News tagged with mathematical model

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Statin drug shows promise for fighting malaria effects

Researchers have discovered that adding lovastatin, a widely used cholesterol-lowering drug, to traditional antimalarial treatment decreases neuroinflammation and protects against cognitive impairment in a mouse model of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The road to systems medicine

A large European consortium has joined forces in the Coordinating Action Systems Medicine – CASyM, supported by the FP7- Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission, to develop a road map ...

Other created Dec 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Host cholesterol secretion likely to influence gut microbiota

For more than half a century, researchers have known that the bacteria that colonize the gastrointestinal tract of mammals influence their host's cholesterol metabolism. Now, Jens Walter and colleagues of the University of ...

Medical research created Dec 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Immediate health risk must be weighed against radiation-induced cancer risk

The lifetime risks of cancer from medical radiation may be overemphasized relative to more immediate health risks, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

Cancer created Dec 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What mechanism generates our fingers and toes?

Dr. Marie Kmita and her research team at the IRCM contributed to a multidisciplinary research project that identified the mechanism responsible for generating our fingers and toes, and revealed the importance of gene regulation ...

Genetics created Dec 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study finds epigenetics, not genetics, underlies homosexuality

Epigenetics – how gene expression is regulated by temporary switches, called epi-marks – appears to be a critical and overlooked factor contributing to the long-standing puzzle of why homosexuality occurs.

Genetics created Dec 11, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Infants learn to look and look to learn

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Iowa have documented an activity by infants that begins nearly from birth: They learn by taking inventory of the things they see.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Computer model enables better understanding of what happens during and after stroke

(Medical Xpress)—At the moment that someone is suffering a stroke, the immediate concern is getting them stabilized. Once the initial attack has passed, additional treatment and preventive measures can ...

Medical research created Nov 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How connections in the brain must change to form memories could help to develop artificial cognitive computers

Exactly how memories are stored and accessed in the brain is unclear. Neuroscientists, however, do know that a primitive structure buried in the center of the brain, called the hippocampus, is a pivotal region ...

Neuroscience created Nov 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Privacy vs. protection: Study considers how to manage epidemics in information blackouts

When foot-and-mouth disease swept through the British countryside in early 2001, more than 10 million sheep, cattle and pigs were slaughtered to control the disease. Despite the devastation, the disease was contained within ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers discover new technique for detecting bone loss

Airing for the first time last night on KAET's "ASU Discovers," the work of scientists at ASU including Ariel Anbar, a professor in ASU's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the School of Earth ...

Medical research created Oct 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New mechanism for antibiotic tolerance found

(Medical Xpress)—Many antibiotics can lose their ability to kill bacteria – Duke University bioengineers believe they can explain one of the reasons why.

Medical research created Oct 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hospital mortality rates unreliable, research finds

(Medical Xpress)—A brand new study by the University of Birmingham suggests that the system used by the Government to inform key decisions about the performance of NHS hospitals is inadequate.

Health created Oct 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Original antigenic sin' at the center of researchers' model addressing age-specific influenza immunity

(Medical Xpress)—Mathematicians are helping to build a better picture of how populations develop immunity to flu and which groups are most at risk of getting – and transmitting – infection each year.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Oct 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Effectiveness of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in Peru

In this week's PLOS Medicine, Anna Borquez from Imperial College London and an international group of authors developed a mathematical model representing the HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transwomen in Lim ...

HIV & AIDS created Oct 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0