Oncology & Cancer
Extensive review fills the gaps on immune system cancer research
New light has been shone on the role of specific protein components of the immune system in both causing and preventing cancer.
May 9, 2022
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News tagged with pattern recognition
Neuroscience
Do epilepsy medications taken during pregnancy affect a child's development?
Children born to women taking certain medications for epilepsy during pregnancy have no developmental delays at age three when compared to children of healthy women without epilepsy, according to a preliminary study released ...
Mar 4, 2021
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Gastroenterology
Location, location, location: Even gut immune response is site-specific
Why is it that some chronic inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's, affect both the small intestine and the colon, while others, like ulcerative colitis, are restricted to the colon? In order to solve clinical puzzles ...
Jul 3, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Changing climate may affect animal–to–human disease transfer
Climate change could affect occurrences of diseases like bird-flu and Ebola, with environmental factors playing a larger role than previously understood in animal-to-human disease transfer.
May 1, 2019
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Neuroscience
A new neuro-inspired system for pattern detection
A scientific team comprising researchers from the Center for Biomedical Technology (CTB) at UPM, University of La Laguna (ULL) and Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex System (IFISC, CSIC-UIB) has developed ...
Feb 21, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Research finds three major failings in some apps used for the diagnosis of skin cancer
In the scramble to bring successful apps for the diagnosis of skin cancer to market there is a concern that a lack of testing is risking public safety, according to research led by the University of Birmingham.
Jul 5, 2018
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Immunology
Cell senescence is regulated by innate DNA sensing
Cells in the body or in cultures eventually stop replicating. This phenomenon is called "senescence" and is triggered by shortening of telomeres, oxidative stress or genetic damage to the cells, either acute or simply due ...
Jul 31, 2017
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Neuroscience
Finding traces of memory processing during sleep
Sleep helps us to retain the information that we have learned during the day. We know from animal experiments that new memories are reactivated during sleep. The brain replays previous experience while we sleep – and this ...
May 17, 2017
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Pediatrics
Medicine, engineering researchers use facial expression software to help measure pain felt by newborns
For generations, nurses tending to newborns have been able to tell the subtle difference between a baby's cry of hunger and that of pain.
Mar 27, 2017
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Medical research
Intelligent machines are better at health diagnostics than humans
Until now, medicine has been a prestigious and often extremely lucrative career choice. But in the near future, will we need as many doctors as we have now? Are we going to see significant medical unemployment in the coming ...
Jan 18, 2016
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