring isn't designed to be taken in and out. That needs to be part of the messaging,\" Justman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it will be, Rosenberg notes. Research on the ring continues in Africa with the HOPE study, which began this summer and is also funded by NIAID. The difference, Rosenberg explains, is that this is an \"open-label\" study, which means women will be told there are no placebos in the mix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under these conditions, Rosenberg expects more participants will use the ring consistently. There will still be some who don't, she adds. \"If I were a woman in the study and my partner went away for a month, I might take it out,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will likely be other women who continue to remove it during sex. Researchers don't yet know exactly how long the drugs will stay in the vaginal tissue, and it's virtually impossible to pinpoint the moment of infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also tough to say when the ring will be available to the general public, but Rosenberg is hopeful for a 2019 rollout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect to see a host of HIV prevention options on the market within the next five years, says Justman, who has been working on studies to see if anti-HIV injections are safe. A long-acting shot would have some of the same benefits as the ring — namely, that a user doesn't need to remember to do something every day or right before sexual contact. For women anxious about their partner's response, the fact that it's virtually undetectable might be appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But some people don't like needles,\" Justman says. Plus, a shot will require a clinic visit, while women can insert a ring by themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Justman sees a place for both choices, as well as a continued need to study sexual behavior. That means researchers will need to talk to a lot more women — and men — about their most intimate interactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Experimental+Vaginal+Ring+Fights+HIV%2C+But+Will+Women+Wear+It%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens in people's bedrooms, however, is also psychological. Some women reported worrying about what would happen if their partners felt or discovered the ring, which is 2.2 inches in diameter and a third of an inch thick. They feared being interrogated in the middle of sex, despite the fact that Fauci notes, \"That's not what happens. It's less obvious than a diaphragm.\" But because of this anxiety, several women slipped out the ring prior to intimate contact, while others avoided certain positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Understanding these real world concerns is critical, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.ipmglobal.org/about/ipm-executive-leadership/zeda-f-rosenberg-ceo\">Zeda Rosenberg\u003c/a>, CEO of the nonprofit International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM), which developed the ring. From earlier studies, IPM learned that women could use the rings without a problem, and that they don't cause irritation or make the user more susceptible to yeast infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the point of the ring is to help women gain control over their sexual health, what their partners think — or could think — also matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, virtually every option for HIV prevention comes with some partner baggage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Condoms are problematic for women,\" Fauci explains. \"When women demand use of a condom, they can be subject to partner violence or rejection or stigma.\" Or their partners might flat out refuse to wear one. \"The man gets insulted and says he doesn't have HIV. That's baloney because sometimes men are infected,\" Fauci adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Different challenges have emerged with the rollout of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP). \"It's so easy to take a single pill every day,\" Fauci says. \"But some people don't want to do it, even though it's 98, maybe 100 percent effective.\" One reason? \"Maybe the partner finds the pills,\" he says. That can lead to questions about what the meds are for, and whether the women on them might already be HIV positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ring, when used as directed, is inserted just once a month and left in place\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>then taken out and replaced with a new ring for the next month. So that will hopefully make it an appealing option for women, Rosenberg says, adding that her group is already working on the next generation of ring. It will also provide contraception, which may help women make a stronger case for using it. \"Partners might be more forgiving because it's not necessarily passing judgment on the man,\" she explains. Women can claim they're trying to avoid pregnancy rather than infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because, as Rosenberg says, \"there are going to be as many scenarios as there are people,\" the most important thing is to offer choices — and as much information as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will require more research. Overall results from ASPIRE showed that among the entire group of participants using a dapivirine ring, the risk of HIV infection dropped 27 percent. But when researchers separated out the participants who had used the ring consistently, they got much more impressive numbers: Risk of HIV infection fell by around 75 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not hard to tell who kept the ring in and who didn't. When participants came in for their monthly visit, researchers could see how much of the drug was left in the ring, Rosenberg explains. The more dapivirine, the less time it was inside a woman's vagina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think it works much better if you use it all of the time,\" Rosenberg says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she understands why only about 25 percent of ASPIRE participants did that. \"In trials and real life, people are not perfectly adherent,\" she says, noting that's particularly true of healthy populations, who don't have the same incentives for following doctor's orders. And women in ASPIRE didn't know whether they had an active ring or a placebo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the 25 percent who barely used it at all? Rosenberg suspects that they may have signed up for ASPIRE to receive the other benefits, which included high quality health care without long waits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other HIV researchers find these results promising, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/people/our-faculty/jj2158\">Dr. Jessica Justman\u003c/a>, an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. \"If you don't use something, it doesn't work. That's not a surprise,\" says Justman, who has learned through her clinical research studies that it takes time for people to accept something that's different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ideally, the ring would have offered full protection even in the cases where women just removed it occasionally, but that doesn't seem to be the case. \"The ring isn't designed to be taken in and out. That needs to be part of the messaging,\" Justman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it will be, Rosenberg notes. Research on the ring continues in Africa with the HOPE study, which began this summer and is also funded by NIAID. The difference, Rosenberg explains, is that this is an \"open-label\" study, which means women will be told there are no placebos in the mix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under these conditions, Rosenberg expects more participants will use the ring consistently. There will still be some who don't, she adds. \"If I were a woman in the study and my partner went away for a month, I might take it out,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will likely be other women who continue to remove it during sex. Researchers don't yet know exactly how long the drugs will stay in the vaginal tissue, and it's virtually impossible to pinpoint the moment of infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also tough to say when the ring will be available to the general public, but Rosenberg is hopeful for a 2019 rollout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect to see a host of HIV prevention options on the market within the next five years, says Justman, who has been working on studies to see if anti-HIV injections are safe. A long-acting shot would have some of the same benefits as the ring — namely, that a user doesn't need to remember to do something every day or right before sexual contact. For women anxious about their partner's response, the fact that it's virtually undetectable might be appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But some people don't like needles,\" Justman says. Plus, a shot will require a clinic visit, while women can insert a ring by themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>From 1869 through 2004, the city of Vallejo was known as a mill town — milling flour, that is. The old General Mills plant once employed hundreds of workers, processing wheat grain into flour and shipping it all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the Napa River shoreline, Steve Bryan, the president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.orcem.com/vallejo_project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orcem California\u003c/a>, points to the rotting dock pilings next to the defunct plant. “You can see it’s not a functional wharf today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could change soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cement company wants to turn the old flour mill in south Vallejo into a cement mill, and revive the silent bluff with ships, trains and trucks. The idea, first proposed in 2012, has found favor with out-of-work Vallejoans and some city officials, who like the company’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.timesheraldonline.com/article/NH/20160902/NEWS/160909942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offer\u003c/a> to invest $1 million in local non-profits and the tax revenues the project is projected to generate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"sharedaddy show-for-medium-up\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1167190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1334px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1167190 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop.jpg\" alt=\"cement_desktop\" width=\"1334\" height=\"1075\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop.jpg 1334w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-800x645.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-768x619.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-1020x822.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-1180x951.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-960x774.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-240x193.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-375x302.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-520x419.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1334px) 100vw, 1334px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Teodros Hailye/ KQED Science \u003ccite>(Teodros Hailye/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"show-for-small-only\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1167191\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1167191 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile.jpg\" alt=\"cement_mobile\" width=\"750\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile-160x285.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile-240x427.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile-375x667.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile-520x925.