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Foundations Laid for Next-Generation Forensic DNA Profiling
Scientists have laid the statistical foundation for calculating match statistics when using Next Generation Sequencing, which produces forensic DNA profiles that can be more useful in solving some crimes.
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Database of Food Chemical Hazards Expanded
EFSA’s OpenFoodTox database on chemical hazards now includes data on over 4,750 chemical substances following the addition of 321 substances, and features an improved user interface.
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Poor Air Quality Concern in National Parks
More than 300 million visitors travel to U.S. national parks every year to experience America’s iconic landscapes. But poor air quality in parks may negatively affect visitation, according to a study.
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Eagle-Eyed Machine Learning Algorithm Outdoes Human Experts
A new approach to machine learning enables AI to make the rules.
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NIH Clinical Center Releases Data Trove of 32,000 CT Images
The National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center has made a large-scale dataset of CT images publicly available to help the scientific community improve detection accuracy of lesions. While most publicly available medical image datasets have less than a thousand lesions, this dataset, named DeepLesion, has over 32,000.
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Analytical Tool Predicts Disease-Causing Genes
Predicting genes that can cause disease due to the production of truncated or altered proteins that take on a new or different function, rather than those that lose their function, is now possible thanks to an international team of researchers that has developed a new analytical tool to effectively and efficiently predict such candidate genes.
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Researchers Move Closer to Completely Optical Artificial Neural Network
Researchers have shown that it is possible to train artificial neural networks directly on an optical chip. The significant breakthrough demonstrates that an optical circuit can perform a critical function of an electronics-based artificial neural network and could lead to less expensive, faster and more energy efficient ways to perform complex tasks such as speech or image recognition.
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Doctors Rely on More Than Just Data During a Diagnosis
Computer scientists examine how a doctor’s “gut feeling” influences how many tests they order for patients
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DNA Methylation Related to Liver Disease in Obese Patients
DNA methylation implicated in initiation of liver fibrosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
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Big Data Study Targets Genomic Dark Matter from Ocean Floor to Gut Flora
An international team led by computational biologist Fran Supek at IRB Barcelona develop a machine learning method to predict unknown gene functions of microbes.The system examines and compares ‘big data’ available on the metagenomes of human and environmental microbiomes.
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