In a recent study, published in Radiology, Sohn combined neuroimaging with machine learning to try to predict whether or not a patient would develop Alzheimer’s disease when they first presented with a memory impairment – the best time to intervene.
Jan 4, 2019
A Magellanic penguin mated pair mutually preening.Natasha Gownaris
Jan 3, 2019
As scientific funding becomes increasingly scarce, professors in STEM fields spend more time in their offices writing grant applications: by one estimate, as much as one-fifth of their research time.
Jan 3, 2019
By enticing away the repressors dampening unexpressed, silent genes in Streptomyces bacteria, researchers at the University of Illinois have unlocked several…
Jan 2, 2019
A new neurostimulator developed by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, can listen to and stimulate electric current in the brain at the same…
Jan 2, 2019
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology proposed new quasi-1D materials for potential spintronic applications, an upcoming technology that exploits the spin of electrons.
Dec 27, 2018
Franklin High School in Seattle, Washington.Seattle Public Schools
Dec 18, 2018
People who are grieving a major loss, such as the death of a spouse or a child, use different coping mechanisms to carry on with their lives.
Dec 17, 2018
Since the ice bucket challenge went viral in 2014, raising awareness and funding for ALS research, scientists have learned much about a disease that disconnects muscles from nerves, leading to muscle atrophy and eventual death.
Dec 17, 2018
Hawksbill turtles aren't the only marine turtles threatened by the destabilizing effects of climate change, but a new study from researchers at Florida State University shows that this critically endangered species could be at particular risk.
Dec 17, 2018
Breastfeeding for more than 6 months was found to be independently associated with smaller waist circumference in the decade after delivery among women in the POUCHmoms Study.
Dec 17, 2018
A study using a PET scan tracer developed at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imagingat Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has identified, for the first…
Dec 17, 2018
When it comes to self-assessment, new U of T research suggests that maybe we do have a pretty good handle on our own personalities after all.
Dec 17, 2018
New detections and analysis of gravitational waves – announced Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop in College Park…
Dec 14, 2018