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Teodros Hailye/ KQED Science \u003ccite>(Teodros Hailye/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But many other locals, along with environmental groups inside and outside the city, warn that the development would harm their families and act as a Trojan horse for an even greater threat: coal exports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Making ‘Green Cement’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orcem wants to grind iron slag shipped from Japan to make what they call \u003ca href=\"http://www.orcem.com/environmental.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">green cement\u003c/a>. Iron slag is a byproduct of steel production. The company says recycling it to make cement reduces energy and emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The product that it [iron slag] substitutes for is one of the highest emitters of CO2 and other air pollutants in the world,” says Bryan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a ship is berthed, a clam-shell crane would scoop iron slag onto a series of conveyor belts. The mill would grind it down into a chunky grey sand that would be transported off-site to cement plants. The iron slag would replace traditional ingredients in cement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cement industry is one of the worlds largest producers of greenhouse gasses\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20070714085318/http://www.wbcsd.org/DocRoot/1IBetslPgkEie83rTa0J/cement-action-plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">producing 5 percent\u003c/a> of global man-made carbon dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orcem is a subsidiary of the cement maker Ecocem Materials. The company would partner with Vallejo Marine Terminal, a subsidiary of Vortex Marine Construction, to completely revamp the old port into a modern terminal that would also be used to move materials like iron ore, steel coils and gypsum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Environmentalists Fear Smog, Noise, Traffic\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many residents and environmental groups are unimpressed with Orcem’s green bona fides. They are lining up against the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No Orcem” signs are staked into many front yards throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1169772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1169772\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/IMG_1192-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Protest signs are staked into many yards or pasted into windows throughout Vallejo. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protest signs are staked into many yards or pasted into windows throughout Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Lesley McClurg/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents worry about increased smog from trucks and idling ships. More than 200 trucks would come and go nearly everyday. That means a big rig would rumble by about every four minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air pollution released from the plant would be equivalent to adding 7,000 cars to the road annually. Locals worry dirty air could drift to an elementary school that’s a quarter of a mile away. Residents like LaDonna Williams voiced her concerns to the plant’s president at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLsN6icha9Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">community meeting\u003c/a> earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I won’t be accepting you telling me that it’s ok that you’re going to come here with a cement plant,” says Williams. “We know we are going to have particulate matter. We’re going to have all the ships coming through. We’re going to have the trucks coming through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Coal Question\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are the known impacts. But this story is also about an export that’s \u003ci>not\u003c/i> in the proposal… coal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”R2Tol9t1bI1nydnGxDz9V3sAHBTXg1B7″]Locals don’t want to fight the same \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/06/24/coal-foes-win-major-victory-in-fight-to-block-oakland-terminal-exports/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">battle\u003c/a> their neighbors in Oakland just fought.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers for a marine terminal planned for Oakland promised not to use it to export coal, but then they changed their tune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually the city banned coal, but the heated showdown makes Peter Brooks of \u003ca href=\"http://freshairvallejo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fresh Air Vallejo\u003c/a> wary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They [Oakland residents] have told us repeatedly that they were promised, ‘Don’t worry there won’t be coal. Right now we are cautiously optimistic but we are not stupid,” says Brooks. “We know that plans change and we know that if this site opens up it is possible that they won’t keep their word.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vallejomarineterminal.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vallejo Marine Terminal\u003c/a> has made a similar promise to locals but Brooks isn’t convinced they’ll keep it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sierra Club and Baykeeper \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofvallejo.net/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=2813223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worry\u003c/a> about open train cars filled with coal because the coal dust could pollute every community and waterway along the tracks, and they worry it could boost Asia’s use of coal, worsening climate change. Plus, they’re concerned that inhaling coal dust can cause asthma, heart disease and cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Money and Jobs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone shares those concerns. Hattie Smith-Mills says her neighborhood needs a boost. She lives less than a mile from the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nothing here,” says Smith-Mills. “When General Mills went away it was, like, dead in this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industrial projects like Orcem’s are high on the city’s list of key priorities. Vallejo’s strategic \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=38786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan\u003c/a> vows to “make Vallejo the Bay Area’s premier site for manufacturing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups agree the site should be redeveloped, but they would rather see a promenade with hotels, restaurants and shops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofvallejo.net/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=920686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimate\u003c/a> the proposal would bring in about $150,000 the first year and ramp up to $500,000 in taxes and fees annually. Together, Orcem and Vallejo Marine Terminal also plan to hire up to 60 full time employees. The developers predict that more work will ripple out to the community for jobs like contract construction workers and gas station attendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s good news for Antoine Terrell. He’s a local truck driver in south Vallejo, washing his big rig in his front yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1169777\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1169777\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/IMG_1245-e1479423614372.jpg\" alt=\"Antoine Terrell hopes Orcem will hire him for a full time job if the plant opens in his neighborhood in south Vallejo.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antoine Terrell hopes Orcem will hire him for a full time job if the plant opens in his neighborhood in south Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Lesley McClurg)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In the neighborhood, there’s nothing but churches and liquor stores,” says Terrell.\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials will have to weigh the environmental costs and the economic benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project faces its first test before the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/cms/One.aspx?portalId=13506&pageId=32613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vallejo Planning Commission\u003c/a> early next year. If it reaches the City Council, opponents speculate the vote could swing either way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan says it would be a shame to waste such a prime location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have a natural deep water berth, you have rail infrastructure in here and you’re less than a mile from the interstate — if you don’t do this for some type of logistics then you’re not getting the highest and best use,” he says.\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>From 1869 through 2004, the city of Vallejo was known as a mill town — milling flour, that is. The old General Mills plant once employed hundreds of workers, processing wheat grain into flour and shipping it all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the Napa River shoreline, Steve Bryan, the president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.orcem.com/vallejo_project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orcem California\u003c/a>, points to the rotting dock pilings next to the defunct plant. “You can see it’s not a functional wharf today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could change soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cement company wants to turn the old flour mill in south Vallejo into a cement mill, and revive the silent bluff with ships, trains and trucks. The idea, first proposed in 2012, has found favor with out-of-work Vallejoans and some city officials, who like the company’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.timesheraldonline.com/article/NH/20160902/NEWS/160909942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offer\u003c/a> to invest $1 million in local non-profits and the tax revenues the project is projected to generate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"sharedaddy show-for-medium-up\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1167190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1334px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1167190 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop.jpg\" alt=\"cement_desktop\" width=\"1334\" height=\"1075\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop.jpg 1334w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-800x645.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-768x619.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-1020x822.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-1180x951.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-960x774.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-240x193.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-375x302.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-520x419.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1334px) 100vw, 1334px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Teodros Hailye/ KQED Science \u003ccite>(Teodros Hailye/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"show-for-small-only\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1167191\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1167191 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile.jpg\" alt=\"cement_mobile\" width=\"750\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile-160x285.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile-240x427.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile-375x667.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile-520x925.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Teodros Hailye/ KQED Science \u003ccite>(Teodros Hailye/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But many other locals, along with environmental groups inside and outside the city, warn that the development would harm their families and act as a Trojan horse for an even greater threat: coal exports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Making ‘Green Cement’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orcem wants to grind iron slag shipped from Japan to make what they call \u003ca href=\"http://www.orcem.com/environmental.