Oncology & Cancer
Scientists pioneer new way of finding cancer-causing germs
Scientists at the University of East Anglia are pioneering a new way of finding the bacteria and viruses associated with cancer.
Oct 22, 2019
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News tagged with computer simulations
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Advanced computing indicates current antibodies effective against SARS-CoV-2 variant XBB.1.5
A team at UNC Charlotte's Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks (CIPHER) and Tuple, a Charlotte-based genomics consulting firm, has used artificial intelligence to rapidly assess ...
Feb 17, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Avatars may help children with social anxiety overcome fears
A principal standing in the hallway says, "You are one of my favorite students!" In class, a smart girl says, "You are the nicest person in our class!"
Jun 12, 2012
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Neuroscience
Research paves the way for further understanding of traumatic brain injury
Understanding how the brain reacts to acceleration is essential to designing more effective protective equipment and strategies for preventing traumatic brain injury, or TBI.
May 8, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Climate to widen sleeping sickness risk to southern Africa
Sleeping sickness could threaten tens of millions more people as the tsetse fly which transmits the disease spreads to southern Africa as a result of global warming, a study published on Wednesday says.
Nov 9, 2011
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Neuroscience
Newly identified small molecules break amyloid tangles that cause Alzheimer's
Scientists at UCLA have used a molecule found in green tea to identify additional molecules that could break up protein tangles in the brain thought to cause Alzheimer's and similar diseases.
Sep 20, 2022
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Neuroscience
Honeybee brain development may enhance waggle dance communication
Changes in a vibration-sensitive neuron may equip forager honeybees for waggle dance communication, according to research recently published in eNeuro.
Aug 26, 2019
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Neuroscience
Scientists demonstrate how individual differences in 'whole-brain' activity are generated in roundworms
Joint research led by Yu Toyoshima and Yuichi Iino of the University of Tokyo has demonstrated individual differences in, and successfully extracted commonalities from, the whole-brain activity of roundworms. The researchers ...
Mar 15, 2024
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Ophthalmology
AI helps bring clarity to LASIK patients facing cataract surgery
While millions of people have undergone LASIK eye surgery since it became commercially available in 1989, patients sometimes develop cataracts later in life and require new corrective lenses to be implanted in their eyes. ...
Sep 21, 2023
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Neuroscience
How the brain slows down when we focus our gaze
Changing between slow and fast integration of information, the brain can flexibly modulate the timescales on which it operates. This is the result of a new study by an international team of researchers, now published in the ...
Apr 6, 2023
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