News tagged with information science
Ten years on, still much to be learned from human genome map
(HealthDay)—As scientists mark the 10th anniversary Sunday of the completion of the Human Genome Project, they will note how that watershed effort has led to the discovery of the genetic underpinnings of ...
Genetics
Apr 12, 2013 |
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Scientists discover gene mutation that causes children to be born without spleen
The spleen is rarely noticed, until it is missing. In children born without this organ, that doesn't happen until they become sick with life-threatening bacterial infections. An international team of researchers led by scientists ...
Genetics
Apr 11, 2013 |
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New vision of how we explore our world
Brain researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute have discovered that we explore the world with our eyes in a different way than previously thought. Their results advance our understanding of how healthy observers and neurological ...
Neuroscience
Apr 05, 2013 |
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Protein that takes care of our DNA is critical to leukaemia cell survival
A protein – already known to be involved in a cell's response to stress – called Tetratricopeptide repeat domain 5 (TTC5) is critical to the development of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), according to ...
Cancer
Apr 05, 2013 |
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Scientists find promising new target for aggressive breast cancer
Women with triple-negative breast cancer are more likely to have high levels of the MET biomarker in their tumours, making it a good new target for cancer drugs according to research published in the British Jo ...
Cancer
Mar 20, 2013 |
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Family history of bowel cancer increases odds of survival
A new study that combines genetic information on bowel cancer with NHS patient outcome data has found a link between family history of the disease and a better chance of survival, published in the British Jo ...
Cancer
Mar 20, 2013 |
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Informatics helps drive clinical and translational research
According to researchers, clinical and translational science has emerged as a national priority and investigators are increasingly becoming reliant on the use of computer science (CS), information science (IS), biomedical ...
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Mar 15, 2013 |
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Virtual patient may help future doctors prevent suicide
A virtual patient named Denise may help future physicians feel more comfortable and capable assessing suicide risk.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 04, 2013 |
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Inherited gene fault influences breast cancer survival
Researchers have shown that an inherited gene fault influences the chances of some women surviving breast cancer. It also increases the risk of women developing a second breast cancer. The research is publishe ...
Cancer
Dec 11, 2012 |
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Activating the 'mind's eye': Scientists teach blind to read, recognize objects with sounds (w/ Video)
Common wisdom has it that if the visual cortex in the brain is deprived of visual information in early infanthood, it may never develop properly its functional specialization, making sight restoration later ...
Neuroscience
Nov 07, 2012 |
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Burst of fetal neural activity necessary for vision
(Medical Xpress)—A sudden and mysterious burst of activity originating in the retina of a developing fetus spurs brain connections that are essential to development of finely-tuned sight, Yale researchers ...
Neuroscience
Oct 11, 2012 |
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Applying information theory to linguistics suggests 'functional design' in cross-language variations
The majority of languages—roughly 85 percent of them—can be sorted into two categories: those, like English, in which the basic sentence form is subject-verb-object ("the girl kicks the ball"), and those, ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 10, 2012 |
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How attention helps you remember
A new study from MIT neuroscientists sheds light on a neural circuit that makes us likelier to remember what we're seeing when our brains are in a more attentive state.
Neuroscience
Sep 27, 2012 |
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Improved communication could reduce STD epidemic among black teenagers
(Medical Xpress)—Black urban teenagers from low-income families face a rate of sexually transmitted disease up to 10 times higher than their white counterparts, but recent studies at Oregon State University have identified ...
Health
Sep 25, 2012 |
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Scientists report promising new direction for cognitive rehabilitation in the elderly
Research has found that declines in temporal information processing (TIP), the rate at which auditory information is processed, underlies the progressive loss of function across multiple cognitive systems in the elderly, ...
Neuroscience
Aug 20, 2012 |
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