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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health contributed to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report examining autism among children who turned 4 and 8 years old in 2022. The CDC report, which includes data from 16 study sites across the U.S. including Maryland, found an overall prevalence of autism of 1 in 31 (3.2%) among 8-year-olds in 2022.

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How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is processed in our brain鈥檚 circuitry, offering insights for neurological disorders and brain-like AI systems.

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With the assumption that students are going to use artificial intelligence and large language models such as ChatGPT to do their homework, researchers in the Department of Aerospace Engineering in The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign set out to learn how well the free version of ChatGPT would compare with human students in a semester-long undergraduate control systems course.

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Monell Center investigators identified that GLP-1R agonists, a class of drugs currently used to treat type-2 diabetes and obesity, as a promising therapeutic for managing the metabolic complications associated with Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (BBS), a rare genetic disorder characterized by early-onset obesity, compulsive eating, and cognitive impairments. They used a genetically engineered mouse model of BBS that displayed the hallmark features of the condition.

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Wound healing has been termed 鈥渁n overlooked burden and a silent epidemic鈥� due to the significant financial strain that it places on healthcare systems, let alone the unquantifiable human cost.

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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center鈥檚 Research Highlights showcases the latest breakthroughs in cancer care, research and prevention. These advances are made possible through seamless collaboration between MD Anderson鈥檚 world-leading clinicians and scientists, bringing discoveries from the lab to the clinic and back.

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Researchers from Roswell Park will report their latest findings to colleagues from around the world at the 2025 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Chicago, Illinois, April 25-30.

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Q: Why should we care about the measles outbreak? A: Measles is more than just a rash 鈥� it is caused by the most contagious virus known to man. Measles causes a respiratory illness with high......

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Researchers have successfully employed an algorithm to identify potential mutations which increase disease risk in the noncoding regions our DNA, which make up the vast majority of the human genome. The findings could serve as the basis for detecting disease-associated variants in a range of common diseases.

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Clinical trial results indicate that people living with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and their communication partners benefit from remote speech language therapy.