When a patient with head and neck cancer has surgery to remove it, they often need reconstructive surgery in the form of a “free flap”, which is skin and tissue taken from a different part of the body and connected to the blood vessels of the body. wound in need of repair. When a patient … Read more
An estimated one-quarter of adults in the U.S. have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), an excess of fat in liver cells that can cause chronic inflammation and liver damage, increasing the risk of liver cancer. Now, UT Southwestern researchers have developed a simple blood test to predict which NAFLD patients are most likely to develop … Read more
Results from the largest prospective study of its kind indicate that for individuals who experience trauma, the presence of dissociation — a profound feeling of detachment from one’s sense of self or surroundings — may indicate a high risk of later developing severe post-traumatic stress, depression. , anxiety, physical pain, and social impairment. The research, … Read more
When the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai volcano off the South Pacific island erupted earlier this year, while the impact was limited on lives, livelihoods were lost and ripples were felt across the world, including in space. The impact could have been reduced had there been a warning beforehand. A team of researchers is on the precipice of developing … Read more
A new study finds that an artificial intelligence model can predict whether Crohn’s disease will recur after surgery. A deep learning model trained to analyze histological images of surgical specimens accurately classified patients with and without Crohn’s disease recurrence, investigators report in The American Journal of Pathology. According to researchers, more than 500,000 individuals in … Read more
Call it data science for good – or for the love of the game. For Philly Tech Week 2022 presented by Comcast, Freya Systems intended to create an event that would cause people to think differently about data. A hackathon, “Can You Predict Major League Soccer Game Outcomes?” employed a unique data set, making the … Read more
In 2007, lava began to pool inside one of the craters atop Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, a gentle eruption that would culminate more than a decade later in a spectacular display of spewed ash and massive lava flows. Until that final outburst, the lava lake was a tourist spectacle, a calm surface that hid the churn … Read more
Humans aren’t just making Earth warmer, they are making the climate chaotic, a stark new study suggests. The new research, which was posted April 21 to the preprint database arXiv (opens in new tab), draws a broad and general picture of the full potential impact of human activity on the climate. And the picture isn’t … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain. Scientists from MIT, Harvard, and elsewhere have developed a computer model that can analyze millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes and predict which viral variants will likely dominate and cause surges in COVID-19 cases. The research is published in Science and was conducted by Fritz Obermeyer et al. In the study, the team … Read more
A team of researchers from the SWOG Cancer Research Network, a cancer clinical trials group funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), have shown that they can use methylation patterns in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) extracted from blood samples to predict which patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer are likely to benefit from chemotherapy before their surgery. … Read more