Tag Archives: Learning

Sweet as: The science of how diet can change the way sugar tastes: Learning and tasting are controlled by the same molecules, animal studies show – Science Daily

Researchers at the University of Sydney have discovered the basic science of how sweet taste perception is fine-tuned in response to different diets. While it has long been known that food can taste different based on previous experience, until now we didn’t know the molecular pathways that controlled this effect. Professor Greg Neely at the… Read More »

Machine Learning Helps Design Complex Immunotherapies

May 8th, 2019 Siavash Parkhideh Informatics, Medicine, Nanomedicine Spherical Nucleic Acid (SNA) Researchers from Northwestern University have leveraged machine learning to aid in the design of nanomedicines for immunotherapy. They utilized a high-throughput method to synthesize 800 unique immunostimulatory nanoparticles called Spherical Nucleic Acids (SNAs). “Spherical nucleic acids represent an exciting new class of medicines… Read More »

‘I'm learning every day': Denise Richards reveals her daughter has a rare chromosomal disorder

‘I’m learning every day’: Denise Richards reveals her daughter, 7, has a rare chromosomal disorder and can barely speak Denise Richards, 47, revealed her youngest daughter Eloise, seven, has a chromosomal disorder She is missing part of Chromosome 8, which has genes involved in brain development and function Doctors ‘don’t have a road map’ for the… Read More »