How the brain switches between different sets of rules
CAMBRIDGE, MA - Cognitive flexibility -- the brain's ability to switch between different rules or action plans depending on the context -- is key to...
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Healthcare providers — not hackers — leak more of your data
Credit: PxHere - creative commons Your personal identity may fall at the mercy of sophisticated hackers on many websites, but when it comes to health...
Preserving shoulder function, quality of life, in breast cancer patients
ANN ARBOR--After a prophylactic double mastectomy in 2015, Tina Harrison discovered that she did, indeed, have breast cancer--it just hadn't been detected. Harrison, of Pinckney,...
Making X-ray microscopy 10 times faster
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory Microscopes make the invisible visible. And compared to conventional light microscopes, transmission x-ray microscopes (TXM) can see into samples with much...
Gene vital for post-stroke recovery identified for the first time
Having certain specific variants of the PATJ gene predisposes to worse recovery from ischemic stroke. 7 out of 10 patients with these variants suffer severe...
New survey highlights digital health challenges
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 19, 2018 - As health system leaders look ahead to the challenges and opportunities of the coming year, they are increasing their spending...
Bio jet fuels good for the climate, but technologies need tweaking
Norwegian aviation executives like to joke among themselves that when God created aviation, he was thinking of Norway. The country's long coastline and mountainous interior...
Solution for next generation nanochips comes out of thin air
Credit: RMIT University Researchers at RMIT University have engineered a new type of transistor, the building block for all electronics. Instead of sending electrical currents...
Mite genomes reveal ‘mighty surprising’ fragrant and colorful secrets
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have uncovered some unexpected 'foreign' genes in the tiny itch-inducing chigger mite and its more benign but enormous cousin,...
Critical collections
More than a century ago, when botanists and naturalists were in the field collecting plant and animal specimens, they couldn't have imagined that scientists would...
White matter pathway and individual variability in human stereoacuity
Credit: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Researchers in the Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), the National Institute of Information and...
Repurposing FDA-approved drugs can help fight back breast cancer
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Screening Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved compounds for their ability to stop cancer growth in the lab led to the...
Internists and Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health awarded grant
Washington, DC (November 19, 2018) -- Advancing racial equity in their climate resilience work is the goal of two medical organizations recently accepted for a...
UB spinoff Cytocybernetics looks to move into new market with funding from NIH
Credit: Sandra Kicman / University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Cytocybernetics, a University at Buffalo spinoff, has received a $250,000 Small Business Innovation Research award...
Identification of LZTR1 leads to novel insights into RAS-driven diseases
Mutations in RAS proteins initiate many of the most aggressive tumors, and the search for pharmacological inhibitors of these proteins has become a priority in...
