By Michael Irving June 02, 2021 A color-coded map of around 4,000 incoming axons connecting to just one neuronGoogle/Lichtman Laboratory The human brain is the most ridiculously complex computer that’s ever existed, and mapping this dense tangle of neurons, synapses, and other cells is nigh on impossible. But engineers at Google and Harvard have given...
by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Credit: CC0 Public Domain Despite a name straight from a Tarantino movie, natural killer (NK) cells are your allies when it comes to fighting infections and cancer. If T cells are like a team of specialist doctors in an emergency room, NK cells are the paramedics: They arrive first on...
By Carolyn Wilke | Scientific American June 2021 Issue Credit: Getty Images Scientists have long sought to prevent sharp memories from dulling with age, but the problem remains stubborn. Now research published in Scientific Reports suggests virtual reality might help older people recall facts and events based on specific details. The study involved 42 healthy older adults from the San Francisco Bay Area. Half...
UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE IMAGE: EFFECTS OF SSRIS ON BRAIN AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT. ON THE LEFT SIDE: BRAIN MAP SHOWING REGIONS OF THE BRAIN PROTECTED BY THE PROLONGED ADMINISTRATION OF SSRIS COMPRISING A NETWORK OF PREFRONTAL AND LIMBIC STRUCTURES. ON THE RIGHT SIDE: PLOT DISPLAYING AN INCREASE IN IQ SCORES IN SUBJECTS TREATED WITH SSRIs AS...
COMPUSCRIPT LTD Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. In this article, the authors Craig S. Carlson and Michiel Postema, from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Tampere University, Tampere, Finland discuss the deep impact of superficial skin inking: acoustic analysis of underlying tissue. Skin tattoos are a common decoration,...
IOS PRESS IMAGE: SOLVE-RD AIMS AT CHANGING PATIENT LIVES VIA THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A “TREATABOLOME ” DATABASE FLAGGING TREATABLE GENES AND VARIANTS, WHICH WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRANSLATION OF GENOMICS DATA INTO THE CLINICAL.CREDIT: SOLVE-RD. CREDIT: SOLVE-RD Amsterdam, June 1, 2021 – The Treatabolome project is a research initiative to develop a freely available, interoperable...
by University of Sydney Credit: Pexels Researchers suggest future NHMRC alcohol guidelines need to place more emphasis on Australia’s growing waistlines. Led by the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Center, the study looked at medical data from nearly half a million people and found having overweight or obesity considerably amplified the harmful effects of alcohol on liver disease and mortality. “People in...
by Public Library of Science Credit: CC0 Public Domain A nationwide study in Sweden estimates the elevated risk of advanced or fatal prostate cancer among relatives of men with the disease, providing new data that could help refine guidelines for the age at which screening should begin. Mahdi Fallah and Elham Kharazmi of the German Cancer...
by Elton Alisson, FAPESP Electron micrograph of the brain of a child with MIS-C associated with COVID-19 and encephalopathy: immunohistochemical detection of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid antigen in brain endothelial cells, with cytoplasm stained red. Credit: Amaro Nunes Duarte Neto Besides common symptoms such as fever, cough, and respiratory distress, some children have an atypical form of COVID-19...
A University of Alberta spinoff company has received FDA approval for an artificial intelligence tool that could revolutionize thyroid ultrasounds, making the procedure faster and easier for thousands of Canadians who undergo it each year. MEDO.ai, with offices in Edmonton and Singapore, received approval last month from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its...
