| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.02.2025 | The Hidden World of Gut Health: Debunking Myths and Embracing Truths | The gut is a mysterious realm. It’s a dark tunnel where food travels, transforming into energy and waste. Yet, many of us ignore what happens in this hidden world. We often overlook the importance of gut health, shrouded in myths and miscon... |
| 06.02.2025 | Агентные качества нейрона: научные свидетельства и модели | Косвенные подтверждения «агентности» нейрона
Современные исследования показывают, что отдельный нейрон способен на более сложное поведение, чем простое пороговое суммирование входных сигналов. Биологический нейрон – это сложная полуавтономн... |
| 27.11.2024 | Long-Lived Proteins Impact Aging of Female Reproductive System | Representative hue saturation intensity (HSI) mosaic from an ovary of a 15N-labeled mouse (6 months of age). Localization and abundance of 15N varied depending on cell type. Courtesy of Francesca Duncan, PhD, and Jeffrey Savas, PhD.
For the... |
| 29.09.2024 | Can stress actually turn your hair grey? Here’s what we know so far | It’s natural to assume that stress contributes to grey hair. Just look at the various presidents who left office with many more silvery strands than when they went in.
But if you dig into the research, you’ll find that few studies on the to... |
| 12.08.2024 | Surrozen Provides Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results and Business Update | Enrollment ongoing in SZN-043 Phase 1b trial in patients with Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis
Presented first-in-human data from SZN-043 Phase 1a trial at EASL
Published study that demonstrated application of unique Targeted Protein Degradation ... |
| 29.07.2024 | Cosmic Clouds and Cognitive Breakthroughs: A Journey Through Recent Scientific Innovations | In the vast expanse of the universe, scientists are uncovering secrets that could reshape our understanding of life and cognition. Two recent studies highlight this journey: one explores the creation of cosmic clouds in a lab, while the oth... |
| 28.07.2024 | Назальный спрей от Альцгеймера и с ноотропным эффектом | Изначально основным фокусом материалов, которые выходили на проекте, были именно ноотропы, как способ улучшить работу мозга. Однако, любая попытка оказать значительное влияние на работу нашего пилота, усложняется защитными механизмами и поб... |
| 20.07.2024 | Управление мозгом с помощью магнитных полей. Root доступ к аппетиту и родительским инстинктам | Я довольно скептически отношусь к тому, что правительство распространяет чипы в мозг, чтоб управлять людьми. Человек который в это верит никогда не пробовал организовать ивент в компании или небольшой городской праздник. Да и управлять масс... |
| 01.07.2024 | 5 новых научных фактов о сне | Осознанные сновидения теперь лучше изучены
Нейробиологические исследования сновидений стали мейнстримом.
В исследовании 2017 года участников будили в течение ночи через регулярные промежутки времени и спрашивали, что им снилось до звонка бу... |
| 18.06.2024 | Нейробиологи раскрыли, как свет влияет на мозговую деятельность человека | Последние исследования показали, что разные уровни освещения могут улучшать бодрость и когнитивные способности человека. Более сильное освещение влияет на определенные части гипоталамуса, что улучшает некоторые когнитивные функции во время ... |
| 10.06.2024 | Разбираем осьминога | Осьминоги странные.
Вот представьте, что вы осьминог. Почти всю жизнь вы ребёнок, потому что как только станете взрослым и размножитесь — это запустит эндокринный триггер умирания. В принципе, можно и не размножаться, тогда триггер сработае... |
| 31.05.2024 | К цифровому сознанию на корабле Тесея: обманчивая логичность мифа | Сегодня мы поговорим о древнем мысленном эксперименте, который совсем недавно стал выходить в практическую плоскость, теряя статус отвлечённого философского парадокса. Речь о «корабле Тесея». Я решил затронуть эту тему на Хабре, поскольку о... |
| 18.04.2024 | New Research Finds Certain Disease-Causing Bacteria Feeds on Human Blood's Serum | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 18 April 2024, 01:04 pm
Recent research conducted by scientists from Washington State University discusses the unsettling attraction certain disease-causing bacteria have toward human blood.
