Hurricane Katrina's aftermath included spike in heart disease hospitalizations
Increase in hospitalization rates lasted more than a month; higher among older black population compared to older white populationCredit: Elena ...
Tag: Algorithms/Models
New heart valve modeling technique enables customized medical care for patients
UT Austin Engineer develops a new noninvasive technique for simulating repairs to the heart's mitral valve with levels of accuracy ...
Does the 'buddy system' approach to weight loss work?
A new research study says, yes, but it's not that simple Key Takeaways: Peer dynamics can help or hinder individual ...
Researchers create algorithm to predict PEDV outbreaks
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an algorithm that could give pig farms advance notice of porcine epidemic ...
PopPUNK advances speed of bacterial pathogen surveillance
Credit: Lees et al. 2019 Jan 24, 2019 -- Differences in genetic diversity among bacterial pathogens correlate with clinically important ...
Using artificial intelligence for error correction in single cell analyses
A visionary project of enormous scope, the Human Cell Atlas aims to map out all the tissues of the human ...
3D human epidermal equivalent created using math
Credit: Kumamoto J. et al., Scientific Reports, December 20, 2018 Scientists have successfully constructed a three-dimensional human epidermis based on ...
Your smartphone now knows if you smoke and may help you quit
Credit: Gero LLC Jan 23, 2019 - Smoking is one of the major life-shortening factors that leads to accelerated aging ...
Keeping astronauts healthy during deep space missions
When you get sick, a doctor or hospital is typically right down the road, a couple hours away at most. ...
Antarctic krill population contracts southward as polar oceans warm
> The population of Antarctic krill, the favourite food of many whales, penguins, fish and seals, shifted southward during a ...
Multi-hop communication: Frog choruses inspire wireless sensor networks
A research collaboration including investigators from Osaka University devise a mathematical model based on the natural coordination of frog choruses, ...
Reinforcement learning expedites 'tuning' of robotic prosthetics
Credit: Helen Huang Researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina and Arizona State University have developed ...
Rutgers scientist identifies gene responsible for spread of prostate cancer
Gene provides valuable information for early detection and treatment of cancerCredit: Nick Romanenko A Rutgers study has found that a ...
Proteins use a lock and key system to bind to DNA
New study challenges a fundamental assumption of how proteins interact with the human genome SAN FRANCISCO, CA--January 16, 2019--You can ...
Artificial intelligence applied to the genome identifies an unknown human ancestor
Scientists use deep learning for the first time ever to account for human evolutionCredit: Pilar Rodriguez By combining deep learning ...
Assessing the performance of multiple influenza forecasting models
UMass Amherst biostatistician, national team assess flu forecast modelsCredit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - In what the authors believe is ...
Europe looks to cells for a healthier future
Credit: Agnieszka Rybak Wolf, Lab of Nikolaus Rajewsky at BIMSB / MDC Our body's cells are constantly changing. But which ...
Salk scientist Saket Navlakha receives CAREER Award from NSF
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(January 8, 2019) Salk scientist Saket Navlakha has received a CAREER award from the National Science ...
Study shows algae thrive under Greenland sea ice
New technology offers unprecedented look at life beneath sea ice in important ocean regionCredit: Aqua/MODIS - NASA worldview Microscopic marine ...
CytoReason and Pfizer Inc. sign drug discovery collaboration agreement
CytoReason signs collaboration agreement with Pfizer Inc. to utilize CytoReason's machine learning model of the immune system for drug discovery ...