Modeling the growth cycle of a neuron is tricky, as neurons are formed for vastly different functions all over the body. However, every neuron begins its life in about the same way and goes through five distinct stages of ...
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Using the UK Biobank, a large-scale biomedical database, researchers from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences have found that AI models can be racially biased if they are trained on unbalanced databases, ...
Apr 13, 2022
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University of Alberta researchers have trained a machine learning model to identify people with post-traumatic stress disorder with 80 percent accuracy by analyzing text data. The model could one day serve as an accessible ...
Apr 7, 2022
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Buying a second-hand car at a good price feels good. But choosing a delicious-looking doughnut in the supermarket leaves us riddled with doubt. After all, we resolved to eat a healthier diet this year—so wouldn't it be ...
Jan 12, 2022
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An antidepressant best known as Prozac could offer the first treatment for the leading cause of blindness among people over 50, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests.
Oct 21, 2021
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A suicide screening tool developed by researchers from Duke Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs is far more accurate at identifying patients at risk for attempting suicide than current clinical assessments, which ...
Sep 15, 2021
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Innate immunity is the first line of defense against microbial infection. In response to RNA virus infection, mitochondrial antiviral signaling protein (MAVS) plays an important role in innate antiviral immune responses.
Sep 6, 2021
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Fast and accurate clinical assessment of the disease progression and mortality is vital for the management of COVID-19 patients. Although several predictors have been proposed, they have been limited to subjective assessment, ...
Aug 30, 2021
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Immunotherapy agents that inhibit the molecules PD1, PD-L1 or CTLA-4 have become widely used in clinical practice to treat non-small cell lung cancer, or NSCLC. Approximately 20% to 50% of advanced NSCLC patients have strong ...
Aug 20, 2021
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A new study led by the U.S. Geological Survey outlines a means to better estimate COVID-19 occurrence and trends in populations.
Jul 14, 2021
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