Scientists trained a computer to classify breast cancer tumors
Using technology similar to the type that powers facial and speech recognition on a smartphone, researchers at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer...
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Current climate models underestimate warming by black carbon aerosol
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Soot belches out of diesel engines, rises from wood- and dung-burning cookstoves and shoots out of oil refinery stacks....
Let’s draw!: New deep learning technique for realistic caricature art
Credit: Image courtesy of Kaidi Cao Caricature portrait drawing is a distinct art form where artists sketch a person's face in an exaggerated manner, most...
Powerful new map depicts environmental degradation across Earth
Credit: Tomasz Stepinski/UC A powerful new map by the University of Cincinnati illustrates one motivating force behind migrant caravans leaving Guatemala and Honduras to reach...
Research offers hope for simpler cancer diagnosis and treatment
Credit: Jaren Wilkey/BYU Photo Monitoring cancer can often be an intrusive and exhausting process for patients. But with Brigham Young University chemistry professor Ryan Kelly's...
Freeze-frame microscopy captures molecule’s ‘lock-and-load’ on DNA
Credit: Eva Nogales lab, UC Berkeley Pushing the limits of cryo-electron microscopy, University of California, Berkeley, scientists have captured freeze-frames of the changing shape of...
Stopping cancer with a smartphone
Credit: DK Kang Dongkyun "DK" Kang was in the shower a few years ago when inspiration struck, and he became interested in the idea of...
When it comes to love: Personality matters: QUT research
Credit: QUT Marketing & Communication Men with a greater range of personality traits, especially those deemed extraverted, emotionally stable, agreeable or conscientious, have sex more...
Researchers offer perspective on legal, ethical implications of lost eggs and embryos
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- On March 3, 2018, a liquid nitrogen storage tank at the University Hospitals Fertility Center in Cleveland failed. Dr. Eli Adashi, a...
Proposed cancer treatment may boost lung cancer stem cells, study warns
Epigenetic therapies -- targeting enzymes that alter what genes are turned on or off in a cell -- are of growing interest in the cancer...
Cannabis youth prevention strategy should target mental wellbeing
High school students with positive mental health are less likely to consume cannabis, a recent University of Waterloo study has found. The public health study...
Having poor vision can raise risk for falls among older adults
Vision impairment and blindness affect one in 11 Americans age 65 and older. Because our population is aging, the number of older adults with vision...
A symposium on the brain’s compass
The sense of direction is one of the most important human abilities. From 27 to 29 November 2018, about 70 experts from Europe, Canada and...
High risk of death in the year after ICU discharge; more hospital days linked to higher mortality
November 19, 2018 - Nearly one in five intensive care unit (ICU) survivors die within one year, and increased hospital use is among the factors...
Teens increasingly choose pot over alcohol, cigarettes
NEW YORK (November 19, 2018)--The "gateway pattern" of adolescent substance use is changing, and marijuana is increasingly the first substance in the sequence of adolescent...
