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Biometric systems news: Fake fingerprints can imitate real ones
Biometric systems news: Fake fingerprints can imitate real ones.
A neural network has managed to pull off fake fingerprints—those very fingerprints that are designed to...
Researchers showed that raw human excrement can be converted to a safe, reusable fuel...
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev say they have conducted a pilot study that showed that raw human excrement can potentially be converted...
US authorities agreed on how to regulate food products cultured from animal cells
US authorities on Friday agreed on how to regulate food products cultured from animal cells—paving the way to get so-called "lab meat" on American...
Majority of HIV persistence during ART originated from cellular proliferation, not viral replication
A majority of the HIV-infected cells that persist in HIV-infected individuals even during suppressive antiretroviral therapy (ART) originated from cellular proliferation, not viral replication,...
UCLA biologists have discovered how head injuries adversely affect individual cells and genes that...
UCLA biologists have discovered how head injuries adversely affect individual cells and genes that can lead to serious brain disorders.
The life scientists provide the...
Binary therapeutic potential of BH4 – controls T cell proliferation in autoimmunity and cancer
In 2013, renowned Boston Children's Hospital pain researcher Clifford Woolf, MB, BCh, Ph.D., and chemist Kai Johnsson, Ph.D., his fellow co-founder at Quartet Medicine,...
A newborn baby’s brain responds to being touched on the face
A newborn baby's brain responds to being touched on the face, according to new research co-led by UCL.
Babies use this sense of touch—facial somatosensation—to...
Parents advocating nonviolent responses to conflict protect kids from perpetrating violence in their romantic...
Parents who talk to their children about nonviolent ways of resolving conflict may reduce children's likelihood of physically or psychologically abusing their dating partners...
A single season of high school football may be enough to cause microscopic changes...
A single season of high school football may be enough to cause microscopic changes in the structure of the brain, according to a new...
There’s a new health-promoting gut bacterium called Akkermansia muciniphila
Move over Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus.
There's a new health-promoting gut bacterium in town, and it's called Akkermansia muciniphila.
You will not find its benefits at the...
Researchers believe the symptoms of autism may result from sustained connections between regions of...
For decades, scientists have examined how regions of the brain communicate to understand autism.
Researchers at University of Utah Health believe the symptoms of autism...
A new deep learning algorithm may help children affected by abuse to disclose information...
When children are victims of crimes, the legal testimony they provide is known as forensic interviews.
However, since victims are often traumatized and potentially...
Researchers have identified a specific protein in the cell membranes of sperm that help...
Researchers have found that a protein in the cell membranes of sperm plays a key role in how they find their way to eggs.
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Researchers say the sight and smell of food alone may be enough to prompt...
The sight or smell of something delicious is often enough to get your mouth watering, but the physiological response to food perception may go...
Researchers detail how cholortoxin, a peptide in scorpion venom, can cross the blood-brain barrier...
The Peptides and Proteins lab at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine has published a paper in Chemical Communications describing the capacity of a...
