Cancer cells can adapt and develop resistance to chemotherapy drugs, making it difficult to eradicate tumors. A new study led by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital suggests that a combination of three drugs, ...
Aug 20, 2019
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Using a computational model of the human immune system, scientists have shown that efforts to combat sepsis might be more effective if they targeted multiple steps in the molecular processes that drive the illness. This finding ...
Feb 15, 2018
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A study led by Drexel University researchers suggests that survivors of sexual abuse who seek guidance and support in online forums may be doing so because they find comfort in the relative anonymity the forums provide, which ...
Feb 23, 2016
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They said it was crazy – and in truth the European Commission's billion-euro plan to build a computer model of the human brain appears to have been too ambitious. But after years of controversy and dispute, many neuroscientists ...
Jun 18, 2015
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Today in the journal Nature Methods, the laboratory headed by ICREA researcher Patrick Aloy, at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), presents a computational tool that allows a greater understanding ...
Feb 27, 2015
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Binocular vision allows us to gauge depth. For example a dot directly ahead of the left eye will be at an angle to the right that decreases with distance. So how, ask Eiichi Mitsukura and Shunji Satoh at the University of ...
Sep 25, 2014
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Life can be messy at all scales, requiring different organizational strategies—from cleaning the house, to removing damaged or expired cells from the body to avoid cancer progression.
Feb 19, 2014
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Scientists from Berlin and Heidelberg use artificial nerve cells to classify different types of data. They can recognize handwritten numbers, or distinguish plant species based on their flowers.
Jan 28, 2014
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When designed to process sound based on familiar patterns, sound recognition by computers becomes more robust.
Nov 6, 2013
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Researchers in Japan have used the powerful K computer, the world's fastest supercomputer, to simulate the complex neural structure of our brain.
Aug 7, 2013
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