(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Iowa have documented an activity by infants that begins nearly from birth: They learn by taking inventory of the things they see.
Dec 4, 2012
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Humans are not born as blank slates for nature to write on. Neither are they behaving on genes alone.
Apr 22, 2011
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At birth, ovaries in girls can contain about a million tiny structures called primordial follicles, each of which contains an egg cell. As girls grow and experience adulthood, most of these follicles will die while only one ...
Jan 23, 2024
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How researchers conceptualize a disease informs how they treat it. Cancer is often described as uncontrollable cell growth triggered by genetic damage. But cancer can also be seen from angles that emphasize mathematics, evolutionary ...
Nov 2, 2023
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Pro-vaccination tweets outnumbered anti-vax sentiment almost four to one, in new research that canvassed a whopping 75 million COVID-19 comments on Twitter at the height of the global pandemic.
Aug 9, 2023
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A collaborative research project has proposed a new way of studying elective surgery waits with a mathematical algorithm that has the potential to significantly transform the management of surgical waiting lists.
Jun 30, 2023
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When it comes to medication adherence for patients, a detailed mathematical analysis from a Rochester Institute of Technology scientist has found that history is likely to repeat itself. In a new study published in the Journal ...
Jan 12, 2023
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A team of researchers unpacks a series of biases in epidemic research, ranging from clinical trials to data collection, and offers a game-theory approach to address them, in a new analysis. The work sheds new light on the ...
Mar 31, 2022
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An international team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Waseda University in Japan have found that fermented soybean waste, or okara, could improve fat metabolism and mitigate ...
Mar 22, 2022
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Advancements in medical science have allowed the treatment of psychiatric disorders like major depressive disorder (MDD) with functional magnetic resonance imaging neurofeedback (fMRI-NF) training. fMRI-NF training is a type ...
Dec 22, 2021
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