A new study shows that conversation with oneself embodied as Dr. Sigmund Freud works better to improve people’s mood, compared to just talking about your problems in a virtual conversation with pre-scripted comments. Researchers claimed that the method could be used by clinicians to help people dealing with minor personal problems. People are often much […]
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Crunching the numbers of cancer metastasis
In metastasis, cancer cells break away from the original tumor and take root in another region of the body by entering the blood stream. In order to spread, metastatic cells cross over the endothelium — a barrier of endothelial cells lining the circulatory system that controls the passing of materials into and out of the […]
Intelligent algorithms for genome research: New repository ‘Kipoi’ improves access to machine learning models
Although the importance of machine learning methods in genome research has grown steadily in recent years, researchers have often had to resort to using obsolete software. Scientists in clinical research often did not have access to the most recent models. This will change with the new free open access repository: Kipoi enables an easy exchange […]
Key factor may be missing from models that predict disease outbreaks from climate change: Parasites that incubate at higher temperatures cause stronger infections in future hosts, creating a climate ‘echo effect’ across generations of pathogens
New research from Indiana University suggests that computer models used to predict the spread of epidemics from climate change — such as crop blights or disease outbreaks — may not take into account an important factor in predicting their severity. A study recently published in the journal Ecology has found that pathogens that grow inside […]