These bacteria, includin... |
| 18.04.2024 | Биологи обнаружили, что некоторые бактерии ведут себя как «вампиры» | Исследователи обнаружили так называемый «бактериальный вампиризм», выявив особые виды бактерий, которых привлекает человеческая кровь, что может привести к смертельным инфекциям.
Команда из Университета штата Вашингтон и Университета штата ... |
| 26.03.2024 | Beckman Foundation Announces Publication of Results from Multi-year Study on Impact of Blinded Application Reviews on Institutional Prestige Bias in eLife | Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Logo
Beckman Young Investigator Award Applicants Gain Improved Equity and Inclusion through Introduction of Blinded Technical Proposal Requirement
IRVINE, Calif., March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --
2,29... |
| 18.02.2024 | Can exercise help prevent prostate cancer? A new study shows how physical activity reduces the risk | In recent years, one of the most provocative questions in cancer research has been whether a regular exercise habit can prevent certain cancers from taking hold.
The answer, as with any question related to cancer, is complicated. But a rece... |
| 08.02.2024 | Большая разница: ИИ-наука глазами физика | Сегодня искусственный интеллект и, в особенности, машинное обучение, кажутся максимально прикладными дисциплинами. Но наблюдаемый нами прогресс стоит на плечах серьёзных фундаментальных исследований, которые не перестают двигаться дальше.
Я... |
| 11.12.2023 | Дайджест научпоп-новостей за неделю, о которых мы ничего не писали | Учёные нашли идеальный способ готовить эспрессо
О том, как приготовить идеальный эспрессо, спорили многие поколения кофейных снобов. Теперь группа учёных утверждает, что у них есть ответ, и они выделили секретный ингредиент, начинающий рабо... |
| 06.12.2023 | Мозговые имплантаты помогли пяти людям восстановиться после серьёзных травм | Люди с хроническими проблемами, приобретёнными после падений и ДТП, показали лучшие результаты в когнитивных тестах после установки имплантата мозга, говорится в новом исследовании.
Компьютерное изображение, показывающее голубоватые трёхмер... |
| 25.10.2023 | After Gaza tweet, firing of life sciences journal editor sparks freedom of speech concerns | Pioneering life sciences journal eLife finds itself at the center of a white-hot furor after its governing board fired editor-in-chief Michael Eisen following his endorsement on social media of a satirical article expressing sympathy for Pa... |
| 17.10.2023 | Forever Young? The Naked Mole Rat Teaches Scientists About Longevity | Naked Mole-rat, hairless rat, isolated on wihtegetty |
| 19.09.2023 | Gene Solutions raises $21m series B, targeting regional expansion | InvestmentsNewsStartups
Thu Huong Le · 20 Sep 2023 · 2 min readGene Solutions raises $21m series B, targeting regional expansion
A Gene Solutions lab located in District 10, Ho Chi Minh City/ Photo credit: Gene Solutions
Gene Solutions, whi... |
| 12.08.2023 | Портится зрение? Гигиена света от синдрома сухого глаза | В этой статье вы найдете ответ на вопрос: почему или из-за чего портится зрение. Статьи, написанные другими авторами, будут про то, как с этим бороться, а не почему это происходит. Естественно, мы не говорим о банальном приобретении миопии ... |
| 18.07.2023 | This Honeybee-Killing Sugar Could Be Key In Fighting Cancer, According to Study | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 18 July 2023, 07:07 am
Scientists from Sanford Burnham Prebys and the Osaka International Cancer Institute have conducted research that highlights the potential of mannose, a sugar with known anti-cancer propertie... |
| 14.07.2023 | Investigating the XY factor in disease | Scientists are beginning to understand how sex chromosomes and hormones affect people's risk for certain diseases — and whether the biology behind those differences can be harnessed to improve treatments.
Why it matters: Doctors and scienti... |
| 04.07.2023 | Is Long COVID Caused by COVID-19 Inflammatory Response? New Study Reveals New Insights | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 04 July 2023, 08:07 am
A recent study led by the University of Bristol challenges the notion that long COVID is caused by an immune inflammatory response to COVID-19.
