News tagged with mathematical model

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Self-regulating networks dictate the genetic program of tumor cells

Scientists at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin could explain a yet unknown regulatory network that controls the growth of tumor cells. Understanding such networks is an important task in molecular tumor biology in ...

Cancer created Sep 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Advances in the development of an early detection kit for bowel cancer

Rubén Armañanzas and Pedro Larrañaga, researchers of the Computational Intelligence Group at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's Facultad de Informática have used advanced statistical and data ...

Cancer created Sep 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Treating disease by the numbers

Mathematical modeling being tested by researchers at the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and the IU School of Medicine has the potential to impact the knowledge ...

Medical research created Sep 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Implanted prosthetic device restores, improves impaired decision-making ability in monkeys

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers have taken a key step towards recovering specific brain functions in sufferers of brain disease and injuries by successfully restoring the decision-making processes in monkeys.

Neuroscience created Sep 13, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gaming the flu: How we decide to get vaccinated, or not

(Medical Xpress)—As the flu season approaches, public health officials will be campaigning to get people vaccinated, and each of us will have to decide whether to take their advice or not. How will we make ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 12, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Quantifying the risk of pandemics created through air travel: Creating models for efficient response

A viral disease is contracted abroad and transported unknowingly by a human host. Discrete symptoms linger beneath the skin as the person boards their flight home, delivering the virus across oceans and borders ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The best strategy to defeat HIV in South Africa—study challenges WHO's approach

The World Health Organization is about to roll out a new strategy for AIDS prevention in South Africa, a country where more than 5 million people are infected with HIV. Based on a mathematical model, the WHO predicts this ...

HIV & AIDS created Sep 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

ENCODE project: Yale team finds order amidst the chaos within the human genome

The massive Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) unveiled Sept. 5 reveals a human genome vastly more rich and complex than envisioned even a decade ago. In a key supporting paper published in the journal Nature, the lab of ...

Genetics created Sep 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mathematical model helps design efficient multi-drug therapies

For years, doctors treating those with HIV have recognized a relationship between how faithfully patients take the drugs they prescribe, and how likely the virus is to develop drug resistance. More recently, research has ...

Medical research created Sep 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Flu is transmitted before symptoms appear, study suggests

Research at Imperial College London examining influenza transmission in ferrets suggests that the virus can be passed on before the appearance of symptoms. If the finding applies to humans, it means that people pass on flu ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Aug 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Investigating the impact of treatment on new HIV infections: New PLoS collection

Is it possible to cut HIV transmission by using antiretroviral treatment? A collection of new articles published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine, in conjunction with the HIV Modelling Consortium, addresses this p ...

HIV & AIDS created Jul 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Avian flu viruses which are transmissible between humans could evolve in nature

It might be possible for human-to-human airborne transmissible avian H5N1 influenza viruses to evolve in nature, new research has found. The findings, from research led by Professor Derek Smith and Dr Colin Russell at the ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jun 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Short-term memory is more flexible than thought

(Medical Xpress) -- A theory that has been widely accepted for many years can be overturned: our short-term memory does not limit itself to remembering four to seven things at the same time. Groundbreaking research demonstrates ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jun 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dark chocolate could prevent heart problems in high-risk people

Daily consumption of dark chocolate can reduce cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks and strokes, in people with metabolic syndrome (a cluster of factors that increases the risk of developing heart disease and diabetes), ...

Cardiology created May 31, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Weather patterns can be used to forecast rotavirus outbreaks

Monitoring weather factors like temperature, rain, and snowfall is one way to predict the timing and intensity of rotavirus, a disease that causes extreme diarrhea, dehydration and thousands of death annually, particularly ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast