Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. She announced on Monday, May 5th, a $566 … More
At a conference at Sorbonne University in Paris on Monday, May 5th, President Emmanuel Macron…
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Category: 4. Health
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Europe Seeks To Lure U.S. Scientists Disenfranchised Under Trump
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Making virtual reality more accessible
A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo have created a method that makes virtual reality (VR) more accessible to people with mobility limitations.
VR games like Beat Saber and Space Pirate Trainer usually require large and dramatic movements, such as raising one’s arms above the head or quickly side-stepping, which can be difficult or impossible for people who use wheelchairs or have limited mobility. To decrease these barriers, the researchers created MotionBlocks, a tool that…
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Black tea and berries could contribute to healthier aging
Higher intakes of black tea, berries, citrus fruits and apples could help to promote healthy ageing, new research has found.
This study conducted by researchers from Edith Cowan University, Queen’s University Belfast and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, found that foods rich in flavonoids could help to lower the risk of key components of unhealthy ageing, including frailty, impaired physical function and poor mental health.
“The goal of medical research is not just to help people…
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Liver cancer survival rates reflect income disparities
The risk of dying from the most common form of primary liver cancer is about 30 percent higher for patients with low household income compared to those with middle or high household income, according to a study at the University of Gothenburg.
Each year, some 500-550 people in Sweden are diagnosed with what is known as hepatocellular carcinoma, or HCC for short, which is the most common form of primary liver cancer, in other words, a cancer that starts in the liver. Three out of four of…
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How Is handedness linked to neurological disorders?
Linguistic symptoms and an onset early in life: Disorders to which this applies are frequently associated with left-handedness resp. mixed-handedness.
The fact that left-handedness resp. mixed-handedness are strikingly common in patients with certain neurological disorders such as autism spectrum disorders is a frequently reported observation in medical practice. The reason why handedness is associated with these disorders is probably because both are affected by processes in early brain…
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Spanking and other physical discipline lead to exclusively negative outcomes for children in low- and middle-income countries
Physically punishing children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has exclusively negative outcomes — including poor health, lower academic performance, and impaired social-emotional development — yielding similar results to studies in wealthier nations, finds a new analysis published in Nature Human Behaviour. In 2006, the United Nations Secretary General called for a ban on corporal punishment — acts of physical force to inflict pain that includes smacking, shaking, and spanking…
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Urban rats spread deadly bacteria as they migrate, study finds
Urban rats spread a deadly bacteria as they migrate within cities that can be the source of a potentially life-threatening disease in humans, according to a six-year study by Tufts University researchers and their collaborators that also discovered a novel technique for testing rat kidneys.
Leptospirosis is a disease caused by a type of bacteria often found in rats. It’s spread through their urine into soil, water, or elsewhere in the environment, where it becomes a source of infection and…
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Harnessing generative AI to expand the mitochondrial targeting toolkit
The mitochondrion, often referred to as the powerhouse of the cell, plays critical roles in cellular function, making it a prime organelle to target for fundamental studies, metabolic engineering, and disease therapies. With only a limited number of existing mitochondrial targeting sequences, a new study from the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology demonstrates the utility of generative artificial intelligence for designing new ones.
Much like each organ plays an important role in…
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AI could help improve early detection of interval breast cancers
A new study led by investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) could help detect interval breast cancers — those that develop between routine screenings — before they become more advanced and harder to treat. This could potentially lead to better screening practices, earlier treatment and improved patient outcomes.
The study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, found that AI was able to identify…
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Teens with mental health conditions use social media differently than their peers, study suggests
Young people with a diagnosable mental health condition report differences in their experiences of social media compared to those without a condition, including greater dissatisfaction with online friend counts and more time spent on social media sites.
This is according to a new study led by the University of Cambridge, which suggests that adolescents with “internalising” conditions such as anxiety and depression report feeling particularly affected by social media.
Young people with these…
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