by York University Architecture of (a) vanilla 3D residual network (baseline), (b) the 3D residual network with CBAM attention, (c) the proposed self-attention-guided 3D residual network, (d) the residual block in 3D residual network, consisting of residual connections, (e) the CBAM attention block consisting of the channel and spatial attention modules, and (f) the self-attention...
by University of California, San Francisco Credit: CC0 Public Domain When the Golden State Warriors’ Steph Curry makes a free throw, his brain draws on motor memory. Now researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have shown how this type of memory is consolidated during sleep, when the brain processes the day’s learning to make the...
by University of North Carolina Health Care 3-D image of a T cell experiencing cell stress: endoplasmic reticulum (green), mitochondria (purple). Credit: Elizabeth Hunt, UNC School of Medicine The great hope of cancer immunotherapy is to bolster our own immune cells in specific ways to keep cancer cells from evading our immune system. Although much...
by Thomas Jefferson University Obstruction of the lumen of a bronchiole by mucoid exudate, goblet cell metaplasia, and epithelial basement membrane thickening in a person with asthma. Credit: Yale Rosen/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 2.0 For many, inhalers are a sort of miracle drug. From gasping for air one minute, to breathing normally the next, patients can experience...
by University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A recent study from University Hospitals (UH) Connor Whole Health has found that adults who initially visit a chiropractor to receive spinal manipulation for low back pain caused by disc herniation or radiculopathy (i.e., sciatica) are less likely to undergo discectomy (i.e., disc surgery) over...
by Imperial College London Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study finds that antibodies produced in the nose decline nine months after COVID-19 infection, while antibodies found in the blood last at least a year. Antibodies in the nasal fluid (known as immunoglobulin A, or IgA) provide first-line defense against COVID-19 by blocking SARS-CoV-2 virus...
by Nanyang Technological University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Clinician scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found that mental health chatbots are able to effectively engage people with depression in empathetic conversations and assist in the treatment of their symptoms. Chatbots or conversational agents are computer programs that simulate human conversations. They are...
by Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science Schematic model of sustained activation of TrkB signaling in the absence of BDNF. Credit: TMIMS Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness due to optic nerve damage and the death of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Presently, reducing intraocular pressure is the sole evidence-based therapy for glaucoma patients,...
by Ingrid Fadelli, Medical Xpress An illustration representing the team’s work. The wizard symbolizes microglia that orchestrate the brain regeneration process in adult zebrafish telencephalon. Granulins, represented by wizard’s cane, hold the power to clear out TDP-43 condensates and lipid droplets in microglia and lead to successful brain regeneration. Credit: Oliver Hoeller. Studies exploring the...
by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign U. of I. professor Aron Barbey, pictured, and co-author Evan Anderson found that taking into account the features of the whole brain – rather than focusing on individual regions or networks – allows the most accurate predictions of intelligence. Credit: Fred Zwicky Scientists have labored for decades to understand...
