Human Cell Atlas project transforms understanding of human body

Human Cell Atlas project transforms understanding of human body

Getty Images An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 types of cell – such as heart muscle or nerve cells. Instead the Human Cell Atlas project has revealed there … Read more

Understanding how Muslims get reservations in India

Understanding how Muslims get reservations in India

Addressing a rally in Rajasthan’s Tonk-Sawai Madhopur Lok Sabha constituency, which votes on April 26, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the Congress has tried to reduce the reservations for Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and give it to Muslims in defiance of the Constitution. He made a specific reference to the … Read more

Three documentaries that seek to give a retrospective understanding farm protests

Three documentaries that seek to give a retrospective understanding farm protests

15th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala screened three documentaries on farmers’ protests of 2020-21. Bigger struggles, and events, in their immediacy, often drown us in a flurry of developments and their various strands and narratives. To make sense of them, one needs to look back at them in retrospect, after a few years, … Read more

Understanding the regulations and risks of AI – ET HealthWorld

Understanding the regulations and risks of AI – ET HealthWorld

By Balakrishna D. R. Artificial intelligence (AI) has gained tremendous visibility over the last few years for its ability to show us better ways to do the things that businesses do, with an analysis of outcomes and the capacity to rewrite traditional business rulesSummarizing its power, Gartner says CEOs and CIOs believe one-fifth of their … Read more

Cell identity understanding can be improved through machine learning: Study, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Cell identity understanding can be improved through machine learning: Study, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Washington: When genes are activated and expressed, they show patterns in cells that are similar in type and function across tissues and organs. Discovering these patterns improves our understanding of cells which has implications for unveiling disease mechanisms. The advent of spatial transcriptomics technologies has allowed researchers to observe gene expression in their spatial context … Read more