The research sheds new light on the condition ... |
| 15.06.2023 | Local News
Local News | CU Boulder researchers discover new direction for treating ALS | Alexandra Whiteley is the senior author of a study about ALS and assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry (Courtesy photo / CU Boulder)
A University of Colorado Boulder study has discovered a new protein believed to play a role... |
| 06.06.2023 | Scientists claim remarkable evidence that ancient human relatives buried their dead 240,000 years ago | Johannesburg — Scientists in South Africa have claimed a discovery they believe could force us to rethink some fundamentals of what it means to be human.
Deep inside the Rising Star cave system, about 20 miles outside Johannesburg, a group ... |
| 06.06.2023 | Social Media 'Trust,' 'Distrust' Buttons May Help Prevent Misinformation Spread, New Study Shows | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 06 June 2023, 06:06 am
The addition of "trust" and "distrust" buttons on social media platforms, alongside the standard "like" button, could play a vital role in reducing the spread o... |
| 07.05.2023 | How the brain changes when we grieve | When we lose a connection to someone, the brain changes as we grieve.
Why it matters: Grief is an intense emotional experience. Some researchers say a better understanding of the biological effects of loss on the brain could be used to help... |
| 06.04.2023 | Американские биологи вырастили в пробирке сало | Несмотря на активное производство искусственного мяса стартапами по всему миру, до сих пор не был создан жир, который придавал бы продукту натуральный вкус. Ученые из Университета Тафтса в США вырастили в пробирке жир из клеток мыши и свинь... |
| 21.03.2023 | Gene variations for immune and metabolic conditions have persisted in humans for more than 700,000 years | Like a merchant of old, balancing the weights of two commodities on a scale, nature can keep different genetic traits in balance as a species evolves over millions of years.
These traits can be beneficial (for example, fending off disease) ... |
| 06.02.2023 | Circadian clock controls sunflower blooms, optimizing the flowers for pollinators | An internal circadian clock controls distinctive concentric rings of flowering in sunflowers, maximizing visits from pollinators, a new study by plant biologists at the University of California, Davis shows. The U.S. National Science Founda... |
| 29.11.2022 | Seattle startup with fresh approach to Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease raises $96M | Microscopy image of neurons in the mouse brain. (Cajal Neuroscience Image)
Cajal Neuroscience, a Seattle startup taking a unique approach to developing treatments for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, revealed mor... |
| 15.10.2022 | Researchers are 3D-Printing Plant Cells to Better Understand Cell Function | Joaquin Victor Tacla, Tech Times 15 October 2022, 04:10 am
A study from North Carolina State University shows how "bioprinting" plant cells with a 3D printer can be a replicable technique for researching cellular function among di... |
| 06.10.2022 | Review finds that early calcium supplementation protects against osteoporosis | “Calcium supplementation significantly improves bone mass, implying that preventive calcium supplementation before or around achieving peak bone mass may be a shift in the window of intervention for osteoporosis,” wrote researchers from th... |
| 24.08.2022 | Are Your Middle Managers Inadvertently Stopping Bold Innovations? This Nobel Prize Winner Has A Solution | Innovations Being Held Back getty |
| 17.08.2022 | Введение в анализ генетической информации с использованием TensorFlow | Относительная доступность методов секвенирования ДНК и большое количество доступной в открытых источниках генетической информации сделала актуальной разработку нейронных сетей, предназначенных для анализа цепочек ДНК и поиска корреляций меж... |
| 27.07.2022 | Исследования: как мозг строит гипотезы об окружающем мире и подгоняет ощущения под гипотезы | Некоторые нейробиологи объясняют восприятие человека теорией «контролируемых галлюцинаций». Эта теория предполагает, что восприятие, память, контроль движений и другие функции мозга зависят не от сенсорной информации, а скорее от сравнения ... |
| 23.06.2022 | Covid-19 vaccines prevented nearly 20 million deaths in a year, study estimates | Covid-19 vaccines cut the potential global death toll by more than half in the first year they were available, according to a study published Thursday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
The study modeled the spread of the disease in 185 ter... |
| 15.06.2022 | YCharOS adds Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank (DSHB) to Industry Advisory Committee | YCharOS continues to expand Industry Advisory Committee and releases new open data
Adding an academic partner shows the strength and flexibility of YCharOS’ open science framework.”
