Medical research

Screening enormous databases to find a cure for cancer

Developing new drugs is becoming increasingly difficult: research and lab experiments are time consuming and expensive. By making use of data first – screening large databases in order to discover patterns - we can make ...

Neuroscience

US neuroscientists call for creation of 'brain observatories'

What is the future of the BRAIN Initiative? This national White House Grand Challenge involving more than 100 laboratories in the United States has already made progress in establishing large-scale neuroscience goals and ...

Neuroscience

Researchers create 'Wikipedia' for neurons

The decades worth of data that has been collected about the billions of neurons in the brain is astounding. To help scientists make sense of this "brain big data," researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have used data ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Researchers to design, market smartphone app that gauges Ebola risk

Within six months, your iPhone or Android mobile device could supply a real-time estimate of your likelihood of contact with the deadly Ebola virus. To create the digital tool, researchers at the University of Kansas recently ...

Health

Medical internet could transform health care

The medical Internet is not yet here, but the widespread availability of electronic medical records and enhanced data-storage capabilities are pushing it closer to reality. As now envisioned, this new cyberspace destination ...

Neuroscience

Getting to grips with seizure prediction

A device that could predict when a person with epilepsy might next have a seizure is one step closer to reality thanks to the development of software by researchers in the USA. Details are to be published in a forthcoming ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Finding psychiatric drugs in the movements of mice

Developing psychiatric medications is a long and complex process. Candidate drugs are evaluated and assessed based on their effects on the behavior of animals, usually rats or mice. Each class of drugs, from antidepressants ...

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