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">green cement\u003c/a>. Iron slag is a byproduct of steel production. The company says recycling it to make cement reduces energy and emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The product that it [iron slag] substitutes for is one of the highest emitters of CO2 and other air pollutants in the world,” says Bryan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a ship is berthed, a clam-shell crane would scoop iron slag onto a series of conveyor belts. The mill would grind it down into a chunky grey sand that would be transported off-site to cement plants. The iron slag would replace traditional ingredients in cement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cement industry is one of the worlds largest producers of greenhouse gasses\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20070714085318/http://www.wbcsd.org/DocRoot/1IBetslPgkEie83rTa0J/cement-action-plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">producing 5 percent\u003c/a> of global man-made carbon dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orcem is a subsidiary of the cement maker Ecocem Materials. The company would partner with Vallejo Marine Terminal, a subsidiary of Vortex Marine Construction, to completely revamp the old port into a modern terminal that would also be used to move materials like iron ore, steel coils and gypsum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Environmentalists Fear Smog, Noise, Traffic\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many residents and environmental groups are unimpressed with Orcem’s green bona fides. They are lining up against the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No Orcem” signs are staked into many front yards throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1169772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1169772\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/IMG_1192-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Protest signs are staked into many yards or pasted into windows throughout Vallejo. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protest signs are staked into many yards or pasted into windows throughout Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Lesley McClurg/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents worry about increased smog from trucks and idling ships. More than 200 trucks would come and go nearly everyday. That means a big rig would rumble by about every four minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air pollution released from the plant would be equivalent to adding 7,000 cars to the road annually. Locals worry dirty air could drift to an elementary school that’s a quarter of a mile away. Residents like LaDonna Williams voiced her concerns to the plant’s president at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLsN6icha9Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">community meeting\u003c/a> earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I won’t be accepting you telling me that it’s ok that you’re going to come here with a cement plant,” says Williams. “We know we are going to have particulate matter. We’re going to have all the ships coming through. We’re going to have the trucks coming through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Coal Question\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are the known impacts. But this story is also about an export that’s \u003ci>not\u003c/i> in the proposal… coal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Locals don’t want to fight the same \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/06/24/coal-foes-win-major-victory-in-fight-to-block-oakland-terminal-exports/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">battle\u003c/a> their neighbors in Oakland just fought.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers for a marine terminal planned for Oakland promised not to use it to export coal, but then they changed their tune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually the city banned coal, but the heated showdown makes Peter Brooks of \u003ca href=\"http://freshairvallejo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fresh Air Vallejo\u003c/a> wary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They [Oakland residents] have told us repeatedly that they were promised, ‘Don’t worry there won’t be coal. Right now we are cautiously optimistic but we are not stupid,” says Brooks. “We know that plans change and we know that if this site opens up it is possible that they won’t keep their word.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vallejomarineterminal.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vallejo Marine Terminal\u003c/a> has made a similar promise to locals but Brooks isn’t convinced they’ll keep it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sierra Club and Baykeeper \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofvallejo.net/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=2813223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worry\u003c/a> about open train cars filled with coal because the coal dust could pollute every community and waterway along the tracks, and they worry it could boost Asia’s use of coal, worsening climate change. Plus, they’re concerned that inhaling coal dust can cause asthma, heart disease and cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Money and Jobs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone shares those concerns. Hattie Smith-Mills says her neighborhood needs a boost. She lives less than a mile from the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nothing here,” says Smith-Mills. “When General Mills went away it was, like, dead in this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industrial projects like Orcem’s are high on the city’s list of key priorities. Vallejo’s strategic \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=38786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan\u003c/a> vows to “make Vallejo the Bay Area’s premier site for manufacturing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups agree the site should be redeveloped, but they would rather see a promenade with hotels, restaurants and shops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofvallejo.net/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=920686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimate\u003c/a> the proposal would bring in about $150,000 the first year and ramp up to $500,000 in taxes and fees annually. Together, Orcem and Vallejo Marine Terminal also plan to hire up to 60 full time employees. The developers predict that more work will ripple out to the community for jobs like contract construction workers and gas station attendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s good news for Antoine Terrell. He’s a local truck driver in south Vallejo, washing his big rig in his front yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1169777\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1169777\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/IMG_1245-e1479423614372.jpg\" alt=\"Antoine Terrell hopes Orcem will hire him for a full time job if the plant opens in his neighborhood in south Vallejo.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antoine Terrell hopes Orcem will hire him for a full time job if the plant opens in his neighborhood in south Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Lesley McClurg)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In the neighborhood, there’s nothing but churches and liquor stores,” says Terrell.\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials will have to weigh the environmental costs and the economic benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project faces its first test before the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/cms/One.aspx?portalId=13506&pageId=32613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vallejo Planning Commission\u003c/a> early next year. If it reaches the City Council, opponents speculate the vote could swing either way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan says it would be a shame to waste such a prime location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dl_subscribe]Mantis shrimp, a group of aggressive, reef-dwelling crustaceans, take more than one first-place ribbon in the animal kingdom. Outwardly, they resemble their lobster cousins, but their colorful shells contain an impressive set of superpowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, scientists are finding that one of those abilities — incredible eyesight — has potential life-saving implications for people with cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have these ridiculous eyes that sense so many things at once,” said Sam Powell, a doctoral student in computer science and engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. “It’s been very interesting figuring out what we can do with that that helps out humans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1109421\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1109421 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The eyes of the mantis shrimp are some of the most powerful in the animal kingdom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The eyes of the mantis shrimp are some of the most powerful in the animal kingdom. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Powell is part of a \u003ca href=\"http://biosensors.web.engr.illinois.edu/\">collaboration of engineers and wildlife biologists, \u003c/a>co-led by Viktor Gruev at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working on a set of mantis shrimp-inspired imaging technologies that could, among other applications, improve how doctors detect and treat certain cancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mantis shrimp come in two varieties. There are the “smashers” and the “spearers,” named for their attack modes when hunting prey. With their spring-loaded, weaponized legs, these predators can crack a snail shell or harpoon a passing fish in a single punch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speed of these attacks has earned the mantis shrimp a world record: fastest strike in the animal kingdom. At 30 times faster than the blink of an eye, the attack is so swift that it can vaporize nearby water molecules, producing bubbles where no bubbles should be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1109422\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320_mantis_whackingsnail2_720.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1109422 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320_mantis_whackingsnail2_720.gif\" alt=\"The mantis shrimp attacks its prey, in this case a snail, with blinding speed.\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mantis shrimp attacks its prey, in this case a snail, with blinding speed. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mantis shrimp’s powerful punch seems to go hand in hand with its world-class eyesight. Like most crustaceans and insects, the mantis shrimp’s eyes are made up of thousands of light-trapping facets — picture a fly’s eye — known as ommatidia. In many species, ommatidial eyes are marked by black spots, called pseudopupils, that permit depth perception, much the way human pupils do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s unique to the mantis shrimp is the way the ommatidia of each eye are divided into three sections, each moving independently. That means mantis shrimp vision is able to triangulate distance using up to six images in the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s important for an animal that makes its living smashing and spearing things,” said \u003ca href=\"http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/caldwell/\">Roy Caldwell, a mantis shrimp expert at UC Berkeley.