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Machine learning tool could help choose first-line chemotherapy drug
The selection of a first-line chemotherapy drug to treat many types of cancer is often a clear-cut decision governed by standard-of-care protocols, but what...
Human lifespans are increasing by approximately three years every generation
Stanford biologist Shripad Tuljapurkar had assumed humans were approaching the limit to their longevity – that's what previous research had suggested – but what...
Heart rate reactivity is a biological moderator between peer victimization (bullying) and internalizing problems...
Penn State Scranton assistant professors of psychology Karin Machluf and P. Douglas Sellers II, along with their colleague, Christopher Aults from King's College in...
The rise in opioid-related overdose deaths in the last two decades is widely regarded...
Most government-funded initiatives to address the overdose epidemic in the United States have targeted opioids specifically and have neglected other drugs that are increasingly...
Critical vulnerabilities in self-encrypting solid state drives (SSD) allow an attacker to decrypt...
We all have something to hide, something to protect. But if you are also relying on self-encrypting drives for that, then you should read...
Researchers have developed a deep alignment network (DAN) model to classify and visualize emotions
Researchers at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology and Warsaw University of Technology have developed a deep alignment network (DAN) model to classify and...
Riverside have revealed for the first time how easily attackers can use a GPU...
Computer scientists at the University of California, Riverside have revealed for the first time how easily attackers can use a computer's graphics processing unit,...
New surveillance tool: “gait recognition” software that uses people’s body shapes and how they...
Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: "gait recognition" software that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them,...
Scientists are making strides in developing liquid biopsies for brain tumours by detecting tumour...
Scientists are making strides in developing liquid biopsies for brain tumours by detecting tumour DNA in the fluid from around the brain and spine.
Liquid...
Old adults can indeed learn new tricks thanks to a protein molecule called netrin
Unlike old dogs, old adults can indeed learn new tricks thanks to a protein molecule called netrin.
Netrin is known to help set up the...
Type A has been one of the most familiar personality traits, but it turns...
You know the type. Hard-driving, competitive, impatient. They call it Type A.
But new University of Toronto research suggests that this common pop-psychology concept is...
A new computer model is more accurate at identifying sources of foodborne illnesses
A new computer model that uses machine learning and de-identified and aggregated search and location data from logged-in Google users was significantly more accurate...
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology improves the ability of brain imaging to predict Alzheimer’s disease
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology improves the ability of brain imaging to predict Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published in the journal Radiology.
Timely diagnosis...
Heritability of life span is well below past estimates
Although long life tends to run in families, genetics has far less influence on life span than previously thought, according to a new analysis...
Diagnostic errors affect an estimated 12 million U.S. adult outpatients annually
Diagnostic errors affect an estimated 12 million U.S. adult outpatients annually; however, patients' experiences of these errors are underexplored.
To gain insight into the patient...
