Health

Covid boosters: Over-65s called for jabs as hospital cases rise

The rollout has been brought forward as a precaution against a highly-mutated new Covid variant.

Kent woman called 999 from hospital over care concerns

Ava Stanley from Higham says she "thought she was going to die" when nurses ignored her heart monitor.

Making AI smarter with an artificial, multisensory integrated neuron

The feel of a cat's fur can reveal some information, but seeing the feline provides critical details: is it a housecat or a lion? While the sound of fire crackling may be ambiguous, its scent confirms the burning wood. Our senses synergize to give a comprehensive understanding, particularly when individual signals are subtle. The collective sum of biological inputs can be greater than their individual contributions. Robots tend to follow more straightforward addition, but researchers have now harnessed the biological concept for application in artificial intelligence (AI) to develop the first artificial, multisensory integrated neuron.

Newly discovered trigger of Parkinson's upends common beliefs

A new study challenges a common belief in what triggers Parkinson's disease. Degeneration of dopaminergic neurons is widely accepted as the first event that leads to Parkinson's. But the new study suggests that a dysfunction in the neuron's synapses leads to deficits in dopamine and precedes the neurodegeneration. The findings open a new avenue for therapies in which drugs target neuron synapses before neurons degenerate.

Sidebar

Magazine menu