Overeating alters neural pathways involved in feeding and metabolism, but how fast do these adaptive changes occur? And do these adaptations occur similarly in males and females?

Two studies involving investigators at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s and the University of Cambridge, U.K., highlight the growing potential of whole-genome sequencing to transform the diagnosis and treatment of childhood conditions such as cerebral palsy and cancer.

To adapt to changing environments and bodily functions across the life span, many mammals rely on compensatory changes in the brain. One major change as mammals age is that individual senses, such as hearing or vision, can be weakened or lost. Preclinical work suggests that when one sense is lost, cortical brain pathways adapt to improve the processing of remaining senses.

Developing reliable machine learning models for health care can be challenging when only small datasets are available. This challenge motivates research into whether quantum computing approaches can learn useful patterns from limited symptom and risk-factor data.

The relationship between muscle mass and metabolic health may be more complicated than previously understood, according to a new study from Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Researchers found that where fat is stored in the body plays an important role in the relationship between fat-free mass and metabolic conditions, including metabolic syndrome and elevated blood sugar.