Colorized electron micrograph showing malaria parasite (right, blue) attaching to a human red blood cell. The inset shows a detail of the attachment point at higher magnification. Credit: NIAID Detecting…
Category: Health & Medicine
Improving patient safety using principles of aerospace engineering
By viewing the diagnostic laboratory data ecosystem as an integrated system, MIT researchers have identified specific changes that can lead to safer behaviors for health care workers and healthier outcomes…
Cognitive maps in some brain regions are compressed during goal-seeking decision-making
Task structure and performance. (A) Illustration of the four rooms environment and example reward locations under the vertical context. An example participant trajectory is shown overlaid in red. In this…
Hearing aids may help those with hearing loss live longer, finds analysis
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Hearing loss affects approximately 40 million American adults, yet only one in 10 people who need hearing aids use them, research shows. Those who don’t use…
Cannabis can make workouts more fun, but it’s no performance-enhancer
Ultrarunner Heather Mashhoodi runs on the treadmill in 2021 as part of a study exploring how cannabis influences exercise. First author Laurel Gibson takes notes in the background. Study participants used…
Complex, unfamiliar sentences make the brain’s language network work harder, study reveals
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain With help from an artificial language network, MIT neuroscientists have discovered what kind of sentences are most likely to fire up the brain’s key language processing…
Newly discovered genetic mutation protects against Parkinson’s disease and offers hope for new therapies
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A previously unidentified genetic mutation in a small protein provides significant protection against Parkinson’s disease and offers a new direction for exploring potential treatments, according to…
Age-related alterations in the oscillatory dynamics serving verbal working memory processing
Effect of age on alpha and beta oscillations during the encoding, maintenance, and retrieval phases. Credit: 2023 Springer et al. A new research paper was published on the cover of…
New protein risk score shows strong clinical utility for predicting death from heart failure
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new protein risk score developed to predict the risk of death for persons with heart failure (HF) has demonstrated good calibration and may help clinicians…
Understanding the downstream procedures and complications associated with lung cancer screening
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study of more than 9,000 persons screened for lung cancer found that rates of downstream procedures and complications associated with screening are substantially higher in…
