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With the help of computer algorithms that excel at pattern recognition, researchers look for meaning in vast pictorial datasets.

Deep learning approaches in development by big players in the tech industry can be used by biologists to extract more information from the images they create.

Computer chips based on biological neurons may help simulate larger and more-complex brain models.

Age-related macular degeneration patients who received injections of retinal cells derived from donors’ induced pluripotent stem cells have maintained their level of eyesight for a year.

In a small study, researchers devise a test that could distinguish healthy people from those with the syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis.

Federal agents searched the offices of the personal microbiome testing company in San Francisco on April 26 following allegations of improperly billing health insurers.

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A lack of resources ordinarily blocks young researchers on the continent from scholarly independence, but long-term support is no guarantee.

Researchers analyze 146 samples from close to 80 sites, with nearly a third of samples coming from the Arctic Ocean.

Health officials have asked students and staff potentially exposed to the virus and who either have not been vaccinated or cannot verify immunity to stay home.

Although the oral treatment seems to work, an analysis of the results from 12 clinical trials finds kids who got an immunotherapy have a greater rate of serious reactions.

There are now more cases of measles in America than in any year since the disease was eradicated nearly 20 years ago.