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How Thyroid Hormone Fuels the Drive to Explore

Research in mice sheds light on how thyroid hormone alters wiring in the brain. Findings reveal that thyroid hormone syncs up the brain and body to drive exploratory behavior. Researchers say their work could illuminate new treatments for...
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New AI Tool Captures How Proteins Behave in Context

In a marked advance over current AI models, the new approach captures how proteins act not in isolation but in their cellular and tissue environments.
19-Aug-2024 8:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Which Strains of Tuberculosis Are the Most Infectious?

Highly localized TB strains are less infectious in cosmopolitan cities and more likely to infect people from the geographic area that is the strain’s natural habitat.
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What Will The New Cardiovascular Risk Calculator Mean For Patients?

If current guidelines for cholesterol and high blood pressure treatment remain unchanged, a newly unveiled heart risk calculator would render 16 million people ineligible for preventive therapy.
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How Evolution Tamed a Deadly Virus and Why We Should Still Worry

Over the last century, a once-deadly mosquito-borne virus has evolved so that it no longer sickens humans. New research shows that changes in the virus’s ability to target human cells paralleled the decline in illness and death. The findings offer...
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How Machine Learning Is Propelling Structural Biology

Cell biologist embraces new tools to study human development on the smallest scale
22-Jul-2024 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

2024 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Honors Four Pioneers in CAR T-Cell Therapy

At a glance: The four scientists developed genetically engineered immune cells to combat several blood cancers. CAR T-cell therapy has redefined the treatment of blood cancers, saving the lives of tens of thousands of people.
11-Jun-2024 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

What’s at Stake With the U.S. Supreme Court Case on Misinformation?

Concerns over medical misinformation are not new, but the COVID-19 pandemic magnified long-simmering tensions over two fundamental concepts: Freedom of speech and the federal government’s responsibility to protect people from what it considers...
24-May-2024 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites


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The Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Weapons Design

Researchers outline dangers of developing AI-powered autonomous weapons
12-Aug-2024 12:05 PM EDT

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Exploring Our Sense of Touch from Every Angle

Harvard Medical School researchers are studying one of the most mysterious — and most essential — senses
11-Jun-2024 5:05 PM EDT

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Artificial Intelligence Beyond the Clinic

Artificial intelligence's impact goes beyond clinical medicine. It is reshaping science in more profound ways.
21-Aug-2023 8:00 AM EDT

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COVID-19’s Lessons for Future Pandemics

Scientists discuss what may come next as SARS-CoV-2 evolves and why COVID-19 won’t be our last pandemic
17-Nov-2022 4:45 PM EST

Can AI Transform the Way We Discover New Drugs?

At a glance: New open-source data science platform aims to optimize AI-driven drug discovery Platform can help alleviate challenges of drug discovery, overcome common hurdles in machine-learning design and performance Platform serves as...
17-Nov-2022 4:15 PM EST

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COVID-19’s Endlessly Shifting Landscape

COVID-19 experts discuss public and individual risk management during the transition into endemicity
25-Mar-2022 1:45 PM EDT

Seeing Shapes

Understanding the brain’s visual system could inform the development of better artificial systems
7-Dec-2021 5:50 PM EST

Breaking Down Boosters

A vaccine booster is readied for use.
22-Nov-2021 3:20 PM EST

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