— Dr. Aled EdwardsTORONTO, CANADA, June 15, 2022 /EINPress... |
| 31.05.2022 | Type 2 Diabetes Speeds Aging in the Brain | TUESDAY, May 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Type 2 diabetes is linked to memory and thinking problems, and a new study suggests it's because the disease makes the brain age faster.
Looking at data from 20,000 middle-aged and older adults, res... |
| 27.04.2022 | Asthma drug blocks protein crucial to replication of coronavirus: IISc study | A widely available drug, used for treatment of asthma and allergies, can also block a protein that is key to replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, a study by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) researchers has found. The... |
| 22.04.2022 | Researchers have discovered a de-ageing technique that made skin cells 30 years younger | Indian-origin doctor, Diljeet Gill used a new technique to make skin cells younger.
The research included 3 middle-aged people (50 years old).
Earlier, Shinya Yamanaka genetically reprogrammed the mouse skin cells.
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Diljeet Gil... |
| 01.04.2022 | Health
Health | Climate change may push the U.S. toward the ‘Goldilocks zone’ for West Nile virus | Michael Keasling of Lakewood was an electrician who loved big trucks, fast cars, and Harley-Davidsons. He’d struggled with diabetes since he was a teenager, needing a kidney transplant from his sister to stay alive. He was already quite sic... |
| 28.03.2022 | Health
Health | Colorado records most West Nile deaths in 18 years as climate change pushes U.S. toward “Goldilocks zone” for virus | By Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News
Michael Keasling, of Lakewood, was an electrician who loved big trucks, fast cars, and Harley-Davidsons. He’d struggled with diabetes since he was a teenager, needing a kidney transplant from his sister... |
| 21.03.2022 | YCharOS adds ABclonal Technology to Industry Advisory Committee | YCharOS continues to expand Industry Advisory Committee and releases new open data TORONTO, CANADA, March 21, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- YCharOS Inc., an open science company with the mission of characterizing commercially available antibod... |
| 28.01.2022 | А как же лапки: робот-птица, способный приземляться на ветки | Птицы, покорившие небеса задолго до человека, стали вдохновением для создания первых летательных аппаратов, пытающихся в своей механической и электронной ограниченности имитировать врожденный талант пернатых летунов. однако, помимо фактичес... |
| 28.01.2022 | Краткий обзор результатов взаимодействия между нейронауками и индустрией искусственного интеллекта. Перевод статьи... | Перевод статьи "Natural and Artificial Intelligence: A brief introduction to the interplay between AI and neuroscience research", опубликованной в сентябре 2021 года.
Оригинал статьи
Исходно перевод делался на скорую руку, для соб... |
| 11.01.2022 | Covid Foreign Policy: A Methodical China And An Impulsive Russia | Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, 2019 in Beijing, ... [+] China. (Photo by Kenzaburo Fukuhara - Getty Images) Getty Images |
| 24.12.2021 | Бережливые интеллектуалы: вороны и орудия труда | Хирург, визажист, художник, инженер. Звучит, как начало не очень смешного анекдота. Однако в каждой из этих профессий имеются задачи разной степени сложности и тонкости, если можно так выразиться. В зависимости от задачи и ее сложности необ... |
| 07.12.2021 | Is cancer biology research reproducible? After a decade of work, the answer still isn’t clear | Replication is something of a litmus test for scientific truth, and cancer biologists at the Center for Open Science wanted to see just how many of cancer’s most influential experiments stood up to it. So, for nearly a decade, they worked t... |
| 10.11.2021 | В море незнакомых лиц найти родное: система «свой-чужой» мозга человека | Человек — существо социальное. Даже заядлым интровертам все же приходиться иногда общаться с людьми. С точки зрения социализации для нас есть две основные категории людей: свои и чужие. К своим относятся родные, друзья, может и коллеги. А к... |
| 05.11.2021 | Limiting inflammation may improve ‘flu vaccination response in older people | Limiting inflammation may improve ‘flu vaccination response in older people
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By analysing immune responses across people of different ages after seasonal influenza vaccination, immunologists at the Babraham Institute have shown th... |
| 03.11.2021 | COVID proteins that trigger strokes and heart attacks identified by Israeli team | Israeli scientists have identified the virus proteins that are triggering strokes and heart attacks in COVID-19 patients, in a breakthrough they expect will pave the way for new drugs.
