UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA USC researchers have achieved a better way to identify elusive DNA variants responsible for genetic changes affecting cell functions and diseases. Using computational biology tools, scientists at the university’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences studied “variable-number tandem repeats” (VNTR) in DNA. VNTRs are stretches of DNA made of a short pattern...
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Researchers find a better way to measure consciousness
by Chris Barncard, University of Wisconsin-Madison Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Millions of people are administered general anesthesia each year in the United States alone, but it’s not always easy to tell whether they are actually unconscious. A small proportion of those patients regain some awareness during medical procedures, but a new study of the brain activity...
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A Better Way to Zap Our Brains
By Kim Tingley Published Feb. 24, 2021 Updated Feb. 25, 2021 The brain is an electrical organ. Everything that goes on in there is a result of millivolts zipping from one neuron to another in particular patterns. This raises the tantalizing possibility that, should we ever decode those patterns, we could electrically adjust them to treat...