The Most Vexing Variable in the Search for E.T.

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

Do we need to see to gesture? How blind people express concepts without vision

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics recently set out to investigate whether people who are blind gesture like sighted people when talking about the world, and how ...
eLife

Decoding molecular mechanisms for loss-of-function variants in the human proteome

ESMs, a proteome-scale framework to classify loss-of-function missense variants into distinct mechanistic groups by combining two complementary state-of-the-art machine learning models. The strength ...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Tourette syndrome: Understanding symptoms and navigating care from childhood to adulthood

TS symptoms typically begin between the ages of 4 and 7. These symptoms present in the form of tics, or sudden, rapid, ...