[quick news] Wednesday, November 29, 2017

More than 3.25 million times of Springer Nature paper sharing A year after Springer nature group launched sharedit, a free content sharing service, subscribers, authors and media organizations have shared more than 3.25 million papers, resulting in more than 3.27 million readings Most of the readings come from subscribers (about 1.24 million), followed by authors (about 1.15 million) In addition, news reports also brought in more than 880000 readers ShareIt launched in October last year, covering more than 2700 journals, including all of Springer nature's journals and more than 1000 cooperative journals The bookseller https://www.thebookseller.com/news/springer-nature-shares-sharedit-stats-679011 a new Alzheimer's disease drug targeting tau protein phase 3 clinical dawning day ago, the final results of the second phase 3 clinical trial of tau protein aggregation inhibitor lmtx in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease were published in the Journal of Alzheimer's disease The results obtained from this phase 3 clinical trial named trx-237-005 are similar to those of the first phase 3 clinical trial named trx-237-015 The results of both clinical trials support that lmtx, as a single therapy, may have a significant effect on patients with mild or moderate AD at a dose of 4 mg twice a day After many therapies targeting amyloid protein have failed, the success of the therapy targeting tau protein aggregation is more concerned Eurek alert https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/ip-sp3112817.php team Noam Sobel of weizman Institute of Science in Israel found and did not suffer from autism spectrum disorder Compared with the individuals of ASD, ASD patients will make different, sometimes even opposite reactions to the social chemical signals unconsciously perceived The findings may partly explain why ASD patients misread emotions Nature Neuroscience https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-017-0024-x fried food also affects the climate system Chemists at the University of reading, the University of Bristol and the University of bath found that water droplets formed by cooking oil are released into the air, and the complex structure formed by these water droplets will attract water and become clouds The researchers found that the molecules in the droplets would arrange themselves into a crystal like network structure, which acts like a sponge absorbing water This complex structure also helps the above-mentioned droplets maintain in the atmosphere for a longer time, thus increasing their cloud forcing ability, and may even play a cooling role, which may slow down the speed of global warming Nature communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01918-1 Jiangxi has launched a project with a maximum of 8 million yuan per thousand people plan to support Jiangxi's recent implementation of the "thousand people plan" to introduce and cultivate high-level talents for innovation and entrepreneurship For the candidates of long-term projects of innovation leading talents and foreign experts (long-term) projects, Jiangxi Province will give 2-3 million yuan to each person in natural sciences and 200000-500000 yuan to each person in Humanities and social sciences For the candidates of high-level innovation and entrepreneurship teams, 5-8 million yuan of project support will be given to each team ScienceNet http://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2017/11/395380.shtm