Ophthalmology

New app helps children with 'lazy eye' visual impairment

Eye specialists, mathematicians and games designers at the University of Southampton have teamed up to develop and launch a smartphone app aimed at helping improve vital treatment for children with amblyopia, a common visual ...

Neuroscience

AI reveals brain's learning processes

Researchers at the Neural Computation Institute of Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have constructed a computer model that learns spatial information in a pattern similar to that of rodents.

Biomedical technology

Can computers speak for us?

In India, there's a popular saying among locals: "Kos-kos par badle paani, chaar kos par baani." The language spoken in India changes every few kilometers, just like the taste of the water.

Medications

AI could speed up discovery of new medicines

Artificial intelligence that could reduce the cost and speed-up the discovery of new medicines has been developed as part of a collaboration between researchers at the University of Sheffield and AstraZeneca.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New X-ray technology can improve COVID-19 diagnosis

A research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has, for the first time, produced dark-field X-ray images of patients infected with COVID-19. In contrast to conventional X-ray images, dark-field images visualize ...

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