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From one brain scan, more information for medical artificial intelligence
System helps machine-learning models glean training information for diagnosing and treating brain conditionsCredit: Amy Zhao/MIT CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers...
Family and community central to recovery among Sierra Leone’s former child soldiers
15-year study the first to follow male and female child soldiers into adulthoodCredit: Chris Soldt, Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass....
UIC tapped to support $28 million drug discovery project
Researchers seek new TB treatments The University of Illinois at Chicago will work with TB Alliance to help find new...
Powering a solution: Professor takes charge at improving lithium ion batteries safety
As cutting edge as electric vehicles are, they're still vulnerable to an Achilles heel - the very source that gives...
Photovoltaic nanotubes
Special nanotubes could improve solar power and imaging technologyCredit: © 2019 Iwasa et al. Physicists discovered a novel kind of...
FEFU scientist reported on concentration of pesticides in marine organisms
Credit: FEFU press office According to ecotoxicologist from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), from the 90s and during 2000s in...
Antarctic marine life recovery following the dinosaurs’ extinction
A new study shows how marine life around Antarctica returned after the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. A...
Study reveals global disparities in cervical cancer rates among women with HIV
A new International Journal of Cancer study indicates that rates of invasive cervical cancer (ICC) are particularly high in women...
Insilico Medicine to present at the Ageing, Health & Rejuvenation Nature Conference
Credit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - Insilico Medicine, a biotech company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing...
Biochar may boost carbon storage, but benefits to germination and growth appear scant
Credit: Photo courtesy Nancy Holm CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Biochar may not be the miracle soil additive that many farmers and...
Mobile crisis service reduces youth ER visits for behavioral health needs, says study
Children and youth with acute behavioral health needs who are seen through Connecticut's Mobile Crisis Intervention Service - a community-based...
8,000 cyber security experts to attend 9th Annual Cyber Week Conference at Tel Aviv University
Weeklong event features world's top cyber security experts in government, military, industry and academia On June 23-27, more than 8,000...
Research shows wind can prevent seabirds accessing their most important habitat
We marvel at flying animals because it seems like they can access anywhere, but a first study of its kind...
Researchers find potential way to prevent most common pregnancy-related conditions
Study suggests growth factor could halt preeclampsia and preterm birth Baltimore, Md -- About 1 in 10 pregnant women experience...
Phage display for engineering blood-contacting surfaces
Credit: (c) 2019 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 19, 2019-Surfaces that enable endothelial cell attachment without...
Plate tectonics may have driven ‘Cambrian Explosion, study shows
The quest to discover what drove one of the most important evolutionary events in the history of life on Earth...
Serotonin linked to somatic awareness, a condition long thought to be imaginary
New research suggests serotonin could be involved in a condition where patients experience physical discomforts for which there is no...
New species of rock-eating shipworm identified in freshwater river in the Philippines
UMass Amherst scientist among international team of researchers studying biodiversity with an eye toward developing new drugsCredit: Marvin Altamia and...
Aggressive, non-native wetland plants squelch species richness more than dominant natives do
Credit: Greg Spyreas, Michael Jeffords and Susan Post CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Dominant, non-native plants reduce wetland biodiversity and abundance more...
New research finds increased CT use for suspected urolithiasis patients in ED
Reston, VA (June 17, 2019) - A new study performed in conjunction with the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute...
