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Scientists at Open Targets, EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), and GSK are revealing the shared basis of diseases using a map of interacting human proteins....

Researchers: “We have miscalculated for decades – half of an insulin dose may not work as expected”

New research suggests that a large portion of a diabetic's insulin dose is unlikely to work as expected. University of Copenhagen researchers have discovered that...

AMP-BERT provides an all-new deep learning approach to antimicrobial peptide discovery

GIST researchers develop “AMP-BERT”: A new AI-based “finder” of antimicrobial peptides

Over the last few decades, antimicrobial resistance has become a major public health concern globally. This has led to a search for alternative methods of...

Theory can sort order from chaos in complex quantum systems

HOUSTON – (Feb. 23, 2023) – It’s not easy to make sense of quantum-scale motion, but a new mathematical theory developed by scientists at Rice...

Children’s lung capacity improved in cleaner air

As air pollution in Stockholm has decreased, so has the lung capacity of children and adolescents has improved, a new study published in the European...

Insilico Medicine advances generative AI-designed COVID-19 drug

Insilico Medicine sends first generative AI-designed drug for COVID-19 and variants to clinic

Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage biotech company powered by generative AI, today announces that China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved the Investigational New Drug...

Octapharma USA requests FDA approval for wilate® VWD prophylaxis supplement

PARAMUS, N.J. (Feb. 23, 2023) – Octapharma USA has submitted a Biologics License Application Supplement (sBLA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to...

Dr. Omar Abdul-Rahman named Chief of Division of Medical Genetics in Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital

Dr. Omar Abdul-Rahman, a leading specialist in pediatric genetic medicine, has been named chief of the Division of Medical Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics...

Examples of Specific Causes Identified for AI Tool Failure

Technical adequacy of artificial intelligence body composition assessed in external CT

Leesburg, VA, February 23, 2023—According to an accepted manuscript published in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), certain reasons for AI tool failure relating to...

Empty nitrous oxide dispensers in London park

Surge in nitrous oxide abuse: New guidelines to help clinicians recognise cases and prevent spinal cord damage

Recommendations from research published today on the diagnosis and treatment of spinal cord damage caused by nitrous oxide abuse have been simultaneously adopted as official...

AIBS announces 2023 emerging public policy leaders

The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is pleased to announce that Elena Suglia and Mohammad Inam Jameel have been selected to receive the 2023...

Specific molecules stick to the nanowires grown on genetically modified E. coli.

UMass Amherst researchers invent “electronic nose” built with sustainably sourced microbial nanowires that could revolutionize health monitoring

AMHERST, Mass. – Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced the invention of a nanowire, 10,000 times thinner than a human hair, which...

Research team creates statistical model to predict Covid-19 resistance

Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and The Johns Hopkins University have created and preliminarily tested what they believe may be one of the first models...

Parkinson's Disease Research at The University of Alabama

Dial for tuning dopamine, environmental signals found in Parkinson’s

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Researchers at The University of Alabama identified a critical mechanism for how signals from the environment are integrated with genetic information to...

UCI-led study reveals how lung cells protect themselves against RNA viral infection