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1109424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1109424 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Submerged in sand, a spearing mantis shrimp waits for a meal to pass.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Submerged in sand, a spearing mantis shrimp waits for a meal to pass. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the power of the mantis shrimp eye doesn’t end there. Mantis shrimp can perceive the most elusive attribute of light from the human standpoint: polarization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polarization refers to the angle that light travels through space. When light from the sun enters the earth’s atmosphere, it comes in waves moving in all directions. Sometimes, it bounces off a surface that restricts, or polarizes, the shape of its movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polarized light sometimes appears as glare, such as when light reflects off the ocean or a wet highway. Polarized eyeglasses can filter out these blinding reflections by blocking light from entering the eye at certain angles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1109426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1109426\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"When light strikes certain surfaces in the environment, it becomes polarized and begins to move in a single plane.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When light strikes certain surfaces in the environment, it becomes polarized and begins to move in a single plane. \u003ccite>(Teodros Hailye/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mantis shrimp eye, however, contains extra sensors that can analyze the angle that the light wave is traveling. In other words, it \u003cem>knows\u003c/em> when light is polarized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other underwater predators, including cuttlefish and octopuses, have the same ability, and they use the polarizing surfaces of fish, crabs, and other potential prey to make them pop against the less polarized backdrop of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very common in animals,” said\u003ca href=\"http://biology.umbc.edu/directory/faculty/cronin/\"> Thomas Cronin, a professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.\u003c/a> “In fact, we’re are among the few that don’t use polarized light very much, if at all. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s unique to some mantis shrimp is their ability to perceive another, much more rare, variety of polarized light. This “circular” polarized light moves not in a flat plane, but in a twisted one, like a helix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Circular polarized light is used in some 3-D glasses and DVD technology. Mantis shrimp not only see this kind of polarization, they broadcast it. Parts of the males’ bodies function as circular-polarizing surfaces, flashing a secret code only visible within the species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives them an incredibly private channel of communication that no other animal can see,” said Caldwell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1109427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1109427\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A false color image (right) approximates how fish pop underwater to animals that perceive light polarization, including the mantis shrimp (left).\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A false color image (right) approximates how fish pop underwater to animals that perceive light polarization, including the mantis shrimp (left). \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED; Courtesy Viktor Gruev)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Males display these body parts during courtship to attract females. Other research has shown that adult males flash their polarized parts to alert other males to their presence inside a burrow, a warning that the homeowner is armed and dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by the mantis shrimp’s superlative eyesight, the group of researchers is collaborating to build polarization cameras that would constitute a giant leap for early cancer detection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking at nature can help us design better and more sensitive imaging techniques,” Gruev said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cameras, which are small enough for endoscopic use, can see polarization patterns on the surfaces of human and animal tissue. At the cellular level, fast-growing cancer cells are disorganized compared to healthy cells like skin and muscle. Because of the structural differences, healthy and diseased tissues react differently to polarized light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These signs show up early with cancer, before cues that typically alert doctors. Current colonoscopy techniques, for example, employ black and white images to look for abnormal shapes, such as polyps. But sometimes, cancerous tissue in the colon is flat, blending in with healthy tissue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1109429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320_mantis_tendon_720.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1109429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320_mantis_tendon_720.gif\" alt=\"In this false color image, a mouse tendon shows a different polarization profile, in red, when stressed.\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this false color image, a mouse tendon shows a different polarization profile, in red, when stressed. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Viktor Gruev)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one study, Gruev and his team tested polarization cameras for colon cancer diagnosis in mice. The camera successfully converted polarization data into color images in real-time, revealing where the healthy tissues ended and the diseased ones began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Different types of cancer cells have different polarization signatures, while healthy tissues have a consistent profile. “The polarization structure makes the cancer apparent,” Gruev said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinical trials with human breast cancer patients are currently underway. One day, according to Gruev, polarization imaging will be part of every cancer surgeon’s toolkit, where it will help spot the extent of cancer spread, known as its positive margin, during live surgery. Currently, doctors have no way to confirm whether a tumor has been fully removed until after surgery, when they can send extracted tissues to the lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of the cancer moonshot,” Gruev said, “Right now, we are still detecting cancer way too late in the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1109430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-credit-Roy-Caldwell-CRX.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1109430\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-credit-Roy-Caldwell-CRX-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A damsel in distress: A spearing mantis shrimp captures its next meal, a damselfish.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-credit-Roy-Caldwell-CRX-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-credit-Roy-Caldwell-CRX-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-credit-Roy-Caldwell-CRX-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-credit-Roy-Caldwell-CRX-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-credit-Roy-Caldwell-CRX-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-credit-Roy-Caldwell-CRX-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-credit-Roy-Caldwell-CRX-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-credit-Roy-Caldwell-CRX-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-credit-Roy-Caldwell-CRX-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-credit-Roy-Caldwell-CRX-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A damsel in distress: A spearing mantis shrimp captures its next meal, a damselfish. \u003ccite>(Roy Caldwell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mantis shrimp, a group of aggressive, reef-dwelling crustaceans, take more than one first-place ribbon in the animal kingdom. Outwardly, they resemble their lobster cousins, but their colorful shells contain an impressive set of superpowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, scientists are finding that one of those abilities — incredible eyesight — has potential life-saving implications for people with cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have these ridiculous eyes that sense so many things at once,” said Sam Powell, a doctoral student in computer science and engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. “It’s been very interesting figuring out what we can do with that that helps out humans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1109421\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1109421 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The eyes of the mantis shrimp are some of the most powerful in the animal kingdom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-peacock-mantis-eye-closeup-CRX-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The eyes of the mantis shrimp are some of the most powerful in the animal kingdom. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Powell is part of a \u003ca href=\"http://biosensors.web.engr.illinois.edu/\">collaboration of engineers and wildlife biologists, \u003c/a>co-led by Viktor Gruev at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working on a set of mantis shrimp-inspired imaging technologies that could, among other applications, improve how doctors detect and treat certain cancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mantis shrimp come in two varieties. There are the “smashers” and the “spearers,” named for their attack modes when hunting prey. With their spring-loaded, weaponized legs, these predators can crack a snail shell or harpoon a passing fish in a single punch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speed of these attacks has earned the mantis shrimp a world record: fastest strike in the animal kingdom. At 30 times faster than the blink of an eye, the attack is so swift that it can vaporize nearby water molecules, producing bubbles where no bubbles should be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1109422\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320_mantis_whackingsnail2_720.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1109422 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320_mantis_whackingsnail2_720.gif\" alt=\"The mantis shrimp attacks its prey, in this case a snail, with blinding speed.\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mantis shrimp attacks its prey, in this case a snail, with blinding speed. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mantis shrimp’s powerful punch seems to go hand in hand with its world-class eyesight. Like most crustaceans and insects, the mantis shrimp’s eyes are made up of thousands of light-trapping facets — picture a fly’s eye — known as ommatidia. In many species, ommatidial eyes are marked by black spots, called pseudopupils, that permit depth perception, much the way human pupils do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s unique to the mantis shrimp is the way the ommatidia of each eye are divided into three sections, each moving independently. That means mantis shrimp vision is able to triangulate distance using up to six images in the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s important for an animal that makes its living smashing and spearing things,” said \u003ca href=\"http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/caldwell/\">Roy Caldwell, a mantis shrimp expert at UC Berkeley.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1109424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1109424 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Submerged in sand, a spearing mantis shrimp waits for a meal to pass.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-zebra-mantis-buried-eyeball-CRX-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Submerged in sand, a spearing mantis shrimp waits for a meal to pass. