Minja Koskela from the University of the Arts Helsinki questions the claims that popular music is students’ ‘own’ music and, therefore, a particularly democratic medium through which to teach music.

Exploring the predictive properties of neuronal metabolism can contribute to our understanding of how humans learn and remember. This key finding from a consideration of molecular mechanisms of learning and memory conducted by scientists from Russia and the U.S. has been published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

A study of 11,000 cancer patients reveals 42 hereditary genes which predispose individuals to a higher number of mutations that correlate with a greater probability of developing cancer. The research may lead to new personalized prevention and/or early detection strategies that assess a patient’s hereditary risk of developing different types of cancer The study is the result of a collaboration between the Institute for Research in Biomedicine and the Centre for Genomic Regulation. It is published today in the journal Nature Communications.

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