2+ week, 6+ day ago   (428+ words) A new Penn-led randomized controlled trial has found that AI-powered chatbots can make vaccine-hesitant parents more likely to say they will immunize their children against human papillomavirus (HPV), but no more than standard written public health materials. Described in a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (154+ words) In the late 1990s, a young Michael Kahana—then developing computer models of human memory—was invited to Harvard Medical School by a neurosurgeon friend to give grand rounds to the neurosurgery and neurology faculty. Afterward, he toured the ninth floor…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (404+ words) In the lab of Hongjun Song and Guo-li Ming, something like a clinical trial is underway—except that no human patients are involved. Instead, hundreds of “mini brain tumors” immersed in cocktails of culture media and chemotherapies are the study…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (290+ words) Li was recently awarded a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation to advance his research into using artificial intelligence tools to provide more granular information about urban environments, to simulate thermal comfort for human…...