Overthinking what you said? Itâs your âlizard brainâ talking to newer, advanced parts of your brain
Weâve all been there. Moments after leaving a party, your brain is suddenly filled with intrusive thoughts about what others were thinking. âDid they think I talked too much?â âDid…
In vitro model enables study of age-specific responses to COVID mRNA vaccines
mRNA vaccines saved lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, but older people had less of an immune response to the vaccines than did younger adults. Why? Boston Childrenâs researchers, led by…
Invisible touch: Stevens is giving AI the ability to feel and measure surfaces
AI-based technologies are rapidly learning to see, converse, calculate and create. One thing they still donât do well, however, is measure or âfeelâ surfaces â a purely mechanical function. âAI…
Mass General Brigham researchers find too much sitting hurts the heart
Fitting in a workout after a long day of sitting at a desk might not be enough to compensate for the impacts of sedentary behavior on the heart. Investigators from…
AI finds undiagnosed liver disease in early stages #TLM2024 #AASLD24
Liver disease, which is treatable when discovered early, often goes undetected until late stages, but a new study revealed that an algorithm fueled by artificial intelligence can accurately detect early-stage…
Bacterial vaccine shows promise as cancer immunotherapy
Columbia researchers have engineered probiotic bacteria that educate the immune system to destroy cancer cells, opening the door for a new class of cancer vaccines that take advantage of bacteriaâs…
UT Health San Antonio-led study finds novel role of BRCA1 in tumor suppression
A new study led by The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) is shedding light on a novel role of breast cancer gene…
Bovine H5N1 influenza from infected worker transmissible and lethal in animal models
Colorized transmission electron micrograph of avian influenza A H5N1 virus particles (blue), grown in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) epithelial cells. Microscopy by CDC; repositioned and recolored by NIAID. Credit: CDC…
âDigital twinsâ of real cancer patients with algorithms to discover black holes
Researchers have shown that they can accurately re-create clinical trials of new treatments using âdigital twinsâ of real cancer patients. The technology, called FarrSightÂź-Twin, which is based on algorithms used…
Cancer risk linked to p53 in ulcerative colitis
Researchers in the lab of Michael Sigal at the Max DelbrĂŒck Center and CharitĂ© â UniversitĂ€tsmedizin Berlin have elucidated the role of the p53 gene in ulcerative colitis. The study,…