Genetics

Exposing the evolutionary weak spots of the human genome

Mutations can be good and bad. Sometimes they help an organism adapt and survive. Other times they are so harmful that an organism can't survive or reproduce. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor Adam Siepel's team ...

Medical research

Social networking shortcut to finding medical experts

It can be difficult for someone outside of a specialist field to identify subject experts and the ever increasing amount of available data can be bewildering. New research, published in BioMed Central's open access journal, ...

Health informatics

The AI revolution: Giving docs a diagnostic assist

(HealthDay)—Back before coronavirus took over the headlines, every week seemed to bring another report about artificial intelligence besting human doctors at everything from diagnosing skin cancer to spotting pneumonia ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Brain stimulation may buffer feelings of social pain

Accumulating evidence suggests that certain brain areas involved in processing physical pain may also underlie feelings of social pain. But can altering brain activity in these areas actually change how people experience ...

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