Blood samples of patients infected with a parasitic worm that causes schistosomiasis contain hidden information that marks different stages of the disease. In our recently published research[1], our team used machine learning to uncover that hidden information and improve early detection and diagnosis of infection.
The parasite that causes...
Psychologists know that childhood trauma, or the experience of harmful or adverse events, can have lasting repercussions[1] on the health and well-being of people well into adulthood. But while the consequences of early adversity have been well researched in humans[2], people aren’t the only ones who can experience adversity.
If you have a...
Fall for me as a teenager meant football games, homecoming dresses – and haunted houses. My friends organized group trips to the local fairground, where barn sheds were turned into halls of horror, and masked men nipped at our ankles with (chainless) chain saws as we waited in line, anticipating deeper frights to come once we were...
The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine[1] goes to Victor Ambros[2] and Gary Ruvkun[3] for their discovery of microRNA, tiny biological molecules that tell the cells in your body what kind of cell to be by turning on and off certain genes.
The Conversation Weekly[4] podcast caught up with Victor Ambros from his lab[5] at the UMass...