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the power of the mantis shrimp eye doesn’t end there. Mantis shrimp can perceive the most elusive attribute of light from the human standpoint: polarization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polarization refers to the angle that light travels through space. When light from the sun enters the earth’s atmosphere, it comes in waves moving in all directions. Sometimes, it bounces off a surface that restricts, or polarizes, the shape of its movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polarized light sometimes appears as glare, such as when light reflects off the ocean or a wet highway. Polarized eyeglasses can filter out these blinding reflections by blocking light from entering the eye at certain angles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1109426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1109426\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"When light strikes certain surfaces in the environment, it becomes polarized and begins to move in a single plane.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-polarized-light-explainer-1-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When light strikes certain surfaces in the environment, it becomes polarized and begins to move in a single plane. \u003ccite>(Teodros Hailye/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mantis shrimp eye, however, contains extra sensors that can analyze the angle that the light wave is traveling. In other words, it \u003cem>knows\u003c/em> when light is polarized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other underwater predators, including cuttlefish and octopuses, have the same ability, and they use the polarizing surfaces of fish, crabs, and other potential prey to make them pop against the less polarized backdrop of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very common in animals,” said\u003ca href=\"http://biology.umbc.edu/directory/faculty/cronin/\"> Thomas Cronin, a professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.\u003c/a> “In fact, we’re are among the few that don’t use polarized light very much, if at all. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s unique to some mantis shrimp is their ability to perceive another, much more rare, variety of polarized light. This “circular” polarized light moves not in a flat plane, but in a twisted one, like a helix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Circular polarized light is used in some 3-D glasses and DVD technology. Mantis shrimp not only see this kind of polarization, they broadcast it. Parts of the males’ bodies function as circular-polarizing surfaces, flashing a secret code only visible within the species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives them an incredibly private channel of communication that no other animal can see,” said Caldwell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1109427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1109427\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A false color image (right) approximates how fish pop underwater to animals that perceive light polarization, including the mantis shrimp (left).\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320-splitscreen-p-mantis-and-polarizer-camera-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A false color image (right) approximates how fish pop underwater to animals that perceive light polarization, including the mantis shrimp (left). \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED; Courtesy Viktor Gruev)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Males display these body parts during courtship to attract females. Other research has shown that adult males flash their polarized parts to alert other males to their presence inside a burrow, a warning that the homeowner is armed and dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by the mantis shrimp’s superlative eyesight, the group of researchers is collaborating to build polarization cameras that would constitute a giant leap for early cancer detection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking at nature can help us design better and more sensitive imaging techniques,” Gruev said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cameras, which are small enough for endoscopic use, can see polarization patterns on the surfaces of human and animal tissue. At the cellular level, fast-growing cancer cells are disorganized compared to healthy cells like skin and muscle. Because of the structural differences, healthy and diseased tissues react differently to polarized light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These signs show up early with cancer, before cues that typically alert doctors. Current colonoscopy techniques, for example, employ black and white images to look for abnormal shapes, such as polyps. But sometimes, cancerous tissue in the colon is flat, blending in with healthy tissue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1109429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320_mantis_tendon_720.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1109429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/DL320_mantis_tendon_720.gif\" alt=\"In this false color image, a mouse tendon shows a different polarization profile, in red, when stressed.\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this false color image, a mouse tendon shows a different polarization profile, in red, when stressed. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Viktor Gruev)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one study, Gruev and his team tested polarization cameras for colon cancer diagnosis in mice. The camera successfully converted polarization data into color images in real-time, revealing where the healthy tissues ended and the diseased ones began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Different types of cancer cells have different polarization signatures, while healthy tissues have a consistent profile. “The polarization structure makes the cancer apparent,” Gruev said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinical trials with human breast cancer patients are currently underway. One day, according to Gruev, polarization imaging will be part of every cancer surgeon’s toolkit, where it will help spot the extent of cancer spread, known as its positive margin, during live surgery. Currently, doctors have no way to confirm whether a tumor has been fully removed until after surgery, when they can send extracted tissues to the lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For a long time, Daniel Au Valencia got the message that she was wrong, wrong, wrong. She stood wrong. She talked wrong. She looked at people wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of shame around autism,” she says. “There’s a lot of being told you look weird.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://actingnt.blogspot.com/\">Valencia\u003c/a>, 22, often taps her feet when talking to someone. Or she’ll flap her hands. She says those movements help her communicate emotions and stay calm.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"#note\">A note on pronouns\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“A common question is, ‘Why are you doing that?' in a very accusatory tone,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don't even get her started on eye contact. 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Unlike a lot of other studies, this one didn’t say anything about trying to “cure autism.” This one was exploring a treatment specifically for social anxiety in autistic adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anxiety, unlike autism, is actually a problem that you might want to get rid of,” Valencia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many traditional therapies don’t work for autistic people, says Nick Walker, an autistic advocate and consultant on the new study, because they reinforce stigma around autism and are “designed to coerce autistic people into acting like they’re not autistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sees this new research as a uniquely “culturally appropriate” approach to addressing the “epidemic” of social anxiety in autistic adults – anxiety caused by a lifetime of repeated, traumatic social interactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The treatment is MDMA, known more commonly as Ecstacy or Molly. On the street, it is often cut with speed or other drugs, and is popular among ravers for lowering inhibitions, heightening physical sensations, and making people feel all lovey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But researchers are finding that pure MDMA has potential to be a true medicine. Early studies backed by MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies based in Santa Cruz, show it can ease or erase symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. 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My bodily needs were radically altered.'\u003ccite>Daniel Au Valencia, Study participant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>MDMA floods the brain with serotonin and dopamine, they say, and quiets the fear response from the amygdala, allowing people to confront past traumatic experiences without becoming overwhelmed. Or they can try new things without fear or inhibition getting in the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It creates a practice environment to try different social skills out,” Danforth says. “MDMA can be a bit like training wheels for the psyche.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia is one of just 12 autistic adults participating in the pilot study. Given the small size, researchers won’t get statistically meaningful data on the efficacy of MDMA in treating social anxiety. Their focus is proving that this research can be done safely in this population, with the hopes that others will conduct larger-scale studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The treatment consists of two MDMA sessions, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., six weeks apart. Danforth and Grob meet with each study participant several times before and after each session for psychotherapy and to measure their social anxiety levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the first MDMA session, they ask participants to set an intention. Danforth says they want them to think about how they hope to grow or change from the treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be something simple: ‘I want to be better at small talk, or I want to learn the skill of asking someone out on a date,’” Danforth says. “It can also be very large, ‘I’m working on forgiveness or unresolved grief or loss.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia’s goal was to be more assertive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that makes anxiety go away is to be in control of the situation rather than waiting for things to happen,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The First Session\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia arrived at 10 a.m. for her first MDMA session at a bland office building on the UCLA campus. Researchers transformed the room to a kind of den that Danforth describes as “autism friendly” -- soft lighting, soothing colors, and a luxury leather recliner facing a wall-sized poster of a forest canopy with light streaming through the trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New-age flute music played over the computer speakers as Valencia swallowed the MDMA capsule. Within a half hour, she knew it was not a placebo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt the changes in my body,” Valencia describes. “My bodily needs were radically altered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She describes one moment that was particularly powerful, when researchers brought in a plate of grapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I bit into half a grape,” Valencia says. “I felt the flavors, the texture, the nuance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This sparked a classic psychedelic epiphany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wow, I can really enjoy every bit of life more, if I can do it mindfully,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the session, she felt a rush of energy in her body and said, “I feel like dancing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Valencia did something that would normally take her eons to build up the courage to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She asked Danforth if she would care to salsa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was thinking, my intention is to be more assertive,” Valencia says. “Well, one part of being assertive is ask for what you want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danforth says in the context of the therapy and Valencia’s intention, this was completely appropriate. It was in keeping with Danforth’s previous research, where she collected qualitative reports from autistic adults who had taken MDMA recreationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call them the Five C’s,” she says. “People reported changes in their level of courage or confidence, communication, feeling connected, a sense of communion or belonging, and mental clarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_266943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/MDMA_1-e1477009669302.