How artificial intelligence can explain its decisions
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to recognise whether a tissue image contains a tumour. However, exactly how it makes its decision has remained a...
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Conservation schemes for farmland birds in Europe – closing conference of the Birds@Farmland initiative
The Birds@Farmland Initiative developed 22 conservation schemes for birds inhabiting European farmland. These conservation schemes – among others – introduce bird-friendly management of rice fields...
‘Plug-and-play’ plasmonic metafibers for ultrafast fibre lasers
Integrating plasmonic metasurfaces on optical fibre tips forming so-called metafibers enrichs the functionalities of an ordinary optical fibre, yielding a variety of advanced applications such...
Decentralized security provider Silence Laboratories raises S$2.4mil in seed funding
Silence Laboratories, a cybersecurity firm headquartered in Singapore, has closed a US$1.7 million (about S$2.4m) round in seed funding, led by pi Ventures. The round...
Establishing a novel strategy to tackle Huntington’s disease
Through an international joint research effort involving ProQR Therapeutics of the Netherlands, Université Grenoble Alpes of France, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden,...
Aging | Synergism of BCL-2 family inhibitors facilitates selective elimination of senescent cells
BUFFALO, NY- September 1, 2022 – A new research paper was published in Aging ("Aging (Albany NY)" by Medline/PubMed, "Aging-US" by Web of Science) on...
Three COVID-19 vaccines may provide greater protection from COVID-19 infections than two
Two vaccine doses provide only limited and short-lived protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection with the Omicron variant. A study publishing September 1st in the open-access journal...
Rethinking indoor air chemistry
People typically spend 90 percent of their lives inside, at home, at work, or in transport. Within these enclosed spaces, occupants are exposed to a...
PLOS Global Public Health editors call for embedding Indigenous self-determination, with respect to researchers, knowledge, ethics, and processes, into all stages of research, to decolonize global health
PLOS Global Public Health editors call for embedding Indigenous self-determination, with respect to researchers, knowledge, ethics, and processes, into all stages of research, to decolonize...
Anti-insulin protein linked to longevity and reproduction in ants
An insulin-suppressing protein may be the fountain of youth for ants and provides clues about aging in other species, according to a study led by...
Female genital mutilation/cutting is decreasing but more needs to be done
An estimated 100 million girls and women of reproductive age across 30 countries have experienced female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), according to a new meta-analysis publishing September...
Ant queens control insulin to boost lifespan and reproduction
In most of the animal world, there’s a sad trade-off to make: The more babies you have, the shorter you live.Credit: Hua Yan In most...
The structure of protein RAF1 revealed: a key step in the development of new drugs against lung cancer
One of the main challenges in oncology is the development of drugs against KRAS oncogenes. These oncogenes -genes that cause cancer when mutated - are...
Swathi Arur named Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholar by National Academy of Medicine
HOUSTON ― Swathi Arur, Ph.D., professor and deputy chair of Genetics at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, has been selected as one...
Less risk, less costs: Portable spectroscopy devices could soon become real
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is an analytical tool with a wide range of applications, including the magnetic resonance imaging that is used for diagnostic purposes...
