Technology

You're Being Tracked Online More Than You Realize.

Think of how often sit with your phone, tablet, or computer, quietly shopping or reading the latest headlines. Browsing the internet certainly feels like a solitary activity, but as a new paper reveals, you may be surprised by just how many companies are ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2015 - 1:00pm

LocoMouse Sheds Light On Motor Deficits

Gymnastic feats like balance beam routines clearly require a great deal of coordination. But even seemingly trivial actions such as crossing stepping-stones on a river or just walking in a straight line require these very same skills. The group of Dr. Meg ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2015 - 8:00am

Mouse Study Could Lead To Vaccine To Prevent High Cholesterol

A new cholesterol-lowering vaccine leads to reductions in 'bad' LDL cholesterol in mice and macaques, according to research published in Vaccine. The authors of the study say the vaccine has the potential to be a more powerful treatment than sta ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2015 - 12:30pm

Artificial Neuronal Network Learns To Use Human Language

How does our brain develop the ability to perform complex cognitive functions, such as those needed for language and reasoning? This is a question that certainly we are all asking ourselves, to which the researchers are not yet able to give a complete ans ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2015 - 5:54pm

Why Launching A Video Game Is More Complex Than A Movie Release

Everyone seems to know what the revenue of movies are, the film "Jem" and the new biopic of Steve Jobs being pulled from theaters after disastrous receptions are well known, but less known is that the video game industry is bigger- and therefore ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2015 - 7:55am

Scar-Free Facial Reconstruction Is Now A Reality

In an eight-hour operation, Dr. Daniel Borsuk, doctor at Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont in Montreal, carried out a facial reconstruction using virtual surgery and 3D models, removing a vascularized piece of pelvic bone and reshaping it to adapt it to the re ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2015 - 8:02am

No Bad Edits: Check 3 Times, Cut Once In CRISPR-Cas9

CRISPR-Cas9 is a hybrid of protein and RNA, the cousin to DNA, that functions as an efficient search-and-snip system in bacteria. It arose as a way to recognize and kill viruses, but then was adopted in other cells, including humans, to facilitate genome ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2015 - 6:54am

Mini-intestine Grown In A Test Tube

Research efforts on the intestine have increased in recent years. Owing to its enormous surface area- comparable to that of a one-bedroom apartment- and the huge number of neurons it contains- comparable to that in the brain- the intestine is sometimes re ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 27 2015 - 7:30am

Pain Patients Benefit From High Frequency Stimulation

Due to disease-related changes in their brain, pain patients often suffer from an impaired tactile ability in their hands. In a pilot study conducted by scientists at the Ruhr-University Bochum, high frequency repetitive stimulation was investigated as a ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2015 - 4:30pm

Finding Faked Consumer Feedback

Can you trust any Yelp review when some restaurants create fake online restaurants as portals to avoid their own bad reviews, or pay for good ones?  And as organizations like the American Council on Science and Health quickly learned, when a cabal of anti ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2015 - 11:05am