Saturday, May 17, 2025
Saturday, May 17, 2025

An interdisciplinary team consisting of researchers has revealed a striking similarity between the memory processing of artificial intelligence (AI) models and the hippocampus of the human brain. This new finding provides a novel perspective on memory consolidation, which is a process that transforms short-term memories into long-term ones, in AI systems.
Read more …AI's memory-forming mechanism found to be strikingly similar to that of the brain

Researchers have found an inexpensive tool that may help reduce rates of pneumonia for hospitalized patients -- and it comes with bristles on one end. A new study examined whether daily toothbrushing among hospitalized patients is associated with lower rates of hospital-acquired pneumonia and other outcomes.
Read more …Toothbrushing tied to lower rates of pneumonia among hospitalized patients

Researchers have comprehensively identified the allosteric control sites found in the protein KRAS. These are highly sought after targets for drug development, representing secret vulnerabilities which can be exploited to control the effects of one of the most important causes of cancer. The study presents the first complete control map for any protein and is expected to greatly accelerate the discovery of safer, more effective cancer treatments.
Read more …Secret vulnerabilities of cancer's 'death star' revealed

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  3. Teaching positive psychology skills at school may be one way to help student mental health and happiness
  4. Students could get more sleep and learn better if school started a little later
  5. Hot-flushes menopause drug Veoza approved in UK
  6. Norfolk woman faces 60-week wait for a wheelchair
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