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-266943\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/MDMA_1-1020x765.jpg\" alt='Valencia uses emotion cards to help her understand and articulate her feelings. 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Each card has a word – “peaceful,” “loving,” “uncomfortable,” “frustrated,” “receptive” -- with a corresponding illustration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve learned about the importance of connecting with your emotions,” she says. “I have learned that you can experience a whole lot of different emotions at once.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that may seem innate for a lot of typically developing individuals, it’s novel for a lot of autistic people, Danforth says. MDMA is known for helping people get clarity about their feeling states, to find words to express them, she says. That, in turn, helps people articulate their needs so they can “shape the world to be more to their liking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was one of Valencia’s big takeaways: “Knowing that I have a choice,” she says. “Anytime something is bothering me, I can do something about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Second Session\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was time for Valencia’s second MDMA session, she felt her original goal of being more assertive was now not quite right. It felt like a concession to societal pressure to fit in. She needed to let go of that, she says, and release the pressure she was putting on herself to always be involved, to be better all the time, to be different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In session number two, there was a moment I was just sitting in a big comfy chair,” Valencia says. “Letting my hands do whatever my hands wanted to do, kind of floating around. It looks like nothing is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in fact, Valencia says, her mind was racing with thoughts, one idea popping up after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I thought, ‘Oh, these are some good ideas. I should write them down,” she says. “And then I stopped myself. ‘Do I have to do this? I can just sit here. And enjoy them.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she flipped through the emotion cards, she picked one where the illustration was a swirl of blackness. The word was “depressed,” but Valencia says she saw something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not having to do something in every moment, not having to \u003cem>feel \u003c/em>anything for just a couple hours,” she says. “That was such a relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reflections \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia completed the treatment last year. It’s impossible to draw a direct line between the treatment and how Valencia is doing right now, but she says she’s doing great. She’s got a steady full-time job, her own apartment, and she just got married. The study is still ongoing, so Valencia won’t know if her scores on the social anxiety tests improved until all participants finish the treatment and the researchers analyze the data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she says her biggest takeaway from the experiment is more about emotions than social anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s learned that there’s no such thing as good emotions or bad emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All emotions deserve to exist,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This underscores a process of transformation Valencia started a couple years before the MDMA treatment around her autistic identity. She started reading essays by Nick Walker, the autism advocate based in Berkeley. He rejects the notion that autism is a disease, the same way the gay community rejects the notion that homosexuality is a disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker says autistic brains are simply different. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t avoid it, but don’t stare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I would have to do is, \"Okay, eye contact. One, two, three, glance away, glance back. One, two, three, glance away,’” Valencia explains. “And at that point, I’m no longer listening, I am pretending to listen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of people just walk away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be anxiety-provoking,” she says. “That anxiety comes from being excluded, being rejected, being ridiculed for things that are just part of naturally being me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia likes hanging out with people. She’s into salsa dancing, acting, improv and Pokemon Go. But sometimes social situations can be so stressful that Valencia hangs back on the sidelines, or avoids them altogether. She never answers the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It creates a cycle of self-judgment,” she says, “and makes the anxiety worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_266972\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/MDMA_image-e1477009038956.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-266972 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/MDMA_image-1020x791.jpg\" alt=\"MDMA_image\" width=\"640\" height=\"496\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Au Valencia participated in a pilot study examining the potential of MDMA as a treatment for social anxiety in autistic adults. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Experimental Study\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then last year Valencia heard about an unusual experimental study. Unlike a lot of other studies, this one didn’t say anything about trying to “cure autism.” This one was exploring a treatment specifically for social anxiety in autistic adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anxiety, unlike autism, is actually a problem that you might want to get rid of,” Valencia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many traditional therapies don’t work for autistic people, says Nick Walker, an autistic advocate and consultant on the new study, because they reinforce stigma around autism and are “designed to coerce autistic people into acting like they’re not autistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sees this new research as a uniquely “culturally appropriate” approach to addressing the “epidemic” of social anxiety in autistic adults – anxiety caused by a lifetime of repeated, traumatic social interactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The treatment is MDMA, known more commonly as Ecstacy or Molly. On the street, it is often cut with speed or other drugs, and is popular among ravers for lowering inhibitions, heightening physical sensations, and making people feel all lovey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But researchers are finding that pure MDMA has potential to be a true medicine. Early studies backed by MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies based in Santa Cruz, show it can ease or erase symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.maps.org/research-archive/publications/Oehen_2012_MDMA_PTSD_Swisstudy.pdf\">one study\u003c/a>, 83 percent of study participants treated with MDMA and psychotherapy were cured of their PTSD, compared to 25 percent who were cured from talk therapy alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“MDMA creates a sensation of feeling safe,” says psychologist \u003ca href=\"http://www.icpr2016.nl/speakers/alicia-danforth-phd/\">Alicia Danforth\u003c/a>, one of the researchers conducting the social anxiety study at UCLA’s Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, along with psychiatrist \u003ca href=\"http://www.harboruclapsych.com/charles-s-grob-m-d/\">Charles Grob\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I felt the changes in my body. My bodily needs were radically altered.'\u003ccite>Daniel Au Valencia, Study participant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>MDMA floods the brain with serotonin and dopamine, they say, and quiets the fear response from the amygdala, allowing people to confront past traumatic experiences without becoming overwhelmed. Or they can try new things without fear or inhibition getting in the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It creates a practice environment to try different social skills out,” Danforth says. “MDMA can be a bit like training wheels for the psyche.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia is one of just 12 autistic adults participating in the pilot study. Given the small size, researchers won’t get statistically meaningful data on the efficacy of MDMA in treating social anxiety. Their focus is proving that this research can be done safely in this population, with the hopes that others will conduct larger-scale studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The treatment consists of two MDMA sessions, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., six weeks apart. Danforth and Grob meet with each study participant several times before and after each session for psychotherapy and to measure their social anxiety levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the first MDMA session, they ask participants to set an intention. Danforth says they want them to think about how they hope to grow or change from the treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be something simple: ‘I want to be better at small talk, or I want to learn the skill of asking someone out on a date,’” Danforth says. “It can also be very large, ‘I’m working on forgiveness or unresolved grief or loss.