A new artificial intelligence model measures how fast a patient's brain is aging and could be a powerful new tool for understanding, preventing and treating cognitive decline and dementia.
Read more …New AI model measures how fast the brain ages
There's an arms race in medicine -- scientists design drugs to treat lethal bacterial infections, but bacteria can evolve defenses to those drugs, sending the researchers back to square one. A team describes the development of a drug candidate that can stop bacteria before they have a chance to cause harm.
Read more …Scientists invent new drug candidates to treat antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Working memory is what allows humans to juggle different pieces of information in short-term scenarios, like making a mental grocery list and then going shopping or remembering and then dialing a phone number. While scientists agree that the capacity of working memory is limited, they offer competing theories about how and why this is true. But new research shows why limits on working memory exist.
Read more …How humans learn to optimize working memory