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Hit Your Head, Lose Your Sense of Smell
It's long been known that people who suffer a major concussion can lose their sense of smell temporarily and also develop affective problems, such as anxiety and depression. Now scientists have found that's true even for people who get a minor concussion.
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Anonymizing Data Isn't Enough to Protect Privacy
Researchers have shown how even anonymised datasets can be traced back to individuals using machine learning. The researchers say their paper demonstrates that allowing data to be used - to train AI algorithms, for example - while preserving people's privacy, requires much more than simply adding noise, sampling datasets, and other de-identification techniques.
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Mapping Protein-Gene Interactions in Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchers have used the transcriptome -- the sum of all messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules expressed from genes -- to compare 414 study participants with clinically diagnosed and neuropathologically confirmed AD with an age-matched, non-demented control group from a community-based neuropathological study.
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Fat Cells Play Role in Fatal Transformation of Melanoma
Researchers have discovered that fat cells are involved in the transformation that melanoma cells – from cancer cells of limited growth in the epidermis to lethal metastatic cells attacking patients' vital organs.
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Revolutionizing the Treatment of Cancer With Lab-on-a-Chip
A new generation of pathology labs mounted on chips is set to revolutionize the detection and treatment of cancer by using devices as thin as a human hair to analyze bodily fluids.
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Understanding Cannflavin Biosynthesis Unlocks Pain Relief Potential of Cannabis
Researchers have discovered how the cannabis plant creates important pain-relieving molecules that are 30 times more powerful at reducing inflammation than Aspirin. The discovery unlocks the potential to create a naturally derived pain treatment.
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Neuroscientists Identify Surprising Brain Action of Cartilage Component, Hyaluronic Acid
A new study finds novel role for 'skin plumping' molecule.
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‘You All Look Alike to Me’ is Hard-Wired in Us, Research Finds
Distinguishing other-race facial characteristics occurs in our earliest thought processes, UCR research finds.
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Are the 'Viral' Agents of MS, ALS and Schizophrenia Buried in Our Genome?
Viruses hid themselves in your ancestors' DNA; now they're waking up.
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Scientists are Trying to Quantify how the Brain Smells
Scientists haven’t quite decoded how animals smell, but researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) found that it’s different from previously thought.
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