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia’s goal was to be more assertive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that makes anxiety go away is to be in control of the situation rather than waiting for things to happen,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The First Session\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia arrived at 10 a.m. for her first MDMA session at a bland office building on the UCLA campus. Researchers transformed the room to a kind of den that Danforth describes as “autism friendly” -- soft lighting, soothing colors, and a luxury leather recliner facing a wall-sized poster of a forest canopy with light streaming through the trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New-age flute music played over the computer speakers as Valencia swallowed the MDMA capsule. Within a half hour, she knew it was not a placebo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt the changes in my body,” Valencia describes. “My bodily needs were radically altered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She describes one moment that was particularly powerful, when researchers brought in a plate of grapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I bit into half a grape,” Valencia says. “I felt the flavors, the texture, the nuance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This sparked a classic psychedelic epiphany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wow, I can really enjoy every bit of life more, if I can do it mindfully,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the session, she felt a rush of energy in her body and said, “I feel like dancing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Valencia did something that would normally take her eons to build up the courage to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She asked Danforth if she would care to salsa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was thinking, my intention is to be more assertive,” Valencia says. “Well, one part of being assertive is ask for what you want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danforth says in the context of the therapy and Valencia’s intention, this was completely appropriate. It was in keeping with Danforth’s previous research, where she collected qualitative reports from autistic adults who had taken MDMA recreationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call them the Five C’s,” she says. “People reported changes in their level of courage or confidence, communication, feeling connected, a sense of communion or belonging, and mental clarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_266943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/MDMA_1-e1477009669302.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-266943\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/MDMA_1-1020x765.jpg\" alt='Valencia uses emotion cards to help her understand and articulate her feelings. There are about 60 in the deck, including a few \"make your own\" cards.' width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valencia uses emotion cards to help her understand and articulate her feelings. There are about 60 in the deck, including a few \"make your own\" cards. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Follow-Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the MDMA session, the researchers meet with each participant to talk about what happened. Then they call them every day for a week after that to check in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The treatment is just a day,” Danforth says. “It’s what you do with those insights and how you integrate it into your everyday life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her first session, Valencia started using a deck of “emotion cards” each day to help her understand what she was feeling. Each card has a word – “peaceful,” “loving,” “uncomfortable,” “frustrated,” “receptive” -- with a corresponding illustration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve learned about the importance of connecting with your emotions,” she says. “I have learned that you can experience a whole lot of different emotions at once.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that may seem innate for a lot of typically developing individuals, it’s novel for a lot of autistic people, Danforth says. MDMA is known for helping people get clarity about their feeling states, to find words to express them, she says. That, in turn, helps people articulate their needs so they can “shape the world to be more to their liking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was one of Valencia’s big takeaways: “Knowing that I have a choice,” she says. “Anytime something is bothering me, I can do something about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Second Session\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was time for Valencia’s second MDMA session, she felt her original goal of being more assertive was now not quite right. It felt like a concession to societal pressure to fit in. She needed to let go of that, she says, and release the pressure she was putting on herself to always be involved, to be better all the time, to be different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In session number two, there was a moment I was just sitting in a big comfy chair,” Valencia says. “Letting my hands do whatever my hands wanted to do, kind of floating around. It looks like nothing is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in fact, Valencia says, her mind was racing with thoughts, one idea popping up after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I thought, ‘Oh, these are some good ideas. I should write them down,” she says. “And then I stopped myself. ‘Do I have to do this? I can just sit here. And enjoy them.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she flipped through the emotion cards, she picked one where the illustration was a swirl of blackness. The word was “depressed,” but Valencia says she saw something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not having to do something in every moment, not having to \u003cem>feel \u003c/em>anything for just a couple hours,” she says. “That was such a relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reflections \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia completed the treatment last year. It’s impossible to draw a direct line between the treatment and how Valencia is doing right now, but she says she’s doing great. She’s got a steady full-time job, her own apartment, and she just got married. The study is still ongoing, so Valencia won’t know if her scores on the social anxiety tests improved until all participants finish the treatment and the researchers analyze the data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she says her biggest takeaway from the experiment is more about emotions than social anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s learned that there’s no such thing as good emotions or bad emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All emotions deserve to exist,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This underscores a process of transformation Valencia started a couple years before the MDMA treatment around her autistic identity. She started reading essays by Nick Walker, the autism advocate based in Berkeley. He rejects the notion that autism is a disease, the same way the gay community rejects the notion that homosexuality is a disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker says autistic brains are simply different. 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"content": "\u003cp>We all know that texting while driving is \u003ca href=\"http://journalistsresource.org/studies/environment/transportation/multitasking-texting-and-distracted-driving-academics-discuss-the-cognitive-effects-and-risks\" target=\"_blank\">perilous\u003c/a> and answering a phone during a face to face conversation is rude. 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Researchers are calling it \u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-study-nomophobia-mdash-fear-of-being-without-a-mobile-phone/\" target=\"_blank\">nomophobia\u003c/a> (no-mobile phone phobia), and Iowa State University academics have devised a \u003ca href=\"http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2015/08/26/nomophobia\" target=\"_blank\">questionnaire\u003c/a> to diagnose it. (Rate on a scale of one to seven if \"Running out of battery in my smartphone would scare me.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEEzoUeb15A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, there are some practical strategies to break nomophobia and increase health and well-being. UCSF neuroscientist Dr. Adam Gazzeley and California State University, Dominguez Hills professor emeritus Larry D. Rosen offer tips in their new book, \"\u003ca href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/distracted\" target=\"_blank\">The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High Tech World\u003c/a>.\" We've categorized them into three areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"tips\">\u003c/a>\u003cb>Socializing\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though social media allows us to collect thousands of digital friends, our physical relationships are taking a hit. \u003ca href=\"http://eab.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/05/31/0013916514539755\" target=\"_blank\">Research \u003c/a>shows that digital devices are impacting closeness and connection with loved ones. One \u003ca href=\"http://spr.sagepub.com/content/30/3/237.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> found a correlation between the mere presence of a phone at the dinner table and a diminished sense of trust and empathy between individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Tips\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Declare places like the dining room to be technology-free zones.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When engaging in an important conversation, set a timer for a predetermined period during which you and the person you're talking to will refrain from checking your phones.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you’re worried about missing urgent calls, then use an app like \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sifakas.essential.calls&hl=en\">Essential Calls\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noshufou.selectivesilence&hl=en\">Selective Silence\u003c/a> for Android devices, or Do Not Disturb coupled with the Allow Calls function on an iPhone.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sleep\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I used to think it was relaxing to scroll through my email or Facebook feed one last time before shutting my eyes at night, but screen time \u003ca href=\"https://sleep.org/articles/ways-technology-affects-sleep/\" target=\"_blank\">messes \u003c/a>with your sleep. The blue light emitted by a smartphone or tablet affects melatonin, a hormone that controls the natural sleep-wake cycle. Mounting \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2016/03/01/once-again-reminder-for-the-sleepless-quit-checking-your-email/\" target=\"_blank\">evidence\u003c/a> has found that--unlike reading a book--online browsing stimulates the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Tips\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Remove your digital devices from the bedroom.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If that sounds impossible, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.journalsleep.org/Resources/Documents/2013AbstractSupplement.pdf\">Mayo clinic study\u003c/a> advises dimming devices and holding the screen at least 14 inches away from your face to reduce the blue light infiltrating your eyes, so as not to inhibit the release of melatonin.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Safe Driving\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 55 mph, taking your eyes off the road for five seconds to respond to a text message is the equivalent of driving 100 yards -- the length of a football field--with your eyes closed. Hand-free devices, you should consider, are not the solution; A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/motr/even-hands-free-devices-are-dangerously-distracting.html\">study\u003c/a> revealed that drivers can remain distracted for up to 27 seconds after hanging up a call, even if it was enabled by a voice assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Transportation \u003ca href=\"https://www.transportation.gov/tags/distracted-driving\">reports\u003c/a> that in 2013 distracted driving claimed 3,154 lives and injured an estimated 424,000 Americans, all of which were 100 percent preventable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Tips\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Leave your phone in your trunk with the Bluetooth off.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If that’s too much to bear, give your device to a passenger to monitor.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Apps can help. \u003ca href=\"http://www.getsafedrive.com/\">SafeDrive\u003c/a> gives you points when you restrict yourself from your phone while you're driving faster than 6 mph. 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Rosen offer tips in their new book, \"\u003ca href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/distracted\" target=\"_blank\">The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High Tech World\u003c/a>.