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E-Noses Detect Disease in Plants, Animals & Humans – CompassLive

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E-Noses Detect Disease in Plants, Animals & Humans – CompassLive

Similarly, sick bats can be diagnosed by their smellprints. Every bat species has a distinctive smellprint. Bats infected with the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) have different smellprints than healthy bats. Pd causes white-nose syndrome, a disease that has killed more than six million bats since 2006. Electronic noses can differentiate Pd from related fungal species that grow on bat skins but are not pathogenic, as Wilson and his colleagues recently reported in the journal Sensors & Transducers.

Trump OPEC tweet calls for oil cartel to boost production as gas rises

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Trump OPEC tweet calls for oil cartel to boost production as gas rises

"Oil experts were thinking "it was just a matter of time" before Trump tweeted about it, "and of course this morning he delivers," said Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis at fuel-savings app GasBuddy. "Everyone's seen gas prices surge across the country," he said.

"But analysts don't expect OPEC to take action to bolster production, which could theoretically ease oil prices. Oil is refined into gasoline, so oil prices have a direct impact on what Americans pay at the pump."

Recession Ahead? – Seeking Alpha

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U.S. Stock Market: Recession Ahead? – Seeking Alpha

"On Friday something happened, maybe something big: For the first time since the Financial Crisis, the yield curve inverted. One can argue about the point in time when the yield curve can be described as inverted, but for most experts, the yield curve is inverted when the 10-year treasury yield is lower than the three-month Treasury yield. Last Friday, the 10-year Treasury yield was 2.44% and the three-month Treasury yield was 2.46%. For those who might ask why that is such a big issue, the answer is very simple: Aside from the dark clouds that have already been on the horizon in the last months, we now have one of the clearest warning signs of a recession in the United States."
SVGZ Graphic: Median Distance to an Early Voting Site in Albany County

How Mosquitoes Use Human Sweat To Find And Bite Us – NPR

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How Mosquitoes Use Human Sweat To Find And Bite Us – NPR

"Mosquitoes searching for a meal of blood use a variety of clues to track down humans, including our body heat and the carbon dioxide in our breath. Now, research shows that a certain olfactory receptor in their antennae also serves as a detector of humans, responding to smelly chemicals in our sweat."

"Targeting this receptor might offer a new way to foil blood-seeking mosquitoes and prevent the transmission of diseases including malaria, Zika virus and dengue, according to the study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology."