• Research on embryo-like structures struggles to win US government funding

  Biologists say they need clearer guidelines on funding rules for this nascent field. Scientists can now create clumps of cells that resemble human embryos, raising hopes that they could study the

  2020-01-22

• Axes of a revolution: challenges and promises of big data in healthcare

  AbstractHealth data are increasingly being generated at a massive scale, at various levels of phenotyping and from different types of resources. Concurrent with recent technological advances in both d

  2020-01-22

• Clinical Genome Data Model (cGDM) provides Interactive Clinical Decision Support for Precision Medicine

  AbstractIn light of recent developments in genomic technology and the rapid accumulation of genomic information, a major transition toward precision medicine is anticipated. However, the clinical appl

  2019-12-30

• Identification of biological mechanisms underlying a multidimensional ASD phenotype using machine learning

  AbstractThe complex genetic architecture of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and its heterogeneous phenotype makes molecular diagnosis and patient prognosis challenging tasks. To establish more precise

  2019-12-23

• Brain structure links trait conscientiousness to academic performance

  AbstractIn the long history of identifying factors to predict academic performance, conscientiousness, a so-called ‘big five’ personality trait describing self-regulation and goal-directed behavior, h

  2019-12-20

• Dental academics: Our future dental academics

  Send your letters to the Editor, British Dental Journal, 64 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 8YS. bdj@bda.org.  Priority will be given to letters less than 500 words long. Authors must sign

  2019-02-12

• U.S. Healthcare May Slip as Trump Renews Call to Cut Drug Prices

  U.S. health-care stocks may follow European drug-making peers lowerafter President Trump renewed his call to bring down drug prices even as the Street said his address revealed no new surprises.T

  2019-02-12

• Microsoft Aims to Connect Patient Health Records in the Cloud

  Health-care push also includes new uses for chatbots linked to research trials and drug therapies, and team chat to better coordinate patient care.

  2019-02-12