The scientists made the discovery by taking a “peek in ... |
| 15.10.2021 | Man Gets Double Life Sentence For Killing His Wife With a Cobra | A man has been handed a double life sentence for murdering his disabled wife by throwing a cobra at her while she was asleep. The court that gave the verdict in the southern state of Kerala, India has described the murder as “diabolical, cr... |
| 20.09.2021 | Covid-19 overtakes 1918 Spanish flu as deadliest disease in American history | The Covid-19 pandemic has become the deadliest disease event in American history, with a death toll surpassing that of the 1918 Spanish flu.
The Spanish flu was previously the disease event that caused the biggest loss of life in the United... |
| 18.08.2021 | Another convalescent plasma trial for Covid-19 goes bust, but some experts are still holding out hope | A large, randomized, placebo-controlled trial found that the administration of Covid-19 convalescent plasma to high-risk outpatients did not prevent the progression of Covid-19, according to results published Wednesda... |
| 05.08.2021 | Israeli research suggests new path to predict and prevent cancer relapses | Israeli scientists say they may have found a new way to predict when cancer patients are poised for a relapse, and develop treatments to avert it.
Tel Aviv University researchers identified a specific pattern of changes in lung tissue that ... |
| 21.07.2021 | What Your Body Odor Says About You | When Annlyse Retiveau leaned in to sniff my armpits, I held my own breath as she inhaled. I’ve spent a vast majority of my life using products to avoid this precise critique—another human intentionally evaluating my armpit aroma. Yet, wheth... |
| 28.06.2021 | PCR tests for cell phones? This is the new method they propose to detect COVID-19 | June 28, 2021 2 min read
This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process.
A group of Chilean scientists developed a new method to detect COVID-19. It is to make u na PCR test ... |
| 06.05.2021 | Sharks are among a group of animals with a 6th sense that humans don’t have – they use Earth’s magnetic field to navigate | Bryan Keller holding a bonnethead shark. Colby Griffiths
Some shark species swim thousands of miles back to the same feeding grounds every year.
They most likely use Earth’s magnetic field to orient themselves, a new study shows.
Other spec... |
| 20.04.2021 | Deep Science: Introspective, detail-oriented and disaster-chasing AIs | Research papers come out far too frequently for anyone to read them all. That’s especially true in the field of machine learning, which now affects (and produces papers in) practically every industry and company. This column aims to collect... |
| 31.03.2021 | Coronavirus Variants Are Evolving, Even In A Single Person | Cancer nurse giving drugs to a chemotherapy patient.getty |
| 03.03.2021 | Largest Study Of Psychedelics Shows Benefits Of Microdosing Could Be Placebo Effect | A new study by researchers at Imperial College London has found that the anecdotal benefits of ... [+] microdosing could be explained by the placebo effect.getty |
| 03.03.2021 | CRISPR rivals put patents aside to help in fight against Covid-19 | In early January 2020, Feng Zhang, a gene-editing researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, started getting emails written in Chinese about a newly identified coronavirus that was spreading in China. Some were from academics he ... |
| 11.02.2021 | Covid-19 Could End Up Like The Flu—Or Worse | Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (blue) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 ... [+] virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Det... |
| 28.01.2021 | New coronavirus variants call for intensified surveillance, control, and vaccination efforts | The Covid-19 virus is evolving rapidly.
