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Machine learning can detect a genetic disorder from speech recordings

How much information can we extract from a five-minute recording of someone talking? Enough to tell whether that individual may be genetically predisposed to some health complications, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Waisman Center and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. In a new study published this month in Scientific Reports, the researchers used …

Legislation aimed at helping scientists sustain their careers

By Kelly April Tyrrell Young scientists in the U.S. today face tremendous hurdles. Take, for example, the fact that while the average scientist in 1980 was 36 when they scored their first NIH (National Institutes of Health) grant, it now takes seven more years to achieve that significant career milestone. And young scientists are finding it …