Younger farmers are facing up to the mental health issues associated with the job
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All his life, Daniel Goodwin dreamed of working on a farm. His great grandfather had worked on a big estate near Newmarket and that was his inspiration.
He loved the farming life - but he wasn t prepared for the crushing mental toll it would take on him. I m a very social person, he says. I m a person who can t sit inside so I m literally always busy, busy, busy.
Daniel Goodwin of Bury St Edmunds who is an ambassador for the Farm Safety Foundation s Mind Your Head campaign
Illustration of a human brain (apagafonova via iStock by Getty Images)
An Israeli-led research team says it has created an unprecedented “molecular Google Map” of a brain’s memory center, in a first application of technology that may help in the fight against Alzheimer’s and other diseases.
The breakthrough allows researchers to zoom in on RNA (ribonucleic acid) at nanoscale resolution without having to destroy the tissue to remove the RNA for analysis, giving a view of brain tissue that was hitherto out of doctors’ reach.
The ability to sequence RNA, a building block of life that uses the information from DNA to create proteins, has transformed biology and medicine. But when trying to analyze RNA from brain tissue that had been destroyed, doctors could only get a much less detailed view like a list of cities instead of a map creating a major barrier to research into diseases that affect brain function.
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Using a novel technique for expanding tissue, MIT and Harvard Medical School researchers have devised a way to label individual molecules of messenger RNA within a tissue sample and then sequence the RNA.
This approach offers a unique snapshot of which genes are being expressed in different parts of a cell, and could allow scientists to learn much more about how gene expression is influenced by a cell’s location or its interactions with nearby cells. The technique could also be useful for mapping cells in the brain or other tissues and classifying them according to their function.
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cities. anne makovec joins us with more. reporter: good morning. about a dozen local mayors are headed to sacramento today to meet with jerry brown face to face. they are upset over what they call another state grab at local funds. governor brown s current plan is to shut down about 400 local redevelopment agencies. the same agencies cities and counties have been counting on to help spur growth, which leads to more taxes they can collect. the state is also considering shifting billions of dollars in costs to counties everything from the monitoring of parolees to welfare. now, chuck reed says cities like his are already so far in the hole, they don t know how they could afford it. budget news is worse every day, more bad news it seems when it comes to budgeting in california. first they try to take money and we have our own problems with revenues and now we have pension costs going up again. reporter: he says this plan is actually illegal under prop 22 which voters just