Early AI Expert Systems

The Apgar score for evaluating the health of newborn babies, i nvented by Dr. Virginia Apgar in 1952 , was one of the earliest examples of a...

Healthy Obese People And Unhealthy Thin Ones

One of the main reasons that being fat (e.g. having high BMI) is bad for you is that it screws with your metabolism.  A new paper directly ...

Immortal Rats

Naked mole rats are rather ugly, but they age well . More specifically, they are the only mammal that doesn't appear to die of old age: ...

ASGH 2017 Abstracts

The abstracts of the conference presentations at the American Society of Human Genetics Conference in Orlando, Florida for 2017 which is cur...