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Phys.org / Helpful microbes could battle pathogens in our hospitals and schools—with the help of AI to make it work
Helpful microbes that combat harmful pathogens could be the answer to rising antimicrobial resistance—particularly within built environments such as hospitals, homes and schools.
Medical Xpress / Collaborative process clarifies ICU admissions from ED
From the emergency department (ED) to the intensive care unit (ICU), a clear, collaborative admission process at a Tennessee hospital cut in half the time newly admitted critically ill patients waited to receive specialized ...
Phys.org / New algorithm improves gene expression marker identification across diverse biological systems
Researchers have developed a new computational approach that enables more accurate selection of genes that characterize different cellular states from mRNA-seq data, offering a more interpretable way to analyze complex biological ...
Medical Xpress / AI flags heart failure risk five years early from routine ECG recordings
Researchers at the Technion Faculty of Biomedical Engineering have achieved a breakthrough in the early detection of heart failure. They developed DeepHHF, an artificial intelligence model that identifies patients at high ...
Medical Xpress / Parents as 'coaches' can boost children's physical activity
Schoolchildren in Hong Kong face intense academic demands, with long hours of sedentary study leaving little time for movement. On average, their physical activity falls short of the World Health Organization's recommendation ...
Medical Xpress / How we are engineering bacteria to eat cancer
Modern medicine has made significant advances in cancer treatments over the decades. But all cancer therapies still face one critical challenge: how to target cancers without damaging healthy cells.
Phys.org / A new stellar census strengthens the case for a 13.8-billion-year-old universe
Astronomers have used the ages of more than 155,000 stars in the Milky Way to independently estimate the age of the universe, and their findings may be good news for the standard cosmological model. The new research was reported ...
Medical Xpress / Cancer clinicians welcome AI that supports human expertise
Artificial intelligence is often presented as a threat to professional work, raising fears about deskilling, job displacement and the loss of human judgment. But new research involving health care professionals using AI in ...
Medical Xpress / The long shadow of a short fuse: Study finds parent-teen conflict echoes across generations
Parent-teen tension is often treated as a phase—something to be endured, then forgotten. A common byproduct of growing up.
Phys.org / China is funding African farmers but not food processing and storage: Why it's a problem
China has become one of Africa's largest development financiers. Since 2000, Chinese and other state-backed institutions have committed more than US$180 billion in loans to African countries. The money has been used to finance ...
Medical Xpress / Study finds how long someone spends online matters, (but also what happens to them there)
In the digital age, adolescents and young adults increasingly form social connections through online spaces, including social media, gaming and messaging platforms, which serve as venues for identity exploration, peer connection ...
Medical Xpress / Molecular map of liver disease could transform how disease is diagnosed and monitored
A study led by researchers at Open Targets, EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the University of Cambridge and others has identified a set of plasma proteins that could be used to diagnose and monitor patients ...