Oncology & Cancer
Algorithm offers new way to spot patients likely to respond to immunotherapy
Scientists have developed a new way of using cancers' DNA to spot cancer patients who may benefit from immunotherapy.
Mar 10, 2023
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Neuroscience
Decoder uses fMRI brain scans to reconstruct human thoughts
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a decoder that uses information from fMRI scans to reconstruct human thoughts. Jerry Tang, Amanda LeBel, Shailee Jain and Alexander Huth have published a paper ...
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
In-home wireless device tracks disease progression in Parkinson's patients
Parkinson's disease is the fastest-growing neurodegenerative disease, now affecting more than 10 million people worldwide, yet clinicians still face huge challenges in tracking its severity and progression.
Sep 21, 2022
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Immunology
How the body identifies helpful bacteria
Trillions of bacteria and other microbes thrive in our gut microbiomes, and over the last decade, scientists have become increasingly aware of the vital role that they play in creating a healthy gastrointestinal environment. ...
Sep 19, 2022
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Biomedical technology
A smartphone's camera and flash could help people measure blood oxygen levels at home
First, pause and take a deep breath.
Sep 19, 2022
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Addiction
Researchers use artificial intelligence tools to speed critical information on drug overdose deaths
An automated process based on computer algorithms that can read text from medical examiners' death certificates can substantially speed up data collection of overdose deaths—which in turn can ensure a more rapid public ...
Aug 8, 2022
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Gastroenterology
Researchers propose new method for large-scale data integration and biomarker identification
A research team led by Prof. Zhao Fangqing from the Beijing Institute of Life Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a new algorithm (NetMoss) for efficient integration of large-scale microbiome data and ...
Jun 7, 2022
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Neuroscience
'Deepfaking the mind' could improve brain-computer interfaces for people with disabilities
Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering are using generative adversarial networks (GANs)—technology best known for creating deepfake videos and photorealistic human faces—to improve brain-computer interfaces ...
Nov 19, 2021
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Cardiology
Scientists show how AI may spot unseen signs of heart failure
A special artificial intelligence (AI)-based computer algorithm created by Mount Sinai researchers was able to learn how to identify subtle changes in electrocardiograms (also known as ECGs or EKGs) to predict whether a patient ...
Oct 19, 2021
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Cardiology
Energy-efficient AI detects heart defects
CWI researchers Bojian Yin and Sander Bohté, together with their colleague Federico Corradi of Stichting Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum (IMEC) in Eindhoven, have achieved a mathematical breakthrough in the computation ...
Oct 15, 2021
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