Neuroscience

Branching out: Modeling neurons in new ways

Nothing is easy to predict, especially not the development of organisms. However, predicting neuron cell growth has just become a little bit easier, thanks to CMU researchers.

Oncology & Cancer

AI model can help determine where a patient's cancer originated

For a small percentage of cancer patients, doctors are unable to determine where their cancer originated. This makes it much more difficult to choose a treatment for those patients, because many cancer drugs are typically ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Real-time, ultra-sensitive biosensors to improve pathogen detection

For COVID-19 and many common respiratory viruses, rapid tests and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are available and regularly used to detect and diagnose. However, because of the nature of these tests, they are costly ...

Health

For clues to healthy brain aging, look to the Bolivian Amazon

Some of the lowest rates of heart and brain disease ever reported by science are found among Indigenous communities inhabiting the tropical forests of lowland Bolivia. New USC research on two of these societies, the Tsimané ...

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