Lilly Tozer

Aug 5, 2024 | nature.com | Lilly Tozer

Physicians treat men and women differently when it comes to pain — women in hospital wait longer to be seen and are less likely to receive pain medication than men, finds a study comparing how pain is perceived and treated in male and female patients. The findings, published on 5 August in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1, highlight how our perception of others’ experiences of pain can be affected by unconscious bias.

Apr 22, 2024 | nature.com | Lilly Tozer

How the brain processes visual information — and its perception of time — is heavily influenced by what we’re looking at, a study has found. In the experiment, participants perceived the amount of time they had spent looking at an image differently depending on how large, cluttered or memorable the contents of the picture were. They were also more likely to remember images that they thought they had viewed for longer.

Mar 4, 2024 | nature.com | Lilly Tozer

Cells taken from the fluid around growing fetuses have been used to make organoids, 3D bundles of cells that mimic tissue. These organoids could help researchers to understand diseases that develop in the fetus during pregnancy. The researchers grew organoids from lung, kidney and small intestine cells shed into amniotic fluid collected from 12 pregnancies between the 16th and 34th weeks of gestation.

Feb 21, 2024 | nature.com | Lilly Tozer

A lack of funding and incentives for research into antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is causing scientists to leave the field, finds a report published on 8 February by the AMR Industry Alliance, an industry body that brings together more than 100 pharmaceutical companies and associations. This ‘brain drain’ is a result of both governments and pharmaceutical companies investing less in developing antimicrobial drugs, the report says.

Dec 11, 2023 | nature.com | Lilly Tozer

Researchers have built a hybrid biocomputer that combines a laboratory-grown human brain tissue with conventional circuits, and can complete tasks such as voice recognition. The technology, described on 11 December in Nature Electronics1, could one day be integrated into artificial-intelligence (AI) systems, or form the basis of improved models of the brain in neuroscience research. Organoids open fresh paths to biomedical advances Researchers call the system Brainoware.