Skull

• SAN FRANCISCO, April 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- For the roughly 1.5 million Americans per year who survive a traumatic brain injury, health outcomes vary widely.
• "We knew that a specific blood protein, fibrin, was present in the brain after traumatic brain injury, but we didn't know until now that it plays a causative role in brain damage after injury," says Ryu, who led the study that appears in the Journal of Neuroinflammation.
• But in this case, the traumatic brain injury itself causes the blood to leak into the brain.
• They also produced three-dimensional imaging of a whole intact mouse brain, showing blood-brain barrier leaks and abundant fibrin in traumatic brain injury.

• A strange and enormous jawbone was discovered on the English coastline eight years ago, but my team was hesitant to identify it as a new species until more specimens came to light.
• Now, with the discovery of a second giant jawbone several years later, we have named a new species of ichthyosaur, an ancient marine reptile.
• In 2016, prolific fossil hunter Paul de la Salle, unearthed a giant jawbone on the beach at Lilstock in Somerset.
• My team, including De la Salle, studied this discovery and published our findings in 2018 in the journal PLOS One.

• The preservation and fine detail provided new information that also helped us to better reinterpret De la Salle’s original bone.
• We therefore erected a new genus (taxonomic rank) and species of giant ichthyosaur that we called Ichthyotitan severnensis, meaning “giant fish lizard of the Severn”.

Blue whale-sized giants

• Using a basic formula called a simple scaling factor, we can estimate that our ichthyosaur was up to 26 metres long, about the size of a blue whale.
• Comparisons with the same bone in other ichthyosaurs suggests that Ichthyotitan was between 20 and 26 metres in length.
• We have to be careful with such estimations due to differences among species, such as those with long or short snouts.
• At 202 million years old, the fossils narrowly predate a global extinction event that eradicated these giants – and marine reptiles would never reach such a size again.

Anyone can make a contribution

• I asked them whether they would like to join my team to study this fossil and they agreed.
• Ruby Reynolds is now a published scientist who not only found but also helped to name a gigantic prehistoric reptile.
• Palaeontology is one of those sciences where anybody can make a significant contribution.

Dean Lomax worked with Paul de la Salle, Marcello Perillo, Justin and Ruby Reynolds and Jimmy Waldron of the Dinosaurs Will Always Be Awesome Museum on the referenced research. He dedicates the work to Paul de la Salle who found the first surangular in 2016.

• SHORT HILLS, N.J., April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cranium , the leading enterprise AI security and trust software firm, today announced the launch of its new innovative partner program – the Cranium Connect Reseller Program.
• Designed to provide new opportunities for organizations to discover the benefits of enhancing AI security and governance, the Cranium Connect Reseller Program actively fosters a community of value-added partners, security and risk-focused service providers, and alliance partners.
• "At Cranium, our mission is to secure the AI revolution," said Claudia Slane, Senior Director of Alliance and Channel, Global at Cranium.
• "To support the world's best security and risk partners who share that vision, we have created the Cranium Connect Reseller Program."

• "Meanwhile, efforts to stimulate production of certain blood cell types may be dramatically improved by focusing on specific bone types."
• The key discoveries reported in the paper include:
  New tools allowing visualization of blood production inside the bone, allowing defining the basic anatomy of blood cell formation.
• Among several examples: blood loss triggered rapid red blood cell production in the sternum, tibia, vertebrae, and humerus -- but not in the skull.
• Importantly, the process developed for this study allowed the team to analyze blood cell development in multiple parts of the skeleton.