Decades of scientific work turned the tide on a fatal disease and yielded insights into immunity, vaccines, and more
29-Nov-2024 9:00 AM EST
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Up until recently, habituation — a simple form of learning — was deemed the exclusive domain of complex organisms with brains and nervous systems, such as worms, insects, birds, and mammals.
But a new study, published Nov. 19 in Current...
15-Nov-2024 11:00 AM EST
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A new study in mice explains how even a single faulty copy of the BRCA1 gene can fuel tumor growth.
The findings suggest the dominant “two-hit” hypothesis of cancer development may not tell the full story behind how cancer...
11-Nov-2024 6:00 PM EST
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An international team led by scientists at Harvard Medical School, the University of Florence, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology analyzed DNA from the remains of five people who died in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE...
7-Nov-2024 3:45 PM EST
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At a glance: Study in mice reveals rapid release of dopamine is not needed for initiating movement but is important for activities related to reward-seeking and motivation. The findings help explain why the widely used Parkinson’s drug levodopa...
15-Oct-2024 7:30 PM EDT
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New AI model identifies possible therapies from existing medicines for thousands of diseases, including rare ones with no current treatments.
The AI tool generates new insights on its own, applies them to conditions it was not trained for, and...
24-Sep-2024 9:45 AM EDT
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Three new studies pinpoint challenges and opportunities for closing health disparities for LGBTQ+ people, showing how the convergence of political and social environments, structural inequities, and implicit and explicit bias within the medical...
17-Sep-2024 8:05 PM EDT
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The new approach marks a major step forward in the design of AI tools to support clinical decisions in cancer diagnosis, therapy.
The model uses features of a tumor’s microenvironment to forecast how a patient might respond to therapy and to help...
29-Aug-2024 5:05 PM EDT
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Researchers outline dangers of developing AI-powered autonomous weapons
12-Aug-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Harvard Medical School researchers are studying one of the most mysterious — and most essential — senses
11-Jun-2024 5:05 PM EDT
Artificial intelligence's impact goes beyond clinical medicine. It is reshaping science in more profound ways.
21-Aug-2023 8:00 AM EDT
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
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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
COVID-19 experts discuss public and individual risk management during the transition into endemicity
25-Mar-2022 1:45 PM EDT
Understanding the brain’s visual system could inform the development of better artificial systems
7-Dec-2021 5:50 PM EST
A vaccine booster is readied for use.
22-Nov-2021 3:20 PM EST
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