\" We've categorized them into three areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"tips\">\u003c/a>\u003cb>Socializing\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though social media allows us to collect thousands of digital friends, our physical relationships are taking a hit. \u003ca href=\"http://eab.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/05/31/0013916514539755\" target=\"_blank\">Research \u003c/a>shows that digital devices are impacting closeness and connection with loved ones. 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Hand-free devices, you should consider, are not the solution; A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/motr/even-hands-free-devices-are-dangerously-distracting.html\">study\u003c/a> revealed that drivers can remain distracted for up to 27 seconds after hanging up a call, even if it was enabled by a voice assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Transportation \u003ca href=\"https://www.transportation.gov/tags/distracted-driving\">reports\u003c/a> that in 2013 distracted driving claimed 3,154 lives and injured an estimated 424,000 Americans, all of which were 100 percent preventable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Tips\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Leave your phone in your trunk with the Bluetooth off.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If that’s too much to bear, give your device to a passenger to monitor.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Apps can help. \u003ca href=\"http://www.getsafedrive.com/\">SafeDrive\u003c/a> gives you points when you restrict yourself from your phone while you're driving faster than 6 mph. 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The process of splitting our attention usually leads to mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, each time our eyes glance away from our computer monitor to sneak a peak at a text message, the brain takes in new information, which reduces our primary focus. We \u003cem>think\u003c/em> the mind can juggle two or three activities successfully at once, but Gazzaley says we woefully overestimate our ability to multitask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"An example is when you attempt to check your email while on a conference call,\" says Gazzaley. \"The act of doing that makes it so incredibly obvious how you can't really parallel process two attention-demanding tasks. You either have to catch up and ask what happened in the conversation, or you have to read over the email before you send it — if you're wise!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Answering an Email Takes A Lot Longer Than You Think\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gazzaley stresses that our tendency to respond immediately to emails and texts hinders high-level thinking. If you're working on a project and you stop to answer an email, the \u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/CHI_2007_Iqbal_Horvitz.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research\u003c/a> shows, it will take you nearly a half-hour to get back on task.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Research has found that high-tech jugglers struggle to pay attention, recall information, or complete one task at a time.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"When a focused stream of thought is interrupted it needs to be reset,\" explains Gazzaley. \"You can't just press a button and switch back to it. You have to re-engage those thought processes, and recreate all the elements of what you were engaged in. That takes time, and frequently one interruption leads to another.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, repetitively switching tasks lowers performance and productivity because your brain can only fully and efficiently focus on one thing at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_262693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-262693\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"When UCSF neuroscientist Adam Gazzeley needs to focus on a high level project he clears his desk, works on one screen and turns off all distracting digital devices.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When UCSF neuroscientist Adam Gazzeley needs to focus on a high level project he clears his desk, works on one screen and turns off all distracting digital devices. \u003ccite>(Sierra Niblett )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plus, \u003ca href=\"http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/social-media/multitasking-social-media-distraction-what-does-research-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mounting evidence\u003c/a> shows that multitasking could impair the brain's cognitive abilities. \u003ca href=\"http://news.stanford.edu/2009/08/24/multitask-research-study-082409/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford researchers\u003c/a> studied the minds of people who regularly engage in several digital communication streams at once. They found that high-tech jugglers struggle to pay attention, recall information, or complete one task at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they’re in situations where there are multiple sources of information coming from the external world or emerging out of memory, they’re not able to filter out what’s not relevant to their current goal,” says Stanford neuroscientist\u003ca href=\"https://psychology.stanford.edu/awagner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Anthony Wagner\u003c/a>. “That failure to filter means they’re slowed down by that irrelevant information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers are still studying what's causing multitaskers to perform poorly on cognitive tests. It could be that they are born with an inability to concentrate, or digital distractions are taking a toll. In any case, the researchers believe the minds of multitaskers are not performing optimally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the habit of multitasking could lower your score on an IQ test, according to researchers at the \u003ca href=\"http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1465496/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of London\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Creating Digital Boundaries\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don't worry. Gazzaley says. It’s not about opting out of technology. In fact, there's a time and place for multitasking. If you’re in the midst of a mundane task that just has to get done, it’s probably not detrimental to have your phone nearby or a bunch of tabs open. The distractions may reduce boredom and help you stay engaged. 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They found that high-tech jugglers struggle to pay attention, recall information, or complete one task at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they’re in situations where there are multiple sources of information coming from the external world or emerging out of memory, they’re not able to filter out what’s not relevant to their current goal,” says Stanford neuroscientist\u003ca href=\"https://psychology.stanford.edu/awagner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Anthony Wagner\u003c/a>. “That failure to filter means they’re slowed down by that irrelevant information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers are still studying what's causing multitaskers to perform poorly on cognitive tests. It could be that they are born with an inability to concentrate, or digital distractions are taking a toll. 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So in the 1990s, doctors and medical advisory committees started relying on studies that combined results from many different research projects to streamline the search for answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These kinds of studies are \"extremely important,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/john-ioannidis\">Dr. John Ioannidis\u003c/a>, a professor of medicine health research and policy at Stanford University. He has conducted many of these types of studies over the course of his career. \"They're trying to make some sense out of a very convoluted scientific and medical literature.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ioannidis says unfortunately things have gotten out of hand. First, \"the problem is that there are just too many meta-analyses,\" Ioannidis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.milbank.org/wp-content/files/documents/The_Mass_Production_of_Redundant_Misleading_and_Conflicted_Systematic_Reviews_and_Meta-Analyses.pdf\">recent study on the subject\u003c/a>, titled \"The Mass Production of Redundant, Misleading, and Conflicted Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses,\" he chose as an example studies involving antidepressant drugs. \"There are 185 of them published in the literature within seven years, which means about 25 of them published every year for the very same drugs and the very same indication, major depression,\" Ioannidis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's worse, they're increasingly being generated by scientists who have financial interests in the outcome, Ioannidis \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26399904\">found\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"About 80 percent of them have been funded or have some other conflicts of interest with manufacturers of these drugs,\" he says. \"If you look at what their conclusions are, those that have been authored by industry employees, practically all of them, with one exception, have claimed that there are no caveats about antidepressants.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to read deep into the studies to find warnings about potential suicide risks, for example — if downsides are mentioned at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's potentially misleading to doctors who turn to this kind of analysis to get a quick take on what works and what doesn't. 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He found the situation even worse than Ioannidis suggests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In some ways my doubts are stronger than his,\" Kramer told Shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some analyses he looked at were trying to parse very subtle differences — for example, comparing two very similar antidepressants. You could get any answer you want, depending on how you set up the study, Kramer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the problems he found aren't simply commercial conflicts of interest. For example, he saw biases among academics who were wedded to the notion that placebos are just as good as actual drugs for depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even on that side of the equation, where there's no adverse sponsorship but just an allegiance to an idea, I thought it wasn't always the case that everybody's hands were on the table,\" Kramer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But financial conflicts are easier to identify. Five years ago, the National Academy's Institute of Medicine (now called the National Academy of Medicine) suggested dozens of standards that should apply to systematic reviews of the research literature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The influence of funders is a concern, says \u003ca href=\"https://depts.washington.edu/fammed/profile/?id=00041\">Dr. Alfred Berg\u003c/a>, a professor emeritus of family medicine at the University of Washington who chaired one of the committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If there's obvious sponsorship from an organization that might have a conflict of interest, that's probably not a good idea,\" he says. It's reasonable to suggest that scientists with clear financial conflicts of interest should not be producing these studies. \"Is it going to happen in my lifetime?\" Berg says. \"Probably not!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pfizer, one of the many drug companies that fund meta-analyses involving their own products, declined an interview request. 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