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White House Puts Aside $5 Billion For Future COVID Treatments

Operation Next Gen will have three main goals: creating long-lasting monoclonal antibodies, speeding up the development of mucosal vaccines to possibly reduce transmission and infection risks, and speeding efforts to develop a universal coronavirus vaccine that protects against COVID-19 and other coronaviruses.

Human Lifespan Will Rise Dramatically This Century, Researchers Say

There's a growing revolution in the science of aging underway, and research is starting to show that there are a host of medical interventions that could slow or even reverse aging.

Surgeons Are Simulating Whole Brains To Pin Down The Source Of Their Patients' Seizures

A decade ago, the Human Brain Project launched with a blue-sky goal: digitizing a human brain. The implications were huge: simulated brains could provide crucial clues to help crack some of the most troubling neurological diseases.

Antarctic Ice Can Melt 20 Times Faster Than We Thought

A study published April 5 in the journal Nature found that at the end of the last Ice Age, parts of the Eurasian Ice Sheet retreated up to 2,000 feet per day.

Three Computer Vision Trends To Follow In 2023

Computer vision applications can run real-time data processing and analysis, which is not just reducing energy and bandwidth burdens, but is also improving computation efficiency.

Finding A Song People Were Listening To Based On Their Brain Activity

A neural decoding model that is able to reconstruct heard music from brain activity can form a reasonable step towards other forms of neural decoding models that have applications for aiding communication.

Our Universe Is Suspiciously Unlikely To Exist-Unless It Is One Of Many

How do we know just how atypical our universe is? To answer that we need to work out the probabilities of each combination of constants.

Better Together: Improving Brain Tumour Treatment

“It’s a very, very specific environment,” stresses Chalmers. There’s the blood-brain barrier, for a start, and then there’s the difficulty of killing cancer cells without damaging the healthy ones around them – the ones we think, act, share and learn with; that make any of this possible.

Children’s Cancer Charities Team Up For Tomorrow’s Treatments

In order to give young people, teenagers and children with cancer the best chance of survival without side effects, we have to approach their diseases differently.

Institute Of Cancer Research Embraces Olaparib Recommendation

"Olaparib is an important example of how understanding the underlying genetics of patients, and their tumours’ genomics, can be used to design highly targeted precision medicines.”

Cancer: New Blood Test Could Catch Prostate Cancer Early

The project will investigate specific sugars found in the bloodstream of men with prostate cancer that could be used in tests to determine a man's risk of developing the disease, and how likely it is to spread.

Combination Treatment Extends Progression-Free Survival In Brain Cancer

Overall, average survival time was numerically, but not significantly, longer in the combined treatment group versus the bevacizumab-only group; 10.1 months versus 9.7 months, respectively.