Sparse, small, but diverse neural connections help make perception reliable, efficient
The brain’s cerebral cortex produces perception based on the sensory information it’s fed through a region called the thalamus. Credit: ...
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The public health workforce: Experts say more investment is needed to recruit and attract diverse and skilled employees
January 26, 2023-- Recent investment in the public health workforce has been directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic, but whether ...
Family tree secrets: Island tree populations older, more diverse than expected
Tsukuba, Japan—It's often assumed that island plant and animal populations are just the simple, fragile cousins of those on the ...
Uneven wetting under climate change is causing diverse variations in the thawing of frozen ground on the Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau has experienced prominent warming and wetting since the mid-1990s that has altered the thermal and hydrological properties ...
Transplants can save dying coral reefs, but genetically diverse donors are key, say researchers
Key points: Credit: Wyatt Million/USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Key points: Climate change is decimating the worlds’ ...
Many genes linked to alcohol and tobacco use are shared among diverse ancestries
HERSHEY, Pa. — Penn State researchers co-led a large genetic study that identified more than 2,300 genes predicting alcohol and ...
Brain aging among racially, ethnically diverse middle-age, older adults
About The Study: In this study of two community-based cohort studies in midlife (n = 497) and late life (n ...
Promising data shows Lupus Research Alliance Peer Education Program increases willingness to join clinical trials among diverse patient population
NEW YORK, NY--November 14, 2022 -- The Lupus Research Alliance and its affiliate Lupus Therapeutics presented data at ACR Convergence ...
Ambition to succeed despite adversity motivates people from diverse backgrounds to pursue legal careers, study shows
A desire to succeed despite adversity motivates people to pursue a legal career, but barriers caused by finances and careers ...
Results of a remotely delivered hypertension, lipid program across a diverse health care network
About The Study: The results of this study that included more than 10,000 patients with blood pressure and/or cholesterol levels ...
Analyzing diverse data types can accelerate drug discovery, study says
A new paper in Cell Systems explores the importance of using multiple data types in drug discovery. The paper screens ...
Substantial proportion of ethnically diverse children from low-resource backgrounds report long-term COVID-19 complications
A substantial proportion of ethnically diverse children from low-resource backgrounds with severe COVID-19 illness are reporting long-term complications from the ...
Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative making genome-wide association studies more diverse and representative
Human genetic discoveries have historically focused on individuals of European descent, so how well these findings transfer to other non-European ...
Ensuring diverse participation in Alzheimer’s clinical trial participants
Enrolling representative populations in clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease is critical for finding treatments that will be safe and effective ...
Diet could play a role in cognitive function across diverse races and ethnicities
Dietary choices and their consequences may certainly influence cognitive function. A new study led by investigators at Brigham and Women's ...
Patients may have and transmit COVID-19 viruses with diverse genetic sequences simultaneously, with possible implications for evolution of new variants
Patients may have and transmit COVID-19 viruses with diverse genetic sequences simultaneously, with possible implications for evolution of new variants ...
Diverse nurse workforce linked to better maternal health outcomes in childbirth
A new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons provides ...
NSF awards $6M in grants to CCNY & partners to boost STEM research, mentoring and training of diverse Ph.D.s
The City College of New York is one of several recipients nationally of a Research and Mentoring for Postbaccalaureates (RaMP) in Biological ...
Scientists decipher, catalog the diverse origins of Earth’s minerals; will inform models of life’s history, help find new minerals, habitable planets, extraterrestrial life
Credit: ARKENSTONE/Rob Lavinsky Crushed, zapped, boiled, baked and more: Nature used 57 recipes to create Earth’s 10,500+ ‘mineral kinds’ ...
Volunteers who help gather data for science are committed, but not diverse
North Carolina State University researchers found that while many volunteers who sign up to help crowdsource scientific findings are extremely ...