That should come as no surprise: RNA-based viruses generate mutations constantly as a result of their error-prone replication. Wherever there are more infections, there are more opportunities for the ... |
| 21.01.2021 | Why Patterns In Covid-19 Variation Might Resemble Seasonal Flu | Influenza virus (from the Orthomyxoviridae family and the Influenzavirus genus). Image made from a ... [+] transmission electron microscopy view. (Photo by: Cavallini James/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Universal Images Group... |
| 07.01.2021 | Scientists are monitoring a coronavirus mutation that could affect the strength of vaccines | As scientists try to track the spread of a new, more infectious coronavirus variant around the world — finding more cases in the United States and elsewhere this week — they are also keeping an eye on a different mutation with potentially g... |
| 05.01.2021 | Focusing On What You’ve Done Right In The Past Is A Key To Resilience | People adapt to chaotic environments faster when they focus on what worked for them in the past. getty |
| 23.12.2020 | Could Controlling Bacteria With Light Extend Your Lifespan? | Illustration of Enterobacteriaceae, a family of bacteria that includes the gut-dwelling species ... [+] Escherichia coli.getty |
| 21.12.2020 | 3300-Year-Old Baboon Skull Is Thought To Have Come From The Lost Land Of Punt | A 3300-year-old baboon skull thought to have come from Punt.The Trustees of the British Museum |
| 17.12.2020 | 22 discoveries this year changed our understanding of how animals communicate, compete, and defend themselves | As scientists researched the evolution and behaviour of animal species over the last year, our understanding of how many creatures communicate, compete, and defend themselves has changed.
New discoveries offered eye-raising insights into th... |
| 14.12.2020 | Scientists Just Published A New Fruit Fly ‘Neuron Atlas.’ What Is It For? | Just like a road atlas documents the web of highways connecting thousands of individual towns, a neuron atlas unveiled earlier this year mapped the physical connections between the brain cells of the fruit fly, in 3-D. Now, new research has... |
| 10.12.2020 | Aging Mice Have Memory And Cognitive Declines Reversed With An Experimental Drug | A small-molecule drug named ISRIB quickly and safely restores to old mice youthful levels of cognitive function. Alphabet Inc,’s Biotech Firm Calico holds the license to ISRIB. |
| 22.11.2020 | How To Stay Connected When Everything Is Working Against You | Staying connected is tough but it can be done.Steelcase |
| 06.09.2020 | 3 discoveries have upended scientists' understanding of how dogs age, navigate, perceive human speech | An 8-week-old golden Labrador husky mix sleeps on a cushion.
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Three recent discoveries have changed scientists' understanding of the nature of dogs.
One study found that young puppies age much faster than young humans do... |
| 16.08.2020 | Study: Scientists Are Using Too Many Acronyms, Here Are The Top 10 | OMG WTH SMH. The use of acronyms in science has exploded like TNT. (Photo: Getty)getty |
| 09.06.2020 | Females are still routinely left out of biomedical research — and ignored in analyses of data | If you think biomedical scientists are doing a better job studying both biological sexes in their experiments than they used to, you’d be half right, a new study says.
Researchers decided to revisit a study conducted 10 years ago that found... |
| 08.06.2020 | After retractions of two Covid-19 papers, scientists ask what went wrong | With last week’s retractions of two Covid-19 papers from a pair of the world’s top medical journals, the scientific community is once again wrestling with the question that arises any time a high-profile publication blows up: Could this hav... |
| 14.05.2020 | Covid-19, a ‘supernova in human history,’ will need multiple perspectives to understand and manage | Covid-19 is a tragic infection that is killing hundreds of thousands of people around the world. But it is also far more than that. It is a supernova in human history: an expanding, all-encompassing set of events and responses to them that ... |
| 22.08.2019 | Gene editing to stop Lyme disease: caution is warranted | When I first learned about Mice Against Ticks, I was shocked but also intrigued — shocked by the audacity of Kevin Esvelt’s plan to genetically engineer a mammal native to the United States, but curious about whether the project could preve... |
| 01.08.2019 | Adrian Hayday refutes challenge on influential autoantibody paper by Karolinska scientists | Back in 2016, Adrian Hayday and his colleagues at King’s College London — together with some collaborators in Germany and Estonia — made a splash in the immunology world with a paper, published in Cell, suggesting that ... |
| 29.07.2019 | What are the opportunities for AI in healthcare and what Big Data challenges lie ahead? | Note: This article is the first of a two-part series. The quotes in this article have been edited and condensed for clarity.
