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1 week ago | jamanetwork.com | Ifrah Zawar |Mark Quigg |Emily Johnson |Johns Hopkins

Importance  The risk of developing epilepsy substantially increases after the age of 60 years (late-onset epilepsy [LOE]), particularly in people with cognitive decline ([PWCD] ie, dementia and/or mild cognitive impairment). Epilepsy is associated with worse cognitive and mortality outcomes in PWCD. Identifying PWCD at risk for developing LOE can facilitate early screening and treatment of epilepsy. Objective  To investigate factors associated with LOE in PWCD.

1 month ago | redjournal.org | Michael LeCompte |Johns Hopkins

Property Value Status Version Ad File Disable Ads Flag Environment Moat Init Moat Ready Contextual Ready Contextual URL Contextual Initial Segments Contextual Used Segments AdUnit SubAdUnit Custom Targeting Ad Events Invalid Ad Sizes 1Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 2Department of Radiation Oncology, James Cancer Hospital, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH 3Department of Breast...

1 month ago | newatlas.com | Abhimanyu Ghoshal |Johns Hopkins |Science Advances

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have come up with a better prosthetic hand that uses a hybrid design to carefully grip various objects with just the right amount of pressure. The robotic appendage combines rigid and soft components to mimic the natural structure of the human hand, as well as a range of sensors and a system to deliver feedback to the user's nerves.

1 month ago | link.aps.org | Yihao Chen |Johns Hopkins |Simon Rogers

An intrinsic feature of disordered and out-of-equilibrium materials, such as glasses, is the dependence of their properties on their history. An important example is rheological memory, in which disordered solids obtain properties based on their deformation history. Here, we employ x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy with in situ rheometry to characterize memory formation in a nanocolloidal soft glass due to cyclic shear.

2 months ago | biorxiv.org | Ilia Minkin |Steven Salzberg |Johns Hopkins

AbstractDespite many improvements over the years, the annotation of the human genome remains imperfect. The use of evolutionarily conserved sequences provides a strategy for selecting a high-confidence subset of the annotation. Using the latest whole genome alignment, we found that splice sites from protein-coding genes in the high-quality MANE annotation are consistently conserved across more than 350 species.