‘Roadmaps’ of the brain reveal regions vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease
Much like a supply truck crossing the countryside, the misfolded proteins that damage neurons in Alzheimer’s disease travel the “roads” of the brain, sometimes stopping and...
Daily Archive: June 10, 2021
Like night and day: Animal studies may not translate to humans without time considerations
Imagine being woken up at 3 a.m. to navigate a corn maze, memorize 20 items on a shopping list or pass your driver’s test.
Saliva can be more effective than nasopharyngeal swabs for COVID-19 testing
The collection of nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) samples for COVID-19 diagnostic testing poses challenges including exposure risk to healthcare workers and supply chain constraints. Saliva samples are...
This is the cheapest Surface Pro 7 deal we’ve seen in a long time
Best Buy just dropped the price of the Microsoft Surface Pro 7 to an all-time low. Seriously, this thing is super cheap and you don’t want...
Case study shows patient on ketogenic diet living fully with IDH1-mutant glioblastoma
A British man who rejected the standard of care to treat his brain cancer has lived with the typically fatal glioblastoma tumor growing very slowly after...
Pinpointing how cancer cells turn aggressive
It’s often cancer’s spread, not the original tumor, that poses the disease’s most deadly risk.
Cell phone use while driving may be tied to other risky road behaviors in young adults
A new study from researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center found that 18- to 24-year-olds who...
Hackers steal source code and tools from one of world’s biggest video game makers
Hackers have broken into the systems of Electronic Arts, one of the world’s biggest video game publishers, and stolen source code used in company games, a...
Children cannot understand sadness and happiness in people wearing facemasks
The U-Vip (Unit for Visually Impaired People) research team led by Monica Gori at the IIT- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) has recently...
AirPods are super cheap today – don’t wait until Prime Day!
Ahead of Prime Day 2021, Amazon is offering an awesome deal on the 2019 Apple AirPods with Wireless Charging Case. You don’t want to miss this!
