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In a first-in-humans pilot study, researchers have identified a sentinel area of the brain that may give an early warning before clinical seizure manifestations appear.

A novel encryption method devised by MIT researchers secures data used in online neural networks and blends two conventional techniques — homomorphic encryption and garbled circuits — in a way that helps the networks run orders of magnitude faster than they do with conventional approaches.

Scientists have combined auxin-inducible “protein knockdown” with a synthetic antibody to not only observe fluorescent proteins in living cells but also to rapidly remove them in a temporally controlled manner, paving the way for improved functional analysis of proteins.

Researchers have identified a vulnerability in some breast cancer cells of a certain type – called triple negative breast cancer – that could be exploited by future targeted drugs.

For the first time ever, scientists have shown that a hybrid nanomaterial based on magnetite-gold particles can serve as a universal platform to both detect cancer cells anywhere in the body and to complete targeted deliveries of drugs to these cells.

Scientists have solved the structure of a key protein that senses volume changes in cells.

If certain signaling cascades are misregulated, diseases like cancer, obesity and diabetes may occur. A recently discovered mechanism has a crucial influence on such signaling cascades and may be an important key for the future development of therapies against these diseases.

Researchers have developed a new method that aids in the process of making valuable compounds by using a unique combination of catalysts.

Tragic miscarriages for a couple have led to a discovery with potentially broad implications for future disease treatments, according to a team of researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

Vaccinations have begun in a first-in-human trial of an experimental live, attenuated Zika virus vaccine.