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Neurons in human skin perform advanced calculations
Neurons in human skin perform advanced calculations, previously believed that only the brain could perform. This is according to a...
HIV hides in gut, evading eradication
Researchers at UC Davis have made some surprising discoveries about the body’s initial responses to HIV infection. Studying simian immunodeficiency...
‘Robo Brain’ – Robots Devouring Internet Info
Robo Brain – a large-scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources – is currently downloading and processing...
Modeling How Neurons Work May Inform Robotics
A highly accurate model of how neurons behave when performing complex movements could aid in the design of robotic limbs...
Tumor weaknesses in epigenetics
Scientists have known for decades that cancer can be caused by genetic mutations, but more recently they have discovered that...
HIV antibodies block infection by reservoir-derived virus
A laboratory study led by scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes...
Travelling by resonance
How nerve cells within the brain communicate with each other over long distances has puzzled scientists for decades. The way...
Protein glue shows potential for use with biomaterials
Researchers at the University of Milan in Italy have shown that a synthetic protein called AGMA1 has the potential to...
Boosting Memory With Electric Current to Brain
Stimulating a particular region in the brain via non-invasive delivery of electrical current using magnetic pulses, called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation,...
Reprogramming Skin Cells to Mimic Rare Disease
Johns Hopkins stem cell biologists have found a way to reprogram a patient’s skin cells into cells that mimic and...
From Nose to Knee: Biongineered Cartilage Regenerates Joints
Human articular cartilage defects can be treated with nasal septum cells. Researchers at the University and the University Hospital of...
Neuroscientists reverse memories’ emotional associations
Most memories have some kind of emotion associated with them: Recalling the week you just spent at the beach probably...
DARPA Project Starts Building Human Memory Prosthetics
The first memory-enhancing devices could be implanted within four years Lawrence Livermore engineer Vanessa Tolosa holds up a silicon wafer...
Eye implant developed at Stanford could lead to better glaucoma treatments
Lowering internal eye pressure is currently the only way to treat glaucoma. A tiny eye implant developed by Stephen Quake's...
Sorting cells with sound waves
Acoustic device that separates tumor cells from blood cells could help assess cancer’s spread. Photo Credit: Illustration Christine Daniloff/MIT Researchers...
Changes in the Eye Can Predict Changes in the Brain
Researchers at the Gladstone Institutes and University of California, San Francisco have shown that a loss of cells in the...
Microchip reveals how tumor cells transition to invasion
A microscopic obstacle course of carefully spaced pillars enables researchers to observe cancer cells directly as they break away from...
New research sheds light on how children’s brains memorize facts
As children shift from counting on their fingers to remembering math facts, the hippocampus and its functional circuits support the...
500 million year reset for the immune system
A single factor can reset the immune system of mice to a state likely similar to what it was 500...
Researchers Write Languages to Design Synthetic Living Systems
Researchers at Virginia Tech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used a computer-aided design tool to create genetic languages...