Day September 16, 2024

Interaction between the perception of space and time. Credit: Wang Cheng Recently, a research team reported a competition-integration mechanism of space-time encoding in individual hippocampal neurons. This discovery provides an essential neural basis for understanding episodic memory representation within spatiotemporal…

Steps and methodology of skin biopsy processing for dSTORM. (A) Skin biopsy taken from the upper back (C7). (B) The skin contains various innervated structures, such as erector pili muscles, sweat glands, autonomic nerves, and cutaneous nerves. (C,D) Confocal image…

Limited access to healthy foods, resulting from residence in under-resourced neighborhoods, is a critical public health concern. A new study suggests that residing in these areas during pregnancy or early childhood significantly raises the risk of obesity and severe obesity…

A study from Mass General Brigham researchers provides evidence that large language models (LLMs), used for generative artificial intelligence (AI), ChatGPT-4 and Google’s Gemini, demonstrated no differences in suggested opioid treatment regimens for different races or sexes. Results are published…

According to a study led by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), West African genetic ancestry was associated with increased prostate cancer among men living in disadvantaged neighborhoods but not among men living in more affluent neighborhoods. The…

Food insecurity, which is the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, is associated with poor health outcomes and the increased need to use health care services. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service,…

Pregnancy is a transformative time in a person’s life where the body undergoes rapid physiological adaptations to prepare for motherhood—that we all know. What has remained something of a mystery is what the sweeping hormonal shifts brought on by pregnancy…