Deciphering how the brain encodes color and shape
Salk study reveals how the brain processes the external world using overlapping visual circuitsCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(June 27, 2019) There are hundreds of thousands...
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Reducing delays in identifying visceral leishmaniasis
Women in Indian states with endemic visceral leishmaniasis - also known as Kala Azar - should be encouraged to seek care for persistent fever without...
Experiment reverses the direction of heat flow
A study led by Brazilian scientists used quantum correlations to make heat flow from a colder to a hotter medium without adding external energy, affording...
Mutational ‘hotspots’ in cancer genomes may not necessarily drive cancer growth
Massachusetts General study finds 'passenger' mutations can be induced by DNA structures in genes unrelated to cancer development A study by investigators from the Massachusetts...
How inhaled fungal spores cause fatal meningitis
Credit: Walsh NM, et al. (2019) Pathogenic fungal spores capitalize on host immune cells to escape the lung and gain access to the brain to...
Nutritional cues regulate pancreatic tumor’s ‘cell drinking’
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys LA JOLLA, CALIF. - June 27, 2019 - Desperate for nutrients, rapidly growing pancreatic tumors resort to scavenging "fuel" through an...
Researchers discriminate between mutations that promote cancer growth and those that don’t
Credit: UCI School of Medicine Until now, researchers believed recurrent mutations (hotspot mutations) in cancer tumors were the important mutations (driver mutations) that promoted cancer...
New AI tool captures top players’ strategies in RNA video game
Neural network approach could aid efforts to build biomedically useful RNA structuresCredit: Koodli et al. A new artificial-intelligence tool captures strategies used by top players...
Too many antioxidants may cause lung cancer spread
A new study explains why lung cancer spreads faster in patients with certain genetic changes, and suggests that taking vitamin E, long thought of as...
A snapshot in time: Study captures fleeting cell differences that can alter disease risk
In cinema and science fiction, one small change in the past can have major, sometimes life-changing effects in the future. Using a series of snapshots,...
University of Missouri receives $8.6 million grant for new biomedical research center
The Swine Somatic Cell Genome Editing Center will translate laboratory research into treatments for human diseasesCredit: University of Missouri Today, the University of Missouri announced...
Insects need empathy
Immediate, science-based community action can mitigate insect declineCredit: Julia Harencar This year, German environmentalists collected 1.75 million signatures for a 'save the bees' law requiring...
Researchers unlock mysteries of complex microRNA oncogenes
New research led by McGill's Goodman Cancer Research Centre improves our understanding of microRNAsCredit: McGill University MicroRNAs are tiny molecules of nucleic acid that control...
Researchers verify 70-year-old theory of turbulence in fluids
Credit: The University of Queensland Pilots and air travellers know turbulence can be powerful, but science has struggled to fully explain the phenomenon. Now, a...
Life data economics: calling for new models to assess the value of human data
After the collapse of the blockchain bubble a number of research organisations are developing platforms to enable individual ownership of life data and establish the...