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Smartphone Data Used To Predict Brain Connectivity Linked to Anxiety
Information on social activity, screen time and location from smartphones can predict connectivity between regions of the brain that are responsible for emotion, according to a study from Dartmouth College.
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Virtual Reality Helps Train Members of the Public on How To Prevent Opioid Overdoses
A group of interdisciplinary researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Department of Public Heath developed a virtual reality immersive video training aimed at training members of the public in how to save people overdosing on opioids.
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Brain Wave "Tug of War" Determines How Information Flows Through the Brain
In a new study, neuroscientists explore how the brain processes information through a hierarchy of regions in the cortex, exposing a "tug of war" that exists between brain wave frequency bands in different regions.
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Glove-Like Device Mimics the Sense of Touch
What if you could touch a loved one during a video call - particularly in today's social distancing era of COVID-19 - or pick up and handle a virtual tool in a video game? Pending user tests and funding to commercialise the new technology, these ideas could become reality in a couple of years after UNSW Sydney engineers developed a new haptic device which recreates the sense of touch.
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A Novel Tool for Predicting Order and Disorder in Proteins
In their new paper, researchers have used machine learning together with experimental NMR data for hundreds of proteins to build a new bioinformatics tool called ODiNPred. This bioinformatics program can help other researchers making the best possible predictions of which regions of their proteins are rigid and which are likely to be flexible.
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Artificial Intelligence Identifies DNA Activation Code
With the help of artificial intelligence, researchers at the University of California San Diego have identified a DNA activation code that’s used at least as frequently as the TATA box in humans.
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Fighting Poachers With Rhino Prints and Technology
Interactive software that “reads” and analyzes footprints left by black rhinoceroses can be used to monitor the movements of the animals in the wild, giving conservationists a new way to keep watch on the endangered species and help keep it safe from poachers.
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Robotic Testing Platform Helps To Scale Up COVID-19 Testing Capacity
An Imperial team has repurposed robotic technology normally used for synthetic biology research to help with testing for COVID-19.
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mRNA Molecules Encode Much More Than Just Protein Sequences
In photosynthesis, solar energy is converted into chemical energy, which is then used in nature to produce organic molecules from carbon dioxide. In plants, algae and cyanobacteria, the key photosynthesis reactions take place in two complex structures known as photosystems. These are located in a special membrane system, the thylakoids. Many details of their molecular structure and the way the proteins are incorporated into the membranes have yet to be explored - until now.
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Fast-Firing Neurons Show Superior Synchronization
Research conducted by the Computational Neuroscience Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has shown for the first time that a computer model can replicate and explain a unique property displayed by a crucial brain cell. Their findings, published today in eLife, shed light on how groups of neurons can self-organize by synchronizing when they fire fast.
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