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A team has published the results of a study that evaluates the accuracy and bias in gender and skin colour of automatic face recognition algorithms tested with real world data.

Using machine learning, researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute have identified several patterns of maternal autoantibodies highly associated with the diagnosis and severity of autism.

A study demonstrates, for the first time in humans, how the first deposits of tau proteins in the brainstem are associated with neurophysiological processes specific to the early stages of Alzheimer's disease development.

A new study demonstrates that antibodies generated by the novel coronavirus react to other strains of coronavirus and vice versa.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the cardiovascular drug vericiguat. The drug is a once-daily oral treatment for patients with worsening chronic heart failure.

Break-induced replication (BIR) is a way to solve those problems. In humans, it is employed chiefly to repair breaks in DNA that cannot be fixed otherwise. A new study seeks to tease out BIR’s high risk-reward arrangement by describing for the first time the beginning-to-end sequence in BIR.

Coconut oil has increasingly found its way into kitchens in recent years, although its alleged health benefits are controversial. Scientists have now been able to show how it is metabolized in the liver. Their findings could also have implications for the treatment of certain diarrheal diseases.

Researchers have discovered that the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin is able to enter heart cells by hitchhiking on a specific type of protein that functions as a transporter to move drugs from the blood into heart cells. By introducing another anti-cancer drug in advance of the chemotherapy, the team was able to block the transporter protein.

Enzymes known as histone deacetylases are targets for a handful of anticancer drugs due to their ability to affect gene expression. Now, researchers have developed a new method to investigate how these enzymes work on a molecular level. This approach could help to identify new anticancer drug candidates quickly.

Airlines could save fuel and reduce emissions on transatlantic flights by hitching a better ride on the jet stream, new research has shown. Commercial flights between New York and London last winter could have used up to 16% less fuel if they had made better use of the fast-moving winds at altitude.