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February 26, 2024 Awards were given to two USC research teams to fund collaborations between engineering and one or more of the university’s five health sciences schools. Read More….Continue Reading First NEMO Prizes fund research partnerships at the intersection of health and engineering

February 25, 2024 Relationships can be inconvenient—but we all depend on others. Read More….Continue Reading The Myth of Codependency

February 22, 2024 With expertise bridging a wide range of disciplines from computer science to linguistics and medicine, Narayanan will focus on bringing together presidential “moonshots” and expanding their reach. Read More….Continue Reading Shri Narayanan named USC vice president for presidential initiatives

February 20, 2024 USC study shows how cycles of a fasting-mimicking diet reduce insulin resistance, liver fat, immune system aging, and biological age in clinical trial patients. Read More….Continue Reading Fasting-Like Diet Lowers Risk Factors for Disease, Reduces Biological Age in Humans

January 31, 2024 Medical texts from 2,500 years ago rarely mention severe memory loss, suggesting today’s widespread dementia stems from modern environments and lifestyles, a new USC analysis shows. Read More….Continue Reading Did the ancient Greeks and Romans experience Alzheimer’s?

January 12, 2024 ISI’s Terry Benzel, ECE’s Mike Shuo-Wei Chen and Maryam Shanechi, are honored for their contributions. Read More….Continue Reading Three USC Viterbi Researchers Named IEEE Fellows for 2024

January 11, 2024 How the sexes age differently, and what that might mean for scientists, doctors and patients. Read More….Continue Reading One Size Doesn’t Fit All

11/1/2023 Hanna and Antonio Damasio work at the intersection between neuroscience, neurology, philosophy, and psychology. They discuss the value of single case studies for neuroscience, consciousness research and the limits of AI, and the fascinating relationship between creativity and the brain. Read More….Continue Reading Interview with Hanna and Antonio Damasio

October 5, 2023 “Diet is very powerful” when it comes to extending health span, and most factors to live a long life are in a person’s control, longevity expert Valter Longo says. Read More….Continue Reading Diet and exercise habits of a longevity expert who wants to live to 120

October 5, 2023 In addition to sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami, a new study suggests the tongue might also detect ammonium chloride as a basic taste. Read More….Continue Reading And then there were 6 — kinds of taste, that is