Researchers gain new insights into brain neuronal networks
A paper published in a special edition of the journal Science proposes a novel understanding of brain architecture using a network representation of connections within...
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‘Biohacker’ Implants Chip in Arm
A self-described "biohacker" had a big electronic chip — almost as large as a deck of cards — inserted beneath the skin of his arm....
Slowing down DNA with light
The Opto-electrical effect can be used to control the passage of DNA molecules through nanopore sensors, thereby leading to more accurate sensing and sequencing of...
Microbe Computers
Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron is one of the good guys. Known simply as Bt, it is an abundant member of the estimated 500 to 1,000 species of...
Daydreaming simulated by computer model
Scientists have created a virtual model of the brain that daydreams like humans do. Researchers created the computer model based on the dynamics of brain...
Breakthrough for Cancer Drug Delivery
Today, scientists from IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) published a breakthrough drug-delivery technique, demonstrating the first biodegradable, biocompatible and...
The secrets of how memories can be encoded in living tissues
Tufts University biologists using new, automated training and testing techniques have found that planarian flatworms store memory outside their brains and, if their heads are...
Bioengineered Tooth
Bioengineers have developed a new method of replacing missing teeth with a bioengineered material generated from a person's own gum cells. Current implant-based methods of...
Artificial blood made in Romania
A team of researchers of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, a city in NW Romania, has created a recipe for artificial blood whose preliminary tests...
Light enhances brain activity
Light enhances brain activity during a cognitive task even in some people who are totally blind, according to a study conducted by researchers at the...
Mini-neural computer in the brain
When you look at the hands of a clock or the streets on a map, your brain is effortlessly performing computations that tell you about...
Need Different Types of Tissue? Just Print Them!
What sounds like a dream of the future has already been the subject of research for a few years: simply printing out tissue and organs....
Bioinformatics Breakthrough: High Quality Transcriptome from as Few as Fifty Cells
Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego have created a new method for analyzing RNA transcripts from samples of 50 to 100 cells. The...
Why Engineers Want To Put B Vitamins In 3-D Printers
In medicine, the printers are already making prosthetic hands, hearing aid cases and parts of human ears. This riboflavin-rich material can be used to print...
