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Gwyneth Paltrow fans were left in shock at her husband Brad Falchuk's 'snow leopard' appearance as he made a rare cameo on her Instagram this week.

Scientists have recreated in a laboratory the sensory pathway that transmits feelings of pain to the human brain, in a breakthrough that could lead to better treatments. Financial Times: A team at Stanford University in California is the first to combine different neurons grown from human stem cells into a functioning brain circuit in a lab dish. Their experiments, published in Nature on Wednesday, illustrate scientists' rapid progress in replicating living tissues and organs through synthetic biology. When the Stanford scientists exposed the brain circuit they had created to sensory stimulants, they observed waves of electrical activity travelling along it. The molecule that makes chilli peppers hot, capsaicin, immediately induced a strong response. [...] The synthetic brain circuits could be used to screen for better-targeted therapies for pain that tone down excessive waves of neurotransmission, without affecting the brain's reward circuitry as opioids do, project leader [Sergiu] Pasca said. The assembloids themselves cannot be said to "feel pain," he emphasised: "They transmit nervous signals that are processed by a second pathway going deeper into the brain and giving us the aversive, emotional component of pain."

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The world may never know the true face of Jesus, but a modern breakthrough has given an idea of what Christ looked like nearly 2,000 years ago.

An adorable toddler died at just two years old after she endured an agonizing allergic reaction to fire ants - but her parents believe it's the hospital's fault.

Fears that Trump's new trade tariffs could trigger a global recession has sent oil prices plummeting - and drivers will benefit at the pumps.

In the upcoming episode, which airs on Channel 4 tonight, Kathryn attempted to build a modern and accessible home on the same street in Barnet, north London where she's lived for the past 60 years.

Stephanie Morgan, who has run Stephanie's SE21 in Dulwich, south London since July 2021, estimates she has lost thousands of pounds thanks to the 'constant' burglaries.

It has been praised for being the first to offer a specific course

The King and Queen were in high spirits as they enjoyed a glitzy evening reception, after arriving in Italy for their four-day visit last night.

New research suggests that given the right kind of training, AI bots can deliver mental health therapy with as much efficacy as -- or more than -- human clinicians. From a report: The recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, shows results from the first randomized clinical trial for AI therapy. Researchers from Dartmouth College built the bot as a way of taking a new approach to a longstanding problem: The U.S. continues to grapple with an acute shortage of mental health providers. "I think one of the things that doesn't scale well is humans," says Nick Jacobson, a clinical psychologist who was part of this research team. For every 340 people in the U.S., there is just one mental health clinician, according to some estimates. While many AI bots already on the market claim to offer mental health care, some have dubious results or have even led people to self-harm. More than five years ago, Jacobson and his colleagues began training their AI bot in clinical best practices. The project, says Jacobson, involved much trial and error before it led to quality outcomes. "The effects that we see strongly mirror what you would see in the best evidence-based trials of psychotherapy," says Jacobson. He says these results were comparable to "studies with folks given a gold standard dose of the best treatment we have available."

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Last summer, a study by scientists in Maryland found that one popular vitamin was associated with a four per cent increased risk of death over the course of the 20-year study.

Even though policing department spent 2 years on 'Minority Report' evoking study predicting which criminals will become killers

The UK's justice department has confirmed it is working on developing algorithms to predict which criminals will later become murderers.…

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Police have called the circumstances 'truly tragic'

Sofia, a hair loss researcher from the UK, has revealed on TikTok her top tips for reversing hair loss and the shampoo she has used to regrow her hair after alopecia.

A man in full rodent costume describing himself as the 'Selly Oak rat' appeared at a full meeting of Birmingham City Council and managed to ask a question about the bin strike crisis.

From animal prints to stripes, the collections this season are bursting with bold prints - and there is one frontrunner: the polka dot.

Dr Ben Bickman told DailyMail.com that people should be weary of the outfall that will come with weight loss medications and he predicts three crippling failures of Ozempic.

Dylan Latham was left hospitalised after being hit while on a public footpath at a playing field in Prestatyn, north Wales, his mother has said.

The 57-year-old appeared on ITV show alongside Dermot O'Leary, 51, and Sian Welby, 38, to show how he makes his dish of slow cooked lamb shoulder with Marmite.