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Diabetes is a permanent condition that requires lifetime care, and the incidence is rising. To help manage it, an artificial pancreas system can be utilized which has been upgraded with an AI algorithm. The system automatically measures blood sugar levels to infuse the appropriate amount of insulin into the blood.

An interdisciplinary team of biologists and mathematicians has developed a new tool to help decipher the language cells use to communicate with one another.

Social media talk about game-piece colors could lead to misunderstandings, at least for hate-speech detection software.

Trained dogs can detect cancer and other diseases by smell. A miniaturized detector can analyze trace molecules to mimic the process.

A team of 22 researchers from nine countries – led by the Centre for Palaeogenetics (CPG) – has sequenced ancient DNA from the remains of three different mammoth species excavated in the Siberian permafrost. This is the oldest DNA to have been sequenced in the history of science. The study findings are published in the journal Nature.

A team has developed an unusually fast and efficient method for discovering tiny antibody fragments with big potential for development into therapeutics against diseases.

Your brain is constantly evaluating which aspects of your experiences to either remember for later, ignore, or forget. Dartmouth researchers have developed a new approach for studying these aspects of memory, by creating a computer program that turns sequences of events from a video into unique geometric shapes.

Can our personality be changed in the short term? Researchers investigated this question using a digital intervention. In their study, around 1,500 participants were provided with a specially developed smartphone app for three months and the researchers then assessed whether and how their personalities had changed.

It is no secret that U.S. politics is polarized. An experiment conducted by MIT researchers now shows just how deeply political partisanship directly influences people's behavior within online social networks.

Machine learning study initiated at the Wyss Institute in collaboration with Google Research enables unprecedented AAV capsid diversification with potential for improving gene therapies.