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Medical Xpress / The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought
The development of the human brain is one of the most complex biological processes. During the first years of life, enormous changes take place in the brain that help optimize its functioning. In the first year alone, the ...
Medical Xpress / New method separates brain signals to show how complex actions are organized
A new Northwestern Medicine study has introduced a novel machine learning method for analyzing how the brain organizes complex behaviors, offering fresh evidence that neural activity is built from reusable "building blocks." ...
Medical Xpress / Signaling pathway may help predict immunotherapy response in glioblastoma
Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered a biological mechanism that helps explain why most patients with glioblastoma fail to respond to immunotherapy, according to their study published in Nature Communications.
Medical Xpress / 2D ultrasound equipment can be accessible, accurate method to measure the placenta
When Ann O'Neill suffered a stillbirth in 2018, she was bewildered. She was already a mother to three healthy children and therefore had received no information on stillbirth prevention from her doctors. But when she brought ...
Medical Xpress / Ebola is spreading faster in eastern Congo than it can be tracked, as deaths pass 700
Eighty percent of new Ebola cases in eastern Congo are emerging from unknown chains of transmission, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, a sign the outbreak is spreading faster than health officials can track despite ...
Medical Xpress / Mediterranean diet paradox reveals shifting nutrition trends
Despite decades of scientific evidence linking the Mediterranean diet to lower rates of heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other chronic illnesses, the eating pattern is steadily disappearing in the very countries where ...
Phys.org / Moderate heat is enough to trigger signs of inflammation and coagulation in dairy cows
Climate change is transforming livestock farming—and at a faster rate than many anticipate. More frequent and intense heat waves place a heavy physiological strain on dairy cows.
Phys.org / Modern slavery is a business decision—not an accident
Modern slavery persists because the way global supply chains are designed allows it to remain hidden, according to new research led by Professor Glenn Parry from the University of Surrey and Dr. Mike Rogerson at the University ...
Medical Xpress / Most Americans prefer to die at home, but the US health care system often prevents it
Ask people what they want at the end of their lives, and overwhelmingly the answers will revolve around comfort, dignity and time at home with loved ones.
Tech Xplore / Researchers propose light-driven random number generator for image security
While security systems based on pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) have been developed to secure information use, they produce sequences that are not truly random and suffer from inherent vulnerabilities and security ...
Tech Xplore / SoftBank Group's CEO says $5 trillion a year needed globally to meet AI demand
Worries about a bubble in artificial intelligence investments are absurd, SoftBank Group's CEO Masayoshi Son said Tuesday, deriding such doubts as backward and akin to questioning the use of cars and planes.
Medical Xpress / Workplace violence clusters around specific routines, times, locations in forensic psychiatric inpatient care
A recent study from the Department of Nursing Science at the University of Eastern Finland published in the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing found that reported incidents of severe workplace violence in forensic ...
