Medical research

New method developed to improve accuracy of disease diagnosis

A recently released study in the journal Statistics in Medicine describes a new method, named the Observers Needed for Evaluation of Subjective Tests (ONEST), developed to determine the optimal number of pathologists ...

Neuroscience

Research delivers hope for epilepsy patients 

Combining electroencephalogram (EEG) data with clinical observations can help doctors to better determine whether generalized epilepsy patients will respond to treatment, according to a study led by Rutgers researchers.

Medical research

New tool for selecting embryos in fertility treatments

A team of researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València and specialists from the Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe have developed a new tool, a mathematical model to be exact, to help in the selection ...

Genetics

New tool reveals the impact of 'jumping genes' on diseases

RIKEN geneticists have developed a tool that can quickly and accurately analyze variants in mobile genetic elements, commonly known as "jumping genes." This promises to shed light on the role such variants play in disease.

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