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Machine learning could improve our ability to determine whether a new drug works in the brain, potentially enabling researchers to detect drug effects that would be missed entirely by conventional statistical tests, finds a new UCL study published today in Brain.

The type of vaccine administered and the activation of the body's own immune cells influence the vaccine protection.

Recently researchers found that a substance in medicine against parasites like Giardia and Tapeworms, acts like tailored medicine against prostate- and colon cancer.

Researchers have singled out a bacterial enzyme behind an imbalance in the gut microbiome linked to Crohn's disease. Replacement of the offending bacteria with "good" bacteria may offer an effective treatment approach.

Using proteomics, microscopic analysis, and functional assays, scientists have shown that a protein called membralin is critical for keeping Alzheimer’s disease pathology in check.

It takes less than one-tenth of a second — a fraction of the time previously thought — for the sense of smell to distinguish between one odour and another, new experiments in mice show.

Researchers have developed a new approach to the synthesis of benzofurans from cheap raw materials.

Advances in brain stimulation are transforming how neuroscientists study the brain and guiding novel approaches to the treatment of disease. New strategies revealed at Neuroscience 2017 offer safer, targeted means by which to study brain function, improve memory, and treat neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Scientists have performed a successful test of a possible new drug in a mouse model of an autism disorder. The candidate drug, largely corrected electrical, behavioral and brain abnormalities in the mice.

New research from the Research Triangle suggests that variants in a gene called ankyrin-B -- carried by millions of Americans -- could cause people to put on pounds through no fault of their own.