The concepts were judged by reviewers and were not told who or what had created them.By Gemma Conroy Researchers built an artificial intelligence tool that came up with 4000 novel research ideas in a matter of hours. Credit: Malte Mueller/Getty An ideas generator powered by artificial intelligence (AI) came up with more original research ideas...
by Katharina Kalhoff and Ole Kamm, Berlin Institute of Health in der Charité Credit: Brain Simulation Section, BIH, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin For the first time, researchers led by Professor Dr. Petra Ritter’s team have succeeded in explaining the propagation of traveling waves of activity in the human brain using a computer simulation. Previous studies...
by Lindsay Travis, University of Kentucky Single-particle 3D reconstruction of the C-zone reveals the organization of titin, cMyBP-C and myosin heads and tails. Credit: Nature (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06691-4 One University of Kentucky (UK) researcher has helped solve a 60-year-old mystery about one of the body’s most vital organs: The heart. Kenneth S. Campbell, Ph.D., the director...
by Aarhus University Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses the body’s own immune system to fight tumor cells. While much focus has been on engaging T cells for fighting cancer, less attention has been given to directing the complement system toward tumors. The complement system is an important part of the innate immune...
by University of British Columbia Cryo-electron microscopy reveals how the VH Ab6 antibody fragment (red) attaches to the vulnerable site on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (gray) to block the virus from binding with the human ACE2 cell receptor (blue). Credit: Dr. Sriram Subramaniam, UBC Researchers at the University of British Columbia have discovered a key vulnerability...
by Amy Robinson, Florida State University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Florida State University researchers have identified a new pathway in the brain that plays an important role in our response to fear. Scientists have long considered the amygdala, an almond-shaped structure in the center of the brain, to be the “center of fear” and believed...
JANUARY 17, 2022 by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences Figure 1. 2D validation of ECM substrate combinations and ratios. A) Significant changes in proliferation via dsDNA content in S42 Schwann cells at day 7 using a variety of ECM coatings compared to plates coated with 50 µg/ml of collagen I only B) No...
More than a quarter of American adults are experiencing COVID-related symptoms of depression, researchers report. Though 8.5% of adults were experiencing depression symptoms before the pandemic, the rate climbed to 27.8% of adults by mid-April 2020. “Depression in the general population after prior large-scale traumatic events has been observed to, at most, double,” says Sandro...
Patients in primary care clinic program lost 5 percent of body weight PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Low-income Louisiana patients enrolled in a tailored obesity intervention program lost much more weight than counterparts receiving usual care. Study results were published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine. This population, who...
EXPERIMENTAL STRATEGY. MASUKI ET AL. COMPR PHYSIOL 10: 1207-1240, 2020. view more CREDIT: COPYRIGHT © 2020 AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY A common notion is to walk 10,000 steps a day to improve ones’ physical fitness, so pedometers have been a popular wearable health device from before the days of fitness trackers and smartphones. However, simply walking...