Although artificial intelligence in healthcare is an area of intense interest, exploring the topic is akin to peeli... |
| 27.11.2018 | Gene drive should be a nonprofit technology | Gene drive and other methods of editing the genomes of wild organisms could save millions of lives and prevent billions of animals from suffering each year. But advances that are intended to alter the shared environment must be developed an... |
| 02.10.2018 | Researchably’s AI parses medical research for pharmaceutical companies | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Medical papers’ verbiage makes them difficult to digest quickly. In fact, according to a recent study, they’ve become demonstrably more... |
| 02.10.2018 | Researchably’s AI parses medical research for pharmaceutical companies | Medical papers’ verbiage makes them difficult to digest quickly. In fact, according to a recent study, they’ve become demonstrably more difficult to read over the past century, thanks to a rise in science-specific jargon. The authors conclu... |
| 10.09.2018 | CRISPR’s hedgehog problem: Rolled-up genes can’t be edited, study finds | Sowbugs, armadillos, hedgehogs … and DNA? The same strategy that some animals use to avoid being attacked — roll into a ball and keep your vulnerable bits beyond predators’ reach — turns out to let genes avoid being sliced up by the genome-... |
| 04.06.2018 | Scientists think they have found the reason some people are left-handed — and it has nothing to do with the brain | About 10% of the world population is left-handed.
There have been several theories over the years about why some people favour their left hand.
A study published last year found that right- or left-handedness may have nothing to do with the... |
| 14.05.2018 | Memory transferred between snails, challenging standard theory of how the brain remembers | LOS ANGELES — UCLA neuroscientists reported Monday that they have transferred a memory from one animal to another via injections of RNA, a startling result that challenges the widely held view of where and how memories are stored in the bra... |
| 28.02.2018 | How a Partnership Over Annotation Software Fits Into Bigger Changes in Research Workflow | Elsevier, one of the world’s largest publishers of scientific journals, hasn’t been shy about shifting away from just publishing to offering a set of tools for scholars to use throughout the research process. Last week the company took anot... |
| 21.09.2017 | eLife and Coko partner to deliver open-source submission and peer-review platform | eLife and Coko partner to deliver open-source submission and peer-review platform
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The new platform will help streamline communications between authors, editors and reviewers at all stages of the submission and review process.
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| 31.08.2017 | Novartis, UCSF researchers urge FDA to clean up its messy adverse events database | A team of researchers from Novartis, Oracle Health Sciences and the University of California, San Francisco say the FDA’s adverse drug reaction database could be improved by grouping drugs by their chemical structure ... |
| 10.07.2017 | Sparrho raises $3 million to democratize access to science research | While the internet provides open access to a vast range of information, scientific research remains largely siloed and inaccessible. Sparrho is trying to solve this by offering a free platform to find and share research publications and pat... |
| 10.07.2017 | Sparrho raises $3 million to democratize access to science research | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
While the internet provides open access to a vast... |
| 03.04.2017 | Hacking DNA: The Story of CRISPR, Ken Thompson, and the Gene Drive | The very nature of the human race is about to change. This change will be radical and rapid beyond anything in our species’ history. A chapter of our story just ended and the next chapter has begun.
This revolution in what it means to be h... |
| 16.03.2017 | Advances in AI and ML are reshaping healthcare | Megh Gupta Contributor
Megh Gupta is a member of the investment team at OMERS Ventures.
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Qasim Mohammad is a Toronto-based venture capitalist and a member of the investment team at OMERS Ventures.
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| 22.02.2017 | Research heralds better and bidirectional brain-computer interfaces | A pair of studies, one from Stanford and another from the University of Geneva, exemplify the speed with which brain-computer interfaces are advancing; and while you won’t be using one instead of a mouse and keyboard any time soon, even in ... |
| 02.12.2016 | How single-celled organisms navigate to oxygen | How single-celled organisms navigate to oxygen
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A team of researchers has discovered that tiny clusters of single-celled organisms that inhabit the world’s oceans and lakes, are capable of navigating their way to oxygen.
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