Infants as young as 7 1/2 months old can distinguish one voice in a clutter of distracting background noise, enabling them to learn language more efficiently. This ability, known as the 'cocktail party effect,' is believed to play an important role in infants' language development by increasing the amount of information available to them.
Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a supercomputer that can process complex data in real-time, reducing the need for expensive custom signal processing chips. The new platform uses Wormhole RTR to allocate resources and pathways dynamically, allowing streams of data to navigate themselves through the system.
A new UB study published in JAMA reveals a strong association between smoking and breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women with the slow-acting NAT2 gene. Women born with this genotype who smoked more than a pack of cigarettes per day before menopause had seven times the risk of developing breast cancer.
A study by Johns Hopkins Medicine reveals that boosting production of the molecule arginine can restore normal blood vessel responses in people with coronary artery disease. By increasing nitric oxide production, researchers were able to improve blood flow and reduce the risk of ischemia and heart attack.