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The study involved leading laboratories across multiple countries testing identical samples of gut microbiome bacteria. Results revealed startling inconsistencies, with accuracy measures varying dramatically between laboratories – despite analysing the same samples.
MHRA-led study reveals major inconsistencies in global microbiome research

MHRA-led study reveals major inconsistencies in global microbiome research
International collaboration establishes new quality standards to improve reliability of gut health studies – improving accuracy to provide better diagnosis and treatment.

Predicting the descent into extremism and terrorism
R. O. Lane, W. J. Holmes, C. J. Taylor, H. M. State-Davey, A. J. Wragge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16014 https://

Predicting the descent into extremism and terrorism
This paper proposes an approach for automatically analysing and tracking statements in material gathered online and detecting whether the authors of the statements are likely to be involved in extremism or terrorism. The proposed system comprises: online collation of statements that are then encoded in a form amenable to machine learning (ML), an ML component to classify the encoded text, a tracker, and a visualisation system for analysis of results. The detection and tracking concept has been …

Playing CHESS with stars. I. Search for similar stars in large spectroscopic data sets
J. E. Mart\'inez Fern\'andez, S. \"Ozdemir, R. Smiljanic, M. L. L. Dantas, A. R. da Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19443

Playing CHESS with stars. I. Search for similar stars in large spectroscopic data sets
Context: Massive amounts of spectroscopic data obtained by stellar surveys are feeding an ongoing revolution in our knowledge of stellar and Galactic astrophysics. Analysing these data sets to extract the best possible astrophysical parameters on short time scales represents a considerable challenge. Aims: The differential analysis method is known to return the most precise results in the spectroscopic analyses of F-, G-, and K-type stars. However, it can only be applied to stars with similar p…