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Wie Schlaf das Immunsystem stärkt

Wissenschaftler der Universität Tübingen weisen neuen Mechanismus nach, mit dem unser Abwehrsystem im Schlaf unterstützt wird

Ausreichend Schlaf ist für unser Immunsystem und die Abwehr von Krankheitserregern wichtig ‒ das wird allgemein angenommen und erscheint intuitiv richtig. Wie genau Schlaf jedoch bestimmte Immunfunktionen beeinflusst, ist noch nicht wissenschaftlich geklärt. (more…)

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Game on! UCLA Researchers Use Online Crowd-Sourcing to Diagnose Malaria

Gaming system a new step for telepathology and other telemedicine fields

Online crowd-sourcing — in which a task is presented to the public, who respond, for free, with various solutions and suggestions — has been used to evaluate potential consumer products, develop software algorithms and solve vexing research-and-development challenges. But diagnosing infectious diseases?

Working on the assumption that large groups of public non-experts can be trained to recognize infectious diseases with the accuracy of trained pathologists, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have created a crowd-sourced online gaming system in which players distinguish malaria-infected red blood cells from healthy ones by viewing digital images obtained from microscopes. (more…)

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