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Deep Learning Tool Identifies Bacteria In Micrographs

Omnipose is trained to recognize bacteria of all shapes and sizes in mixed bacterial cultures.

Viral Shedding Ebbs Over Time With HSV-1 Genital Infections

Among people with HSV-1 genital infections, shedding of the virus declined rapidly during the first year.

Breast Cancer Vaccine Safely Generates Anti-Tumor Immunity

Study findings suggest that a vaccine could be used to prevent or treat a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer.

MIT, Caltech scientists develop benchmark protocol for determining accuracy of quantum analog

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Caltech have developed a benchmarking protocol that can be used to determine the accuracy of quantum analog simulators by analyzing their random fluctuations, according to a news release.

Researchers Find Concerns For Animals Tied To Same Habitats

Like humans, wild animals often return to the same places to eat, walk on the same paths to travel and use the same places to raise their young

Scientists Identify the Most Extreme Heatwaves Ever Recorded Globally

A new study has revealed the most intense heatwaves ever across the world – and remarkably some of these went almost unnoticed decades ago.

Researchers Discover Overlooked Jurassic Park of Lizards

Scientists have found that a key modern group of reptiles that includes lizards and snakes – known as squamates – diverged in the Jurassic period, 50 million years earlier than previously thought.

Beetle Iridescence a Deceptive Form of Warning Colouration, Study Finds

A new study published today in Animal Behaviour shows for the first time that brilliant iridescence and gloss found in some animals can have a protective function by working as a form of deceptive warning colouration, and that it is the key feature of iridescence, its changing colours, that is important for this effect.

Enzyme Of Bacterial Origin Promoted The Evolution Of Longhorned Beetles

Gene duplication increased the diversity and specificity of enzymes that enable beetle larvae to degrade important wood components.

Antagonistic Interactions Of Plant Defense Compounds

Tobacco hornworms neutralize different defense mechanisms of tobacco plants after ingestion

Study Reveals New Ways For Exotic Quasiparticles To “Relax”

A perovskite-based device that combines aspects of electronics and photonics may open doors to new kinds of computer chips or quantum qubits.

MIT researcher on computer vision study: 'You want to know that the true image is contained within that range so you are not missing anything critical'

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a way to accurately measure and display uncertainty in computer vision algorithms that can be understood by the average person, according to a news release.

Smell Loss with COVID-19 Begins in the Nuclear Hearts of the Nose’s Sensory Cells

Research collaboration teases out cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie one of pandemic’s signature symptoms, with implications for other health conditions

Gene-Editing Technique Could Speed Up Study Of Cancer Mutations

With the new method, scientists can explore many cancer mutations whose roles are unknown, helping them develop new drugs that target those mutations.

Like Ancient Mariners, Ancestors Of Prochlorococcus Microbes Rode Out To Sea On Exoskeleton Particles

A new study shows the carbon-capturing phytoplankton colonized the ocean by rafting on particles of chitin.

How Attachment Styles Influence Romantic Relationships

Columbia psychiatrist’s groundbreaking book returns to the best-seller list 11 years after publication as attachment theory gains popularity on social media

Chemists’ Technique Reveals Whether Antibodies Neutralize SARS-Cov-2

The method could enable a rapid test to determine whether individuals are producing antibodies that help protect against Covid-19.

Training Machines To Learn More Like Humans Do

Researchers identify a property that helps computer vision models learn to represent the visual world in a more stable, predictable way.

Common Virus May Cause Serious Disease in Transplant Patients

A common virus that causes no harm in most people may be a danger to organ transplant recipients and other immunocompromised people, say researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.

Scientists Discover How Mutations In A Language Gene Produce Speech Deficits

Faulty versions of the Foxp2 gene disrupt neurons’ ability to form synapses in brain regions involved in speech, a new study shows.