Observing one person threatening another is a commonplace event. Now, in research published in eLife, scientists have used large-scale neural recording and big data analysis in monkeys to enable a first glimpse of the brain ...
Sep 30, 2015
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An innovative model for determining a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) overcomes many of the challenges associated with estimating the onset of a chronic condition based on the usual sequence of comorbid ...
May 31, 2016
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What should the medicine of the future look like? A team of scientists writing in Frontiers in Science lays out a bold vision for precision approaches to understanding, preventing, and treating diseases, driven by revolutionary ...
May 23, 2024
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Numbers and data can be critical tools in bringing complex issues into crisp focus. The understanding of diseases, for example, benefits from algorithms that help monitor their spread. But without context, a number may just ...
Mar 13, 2014
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The COVID-19 virus is constantly changing as it moves from person to person. To fight the virus today and prepare for what it may look like tomorrow, researchers need to be able to track its development.
Jun 15, 2020
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Like everything else in 2020, Thanksgiving will be different this year. But there will still be football on TV, and if you catch any of the games, your brain will be processing them in ways you're probably unaware of. In ...
Nov 25, 2020
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Prognosis describes how serious a patient's cancer is and his or her chance of survival. A genetic biomarker is a clinically useful tool to help estimate the state of the disease. A study, conducted by the Faculty of Medicine ...
Aug 4, 2020
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When we age, we know that our bodies deteriorate, and it makes aging the most important single risk factor of so-called degenerative diseases. But what we don't understand is why this is the case. Even for those people who ...
Jan 3, 2019
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Walter Gilbert won the Nobel Prize in 1980 in Chemistry for his contribution to sequence DNA, or "determination of base sequences in a nucleic acid". Mohit Kumar Jolly, researcher at Rice University and contributor to The ...
Sep 23, 2014
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A new research study has examined the results from data generated by citizen scientists using a simple web-based motor test. The big data approach provides researchers with a unique way to explore how people correct for motor ...
Jan 30, 2024
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