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Research in mice shows that inflammatory molecules influence mood and behavior by acting on specific brain regions. The findings help explain why some people experience lasting mood changes after ...

Open-source AI model performed on par with leading proprietary AI tool in solving tough medical cases that require complex clinical reasoning. AI can optimize clinicians’ performance and help reduce ...

A microscope image of H5N1 avian influenza. Credit: CDC and NIAID Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife, pets, ...

Three key players share the story of how fundamental discoveries in the laboratory became a first-of-its-kind therapy that promises to have a monumental impact on sickle cell disease patients around ...

Love has been the source of ceaseless fascination since antiquity. Artists have tried to capture its beauty and darkness in books, paintings, and songs. Behavioral scientists have explored love as a ...

The study leaders share their findings and what makes them compelling and meaningful. Video: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard At a glance: Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s ...

DNA analysis has upended a popular narrative about two people whose remains were cast in plaster in the House of the Cryptoporticus in Pompeii. Image: Courtesy of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii A ...

New study of nearly 2,000 former NFL players found that 34 percent think they have CTE, a condition it is not yet possible to confirm in a living person. Former players who believed they had CTE ...

The new approach marks a major step forward in the design of AI tools to support clinical decisions in cancer diagnosis, therapy. The model uses features of a tumor’s microenvironment to forecast how ...

In a marked advance over current AI models, the new approach captures how proteins act not in isolation but in their cellular and tissue environments. The model illuminates how surrounding cells and ...

For decades, the military has used autonomous weapons such as mines, torpedoes, and heat-guided missiles that operate based on simple reactive feedback without human control. However, artificial ...